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I've recently got a FreeSync monitor and am still figuring out how to get VRR (variable refresh rate, or "adaptive sync") to work consistently.
I'd love to hear your experience with VRR.
Some of my tests:
Sway
In sway
, I set adaptive_sync on
for my display, and swaymsg -t get_outputs
reports Adaptive sync: enabled
- Unfortunately, by default stuttering in games is present
- To fix, I had to use
sway -Dnoscanout
. Apparently, this has its drawbacks. - Even with
-Dnoscanout
, moving the mouse breaks VRR and causes stuttering
Hyprland
In hyprland
, I set vrr = 1
and get similar results as sway -Dnoscanout
- Fluent motion by default, but moving the mouse introduces stuttering
Gamescope
In gamescope
(embedded from VTT, with --adaptive-sync
), I get the best results yet
- Stable fluent motion
- Mouse doesn't break it
My setup is 6600xt, Gigabyte M28U monitor, Arch 6.1.64-1-lts. I test with vrrtest and with Ghostrunner on wine-tkg-staging-fsync-git 8.13.r7.gc210ef9f-327
Yes! I'm on an eternal quest to find games that will just shut up and let me play.
My most recent find is Ghostrunner. Starts with the CPU doing the first kill and then you're off.
Before that it was Celeste. I now realize in both games the player dies a lot. Maybe there's a correlation between how much fun I have and how much the game allows me to die without repercussions ๐
I guess I'll need to try Elden Ring now. There's gotta be dozens of us. Anyone have more recommendations?