Wayland color management protocol not yet supported by Nvidia driver

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As some of you know, Mesa 25.1 recently implemented this protocol, which allows HDR to be used on Wayland without the issue of washed-out colors mentioned in this post.

This addresses the problem at its core, eliminates the need to use vk_hdr_layer (which is no longer supported by all distros, NixOS for example recently removed it from its package repository) and would represent a significant step forward for HDR gaming on Linux with the major GPU manufacturers adopting the necessary protocol to make it possible, thus also accelerating the stable arrival of Wayland support in Proton (especially now with the custom versions of Proton that allow it to try).

Cheers.

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I agree

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@amrits Is there any chance of seeing Vulkan extensions added to support the Wayland Color Protocol in the 580 driver?

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I asked this months ago and got crickets from Nvidia. This is the most unfriendly support forum I have ever come across. All they have to do is say, “We are working on it.” and I would be OK with that. Bad news is worse than no news when it comes to your customers. Customers usually can deal with the bad news much better than no news.

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