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
Just use X. It has better support currently and just less rough edges. Wayland is getting better but it still needs a few more releases with Nvidia’s help it will improve.
I would use x11 but most of my steam library won’t display over 60hz so there is no point in the performance gain unless there is a practical fix
I am currently on Manjaro. It comes pre-installed with Nvidia drivers. My laptop is a Razer Blade 18 2023 version.
It has a built in 240hz monitor. I am running X and it can be set to 240hz no problem. I also play D4 all the time and have it capped at 150 fps. It works absolutely no issues.
I also have a desktop with a 3090 and manjaro and an Asus pgq42u. It runs at 120hz no problem.
I think it is either a config issue on your end, or a distro issue.
That sound more like a configuration issue.
If you have GSync: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate#Enable_on_NVIDIA
Otherwise autodetect might have failed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Monitor_settings
i’ve used xrandr to check before. it said that i was running at 165 hz however games for some odd problem wouldn’t go to 165 hz. its generally a pain to have some games run fine with x11 and better then wayland but then they dont display properly.
though thanks for the reply