Windows 11 4K scrolling performance poor?

Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but I am experiencing slow and jerky vertical scolling in Calc after upgrading to a “modern” CPU (Ryzen 6600H/16G memory) and a 4K screen. I was looking forward to viewing large Calc sheets with this display.

Vertical scrolling performance is much slower that it was on my former HD display running Fedora Linux with a basic Core i3. In other words, when I scroll down the sheet with the mouse wheel, it takes the sheet one or sometime even two seconds to catch up. It’s slow regardless of how much of the sheet I have exposed, i.e. whether the window takes up only 1/4 of the screen or whether it’s fully maximized.

This doesn’t happen with other apps like web browsers and wordpad. Performance is excellent on Chrome for example.

Is this a known issue? Any tips? I know this is probably some evil interaction between some random layers of the app or my Windows settings. I suspect Cleartype somewhat. I have been fiddling around trying to make the display look good and maybe some settings I’ve made are freaking out Calc:

  • Overall windows scaling: 125% (this setting has no effect as far as I can tell.)
  • OpenCL on/off has no effect
  • Choice of font seems to have no effect, but Cleartype sometimes makes fonts look bad until I have exited and restarted Calc. Arial seems less affected by this. Turning off Cleartype at this resolution makes everything look terrible and doesn’t seem to have much effect if any.
  • Ther aren’t any Cleartype parameters to share, but in summary I’ve struck a balance between blurriness and the “too thin” look.
  • The file is on a file server. I switched from NFS to SMB when I made the upgrade, but there doesn’t seem to be any network activity once I have the Calc document loaded so doubt this has an effect.

Has anyone looked into this?

OpenCL is for large or many calculations, not for graphics so leave it on unless there are crashes during complex calculations.

Scrolling is graphics. Try this, click Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View and tick the box Force Skia software rendering. You will have to restart LibreOffice after you OK.

Wow, thanks, enormous speed increase resulted!

I don’t remember if this was the default, but it seems like an essential setting for my setup. (Ryzen 6600H, embedded Radeon GPU, 4k display over HDMI.)

A few weeks ago, on a similar question, there was a link to a discussion in the Document Foundation about whether to make the default without Skia turned on, or maybe with the software rending.

I found that in Calc there are some cases where software rendering was noticeably faster than turning off Skia. Mileage might vary.