Magpie VS gamescope

Compare Magpie vs gamescope and see what are their differences.

Magpie

English Translation of Magpie (by 7Brandyn7)

gamescope

SteamOS session compositing window manager (by ValveSoftware)
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Magpie gamescope
29 56
256 2,587
- 5.8%
0.0 9.7
over 2 years ago about 6 hours ago
HLSL C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Magpie

Posts with mentions or reviews of Magpie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

gamescope

Posts with mentions or reviews of gamescope. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
  • The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2023
    I think your information is quite outdated. The HWC overlay planes are heavily used, you can see this trivially just doing a 'dumpsys SurfaceFlinger' or grabbing a systrace/perfetto trace. When it falls back to GPU composition it's very obvious as there's a significant hit to latency and more GPU contention.

    The overlay capabilities of the modern Snapdragons are also quite absurd. They support like upwards of a dozen overlays now and even have FP16 extended sRGB support. Some HWCs (like the one in the steam deck) even have per plane 3D LUTs for HDR tone mapping (ex https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/blob/master/src/d... )

    The composition is bandwidth heavy of course, but for static scenes there's a cache after the HWC in the form of panel self refresh.

  • Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
    One of the unfortunate things about Wayland is every compositor will have its own quality of implementation affecting things like latency.

    With XOrg, especially in the pre-compositing days, you could choose whatever WM you want and it wouldn't have any impact on the rendering performance of X clients. Once the Composite extension was added and everyone started running composited X desktops, that started to change, and the increased latency already started appearing - in an arguably worse architecture than Wayland because there were often three processes involved with lots of IPC per draw: X-Client->X-Server->X-Compositor->X-Server->CRTC. At least in Wayland it's more like Wayland-Client->Wayland-Compositor->CRTC.

    If you're unhappy with the rendering latency of your Wayland sessions, it may be worth trying alternative compositors... they likely vary significantly. The Valve/Steam folks have made a minimal one specifically optimized for games/low-latency [0]. I doubt the SteamDeck would be seeing as much success as it is if Wayland were so problematic in this department.

    [0]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

  • Help needed to confirm two 3.5 bugs
    2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 24 Sep 2023
    While streaming from the Deck to another device (phone with Steam Link app or another PC running steam), taking a screenshot on the Deck (hold the steam or ... button, and press R1) crashes the session (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/961). This one also impacts Decky Recorder. If you're recording the screen or have replay mode on and take a screenshot, you'll have a crash.
  • Force V-Sync or limit fps in proton games
    4 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 5 Sep 2023
    Mangohud (GOverlay), libstrangle, gamescope. Pick your poison.
  • Why is it taking so long Valve, hurry up and put 3.5 on preview pretty please, I am dying waiting grrrrr
    2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 8 Jul 2023
  • More Than 75% of Steam Games Tested Are Playable or Verified on the Steam Deck
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
    I have an Intel GPU (HD Graphics 520) and gamescope doesn't work for me under arch Linux :( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/356
  • Gamescope not working in Ubunte
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 10 Jun 2023
    Hopefully someone more experienced in troubleshooting than me can chime in to help, since I don't wish to leave you on a "Works on my machineā„¢" but I really don't know how to help since I don't use Ubuntu. In the meantime, try opening an issue on gamescope's issue tracker.
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 10 Jun 2023
    Take a second look at the github page; there is information on how to set the right resolution with Steam launch arguments. A quick cursory glance at the documentation gives me the impression that support for Nvidia GPU's is limited. I wouldn't bother with it if you consider yourself a Linux noob, the small performance up lift in not going to out way the frustration to make it work properly.
  • Help Request: Low Framerate in Cyberpunk 2077 on RX 7900 XT
    3 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 7 Jun 2023
    I'm unfamiliar with gamescope, never heard of it before. I found their github... I'm guessing "command" needs to be a compatibility layer like proton or wine calling the game's executable, huh?
  • Bookworm and games
    2 projects | /r/debian | 26 May 2023
    In a nutshell, the video stack is held back because of compositor ; YMMV, but, if you'd like to try one designed primarly for games, use gamescope, the one made for the Steam Deck: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Magpie and gamescope you can also consider the following projects:

Magpie - An all-purpose window upscaler for Windows 10/11.

gamescope-session - ChimeraOS session on Gamescope - Own personal repository, issues and forks should be made on ChimeraOS/gamescope-session

reshade - A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.

gamemode - Optimise Linux system performance on demand

holoiso - SteamOS 3 (Holo) archiso configuration

proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

wine - Wine with a bit of extra spice

MangoHud - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

LatencyFleX - Vendor agnostic latency reduction middleware. An alternative to NVIDIA Reflex.

d2gx - D2DX is a complete solution to make Diablo II run well on modern PCs, with high fps and better resolutions.

dxvk - Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine