So both Sway and Hyprland now support Waylands’ tearing protocol. I was wondering whether it is possible to create window rules for these WMs that allow tearing in all games launched via Steam. Something like: For Sway for_window [class=“steam_app_*”] allow_tearing yes
and for Hyprland windowrulev2 = immediate, class:^(steam_app_*)$
Does anybody know whether something like this would work? You know, instead of having to create an entry for every single game.
Edit: As mranderson17 said, allow tearing isn’t in the latest release versions of Sway or Hyprland at the time of writing.
Edit2: mranderson17 gave what could possibly be the right answer:
For Sway for_window [class=“steam_app_.*”] allow_tearing yes
For Hyprland (maybe) windowrulev2 = immediate, class:^(steam_app_.*)$
I haven’t tested it yet. But unless you think he’s wrong give him your “thumbs up”.
This reminds me of the time I got my first 160hz monitor. Games felt buttery smooth. Like there was some friction that I never thought was present was magically gone. Days later I found out that the monitor was set at a whooping 60Hz in the settings.
I agree. It’s not only placebo, though. I will gladly admit that I’m not very sensitive to these things and can’t immediately tell if something is wrong. I had this experience and I even had it in reverse. After days of playing very badly I realised Sway all of the sudden was running my monitor at 60Hz. After fixing it with kanshi (which I didn’t have to use prior to that) everything in game was so much easier.
You really put it well: A friction that you didn’t even know was there.