[ahartmetz]

These latency numbers all look terrible to me tbh. I got better latency numbers (a little over 2 frames in KWrite, close to the theoretical minimum with X11 compositing) with an AMD GPU w/ open drivers, KWin, X11 and compositing enabled a couple of years ago. Measured with high fps recording on a phone camera filming keyboard and screen. Both Wayland and KWin changes should have improved the situation since then. I suspect the games, the screen and / or the graphics drivers which are presumably "review optimized" for frame rate over latency.

Actionable advice from the article: Using Wayland natively from Wine does seem to help, especially against latency jitter / for consistent frame pacing, which is a typical improvement for Wayland.

[Joe_Cool]

Yeah, not testing X11 was a weird choice.

It's likely his monitor. Would be interesting to see CRT results.

[ahartmetz]

I chose my monitor very specifically for low latency, good color reproduction and "high" (as in the screen is higher than 16:9) aspect ratio - in about 2012! and I'm still quite happy with it. 4K is incoming, but only if it's better in all criteria, which became available fairly recently.

A lot of people still seem to buy their monitors without considering latency, which majorly sucks. It feels like the years between power supply efficiency making a difference and the introduction of 80+ efficiency standards.

[Joe_Cool]

Agreed, I don't want to miss my 24" 16:10 displays. They are just standard IPS though but enough for work.