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From my experience most games work fine when switching away. However I know that Don't Starve Together and some other games really freak out. (I've been lucky e
by kevincox 6y ago
From my experience most games work fine when switching away. However I know that Don't Starve Together and some other games really freak out. (I've been lucky enough not to see any crashes though)
What I have found is that running games under Wayland (via XWayland) makes a lot of games behave better. I don't know exactly why this is but I suspect they are trying to manipulate a bunch of settings like fullscreen/input grabbing/display resolution which just get ignored by Wayland. So basically the extra restrictions of Wayland stop them from shooting themselves in the foot.
On the downside my NVIDIA GPU can't be used on Wayland...
- Karliss 6y agoHaven't tried it myself since I switched away from NVIDIA, but supposedly initial support for the NVIDIA specific interface was added in KDE 5.16 and Gnome 3.31 both released last year might not be available if you are on a LTS distro.
- kevincox 6y agoFor me the problem is that I have an Optimus laptop (Intel primary GPU with NVIDIA discrete card) which as far as I can tell has no published timeline for driver support, if it will ever come.
- ubercow13 6y agoI think Xwayland GPU acceleration won't work with NVIDIA still, though.
- forest_dweller 6y agoIt doesn't work. I've tried it on Arch and I have to force gnome to use X via a GDM environment variable IIRC.