I’ve recently got a FreeSync monitor and am still figuring out how to get VRR (variable refresh rate, or “adaptive sync”) to work consistently.

I’d love to hear your experience with VRR.

Some of my tests:

Sway

In sway, I set adaptive_sync on for my display, and swaymsg -t get_outputs reports Adaptive sync: enabled

Hyprland

In hyprland, I set vrr = 1 and get similar results as sway -Dnoscanout

  • Fluent motion by default, but moving the mouse introduces stuttering

Gamescope

In gamescope (embedded from VTT, with --adaptive-sync), I get the best results yet

  • Stable fluent motion
  • Mouse doesn’t break it

My setup is 6600xt, Gigabyte M28U monitor, Arch 6.1.64-1-lts. I test with vrrtest and with Ghostrunner on wine-tkg-staging-fsync-git 8.13.r7.gc210ef9f-327

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    On sway it works fine for me except in fullscreen Xwayland apps, so that’s all of my games.

    Plasma Wayland works flawlessly and I use it daily for gaming.

    Plasma X11 works only in fullscreen apps and with one screen only, and it requires custom X.org configs.