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KDE Wayland for Gaming (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by av_conk@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What's the current landscape like for gaming with KDE Wayland? I've heard that recently VSync can be disabled and that Wine has better support for Wayland nowadays.

Whats your experience like with this setup?

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[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're playing competitive FPS games then Wayland still isn't there, use X11 instead. Outside of it, I'd say it's worth a shot, it goes especially well with FreeSync monitors.

Your experience will vary from your GPU vendor too. I have an AMD card so Wayland is a smooth experience for me, if you're on Nvidia then you will most likely face issues.

I've noticed a bug where in GPU bound scenarios entire desktop is lagging. This issue happens for me on Wayland but not X11. I don't know what's causing it, could be my graphics card running out of its 4 GB of VRAM.

TL;DR give it a try, you can easily switch between X11 and Wayland.

[–] marmalade@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would say the exact opposite if you're playing competitive FPS. Xorg tears and is super jittery like a motherfucker. Wayland is the only thing that properly drives my 240hz monitor.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wayland with VRR should give you very comparable latency to X11, but if you have a monitor without support for it then X11 is definitely better.