Well, that makes it 7 releases and around one month that the Flathub version [External Link] is behind now. Hopefully they figure out the issue that's preventing the update, because it was convenient to essentially have a "Proton-GE Latest" option I can default to always get the latest version in Flatpak Steam.

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Gamescope! I've been waiting for that for a while now. I like using Heroic especially because they have Discord IPC, it was just missing gamescope for a while now (which is a very nice thing to have for my config).

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualDo you have a NVIDIA card? It's also broken for me. There was a regression for the 3.12.5 release of Gamescope, but NVIDIA needs to fix it. I found that AUR-compiled Gamescope worked in Lutris, strangely. And I don't use the Flatpak versions of those programs.

Well, with the newest release, it may not work in Lutris anymore. Fortunately, I'm playing on my Intel laptop most of the time.

Nah, I'm on AMD RX 570. Dunno what happened, just broke one day. Gamescope gonna be gamescope.

Getting back to the topic, I've tested the new Flatpak runner update, it's pretty good. You just enable Flathub as source, install the runner from the Flathub source from the sidebar, and it'll detect it as a runner. You can also install the flatpak manually, but it'll require Lutris to restart to detect it.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualChimeraOS's "gamescope-session" is a session with just gamescope you can log into

Yeah, it's what the Deck's Game Mode is. Normal nested-gamescope can sometime have issues, both on x11 and Wayland. Currently having that issue myself - latest gamescope from both AUR and pika-os' repo are broken, while flatpak gamescope that Bottles used worked just fine.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualSorry if you already know this stuff lol but I felt like sharing. Everything just made so much more sense to me after I looked into it all.

Oh no, I understand how you feel and what you're saying completely. It can be kinda weirdly frustrating dealing with Japanese games which, by all means, should really just works but for some reason you need to go on a whole journey to reach full enlightenment where you can deal with most of the problems. I pretty much did the same myself on the IdolDays protonDB page [External Link].

Which, speaking of, just shows that the old guide is still useful. It's old, and a lot of things works well enough through native Wine (or Proton -- played My Klutzy Cupid last month, got stuck at opening movie until I switch from Wine-GE to Proton-GE after my usual codec checks didn't work on Wine-GE), but man does it work for a lot of things and very helpful for getting started.

And yeah, gamescope is super useful, especially as some games are just outright unresizeable. If nothing else, the integrated FSR helps make it looks better on 1080p LCD screens. Kind of annoying that nested gamescope still have issues sometimes though (not like gamescope-session is flawless itself, outside of SteamOS).

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Quoting: HighballWhen you say Gamescope do you mean Big Picture? If so, yes that's how I used it. I didn't try any special MangHud config though.

Just the compositor. I don't use big picture mode, or even gamescope-session. I mainly just use gamescope as a nested compositor because it upscales things better and provides a better graphical environment for my games (at least when it works well).

I usually launch it something like this: `gamescope -w 1477 -h 831 -W 1920 -H 1080 -r 60 -o 30 -f -F fsr --sharpness 10 --expose-wayland -- mangohud --dlsym %command%`.

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What app are you mainly using on Steam Deck / Desktop Linux to manage games from other sources?

Heroic for Windows games, Lutris for emulation games. Heroic's UI is so good, I don't even want to use anything else. I won't lie, I mostly pirate stuff nowadays because I used to be an impulsive buyer, but in my usecase Heroic is just the best. Lutris is a bit too cluttered for me, but having just one place to manage all my games does appeal to me.

In both case, they can then export to Steam library, so really, as long as they run and they track playtime, it doesn't really matter.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanual(in case you were wondering, prefix is a shell function for selecting a Wineprefix in ~/.local/share/wineprefixes, and winejp sets LANG to ja_JP.UTF-8)

Hey, I do the same thing with my own winejp prefix. You made that one using the old guide [External Link] too?

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I know that Garuda has a Plasma 6 chaotic-aur repo, but I'm waiting because I want ALL the changes together, so that it feels more impressive. I love Plasma, but Plasma 5.27 is good, man. Like, really good. Besides, I'd rather just do the update for my dotfiles once than three times.

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Quoting: HighballAhhh, I looked up the mangohud repo. From the instructions there, I put this mangohud %command% in the launch options. Then the mangohud overlayed the game. So I can confirm that mangohud does in fact come with the snap and works. Not as seamless as the SteamDeck. But MangoHud is there for sure.

Oh, nice. Does having both gamescope and mangohud on at the same time works btw? There's a lot of times where this doesn't work, for some reason.

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Quoting: HighballI don't know how to enable MangoHud except the Steam Deck way. I don't use it normally. Maybe that does already work out of the box.

Usually, I just install mangohud, and then add an environment variable or invoke the command in launch options.

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