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 ?

  • Björn Tantau
    1•8 days ago

    It just means that you’re limited to older games. Which shouldn’t be a problem because a card that doesn’t support Vulkan won’t be able to run the type of games that would benefit from Vulkan anyways.

    You might have problems with Steam though. I have no idea if running Windows games without Vulkan is even possible with Proton. I guess you can probably deactivate DXVK with some environment variable if it isn’t detected automatically.