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Scrolling the steam sale page is incredibly slow

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7656 · opened 2021-02-12 by valgusk · updated 2021-02-12 · 0 comments · github
Vvalgusk 2021-02-12 github

Your system information

Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.39

Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 5.10.15-1-ck-skylake
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12010000
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20201203.1

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1613097313
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch linux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Scrolling the steam sale page is incredibly slow.
This is caused by steamwebhelper apparently ignoring enabled gpu acceleration, since it can be reproduced in chromium too.
In chromium I could fix it by adding following chrome flags to ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf:

--ignore-gpu-blocklist
--enable-gpu-rasterization
--enable-zero-copy
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds

But since Steam does not respect this config, and there is no possibility to modify chrome://flags, I could not apply this workaround to steamwebhelper. Issue is not affected by setting "Enable GPU accelerated rendering in web views", or any other setting.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Open steam
  2. Click "Store"
  3. click on lurar sale banner
  4. scroll

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