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[Hatchet_Manners]

1 hour ago, strix_ said:

In my experience, KDE has worse performance in CoH than GNOME overall and introduces a ton of bugs (ranging from visual to UX to crashes.) AFAIK this is because it's using a lot of janky workarounds under the hood to get x11 (the old gpu code) and Wayland (the new code) to play nice, whereas GNOME is just.... a lot more set up to just use Wayland. If your distro has a "use with xorg" option, I'd try running that and see if the problems go away?

 

What I found works best for keeping CoH running smoothly in general tho was using Lutris or Steam to run the HC installer so I could manually set which version of Wine to use with the game, tho. With older games sometimes you get way better results using older versions of Wine. I use the default 8.x version that came bundled with Lutris, and I haven't had any of the issues people are reporting with 9.x/10.x

I use KDE and I stopped using Wayland because it sucks. Moved back to xorg for my desktop. Xorg was never broken for me and I've read the slide deck on why Xorg sucks and we should move to Wayland and it certainly didn't convince me to stick with Wayland. 

 

Issues like what you mentioned are why Wayland is not ready. If it solves a certain problem you're having then great use it, but otherwise sticking with Xorg is the right choice. 

[strix_]

2 minutes ago, Hatchet_Manners said:

I use KDE and I stopped using Wayland because it sucks. Moved back to xorg for my desktop. Xorg was never broken for me and I've read the slide deck on why Xorg sucks and we should move to Wayland and it certainly didn't convince me to stick with Wayland. 

 

Issues like what you mentioned are why Wayland is not ready. If it solves a certain problem you're having then great use it, but otherwise sticking with Xorg is the right choice. 

Haha, no arguments here. Just posting this in case switching back to X11 helps other people with the problems they're having!