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gamescope
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The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1
I think your information is quite outdated.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.
- Gamescope -- How do I get this to work on Endeavouros?
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Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default
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
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BG3 splitscreen on two monitors?
Use gamescope.
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Help needed to confirm two 3.5 bugs
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.
- I haven't seen much posted about it here, so I wanted to point out Valve's gamescope micro-compositor (Linux Gaming)
- Gamescope adds support for Reshade effects
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Force V-Sync or limit fps in proton games
Mangohud (GOverlay), libstrangle, gamescope. Pick your poison.
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FYI on video corruption in cmd and terminal windows
Hey folks. I've got a 11900H motherboard and use the iGPU and stock Intel graphics drivers that I keep current. Even at baseline (so without overclocking of any kind, with good Corsair memory sticks configured without XMP and regardless of voltage), I would be able to use Windows 11 and the CMD or Terminal programs without issue but after some time they would be corrupt and unreadable. The fix was in Terminal, go into Settings, then Render, and turn on Software Rendering. I hope this helps someone else. FYI the corruption was very much like other Intel UHD graphics samples reported in this link: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/356
vkBasalt
- VkBasalt: A Vulkan post processing layer for Linux
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So I installed Tumbleweed to try out linux gaming again. I need some suggestions on how to improve my Linux gaming.
there is vkbasalt for image sharpening. i don't know if it'll provide the image you want, but you can configure it and see if it fits your needs.
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Color Correct ReShade v1.0
There is a alternative for Linux called vkBasalt. I haven't used it myself, yet, so I don't know how well it works. Your distro may have a package for it.
- Valve, not every game, and especially older games, can enable anti-aliasing. Just give us this checkbox, the one every GPU driver in Windows already has but the Steam Deck doesn't. I'll settle for a launch argument I can add. Come on. My Need For Speed III is so chunky and aliased. :(
- [Linux4Noobs] Comment installer vkbasalt sur Ubuntu?
- Using vkBasalt on csgo could be considered cheating?
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Sunshine on steam deck with moonlight on Vita!
In the meantime, you can Generate a LUT yourself and apply it to games using ReShade or vkBasalt, but it doesn't apply to the system as a whole, takes a bit of work to use with each game, and there are certain games that won't work with it at all (rendering OpenGL games through Zink might help, but there are still gaps in its coverage afaik). All that effort is not for the faint of heart, lol.
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You can use vkBasalt (without root) to apply sharpening, FXAA, SMAA, LUTs or even ReShade Fx shaders without having to install ReShade for each game. It will work automatically with every game using Vulkan, DXVK and VKD3D, even when using gamescope.
The solution: vkBasalt
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Wayland Saturation?
In the ticket there is also someone suggesting vkBasalt as a replacement.
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Final Fantasy 13 anyway to have the FF13Fix and ReShade enabled at same time?
The easiest way to do this on linux is to use vkbasalt with goverlay.
What are some alternatives?
gamescope-session - ChimeraOS session on Gamescope - Own personal repository, issues and forks should be made on ChimeraOS/gamescope-session
reshade-steam-proton - Easy setup and updating of ReShade on Linux for games using wine or proton.
gamemode - Optimise Linux system performance on demand
holoiso - SteamOS 3 (Holo) archiso configuration
reshade - A generic post-processing injector for games and video software.
MangoHud - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb
goverlay - GOverlay is an opensource project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
LatencyFleX - Vendor agnostic latency reduction middleware. An alternative to NVIDIA Reflex.
Iris - A modern shaders mod for Minecraft compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs