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Many games think my native resolution is wrong
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I've solved most of my monitor problems on Wayland by using Gamescope. For example Enlisted (native) will insist on spanning across my 2 1080 monitors, or Helldivers 2 won't boot on fullscreen while showing a white line on borderless. Also most games won't properly grab the cursor.
On any steam game add this as launch options:
gamescope -w 2560 -h 1440 -r 60 -f -e %command%
This will make the game think it's always running in the foreground, and in the resolution/refresh rate you specify.
If you want to add extra commands, like mangohud or gamemoderun, put them before gamescope
Hope this helps ya, GL&HF
What are the sideffects of gamescope? Can I specify which monitor the game is running?
Used to be really finnicky but lately (last 6 months let's say) it's worked just fine. The only downside is that it might get hanged in the background and steam will show the game still running.
So it's a layer that says "bro I got this, don't mind that I run this game in the background and let take care of resolution with Hz"?
It's basically a compositor, on top or your main compositor. So games aren't aware of the outer compositor (which will be Gnome or KDE or whatever) and just see a display with whatever dimensions you give to it.
Hmm isn't that inefficient?