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

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