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Yet another discord overlay for linux
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Discover breaks adaptive sync (G-sync compatible/Freesync) #290

Closed Cubevoid closed 1 year ago

Cubevoid commented 1 year ago

Steps to Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Enable G-sync compatible on a monitor that supports it, and in the Nvidia settings app. Haven't tested it with AMD/Freesync
  2. Check "Enable G-SYNC/G-SYNC Compatible Visual Indicator"
  3. Test to see if adaptive sync is working, e.g. using VRRTest https://github.com/Nixola/VRRTest/releases/tag/v2.0.0
  4. Open Discover
  5. Open VRRTest again

Expected behavior Adaptive sync should still be working with Discover running

Problematic behavior As soon as Discover is running, adaptive sync stops working

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trigg commented 1 year ago

As it currently stands this is fairly simple. We cannot support Freesync or un-redirect modes.

This overlay is drawn as a X11 window or a Wayland shell and in both cases it means that any VRR application cannot enable VRR. For VRR to work the game/app needs to be the only window outputting to the screen and it is by default disabled once more than one window is being drawn.

This would require a from-scratch rewrite and if it ever gets done it will be done over on https://github.com/trigg/discern and not in python