Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by shmerl on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @02:06AM
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> I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've successfully launched and played Wine games with Nvidia proprietary drivers in Gnome with Wayland.
How exactly, when it's not supported: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Wayland/NVIDIA
There is currently no accelerated GLX support when
running a GNOME Wayland session no top of the NVIDIA
drivers, meaning X11 OpenGL applications will use
software rendering.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by themacguffinman on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @08:10PM
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I can't say I know the details, but I have played CS:GO (non-wine) and Overwatch on Wine without any special hacks with performance indicative of GPU, not CPU rendering. Perhaps it's because they're using Vulkan instead, or the docs are alluding to edge cases that I haven't encountered? I have very little technical knowledge of how it works, but I can say that it is absolutely working.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by shmerl on Thursday July 11, 2019 @01:42PM
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You likely weren't using Wayland session, but X11 one.
Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started
by themacguffinman on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:53PM
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No, I definitely wasn't. The games may be running through XWayland, but my Gnome was definitely running with Wayland.
My parent commenter did not refer to Sway, that's why I rejected the claim that AMD is the "only way for you to get a usable desktop with modern features".
> even Gnome can't handle XWayland with Nvidia today. And if you play games, especially in Wine, that's still a requirement
I'm not sure what you're referring to. I've successfully launched and played Wine games with Nvidia proprietary drivers in Gnome with Wayland.