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PSA: Nvidia drivers 580 broke gaming on sway / wlroots for me (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [M] to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Gaming on Wayland, or more specifically sway WM, broke for me when updating to nvidia drivers version 580.

Reverting to 570 fixed the problem.

Card: Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti

What exactly happened: some games wouldn't launch at all (overwatch 2) while others had severe performance issues (Resident evil 5).

Those were the only two games I tried. Both ran through steam and Proton GE version 10.

Though I didn't test extensively, both games seemed to work fine on Xorg with nvidia drivers 580. So this confirms it's only problematic for Wayland.

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

You're right of course - it could be a Sway issue, but with Sway being engineered from the ground up to be a Wayland compositor, and conforming to that design, I would still blame Wayland.

To give a comparison: NTFS has many annoying flaws and limitations, but because it's ultimately a file system created for the NT kernel on Windows, I blame Windows for its limitations.

Besides common sense would suggest that usually when it comes to launching games a display protocol would have more impact than a choice of WM, though Wayland blurs that line because of it's unusual architecture compared to what we know and love with the X11 protocol and good old Xorg..

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    It doesn't even need to be Sways issue. What I mean are secondary issues like packaging of Sway or related packaged that are used when using Sway or Wayland. It doesn't need to be a Wayland issue in itself. I just had in the past issues and quickly blamed something and it turned out something different.

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