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.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    2 days 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
      2·
      2 days ago

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

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 days ago

        Gamescope is developed by Valve and used in Steam Deck. But you can install it on any system. You can think of it as a commandline application, to run games with. It can fix issues you or give some options and should make games run better if they are problematic otherwise.