Gaming on Wayland, or more specifically sway WM, broke for me when updating to nvidia drivers version 580.

Reverting to 570 fixed the problem.

Card: Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

What exactly happened: some games wouldn’t launch at all (overwatch 2) while others had severe performance issues (Resident evil 5).

Those were the only two games I tried. Both ran through steam and Proton GE version 10.

Though I didn’t test extensively, both games seemed to work fine on Xorg with nvidia drivers 580. So this confirms it’s only problematic for Wayland.

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 months ago

      I wouldn’t call sway a custom WM, it uses wlroots which has become a standard.

      Though I agree that wlroots seem to vary significantly in results with gnome and KDE based Wayland.

  • SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com
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    3 months ago

    Any particular reason you’re not on/tested the v590-branch? Of course it might be borked compared to 570, but might be worth a shot?

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Hey OP, can you try running a nested gamescope session to see if that fixes the issue? I usually always do this as a rule of thumb for all full screen applications due to the many QoL features like real Vsync.

    Actually, can you even do that on Wayland yet, or is that Xorg-only?

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlOPM
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      3 months ago

      Tbh I don’t know what gamescope is, but I’ll look into that and try it out to see. Thanks!