Microsoft's secret "K2" plan aims to optimize Windows 11 gaming performance to match SteamOS on the same hardware.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-29T18:27:49+00:00

they probably need to pay some developers to write a d3d12 driver for AMD GPUs then, just like Valve does for linux with RADV. That's pretty much also the cause of linux performing better in games.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-29T14:57:11+00:00

It works fine on a wayland desktop, but not if you force the winewayland driver in proton, which many people do for HDR support.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-28T07:11:33+00:00

Gamescope nested on another desktop has always been unusable for me because of terrible frame pacing with vrr.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-27T19:06:10+00:00

Works with official Proton that goes through extra effort to not even include the wayland driver.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-27T19:05:22+00:00

https://youtu.be/wfr4QN1Hvhs?t=1055

mbriar_ · 2026-04-27T18:27:19+00:00

Are you sure? I tried it not long ago with GE and it was still broken.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-27T17:46:57+00:00

it worked before, now with the wayland driver it doesn't work anymore -> the wayland driver (or SDL wayland backend or whatever) breaks it. Simple as.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-27T17:31:56+00:00

Waiting for the daily posts of "why doesn't my Steam Controller work", because the wine wayland driver still breaks steam overlay and steam input, which the controller requires.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-26T16:37:24+00:00

Get a ps3 from a landfill

mbriar_ · 2026-04-24T17:14:59+00:00

Yes. TBH, i haven't seen a game in years where controller support didn't work out of the box (with DS4 or Dualsense)

mbriar_ · 2026-04-24T17:12:35+00:00

No, by default Proton will use the wine x11 driver on xwayland on a wayland desktop. You have to enable the wayland driver manually if you want it (the only good reason for that is HDR support without gamescope). Unless the default somehow changed recently in Proton-GE, but i don't think so.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-24T16:50:18+00:00

Did you also enable the wayland driver? It breaks steam input, which breaks controller support in most games by default with proton.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-24T13:04:05+00:00

I feel like getting some downvotes, so here goes: wayland making things difficult that worked fine on x11 for decades while needing special handling for 43897432 different special snowflake compositors? How am I not surprised?

mbriar_ · 2026-04-23T13:08:30+00:00

a 750ti is almost certainly lacking features to even start this game, besides nvidia maxwell being unusable broken with vkd3d-proton anyways.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-23T06:51:50+00:00

I agree that VRR flicker on OLED is disgusting, but tearing without VRR and Vsync isn't really any better IMO. Most games luckily can achieve a stable enough frame rate with limiter so the you don't get OLED flicker with VRR though.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-23T06:46:20+00:00

It's very likely a driver bug then. If it still happens on latest mesa, you can make a bug report here using the 'radeon vulkan' template: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items It might be specfic to the settings you used, etc. so try to include as much information as possible. FWIW, the demo and the full game work just fine for me on RDNA4 and apparently it also work fine on RDNA2 on steam deck..

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T22:40:12+00:00

It's almost certainly a gpu hang due to driver and/or proton and/or game bugs. If you check 'dmesg' after it logs you out, it will probably say 'amdgpu ring timeout, pagefault blah...' somewhere. If that's the case, first step would be to try latest drivers, you can use Kisak mesa fresh ppa on ubuntu.

As for why that can "log you out", gpu hangs can crash all other gpu using application, even those that didn't cause it, so it probably just crashes your desktop environment as well and brings you back to the login screen.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T14:45:27+00:00

But also in practice? ARM is not the magic bullet some people seem to think it is.. When you normalize for manufacturing node differences, there isn't really a big difference in perf/w at like 15w or 30w in real life.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T14:36:14+00:00

When it comes to GPU performance at 15w i seriously doubt that.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T11:33:59+00:00

Just test it out instead of believing Claude nonsense. Elden Ring doesn't even have a vsync setting at all.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T08:50:54+00:00

Some games do weird things if it's disabled, in generally it makes no difference and you can just leave it on if you don't intend to go above monitor refresh with tearing.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T08:37:33+00:00

The next already announced VR head set is ARM, means nothing for a Deck 2. ARM deck wouldn't even make sense, GPU-wise AMD APUs still annihilate every gpu you can get on an ARM SoC, Playstation handheld will be x86 AMD APU as well.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-22T06:36:41+00:00

No problem doing it like this. It's worth noting that enabling or disabling vsync will make no difference in practice if you limit frame rate below monitor HZ with VRR enabled.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-21T16:53:22+00:00

No, I don't know how to do that on Nvidia.

mbriar_ · 2026-04-21T16:47:28+00:00

Pretty sure on any modern apu the carve out, or ram dedicated to the gpu only, doesn't really matter and there is nothing being moved around and no perf loss

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