I then enabled "Force Full Composition Pipeline" and rebooted. For more reference on this option see: īefore making the change persistent, I navigated into nvidia-settings and checked the value of "Force Composition Pipeline" & "Force Full Composition Pipeline" under X Server Display Configuration. This immediately dropped my CPU usage from 35% down to 0.7%. OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2īased on that they recommended that I try to run: $ glxinfo | grep -i "direct rendering\|renderer string" Ipmi_msghandler 65536 2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia Info: Processes: 468 Uptime: 23h 56m Memory: 125.73 GiB used: 14.56 GiB (11.6%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 9.1.0Ĭomment 2 kamen007 11:32:36 CEST I have resolved this issue on my machine with the help of diogenes_ & BeNZ on #xfce.įirst we ran the following commands to ensure that I was using the nvidia module was loaded and to see if the llvmpipe (CPU/Software Rendering) was being used: ID-5: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 1.88 GiB ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2CW180A3 size: 167.68 GiB ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WD2001FFSX-68JNUN0 size: 1.82 TiB ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP600 size: 1.82 TiB IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: ĭevice-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 06:00.0ĭrives: Local Storage: total: 4.26 TiB used: 1.30 TiB (30.5%) Network: Device-1: Realtek vendor: ASUSTeK driver: N/A port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0ĭevice-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: 5.6.0-k port: d000 bus ID: 05:00.0 Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-arch1-1-ARCH driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 0a:00.1ĭevice-2: Advanced Micro Devices Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernelĭevice-3: Corsair type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 3-2.3:4ĭevice-4: Logitech HD Webcam C525 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 3-2.1:3 OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21 direct render: YesĪudio: Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor:. driver: nvidia v: 435.21 bus ID: 0a:00.0ĭisplay: x11 server: X.org 1.20.5 driver: nvidia resolution: Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 vendor:. Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI) v: Rev X.0x serial: īattery: Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse MX Master 2S charge: 50% (should be ignored) status: N/AĬPU: Topology: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 6144 KiBįlags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 182142