why does scrolling on windows suck?
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i realized it once again, when im using a tablet or a macbook.
scrolling on windows, doesnt matter which browser, isnt smooth and looks stuttering and overall shitty compared to a tablet for example.
its not like you scroll your mousewheel and the page just shifts up, but a microstuttering mess. and its been like this for since i can remember.
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i dont think so.
i have an ipad 2 from 8 years ago and the scrolling is buttersmooth,
doesnt matter which webpage. same as other tablets scrolling..
any of the windows laptops that i had were 10 times more powerful,
always the same. if you use a macbook and scroll, also an old one and then switch to a win machine, its always more than obvious.dont know how to exactly describe it, but its like shifting a page against scrolling, where its more wish washy..
like you move a sheet of paper infront if your eyes or you computerscroll.. -
@schreck What are your Windows Mouse settings? "Choose how many lines to scroll each time"? Does your mouse have its own Control Panel? That usually offers way more control. Maybe you can download one?
But I find with browsers the big issue in power-saving notebooks is the GPU. Like it drops to a low power state between scroll moves, and takes an obtrusive instant to wake up for the next one. And then it suddenly jumps up to the position it should have scrolled to. Which you've probably overshot because nothing seemed to be happening.
If you keep moving your scroll wheel constantly, is the response better?
I downloaded a GPU Control Panel from my chip vendor, which let me disable the GPU from individual apps. With the GPU disabled, scrolling in Vivaldi is "buttersmooth" and the response is instant. Hard to know if that might be your problem, but worth a try!
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@schreck , it depends also in the mouse you use, when it sounds if you turn the wheel, as happens in poor quality mice, smooth scroll is not possible, it will always do linesteps.
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cant believe that nobody immediatly says, yes, its like this on windows.
did you guys try scrollin through a webpage on an ipad or in macos??
there is no comparison.
i had 5 laptops in the past years and doesnt matter on which other laptops of my friends, with a mouse or touchpad, its simply not the same scroll!
i tried to describe it above, if you obviously have no comparison, to how it should be, i cant describe it better. -
@schreck Have you ever tried Linux?
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@schreck Look this post and forget the problem of scrolling in Windows:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/34874/customize-the-mouse-wheel-scrolling-speed/4
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@schreck What is your Windows settings for scroll speed?
Mine is set to 3, but if I increase it to 20 then scrolling is very jerky. Fastscroll using the MMB is not affected by this setting.
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@code3 Heh. My scrolling in Linux is much worse than in Windows.
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@ayespy , In Windows I use Mouse Accelerator, not updated since years, but works fine in Windows 10 64. I think thera are something similar for Linux-
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@catweazle Sure, but why? I don't care to waste processor cycles and RAM on drawing a pixel-by-pixel transition just so scrolling can seem "smoother." If I can get to and stop on whichever line I want, then I'm good.
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@ayespy Hmm, my Linux scrolling seems fine.
I was also asking because, you can't claim that it's because of Windows if you only use Windows.
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@code3 Maybe there's some DE setting that might produce a smoother action, but the prehistoric onboard graphics on that box can't do hardware acceleration, and I don't want to tax the CPU to do anything it doesn't absolutely have to.
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@ayespy , It don't work in a Wordprocessor or Textpad, there it switched to normal line to line scroll. But normally I had it desactivated, because I need it only ocassionally, I don't do much offline and the scroll for normal use is smooth enough for me.
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