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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does this help in any way with turning VSync off in Wayland environments? I'm guessing no.

[–] Tzeentch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No, that's a different protocol, the tearing patches, already merged, but i believe we're still waiting on some patches to the kernel to get them fully working(i think it was kernel 6.8 that had them), Nvidia's drivers also need to add support for it, they've given no timeline for that so far however

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/65