Gaming without vulkan: bad idea? (lemy.lol)

submitted 2 months ago by matcha_addict@lemy.lol to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I have a nvidia GPU and wanted to use wayland / sway. I was able to get it working, but setting WLR_RENDERER=vulkan makes it stop working. Since sway does not officially support nvidia GPU usage, it seems I may be out of luck

I dont own many games, but I tried a few and they worked fine without issues. But I always heard that vulkan is the future of linux gaming.

Will I be missing out on a lot by not using vulkan renderer with wayland / sway? Do some games not work unless I use vulkan ?

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[-] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

The important thing is that the game itself uses vulkan. I believe that's entirely independent of whether your window manager uses vulkan. If your games work, then they're probably using vulkan. They won't work any better if sway does as well.

[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 2 points 2 months ago

ahh, so the game itself can use vulkan and it is not necessary for sway itself to use vulkan?? wow well that makes me very happy, thanks a lot!!

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