Is wayland ready for gaming with nivida RTX series? I have RTX 3060 Ti. I wouldn’t mind messing with it to make it work if I have to.
Would want to use a window manager like sway or river.
As an AMD user on Wayland who primarily uses Steam/Proton, I haven’t had any Wayland-related issues with gaming at all. This isn’t surprising, since the compositor used by Steam Deck (Gamescope) is also Wayland-based.
FYI: If you ever do have compositor-related issues (X11 OR Wayland), you can almost always fix the issue by running the game in a nested Gamescope instance by editing the game’s launch command.
I still find Wayland to be bad with input lag and frame timings, and that’s with my Radeon 680M. Games like Valheim just run way better in X11 than Wayland at the moment. If you’re using a desktop class card, you might just be brute forcing your way through some of these issues.
545 will have better wayland support. For now X11 is a better choice i guess. (i don’t own an nvidia gpu)
I hope 545 brings GAMMA_LUT support, night light is basically the only thing keeping me away from Wayland at the moment on my desktop. I absolutely love Wayland with my laptop
I am not a night light user myself, but I am desperately waiting for VRR support, which is the last hurdle for me.
Last I looked it still wasn’t working well enough, so I decided to stick with Xorg. But that was a few months ago.
With recent drivers and recent enough DEs it is usable to a certain extent. There are some known issues document in the release notes of each version. Here’s for 535. TL; DR the major blockers are: (1) Variable Refresh Rate doesn’t work for some cards; (2) GAMMA_LUT is not implemented (no night light) and (3) Nested X11 clients have synchronisation issues that might result in some flickering or dupicate frames, it’s more noticeable on things that refresh slowly, although much better recently.
I’m using it with Plasma; it’s OK, no major concerns but my setup is pretty basic.
I haven’t had issues with games and Wayland, but I’m sticking with Xorg for now because KDE Plasma and the tiling window managing plugin I use still behave erratically. I often see visual bugs in the compositor overall, and the fact that apps die if we need to restart it is a deal breaker to me. Maybe these are related to Nvidia, but as far as gaming goes, I haven’t noticed much of a difference.
Nvidia or not, stick with X11 until you have a reason to use Wayland.
I need Wayland for my packaging work, and one of my devices requires Wayland so I use it for that and it’s a decent experience, but Wayland still has drawbacks (weaker automation API, some programs still don’t work) so I wouldn’t recommend switching off X11 unless you have a reason.
The only reason I have is the weak security model of X, and maybe early-adopters syndrome
It works fine (runs with minor graphical gliches) for me but i have heard that its a complete mess for others. I’d recommend checking how well your particular system works.
If it works well then it might be a good idea to switch since wayland does have some pros comared to X11.
I would personally stick with X11 for now. Last time I tried Wayland it worked but all sorts of just strange issues started popping up everywhere. Nothing big but annoying and frustrating to fix. This was using KDE Plasma.
