System Wide Stuttering caused by Opening Programs, Taking Screenshots, etc

[anon89812132]

@Skylarr

What exactly does this edit do out of curiosity?

@anon89812132

Option "ConnectToAcpid" "Off"

There is no need to listen ACPI events on a Desktop PC
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Listening_to_ACPI_events

@anon89812132

ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On

Avoids screen tearing
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Avoid_screen_tearing

Sometimes is required for KDE plasma to use also

Option         "TripleBuffer"  "On"

Right above the Option "ConnectToAcpid" "Off" - and also creating the kwin.sh as described here

Desktop Lag/Stuttering while gaming

Hello, Since is about KDE Plasma and Nvidia GPU, maybe you have to do what i do. Open in Kate the /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf and in the Section "Device" replace the line Option "NoLogo" "1" with: Option "TripleBuffer" "On" Option "ConnectToAcpid" "Off" Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On} Save it then create the file kwin.sh to use the triplebuffer, from terminal run: echo "export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1" | sudo tee /et…

Maybe you also need to enable early KMS

Switching to Nvidia drivers from Nouveau with mhwd fails

sudo mhwd -r pci video-linux then sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia On gnome you might have to enable early kms. As administrator edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and make the MODULES= line like this MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) then run from terminal: sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo update-grub Also, you probably have autologin on and is trying wayland session and not always starts (at least on my end does funky things)