One thing that id really like to see is audio device disconnect to not pause video with the media controls. To have a setting there to either have that enabled or disabled.

I welcome the virtual desktop only on primary monitor. Will take it in use and it will come in handy with games that are troublesome with Alt Tab.

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So far ray tracing games that ive tested were CP2077, RE8 and Elden Ring. With CP2077 ray tracing is bugged making some trees go all black etc. RE8 had a PCGamingWiki noted bug where performance gets constantly lower when using ray tracing. With Elden Ring i get stutters with ray tracing enabled. I wonder if this driver would help to alleviate the stutters in Elden Ring.

So far it seems that ray tracing implementations are just pretty shoddy and not worth the time. The ray traced reflections do work nicely in CP2077 where i think that the best practice is just to enable the reflections and leave everything else baked in settings.

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I had a crash with ProtonGE-29 with RE8. Sadly it takes three hours to have the crash. Not sure if it was NTSync also involved. Changing to Proton 10 by Valve made it work. Now that i checked the requirements to file a bug report to ProtonGE it might be bit too big of a hurdle cause id first have to test out Proton experimental first.

Also would have to test with NTSync on and off so it would probably take me like 20h or something to do a bug report. Glad that it's working with Proton 10 with video playback and all. I only used ProtonGE cause i thought that the video playback would have been broken on base Proton, but it turned out that it wasn't.

I think that with Steam the base Proton is best to be used and with Heroic ProtonGE with UMU.

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[quote=Doktor-Mandrake][quote=eggrole]

Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: MinoscerebMy use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: MinoscerebI like lutris for the setup scripts for old gamss

I have almost completely switched to Heroic for no good reason other than "I like it", and I too find old setups that have fallen off of the back of the truck from time to time. You can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

I'm referring more to the community scripts on lutris

Take something like Quake for example, that might only include the windows version, lutris will give options to install linux source ports, or automatically apply fixes to old games. Heroic doesn't have such feature AFAIK.

Another reason I like to keep both around is because they both seem to handle controller inputs differently. I've had some games where controller doesn't register on heroic, but registers on lutris

Granted I could just add it as a nonsteam game and enable steam input, but that kind of defeats the purpose for me having drm free games not reliant on a closed platform

With Heroic with my DS4 controller i use environment variable PROTON_DISABLE_HIDRAW=1 to get my controller to work for all games. With some games like Metro Exodus though the Playstation mode is better, but then it's as easy as just removing the environment variable from the games list of env variables.

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Now Heroic has a nifty feature of asking you what exe to actually use. That way i can easily start the expansions in MOHAA for example.

The 2.19 version was buggy with non working Epic games, but they very quickly pushed out an update 2.19.1 to fix the issue.

I like more of the simplistic Heroic compared to Lutris which is riddled with funky installers that sometimes work and sometimes not. For example GOG version of Cyberpunk was a pain to install in Lutris where with Heroic it was just clicks to install.

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I streamed and played RE8 with Fsync. GPU got to 100C and frames were dropping in game and OBS. That was with 1440p 60fps ultra no ray tracing. So i went and enabled NTSync and was about to reproduce my dropped frames issue with OBS log, but to my surprise i couldn't get the GPU to starve even with 4k 60fps ray tracing and temps were hovering at 70C.

So either i had before some crypto miner going on or NTSync was a godsend. :D

E: It wasn't either. It was due to RE8 having bad ray tracing implementation that would make the games performance crawl over time and only way to fix that is a game reboot. Tested it first two hours and that went from 1440p ultra ray tracing to 1080p ultra without ray tracing.

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I wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean? Does it mean that we can have display mode change through a game now or what? One thing that annoys me with for example Wreckfest is that i have a 4k TV that can do 120hz 1080p, but even when i change to 1080p in the game i can't set refresh rate to nothing but 60hz.

Exclusive fullscreen i think should help with that, but what does it mean now that it's in WINE? So that it works entirely like it's supposed to work or just works which it did IMO before cause i could play games that were exclusive fullscreen.

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I tried out the Flatpak. For some weird reason with the Flatpak my Mangohud wasn't working in Steam anymore and also Mangohud settings could not be saved cause it gave you a warning that read only.
Also the Proton Tweaks environment variables got removed after closing the app and opening it up again.

Went back to the repo version and Mangohud works again plus saving the configs.

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Quoting: Anorelsan

Quoting: kaimanI'm on Gnome, but I could swear that this also is a problem I had in the past. Haven't played many games with controller lately, so no idea if it's still an issue or not.

But even then it annoys me at times: screen going blank during lengthy cut-scenes. Or the opposite: screen not going blank when Firefox with Youtube is open, and no video playing (happens only on occasion, though).

On my system with Archlinux + GNOME, if you are playing with the controller the screen doesn't go blank. If you don't touch the controller, a lengthy cut-scene as you say, the screen goes blank and you have to touch the mouse or keyboard (the controller don't work¿?). I have my power saving config to go blank after 5 min of inactivity so it's not a problem anymore for me.

And that applies on steam, emulators etc.

Don't know if it's KDE only, but recently Steam made it so finally that when a game is running it won't take you to a lock screen which in my opinion is most welcome change as games might behave bit badly when power saving is enabled.

Heroic launcher did this already, but for some reason Steam was lacking it before.

Don't know why Valve hasn't announced it in the change logs or anything cause i think it is a big improvement.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New year. :)

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