Laggy animations with nvidia gpu

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Hey,

Yesterday I was setting up fedora on a laptop of a friend. He has a laptop with a Nvidia P2000 GPU. I installed the Nvidia driver using Gnome software
However after installation, all animations in gnome are really laggy. Everything else seems to run fine.
Looking around I can’t find anything about this issue, only about KDE.
Does anybody have some tips to try to make the desktop run more smooth

edit: we did notice the Nvidia gpu was being used while dragging windows around, which i did not expect. Is that normal?

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There are multiple strategies for laptop GPU’s. We need more details to understand how the GPU is connected to the display, for example, the output from running “inxi -Fzxx” in a terminal (post as pre-formatted text so it can be found with web searches by others with similar issues). You may want to browse journalctl for error messages associated with the Nvidia GPU.

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gsettings set 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' 'enable-animations' 'false'

I’m not entirely convinced GNOME animations can be consistently smooth any hardware.

GNOME on Xorg got incredibly laggy with window dragging when I forced intel DDX instead of modesetting, but other apps were fine (I’m thinking something with GNOME Shell or Mutter).

It’s possible this happens on GNOME on X with certain drivers but I’m not too sure on specifics (I haven’t seen this happen on Wayland).

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I briefly tested a 2060 a few months ago. On the proprietary drivers, I got some pretty intense stuttering with Gnome animations, especially the overview. But it was very smooth, just as smooth as my AMD card, when using Nouveu.

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If you install Workstation fedora 41 default is wayland xorg is not installed.You need open terminal and install sudo dnf install gnome-session-xsession to have session for xorg .Once you have install logout to GDM select user it will appear :gear: on right bottom corner click on it and select gnome on xorg.I hope that session gnome on xorg will resolve problem