I want minimum latency as I play competitive games and am very sensitive to it. Hyprland has hdr support which is a must for me and on paper should support vrr and tearing aswell. With VRR I had occasional issues but something like tearing was impossible to get working for some reason, kde plasma should do both well but I have gotten used to tiling window managers and don’t really want to give that up.
So id like to know about your setup if you have gotten something like tearing to work or other recommendations.
What is your refresh rate and what FPS are you getting? I’ve never met anyone that wanted to see screen tearing, so this is new… But you have to be getting FPS that outruns your refresh rate to get any tearing, usually by a lot.
I’ve basically never ran vsync or freesync or any of those things, but I haven’t actually seen screen tearing in years because high refresh rate monitors have become basically the norm (outside of office buildings). The FPS needed to cause the tearing is a higher bar to clear, and if there is tearing it is on the screen for such a small fraction of a second you aren’t likely to notice it.
Also, at a point, for most people on modern hardware, the biggest source of latency is “the meat”…
yes in most games i just want freesync to work but my most played games are cs2 and overwatch i r un both easily at 400+ fps on my 240hz monitor and thus i want no kind of vrr involved and jsut the direct frame output to my monitor as quickly as possible. At this high fps tearing isnt really visible anyway its just about the latency
mangowm. it’s lighter than both Niri and Hyprland and does a better job at what those two are supposed to excel in. That being said I do suggest you clean up the config for mango because some of the keybinds will leave you scratching your head as you can literally use one mod key for everything. For whatever reason the Mango dev decided using THREE mod keys was the way to go.
ill look into it and i have no problem messing with configs as long as its worth it
I gave up on Mint Cinnamon when I was trying to get my new build running due to persistent issues with tearing no matter what I tried. In my case, the issue appeared to be X11 so the recommendations I read pushed me to a Wayland based distro. After switching to Fedora Workstation (i.e., GNOME DE), I was able to easily enable VRR and HDR and now I never get tearing anymore; even with more graphics intensive games like CP 2077 and Enshrouded. Typically, I enable V-sync and/or a framerate cap and run games in fullscreen or borderless (preferred since it is less likely to freeze the display when I alt-tab).
I am not sure this is the minimum latency route as you mention but it solved 100% of my other issue and has been rock solid for gaming. GNOME seems to be a deal breaker for many, and possibly you as well, based on the comment about tiling window managers. Just figured I would share my own experience in the hopes it might be helpful.
sounds good but in my case i want tearing, at high fps its hard to see anyway and any kind of sync introduces latency, vrr is great but i specifically want minimum latency meaning tearing and no sync
I don’t know anything about latency, but I use mangowm without scenefx (the normal version doesn’t support HDR, the one without scenefx does)
If you’re wondering about my issues with tearing, I did as the wiki said, enabled in global rendering config and added the window rules, this didn’t work for some games but using it with gamescope did, this resulted in me getting rid of all the reasons that hyprctl monitors named why tearing was blocked but even then it just continued saying “next frame not torn” with no explanation. I gave up.
