As per topic: Has there been any work on getting this working ? I haven’t seen any discussions, so please excuse me in case it’s been discussed somewhere.

We are all waiting on this and I absolutely can’t wait for it. Hopefully it is not too far away, it is one of my favorite features!

The drm crtc property VRR_ENABLED is supported by the nvidia driver. But the connector property vrr_capable is not. When will support be added?

@amrits I’m not sure if you guys are in the process of implementing VRR yet, but I just wanted to check in with you and hopefully get a reference point

It seems like the G-Sync/Freesync support under wayland has arrived in driver 525.53, I can see the option on KDE Plasma now! [Screenshot_20221117_214701] EDIT: However while the option is there, gsync itself doesn’t seem to kick in, I do believe it could be due to this specific part nvidia drive…

I will try on sway or hyperland later!

Using sway it is not the case I believe the option needs to show up in the nvidia-settings application first. hopefully soon, with the 525.53 drivers hyprland is running much better!

@jrgiacone Please check how you need to enable adaptive sync on sway. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate As far as I can see you need to specify a command output * adaptive_sync on as on KDE it shows up in kscreen settings.(NOTE: The option was not visible on any driver prior t…

I have it enabled in sway and hyprland, it looks like it tries to do something as my display changes to 48hz if nothing is on the screen or moving, however, when using a game or anything it just stays at 144 even if the game is showing less frames. So I would say it’s not working yet. Nothing in s…

This would be incredible to have on Sway! There aren’t too many items keeping me off Wayland these days… but this is one of them.

[Feature] G-Sync/Freesync under Wayland Session

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There are dozens of us waiting for this! Dozens!

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[Feature] G-Sync/Freesync under Wayland Session

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