Viewing topic Any success running Valheim in Wayland without XWayland?

Title: Any success running Valheim in Wayland without XWayland?

Hubro 9 Mar 2021

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When I run Valheim under Wayland, it starts in an XWayland window. I'm having some weird framerate issues, whenever I run in Windowed mode, the game runs at over 100 fps but it looks like it's running at around 10 fps, it's completely unplayable.

I suspect XWayland is the culprit, so I'd like to try running it without XWayland. Using system SDL libraries works fine:

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libSDL2.so:/usr/lib/libSDL2.so:$LD_PRELOAD" %command%

However, as soon as I try to force it to run without XWayland the game never starts:

SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libSDL2.so:/usr/lib/libSDL2.so:$LD_PRELOAD" %command%

It just says "Running" for a moment then exits without displaying a window.

Has anybody had any luck getting this game to run natively in Wayland?

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Xpander 9 Mar 2021

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you can't afaik.. its unity engine and its not compiled to work without X so i doubt its even possible without XWayland at this point

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Hubro 9 Mar 2021

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Quoting: Xpanderyou can't afaik.. its unity engine and its not compiled to work without X so i doubt its even possible without XWayland at this point

Ah, that's disappointing... I assumed most games just relied on SDL2 and shouldn't be reliant on any particular windowing system or environment :sad:

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