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The last piece of the puzzle that is the tearing protocol just fell into place (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This MR just got merged: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/19125

Which completes the tearing protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/65

So once the mesa update lands, XWayland titles should be able to tear under Wayland, at least on AMD GPUs. Nvidia will have to provide support in their drivers in the future.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Now it'll be interesting which compositors actually implement it and when. Iirc there're ready KWin patches since one of the main dev working on this protocol uses it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Huzzah, I just love it when more Wayland latency bugs get squashed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I guess mutter will take ages to deliver it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Meanwhile, I'm still not able to achieve smooth, tear-free gameplay on No Man's Sky on Wayland. Both on GNOME and KDE 🫤

I was surprised when I learned that some people want their tearing back 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm too lazy to turn Freesync off on my monitor, so I guess it'll be working when I upgrade mesa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why would you want to turn Freesync off though?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

To see if I get tearing on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How does this affect freesync usage?