I have had my gpu crash due to wayland in games (Baldur’s Gate 3 and Helldivers 2). Initially you see some frames go backwards (fps graph on mangohud goes backwards) and then the entire screen gets pixelated gray squares (but the sound plays) and even persists when quitting the game, the only thing that can be done to get out of it is to press the power button to get out of it and hard reset the computer. In addition in some games (Rogue trader, Baldurs Gate 3, Expeditions Rome) the fps is half of that on xorg while other games get stuttery. It seems there’s been a regression to some of the fixes from the October drivers that fixed many Wayland issues and made games have similar fps to x11). Unfortunately I did not do run a log immediately after this happened but included some anyway.
Other times the game crashes the desktop.
This is on a 2060 mobile. Archlinux. 545.29.06 drivers. KDE Plasma 5.27.10.
I am using an external monitor connected to my optimus laptop in clamshell mode.
I updated from the arch repos to 550.54.14, there has been no visible change. Framerates stay halved in Rogue Trader and Expeditions Rome and Baldur’s Gate 3 remains unstable in Wayland. Switching to Proton 9.0 has improved stability and FPS in Helldivers 2, but it had no effect on the other games mentioned above.
550.54.14 driver instead.
