Hey guys, so I have a main monitor which is VRR compatible and a secondary monitor which isn’t, and I currently have an NVIDIA graphics card, and can only have G-sync work if my secondary monitor is turned off. I have researched if it possible to get VRR working while having a secondary monitor in this configuration, and my understanding is that it is impossible to do so in Xorg/X11, and it is possible on Wayland, but Wayland is unusable on NVIDIA due to their proprietary drivers, so I would have to get an AMD card to have VRR with 2 monitors. I have seen a lot of conflicting information about this online, so I would just like to confirm if this is actually true. If it is, I will have to switch to an AMD card, as this is pretty much the only thing keeping me from fully switching to Linux, but if it isn’t, I don’t want to waste a ton of money on a new graphics card with the same issues, so please tell me. Thank you, and have a good day.
Not sure how old your information is, but Nvidia supports Wayland. In fact, Ubuntu 24.10 will be defaulting to Wayland for Nvidia, so it seems that support is pretty stable.
So before you go buying another GPU, first just try using Wayland. That being said: on Gnome, where VRR is an experimental feature, I’ve had mixed results enabling it for the desktop.
Good point — and the OP hasn’t said which DE is in use.
@Davidtatu222 Welcome to the Forum! It would help if you can post some system details e.g.: How to find system information ![]()
If on Plasma, I’d definitely give Wayland another go; nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain.