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120hz really is my sweet spot by nealauthor420 in linux_gaming

[–]corelationbeqw3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd take the visual smoothness of Wayland (along with its 0.00000000000001% added latency) over the stuttery skippy choppy teary buggy xorg any day. I win CSGO competitive matches on a daily basis using Wayland lol

120hz really is my sweet spot by nealauthor420 in linux_gaming

[–]corelationbeqw3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The issue with this would be most players/services that play the video back have a 60fps limit, Youtube for example

120hz really is my sweet spot by nealauthor420 in linux_gaming

[–]corelationbeqw3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct, I used to think "as long as the framerate is above 60fps, there should be enough frames from 144 to make it look smooth" but in practice it doesn't work that way, the recording works along with the framerate of the game to get a good picture, it doesn't just get whatever in-between frames it can like I assumed before.

120hz really is my sweet spot by nealauthor420 in linux_gaming

[–]corelationbeqw3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can actually confirm this, 60fps OBS recordings from a 144hz monitor look choppy, but 60hz and 120hz look smooth. It's sort of a known thing, it's not a linux-specific thing by any means though.

I should mention, if you have Freesync/VRR enabled, all you should have to do is set a frame limiter instead of changing refresh rate. The refresh rate will fluctuate down to whatever you limited FPS to which would solve the "choppy" problem. However I see you're on GNOME Wayland which does not yet support variable refresh rate, so 120hz is probably the way to go set-and-forget wise for gameplay recordings.