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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone know how the Wayland driver in WINE will impact? I mean Wine works on XWayland so far, so what can we expect to get better with native Wayland support? I've searched a bit in web, but its hard to find some definitive answers (lots of general WINE and Wayland topics, often outdated).

[–] exu@feditown.com 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From my testing of the Wayland backend when it was still hidden behind a registry setting, it's mainly for DPI awareness. For example, I use a 1440p screen with 1.25 scaling. Currently Wine through Xorg therefor sees my desktop as 1152p high. With the Wayland driver it would still correctly identify as using a 1440p screen.

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

I've been using the unstable branch for this exact reason. Otherwise I'd have to change my scaling every time I launch a game.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, HDR works in Wine Wayland, and X11 can never do it without gamescope.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you happen to know if you still need the HDR layer when using Wayland directly? I know gamescope didn't require it for a while now but I never saw anything about it for Wine.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yes. The Mesa implementation for this stuff isn't merged yet. Once it is merged, the layer will be irrelevant.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

did they update gamescope to work with xorg?

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 3 weeks ago

I never used gamescope on Xorg, so not sure.