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I had issues getting tearing/direct_scanout to work in hyprland, what's an actual working DE for absolute lowest latency gaming that also supports HDR? (piefed.social)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Arda@piefed.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I want minimum latency as I play competitive games and am very sensitive to it. Hyprland has hdr support which is a must for me and on paper should support vrr and tearing aswell. With VRR I had occasional issues but something like tearing was impossible to get working for some reason, kde plasma should do both well but I have gotten used to tiling window managers and don't really want to give that up.

So id like to know about your setup if you have gotten something like tearing to work or other recommendations.

EDIT: I went back to KDE Plasma and was able to confirm that direct scanout and tearing work, i used window rues to force it for specific games, i also use https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite which allows tiling on plasma. Its not as beautiful as hyprland but meets me demands

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[–] chippydingo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I gave up on Mint Cinnamon when I was trying to get my new build running due to persistent issues with tearing no matter what I tried. In my case, the issue appeared to be X11 so the recommendations I read pushed me to a Wayland based distro. After switching to Fedora Workstation (i.e., GNOME DE), I was able to easily enable VRR and HDR and now I never get tearing anymore; even with more graphics intensive games like CP 2077 and Enshrouded. Typically, I enable V-sync and/or a framerate cap and run games in fullscreen or borderless (preferred since it is less likely to freeze the display when I alt-tab).

I am not sure this is the minimum latency route as you mention but it solved 100% of my other issue and has been rock solid for gaming. GNOME seems to be a deal breaker for many, and possibly you as well, based on the comment about tiling window managers. Just figured I would share my own experience in the hopes it might be helpful.

[–] Arda@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

sounds good but in my case i want tearing, at high fps its hard to see anyway and any kind of sync introduces latency, vrr is great but i specifically want minimum latency meaning tearing and no sync

[–] chippydingo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah ok, I will chalk this up to a reading comprehension failure on my part. Sounds like what I shared was actually the opposite of helpful. Sorry about that.

[–] Arda@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

all good its confusing with all the different terms and pros and cons