I want minimum latency as I play competitive games and am very sensitive to it. Hyprland has hdr support which is a must for me and on paper should support vrr and tearing aswell. With VRR I had occasional issues but something like tearing was impossible to get working for some reason, kde plasma should do both well but I have gotten used to tiling window managers and don’t really want to give that up.

So id like to know about your setup if you have gotten something like tearing to work or other recommendations.

EDIT: I went back to KDE Plasma and was able to confirm that direct scanout and tearing work, i used window rues to force it for specific games, i also use https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite which allows tiling on plasma. Its not as beautiful as hyprland but meets me demands

  • chippydingo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I gave up on Mint Cinnamon when I was trying to get my new build running due to persistent issues with tearing no matter what I tried. In my case, the issue appeared to be X11 so the recommendations I read pushed me to a Wayland based distro. After switching to Fedora Workstation (i.e., GNOME DE), I was able to easily enable VRR and HDR and now I never get tearing anymore; even with more graphics intensive games like CP 2077 and Enshrouded. Typically, I enable V-sync and/or a framerate cap and run games in fullscreen or borderless (preferred since it is less likely to freeze the display when I alt-tab).

    I am not sure this is the minimum latency route as you mention but it solved 100% of my other issue and has been rock solid for gaming. GNOME seems to be a deal breaker for many, and possibly you as well, based on the comment about tiling window managers. Just figured I would share my own experience in the hopes it might be helpful.