GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming

Merged this week into the GNOME Mutter compositor codebase is what should be a beneficial optimization for those enjoying Linux gaming under the GNOME Wayland session...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Wayland-Gaming-No-Block

[archkde]

Making things faster by deleting code? Sounds great to me.

[scottishduck]

Seeing a mention of VRR and GNOME is promising…

[Sethox]

For the many things I do not like Gnome (even though I mainline it on my PC), it's stable and VRR may have taken a long time at least I know it will be (assumed) that Gnome will continue it's stable releases. Still kudos to KDE (and everyone involved) to start develop (and discuss) it for the Linux platform.

[Malsabku]

Will the optimisation land in Gnome 44.x or in Gnome 45?

[gustavoar]

Will the optimisation land in Gnome 44.x or in Gnome 45?

In the MR it says "Milestone Gnome 45"

[gfunk]

Meanwhile KDE mouse cursor is going at 15fps when VRR is enabled

https://discuss.kde.org/t/wayland-laggy-cursor-in-game-menus-with-vrr-enabled/2352

[MrCooper]

This was enabled by mutter!1880, too bad I didn't realize this earlier.

In the MR it says "Milestone Gnome 45"

Those milestones refer to the development cycle in which the MR first landed on the main branch. This will likely get backported to the 44 branch.

Meanwhile KDE mouse cursor is going at 15fps when VRR is enabled
https://discuss.kde.org/t/wayland-la...r-enabled/2352

That's an amdgpu bug: drm/amd#2186

[ssokolow]

That's an amdgpu bug: drm/amd#2186

That sort of thing is why I'm holding off on having to choose a vendor to replace my GeForce GTX750. (Yes, I'm still on a GPU from 2014.)

If the risk of having to switch distros to stay on X.org until Wayland crash recovery is sorted out weren't looming, I'd stay with nVidia because "better the driver bugs you know" combined with "you can upgrade/downgrade nVidia drivers without having to do your whole kernel".

[prazola]

Meanwhile KDE mouse cursor is going at 15fps when VRR is enabled
https://discuss.kde.org/t/wayland-la...r-enabled/2352

This is new to me tbh, rx 6900 xt. The only problem when I enable VRR is that if I go above the upper refresh limit the game stutter for like 1 second intermittently, so I usually cap the framerate to 130 fps.