Hey, I am fairly new to linux and have recently bought a new monitor to do some more gaming with. Though I have been annoyed with wayland having the support for the monitor but x11 actually running games at 165 or higher fps. My specs are
- AMD ryzen 7 5700x (with hyper threading so we got 16 cores active)
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 12 gig
- Asrock b450m-hdv r4.0
- 16 gigs of ddr4 memory
- Samsung 980 pro (nvme)
- Lexar SSD (i dunno which one but my games are on the samsung drive)
- A 2 terrabyte harddrive with a name i have no clue
- KDE plasma 5.27.9
- Wayland
- Using Fedora 39 workstation
- the latest current nvidia drivers (535.129.03)
If you guys could help improve wayland performance or find solutions to make x11 work better with multi monitor support I will probably never think about windows again lol
FWIW, I had much much worse gaming performance under Wayland while using KDE Plasma/Kwin, as opposed to GNOME. The same game with the same Nvidia driver version (535) could struggle to hit 30 fps on low settings with KDE/Wayland, but could almost hit 60 fps on medium with GNOME/Wayland.
I’m a KDE fan in general, but I couldn’t deny the results I was seeing, and have been using GNOME/Wayland for gaming recently with no issues.