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Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml
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[–] yulian@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never understood why people would want tearing. It's such a bad experience.

[–] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Competitive games, usually. It is supposed to provide lower latency.

I agree tearing sucks though and I wouldn't go back to it.

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If you dont have VRR, its the only way to get acceptable latency for competitive games.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's very easy actually. If you competitively game on a normie display, you get to pick from either tearing or bad latency.