2y ago

Tearing protocol merged for XWayland. Wayland gets closer to being suitable for gaming purposes

xwayland: Implement wp_tearing_control_v1 (!665) · Merge requests · xorg / xserver · GitLab

Many Linux users have cited Wayland's forced vsync as a blocker for gaming related scenarios. This patch adds tearing support into Xwayland!

2y ago

3 comments

I have been gaming on wayland for over a year and haven’t noticed any difference.
Maybe in super competitive games you may notice something but for the average gamer I think wayland has been viable for gaming for a rather long time.
As someone who games exclusively (okay, except fucking PUBG) on Linux and Wayland for two years now, I find the implicit claim that (x)Wayland would not be suitable for Linux pretty misleading. The problem is that this is repeated a lot throughout the community, mainly by people who haven't tried it recently. However, good for the few people that need that feature!
- I feel like you're just doing the same thing but from the other side. You're dismissing other people's experiences with Wayland simply because it doesn't line up with what you're personally seeing on your specific hardware.
  On my Radeon 680M, Wayland has been an absolute no-go for gaming in terms of input latency and frame pacing. I tried it with Valheim and God of War in KDE Wayland and the performance is drastically worse than KDE X11. Other games like Spiderman Miles Morales show less of a performance gap, but it's still there. And yes I tried it very recently.