diff --git a/packages/wayland/compositor/sway/profile.d/050-sway.conf b/packages/wayland/compositor/sway/profile.d/050-sway.conf
index 8fcea84a5e..b9e770fb21 100644
--- a/packages/wayland/compositor/sway/profile.d/050-sway.conf
+++ b/packages/wayland/compositor/sway/profile.d/050-sway.conf
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
 export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/run/0-runtime-dir
 export SWAYSOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/sway-ipc.0.sock"
+
+# this lets ppsspp to work with wayland and not segfault
+export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland