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Turn on Light mode

Open Settings -> Appearance -> Performance and choose Light: no blur, particles or idle animations.
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Minimize the window or close it to the tray while you play

Animations stop, the music keeps playing.
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Update the app

The notification Effects were slowing the app down means the app turned on Light by itself. Undo brings Beauty back.
This is a fallback, not a speed-up.Turn on Settings -> Appearance -> Performance -> Software rendering and click Restart now.Then choose Light in the same section: without the GPU, the CPU has to draw the effects. Windows and Linux only.
This is the app window, and it is made of several processes: count them together. Laggy: turn on Light.
  1. Turn on Light.
  2. Still laggy: in the same section turn on Software rendering and keep Light.
  3. Try another package: Flatpak or AUR, which is better depends on the machine.
  4. Last resort, it helped one user:
This is the network, not graphics. What to do

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