That is interesting… does this have an impact on performance?
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
The only real difference is that desktop mode uses x and game mode uses Wayland. You can usually get a better experience in game mode (Wayland) because of the performance tools that let you easily cap frame rate/etc.
cianmor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Perroboc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Game mode uses gamescope, not Wayland.
We’re still waiting for wine and gamescope to be fully wayland compatible.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
My understanding is that game mode uses Wayland as the display server, and then game scope is run as a compositor for running games and apps. However dispute game scope running on Wayland, it doesn’t support Wayland clients yet. So all games running on it have to be run through xWayland instead.
Forcing a program or game to run in Wayland mode will prevent it from running, even though the base display server is Wayland. Honestly it’s a confusing setup, but I’m assuming backward x support was the priority for compatibility reasons.
Perroboc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TIL, thanks!