the heroic launcher was recently updated to support gamescope (installed it through flatpak by installing org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope 23.08 through the terminal using >flatpak install).

it can be configured with a simple GUI (as seen above) and gives you all the options you could reasonably need. One of the big improvements is that on wayland, unlike when used through steam, it will actually close the game when told to, without requiring you to maunally kill the gamescope process.

valve still requires you to edit text launch options to enable and configure gamescope.

Valve needs to do better with gamescope, this 3rd party FOSS app is embarrasing them.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Game scope is a micro-compositor

    What is that?

    it’s how the Steamdeck handles games and probably steam.

    So why would I use this in HGL instead of Steam?

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      What is that?

      Displaying stuff to the screen, the game will tell it “draw this”

      So why would I use this in HGL instead of Steam?

      If your library is in the other things then you can take advantage of the technology in those games

      Gamescope should have lower latency in going from game to screen