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 ?

  • Max
    16•5 days 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.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•5 days 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!!