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Tearing protocol merged for XWayland. Wayland gets closer to being suitable for gaming purposes (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And here I am, having gamed on Wayland for years. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people are more sensitive to input latency and frame stutter than others. Personally I think they're very important things to optimize for and make a big difference for how games feel and play on a platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yes, always good to have them improve it more and more. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Let's go! Hella hype for this! 💞

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's great news. I still don't get it that it took that long to get this fixed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I am impatient for all this stuff as well, but I guess it is important to get this stuff right as Wayland will probably be the basis of the Linux graphics stack for the next two decades.

[–] true_blue 1 points 2 years ago

LFG that was something I've been hoping got added! I'm not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.