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Yeah, i know about that, and that's almost the main reason for creating that topic, i've seen some people arguing that Xwayland create some issues, i haven't seen one, but....who knows, maybe someone else did
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Normal games shouldn't be touching anything related to X directly. They use SDL and the like to handle desktop integration. So it should work with Wayland already. Only some ancient games use X and Wine too so far, since Wine didn't implement Wayland support yet.
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Some time ago I found wine-wayland (link to github ).
I did not test it yet, but it looks promising.
@Dennis_Payne: Can you give some details?
-I assume the games don't use XWayland?
-What Games and do they need special modifications/preparations?
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In general benchmarking seems to show only minor performance differences between X11, Xwayland and Wayland, which makes sense since windowing system overhead is comparatively minimal to graphics or CPU processing bottlenecks. A more interesting thing to compare would be frame latency (time it takes between a frame being drawn and being presented on display), since buffer management and compositing differs between X11 and Wayland. I haven't seen such benchmarks being made though.
In regular day to day use, Wayland has been perfectly fine for gaming as far as my gaming needs are concerned, and I tend to try a fair number of different games on a weekly basis. If performance differences exist, they aren't severe enough to harm my enjoyment of the games I play.
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Commercial games have worked without problem except for a few using proton. Lara Craft and the Temple of Osiris was just too slow on my hardware. Lego Ninjago Movie and .hack//G.U. Last Recode had drawing issues. I'm using integrated Intel graphics so they might have been too slow even if they worked.
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Well for me as a user of the Nvidia official driver it is very relevant (because afaik NVIDIA for now does not support graphics acceleration for XWayland), but I guess I simply have to try things myself.
Anyway thx for the information .
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