Have you tried it? I just installed gamescope and launched some games with it via steam launch options. So far I feel like the frame times are better. I use it on top of KDE and with an AMD card. Freesync in Gamescope works too. (Have it allways on in KDE if that matters).
I do. But as a session for Big Picture Steam. It’s great as it enables HDR for me. I supplement it with gamemoderun as a launch option to optimize it even further.
I’d love to but it just gives me a black screen on nVidia lmao
I do… for playing games in 4:3 stretched. Don’t use any of the other fancy tools. Recently it has been breaking and is crashing games on launch from using -f and mangohud. Not sure what happened there.
Yes, I do. Why?
Because fucking Valve hasn’t fixed in-home streaming in Wayland after LITERAL YEARS of it being broken, and the only way to use it is to start Steam under Gamescope.
Apart from that … not much reason to. Unless there’s the rare game that misbehaves otherwise.
You probably should be using Sunshine/Moonlight instead anyway. The Steam streaming kinda sucks.
You probably should be using Sunshine/Moonlight instead anyway. The Steam streaming kinda sucks.
I used this for a while, and while it worked great and much better than Steam streaming (never tried it with gamescope tho), the cursor doesn’t appear on Wayland, so I can’t play games using the mouse like EU4.
Which Wayland DE? Have you tried disabling hardware cursor? So for example in Sway/Hyprland or other wlroots based WMs that would be launching it with env:
WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1
Gamescope should not make a significant performance difference. But there are a lot of reasons to use it.
never bothered
Using it cause fractional scaling on Wayland do some weird stuff with xwayland (reporting wrong resolution to software mostly), so using gamescope is the only way to bypass that bug and play at native resolution with scaling enabled.
Although it just stop working sometimes on my arch setup with 7900xtx. Right now it just spams errors in console and I have zero idea da fuck I need to do with that. Also, there a bug with closing game with gamescope: sometimes process will not close itself and stack multiple times in memory.I use it on Valheim to properly capture the cursor, as it will otherwise keep escaping to my other monitor during build mode or similar situations.
I’ve actually invoked it to watch older videos, enabling FSR to add a bit of extra sharpness.
I used it for SWTOR a while back, because otherwise the game would just crash randomly, and I have no clue why.
I launch it from a TTY to be able to use HDR on my monitor. As far as I know it’s the only way to get games to use HDR on Linux. However using Gamescope in embedded mode clashes with Wayland, so I have to have my regular KDE desktop on X11 to do this.
i use gamescope only to force enable FSR for games
I use it to tweak old games.
I’d like to but it causes some of my games to be kinda jittery. The only games I tolerate the jitter are Saints Row 3 & 4 because it fixes an issue i have with them otherwise.
Whats wrong with saints row 3 and 4 ?
When I would use the mouse the framerate would dip down to about 20. Gamescope was a real life saver on that one because I was out of the refund period when I was finally able to play them.
Yeah, love it. I mostly use it to manage games that misbehave when losing focus or the games that try to prevent me form alt-tabbing. Just pop them into Gamescope, and alt tab to my heart’s desire.
I straight up consider Gamescope Linux’s killer app and almost the primary reason I prefer to game on linux now as someone who plays older games with resolution and alt+tab issues and also has a steam deck where wrangling resolutions in a certain oddball way matters for performance reasons.
I just wish it worked on Nvidia better. It used to and I loved it, but I’m having the same issue as hopeisforpresidents where it just gives me a black screen when I try to use it on desktop now.
But yeah when it works, it’s very nice, especially for old 640x480 point and click games that have pre-rendered assets that scale nicely with FSR 1.0.