GUI choppy on Rpi4 (May 2022)

Stooovie · May 15, 2022 at 6:05 PM

Are there any plans to improve GUI performance on Rpi4? I have no issues with playback at all but the fact that the GUI (running at 1080p, tried even 720p to no avail) is not any smoother than what it is on Rpi3 (or even 2!) three years in is a bit disappointing.

Any tips? It looks like sub-30Hz. Using the default Estuary skin, LE 10.0.2. Thanks.

**chewitt** · May 16, 2022 at 5:09 AM

The one thing I notice is .. when scrolling with some cheapo IR remote (via sensor) the scrolling in menus is staggeringly slow compared to the BT remote that I normally use, or a USB keyboard - it's all about the repeat rate which is higher on the latter devices. In terms of actual GUI refresh rate it's running at 60fps and I don't see any issues with it being slow, and RPi4 was definitely a noticeable improvement over RPi3B+ that I used before. You might need to be more specific about what aspect of GUI performance you're trying to complain about.

Stooovie · May 22, 2022 at 4:49 PM

Scrolling, yeah. It's never nowhere near 60fps and never has been. I'll probably take a slow motion video and just count the frames but it looks like 30fps at best. This is how it's always been for me since Rpi2. Pí 3 and 4 are definitely way faster when decoding media and opening the library views but the UI is still the same amount of choppy. Input device doesn't matter, nor does the screen device or any settings.

The TV US getting 60fps stream, but with horrible framerate. I have no complaints abiut playback.

I'm running Kodi since the very first Pi 1, and the only meaningful UI smoothness upgrade (huge of course) was going from 1 to 2.

GUI choppy on Rpi4 (May 2022)

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