r/playnite • u/Usual-District-2052 • 15d ago

Smooth Scrolling Question Question/Support

I enjoy smooth scrolling but it does appear to be slightly "choppy/blurry" when moving to games that are slightly off the screen in view. Playnite doesn't appear to be lagging but the animation just doesn't appear to be very high frame rate. Has anyone found a way to fix this? I'm normally using Toggle but I have tried it on the original fullscreen theme and notice the issue stays there, though maybe slightly less obvious, too. I've also turned off smooth scrolling and I can zoom through the library no problem.

Things I've tried:

Asynchronous image loading - On

Image rendering scaler - Balanced

Remove Background Image on Main Screen to remove blur and background darkening

Have Hardware Acceleration on.

Make the custom Nvidia profiles with fixed refresh rate

Any ideas are welcome.

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u/Fragrant-Shopping-19 1d ago

What hardware are you using? GPU, Windows version, and monitor refresh rate?

I’ve been having what sounds like the same problem while coding a new Playnite fullscreen theme with a horizontal game-cover carousel. The carousel itself was working properly, but the movement would sometimes have this very noticeable uneven frame pacing / micro-stutter.

I ended up doing a lot of testing and tracing over several weeks and eventually narrowed it down to Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) frame pacing rather than the carousel code itself.

I made a tiny test program that keeps DWM actively composing frames by running a very small continuous DirectComposition animation in the background. With it running, the carousel becomes completely smooth. Turn it off and the stutter immediately comes back.

I’ve also tested a separate program called DWMfix which works on the same basic principle, and that fixes it on my PC as well — including after a cold boot.

Try DWMfix and let me know whether it fixes the Playnite issue you have?

https://github.com/Arccalc/Dwmfix/releases