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The bigger issue is that GNOME is a god-awful Wayland compositor and, in my opinion, cannot be trusted to meet stability and frametime requirements. All of GNOME runs as a big behemoth of a pipeline and if something somewhere takes too long or breaks, the entire structure either freezes or collapses, which is particularly bad on Wayland since it means frames won't be delivered or your entire session is lost.
So I am more hopeful for the smaller compositors, which sadly have their own issues. Sway has been going through a big move and has only been shipping RCs (which I can't build for some reason) and last I checked it suffered from the mouse capture issue that is common among other smaller compositors like Weston and makes playing first-person games quite hopeless.
KDE I have not looked at much, but it was half-working for gaming when I tried it. It seemed to have the mouse issue somewhat under control though.
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So far dxvk though needs a workaround setting in dxvk.conf:
dxgi.numBackBuffers = 3
to avoid hard capping of framerate which ignores vsync setting.
No mouse issues so far. But Wayland session still has a few other non gaming related bugs which make it annoying to use.