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What software tools do you use that are gaming related? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by BurgerBaron@piefed.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I'll list what I know of so far:

Bottles.

Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It's early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn't like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.

This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.

MangoHUD of course.

Heroic Games Launcher.

Lutris.

I have Itch.io's launcher too.

ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.

Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I've not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.

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[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If I remember correctly I had to give gamescope a flag to enable hdr at all. However there was an env too, to tell the windows games through proton, that the machine supports hdr. I'll check my scripts later for you

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks for the follow-ups, very useful. The only feature of my displays I've not looked into yet is getting VRR working now.

Edit: I wishlist Dorfromantik too :p

[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

A man, a word. This is my gamescope-session.sh

#!/bin/sh

export DXVK_HDR=1
/usr/bin/gamescope --hdr-enabled -e -- /usr/bin/steam-native -tenfoot

I've created a /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gamescope-session.desktop for it, so I can launch it from login screen (or auto start it in my case)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Steam Big Picture Mode
Comment=Start Steam in Big Picture Mode
Exec=/home/chaser/bin/gamescope-session.sh
Type=Application

In theory this should run all games, that support hdr in hdr. At least Cyberpunk does.