I’m not sure I fully understand the so forgive me for rambling to much.
How are the games that do not work started with proton, is steam/lutris/bottles involved?
Gamescope helps with putting stuff on the screen in de desired resolution, and having it be a required component seems counterintuitive since it ’ just puts stuff on the screen’.
From the inxi data:
Session is X11, can de error be reproduced on a wayland session?
There is no swap configured for the system, not relevant for the error, could be an issue somewhere in the future.
I do not see a clear cause or solution, looking around the gamescope github for tips/workarounds would be my next step.
Edit: just noticed that the drivers where installed, what package is this and does the kernel not have the specific driver allready?
The game starts with Steam (which was working before the updated) through “Proton experimental” with the option gamescope -f --force-grab-cursor -- gamemoderun %command%. It has been used because otherwise the game doesn’t grab the cursor by itself (so just keyboard works in-game).
Sorry, i wasn’t clear about the driver. I didn’t mean kernel drivers but vulkan drivers: vulkan-radeon and the lib32-vulkan-radeon. The session is X11 because i didn’t know i needed wayland and before the same game was working just fine on x11 (AFAIK running hardware accelerated stuff on it was more of an issue than a solution). Also i didn’t find any changelog on gamescope 3.16.1 that says X11 is no more supported either. On Wayland session actually works, but on X11 it doesn’t (and it was working).
I am running a tower PC (so i don’t feel the need of any hibernation/power-saving) with 64GB of RAM, and only SSD drive. I don’t understand why should be an issue not having a swap? Wouldn’t the swap potentially increase the number of I/O on the disk, reducing the lifespan of the disk itself?
EDIT. I figured out that the above questions might sound aggressive: that wasn’t the intent. I genuinely thought that using x11 would make everything more stable and that no swap for my use-case wouldn’t matter… and would like to know if I am wrong.
I read recently in a german media article that Proton (Wine10) going to focus on Wayland as priority.
Source (in german, maybe use website translation):
Idk if this is the case now, i haven’t installed the newest update from Manjaro yet. When i understand the article correct, that X11 still should be support, so im not sure if this is the problem now for you.
I guess it is worth to switch to a non-Experimental Proton version if you still prefer X11.
I also think that X11 works sometimes better for certain games.
Edit:
I also just found a english article but with less details:
steam suggests that my proton experimental version wasn’t update since 25/12/2024. but gamescope comes from the packet manager and was update with last version of the updates.
Sadly i had to update my system straightaway just because with the previews version of the kernel i was missing the support for my BT card…
You can see this updates in your Steam download manager at the center bottom of the Steam GUI, sometimes you can force a earlier update when you pressing the download button.
If a wayland sessions works and no other problems pop up, use wayland instead?
Sometimes have some swap is usefull, there are settings to set the actual use of the swapspace on the disc to practically zero. As an example: I use a swapfile with ~50Gb memory and this parameter:
swapon
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/swapfile file 16G 0B -2
No worries, for most of us here English is not our first language and from the replies we have not perceived it as aggressive, just stating your experience as facts, witch is good since what you see and clearly describing the issue is a step to a solution.
Just a suggestion based om my experince with some games, it does require the use of the AUR, proton-ge-custom-bin works just a bit better, easier with some programs. The AUR does have some drawbacks, especially on manjaro stable.
Yes, i actually used wayland to play today. However, for productivity i’m not really a fan of Wayland: after just few minutes i started sawing some minor windows flickering (resolved by focusing the flickering window) and had issue with drag and drop within browser applications.
I’m not gonna use AUR packages on Manjaro stable (using only manjaro stable repos is the reason to use manjaro on this machine). I could get proton-ge from lutris maybe, will it bundle another version of gamescope? when i have time i will try this
There is a older version of gamescope in the manjaro repo called gamescope-plus that might do what you need, other then that I cannot assist any further. Since the info provided seems complete or enough for some analysis, another user might drop by and suggest a solution.
I stopped using lutris, but that might work to, share your experience
So i tried with gamescope-plus… nothing change. I tried with proton-ge with lutris and with manual installation from steam… same error. So i guess something else broke…