Out of curiosity: what is Gamescope being used for?
I’ve only ever come across that name in the context of Steam but that is a native package on Neon and it seems to work fine for all games in my library I’ve tried so far (both Linux native and Windows games).
Yeah, I tried on several occasions to get gamescope to run or install before I built it from the Github. Even when I run apt search gamescope it shows that the only place that word exists in the repositories was inside mangoapp. I needed it because I have terrible screen flicker and occasional black frames and even older past frames showing up while playing Elden Ring. Installing and using gamescope fixed this.
Even VLC media player will frame flicker and show past frames frequently, but thats mostly when a game is open. My performance stats say I’m using only about 70% gpu and 40% cpu in those moments but I get crazy flicker anyway
The Volume change indication sound is incredibly bright and hurts my ears at even low levels, although I do have hearing damage. It would be nice to be able to have an easier way to change this sound myself. If you guys care to change the sound I would suggest a Lowpass filter that blocks out 7500Hz or more. personally I would set it to 6500Hz.
Basically every game I play on steam flickers horribly, displaying old frames much of the time with occasional black frames across both monitors UNLESS I’m using gamescope. Its perfect frame wise if I use gamescope. I wish I knew how to make this work natively without gamescope because some games don’t work right with it whereas they will launch fine without it but with ridiculous frame flicker.
There is a chance that all of my screen flicker is due to having a 10 series Nvidia gpu but I personally don’t think that explains why gamescope has zero flicker whatsoever.
So I have confirmed that all of my graphical issues have come as a result of me trying to use nvidia on wayland. Simply switching to X11 from the login screen has resolved all of my issues.
No more frame flicker, past frames displayed (up to 20 second old frames) no more black frames.
I couldn’t figure out how to set up fractional scaling through X11, Wayland was much better at that. I ended up using nvidia-settings to input my desired resolution using the native output resolution:
where ViewPortOut is your display’s native resolution and the ViewPortIn is the “Fractional Scaling” desired resolution.
For example, my Native was 2560x1080 and my Scaled Resolution would be 3440x1440 when multiplied by 1.25.
In Wayland I was simply allowed to use the linux display settings sliders to scale it by 75% (slider left a tick) and it worked well. If I had an AMD or Intel graphics card, none of these issues would exist (frame flicker). I had driver version 550 for quite some time and tested things on 575 before I swtiched to X11 in the login screen.
No matter what I try, I can’t get the nvidia xorg settings to persist after reboot. I always have to set the resolution of the scaled monitor every single boot and sometimes the scale doesn’t work right requiring a reboot to make work correctly.
Every now and then Plasmashell will crash and make it impossible to do anything. I think it might be related to spotify. The only fix is a full reboot. I cannot restart plasmashell in anyway and continue what I was doing before. It completely disrupts my game, Eve online, and endangers my ships to loss.
I did try both of those, but I think one of the kde updates that came through fixed something because I haven’t had any resolution problems for awhile. There was a short time where spotify would resize its window and the click inputs were offset by the scaled amount. For example, if I tried to press the Play button it would usually click in the playlists area. That was fixed pretty recently too.
Things seem to be running wonderfully as of late.
Sorry for the huge hiatus. Just trying to get life things in order.
My controller seems to be also controlling the keyboard and pointer. It has suddenly started doing this after the last update. I try to play Elden Ring and now the left stick turns the camera as well as moves the player and the start button opens the start menu acting as the super key. In Game Controller system settings there is a switch that I don’t quite remember seeing before that says “Allow using as pointer and keyboard” and turning that off fixes the issue.
For some reason both of my computers with KDE neon installed on them are now booting up into tty1 and aren’t starting up the desktop manager after this latest update. I don’t know how to fix it myself. I’ve tried reinstalling lightdm, plasma, and neon and I still boot into tty1 rather than the normal log in screen.
Lightdm? Neon uses Plasmalogin now, and formerly SDDM.
Look here for a fix to get back to a login manager and desktop:
When installing lightdm, iirc you should be getting a promptto select the desired login manager. Nor sure how well Lightdm still works, or if any extra configuration is needed.
But running this should bring up a selection option as well:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure plasmalogin
You can substitute the name of any installed login manager to get this, so sddm, plasmalogin, and lightdm also work here, if present.
So once you get a working login, you can use this to switch to a different one if desired.
