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Does it matter that Gnome doesn't support VRR? And why? (self.linux_gaming)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by million to c/linux_gaming
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Question to help me increase my understanding on what’s going on in the Linux desktop stack. I’ve heard Gnome doesn’t support VRR while KDE does.

Why does this matter, isn’t Wayland or X11 the one that would ultimately need to support VRR? Basically when running a game that I want to use VRR with, why does it matter what my desktop environment is doing?

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

The stupid thing is mutter-vrr works far better than Plasma's implementation in my experience. Plasma locks refresh rate to max if your cursor is moving, causing games that use the cursor to stutter badly while the mutter implementation refreshes the cursor at the game's rate as expected.

[–] million 1 points 10 months ago

Oh that is crazy, will have to try out KDE VRR out on my machine and see if I get the same behavior.