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?
Wayland gaming is great, especially on KDE, you can go into display settings/compositor and switch from smoother animation to lower latency for a latency that’s even lower than X11, without any of the X11 issues.
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!
How do you set that environment variable for Steam?
I set STEAM_FORCE_DESKTOPUI_SCALING=2.0 in /etc/environment
Is that within a Steam configuration file?
No, it’s a file in your computer, located at /etc/environment, you need to edit it and add the env variable I posted earlier
Great, thanks! I’ll give it a try
You’re welcome!
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.
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.
