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.
Not even what I said or referred to. If you’re unfamiliar with a topic, just don’t comment. Simple 👍
There are 3 things with the display at play here (in order of precedence): Display Driver + Window Manager + Application Content.
The drive must work properly for the WM to work, which also must not have issues for the Content to display properly and not give unexpected feedback to the runtime, and so on.
The two DE’s tested for Proton are KDE and Gnome, and only with standard OOTB configurations. No other CI/QA/UAT testing don’t for the multitudes of combinations where any one piece could be different?
How do I know that? Because it’s literally in the docs, forums, GitHub Issues, and CI status and struts in the repos. Nobody goes out of their way to make sure your specific combinations work.
So when you boot up a NON-STANDARD setup where you’ve intentionally changed a major component of the above on an otherwise vanilla install of something known to work with Steam/Proton, then you’re expectations of it running, and running well, should be tuened off. It’s not tested for, and therefore it’s not expected to work.
Bravo to you for making me waste my time explaining this 🤦
Steam does not dictate what is standard on Linux. Just because they have not tested with this setup does not mean it isn’t standard.
Dude…I’m not even eating my time with y’all who have zero clue as to how QA/CI/UAT works. It’s such a waste of time.
Steam/Proton is only tested for KDE/GNOME, and that’s it. Hands down. Not even up for fucking debate. It’s a FACT.
You can read the docs, repos, GitHub Issues, forums, and everything else you want. That’s the facts, and it’s not going to change. Just because it’s OSS doesn’t mean they have all the time in the world to make sure your edge cases work FFS.