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…compared to Games on Whales, for example, which is much more efficient and scales cursor better. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by nicce · 2026-07-20 · in Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight

SteamOS and Bazzite both use Xwayland through gamescope which is the worst option as it seems https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope >Avoid XWayland. It added 3.13 ms of latency, more than all other effects combined.

comment by haunter · 2026-07-14 · in Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

…all of them implement the Wayland protocol independently. For game wrappers Valve makes Gamescope ( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope ) which is also a Wayland compositor. When you run a game through a wrapper like GameScope it…

comment by hparadiz · 2026-06-05 · in WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

…(for desktop mode). They have their own custom compositor for handheld-mode, named gamescope. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope?tab=readme-ov-fil... XWayland based.

comment by mhitza · 2026-06-02 · in Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release

…If I want an uptime more than 24 hours I use X11 instead. Try running your app via gamescope https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by snarfy · 2026-02-11 · in The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey

…considered the future of the linux desktop and is what projects like Valve's SteamDeck are using: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope It's known that Hyprland Premium is going to include a bunch of pre-made dotfiles including a…

comment by throwing_away · 2025-06-21 · in Hyprland Premium

…it's not as restricted as you're portraying. Here's the AMD SoC in the Steam Deck, for example: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/blob/master/src/d... Even though it's only 3 planes, they are relatively feature-rich still. In a…

comment by kllrnohj · 2025-01-28 · in Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

Valve's gamescope addresses something that you don't seem to believe exist : https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by sheepdestroyer · 2025-01-26 · in Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion

…session to achieve this. You could potentially do the same on dekstop, but it's painful. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by weystrom · 2024-10-17 · in 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope is the one actually competent wayland WM.

comment by SSLy · 2024-07-08 · in Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11

…for that. The latter is probably overkill if all you want to do is limit framerate though. [0] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by Zambyte · 2024-06-25 · in Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

…note, did you know you can boot to gamescope and have a steamdeck like experience on your computer? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope FSR scaling and everything.

comment by anotherhue · 2024-06-11 · in All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration

…expose WAYLAND_DISPLAY by default, so games should treat it the same as an X11 desktop. [1]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by rossy · 2024-03-01 · in The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

…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…

comment by kllrnohj · 2023-12-20 · in The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell

The readme pretty much explains it: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by BearOso · 2023-11-29 · in PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support

…would be seeing as much success as it is if Wayland were so problematic in this department. [0]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by pengaru · 2023-11-16 · in Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default

…buy something like this again but for now it does the job and runs great with any modern distro. [] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by irusensei · 2023-11-11 · in KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default

…fewest buffer copies as possible). Another nice side-effect it has is hdr support on AMD GPUs. 1: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope

comment by tuetuopay · 2023-10-16 · in X.org Alternatives? MicroXWin, Wayland, Y, DFB, Xynth, Fresco, etc. (2009)

I have an Intel GPU (HD Graphics 520) and gamescope doesn't work for me under arch Linux :( https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/356

comment by aleden · 2023-07-05 · in More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

…I believe, what the Steam Deck uses). it's open source, and under the "BSD 2-clause" license. [1]: https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

comment by unwind · 2023-03-06 · in Van Gogh, AMD’s Steam Deck APU

…enough memory left for the game after all that :-P) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPD_Win [1] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

comment by badsectoracula · 2022-07-26 · in RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative

they are contributing to https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope/pull/454 which is SteamOS session compositing window manager. so maybe in future Steam Deck will Nvidia tech.

comment by ghishadow · 2022-05-11 · in Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

…first intuition would be, to run the game inside gamescope and use a 2x (or higher) scaling factor. https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

comment by Johnnynator · 2022-02-10 · in Simutrans – Transport Simulator

…is moving to Wayland. (notably Valve's Gamescope which will be used in the Steam Deck[0]). [0] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

comment by Zhyl · 2022-01-13 · in Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality and stability

…Wayland so far has been to avoid driver issues by running a compositor inside an X window :-P [0] https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope - it is a fork of Valve's wayland compositor which actually works under X11 inside a window and…

comment by badsectoracula · 2021-12-15 · in Gaming on Wayland

…compositors, which BTW is something Valve is already playing with (although for different reasons): https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope

comment by seba_dos1 · 2020-09-28 · in Universal Split Screen

…your Windows games. - Lots of other small things. For example Valve's Plagman has been working on https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope which is godsent for thos of us with ultrawide monitors or other uncommon resolutions and aspect ratios…

comment by account42 · 2020-09-21 · in Oculus Quest 2