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
I’m running X11, I’m tipping you’re running Wayland.
The flickering in games actually isn’t 100% Nvidia’s fault, it’s caused by a lack of explicit sync and becomes apparent when your FPS dips below your monitor’s refresh rate.
Nvidia have submitted a merge request re: Explicit sync, the Wayland devs are just taking their time implementing it.
the flickering i see is literally a frame from around 300ms ago gets reshown. it’s really bizarre and makes all animation look janky and rubbish. literally text will be shown, then go to a black screen and briefly the text will flash back on again. not linked it to fps, but could be i guess.
I’ve no idea why some games just completely bog down tho. Distance is completely unplayable, but only with the 545 drivers.
Yep. Sadly at this point in time the 545’s are a bit of a disappointment.
Running a 2070S, I’ll be sticking with the 535’s until Nvidia get their act together regarding the 545’s under both X11 and Wayland. As under X11 running the 545’s, the desktop is a horrible low fps stutterfest. Roll back to the 535’s and the desktop is as smooth as room temperature butter.