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Does X11 still limit max FPS to the lowest of all monitors? (biglemmowski.win)

submitted 1 year ago by taaz@biglemmowski.win to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Title, I can't switch to Wayland because of nVidia (and because I love Awesome WM).

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[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why can't you have Wayland with Nvidia?

[–] HouseWolf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

When I tried Wayland on Gnome using my RTX3080 it either wouldn't load into desktop or if I did it would lead to a bunch of visual glitches.

Haven't tried it through KDE yet tho as it requires some backend hackery to even allow you enable Wayland with an Nvidia card.

Edit: So some people have been able to get Wayland working on Nvidia fine so it's worth trying out yourself, Tho I've personally not had any luck.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Backend hackery? You just install it and it works

[–] HouseWolf@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alright so after seeing your comment I decided to give it another try.

I'm running Plasma 5.27.7 which is what came when I installed when I grabbed EndeavourOS. But it doesn't come with the Wayland session included so I grabbed plasma-wayland-session from the AUR, And same issue as last time I can't launch it from the login screen.

I know people have gotten it working fine but on my hardware for whatever reason I've had little luck.

[–] mranderson17@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What display manager do you use? There's a very very short list of ones that support wayland sessions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Display_managers . And some of those don't display themselves using wayland, they can only launch sessions.

[–] HouseWolf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using SDDM which I know supports lunching Wayland because I'm had it work in virtual machines before.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

OK then

[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

True.

[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I mostly use fedora. I never had an issue with my 1080 or laptops 1060... But those are old now...

[–] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kubuntu 23.04 comes with wayland preinstalled and it works with my Nvidia card

[–] HouseWolf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah Wayland support apparently doesn't come shipped with the KDE install on EndeavourOS, Last time to tried to get it running was on an older version of Ubuntu a few months back.

I'll install it and try it out now tho thanks.

[–] vd1n@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know this... I've been messing around with arch, and endeavor. I noticed it defaults to xorg.

[–] lemba@social.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

@HouseWolf @tostiman Wayland on EndeavourOS with KDE is so easy: just install plasma Wayland session, log out and select Wayland as login option...

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love my AwesomeWM setup. Unless someone completely rewrites it, it will never work with Wayland (as far as I have read the gh issues).
I need this PC to "just work" and I have seen a lot of problems with Wayland and Nvidia drivers, top-quality gaming is a secondary on this one so X11 has been the choice.
Though I am aware stuff is getting better, should probably try it anyway