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• Notes related to gaming
  • Wayland / Sway
    • Issues and solutions
      • Constant camera rotation
      • Cursor doesn’t stick to game window
        • Graphics corruption such as display full of black dots
      • Steam client itself is laggy

Notes related to gaming

A lot of older files that I haven’t touched recently were moved to this directory. I don’t think anyone was using them, so I am not afraid of breaking links.

Wayland / Sway

Issues and solutions

Constant camera rotation

Reload Sway in-game, $Mod+Shift+C and it should stop.

Cursor doesn’t stick to game window

Run the game with gamescope.

Steam? Edit launch options for the game (second click, properties, general, launch options):

gamescope --steam --borderless -- %command%

See also gamescope --help

• --steam - enables Steam integration, whatever that is
• --borderless borderless full-screen mode (that Sway may be making windowed though)

Graphics corruption such as display full of black dots

When the previous launch options cause this,

INTEL_DEBUG=norbc gamescope --steam --borderless -- %command%

I saw this advice at gamescope#356 which says it’s tracked at freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa#6029.

Steam client itself is laggy

Close/logoff friends window/network or disable its animations.

• https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7245#issuecomment-897417115