Tearing protocol merged for XWayland. Wayland gets closer to being suitable for gaming purposes
gitlab.freedesktop.org
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1458833
Many Linux users have cited Wayland's forced vsync as a blocker for gaming related scenarios. This patch adds tearing support into Xwayland!
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I habe 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.
It depends on your hardware. I notice it a lot on my Radeon 680M. I get bad input lag and inconsistent frame pacing. Performance matters when it comes to gaming and if Linux is to be taken seriously as a gaming platform these issues need to be addressed.
Yeah, was about to say: it's already suitable for me! Played a bunch of Steam games, as well as pirated games with Bottles.