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?

  • Presi300@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Wayland gaming is great, especially on KDE, you can go into display settings/compositor and switch fro smoother animation to lower latency for a latency that’s even lower than X11, without any of the X11 issues.

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    1 year ago

    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
      11·
      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.

      • Don't Ask My Name@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Generally tearing in competitive titles doesn’t matter, but latency does. And right now, x11 still wins on that front. Wayland feels terrible in the competitive shooters I play.

  • anyone_yun@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    I play exclusively on kde wayland and I am really happy with it, I don’t have to mess with anything and everything works. The only thing that comes to mind is that Steam isn’t wayland native so you have to set an environment variable to set scaling on hidpi screens. Other than that everything works really fine!