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[Phoronix] KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] yuman@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I checked and it wasn't mentioned in the article; just choosing a wayland session is not enough, the games are by default ran through the xwayland compatibility layer. you need to start each game with the DISPLAY variable unset in order to run wine in wayland mode.