Lots of people noticed recently than a whole lot of working was going into the Gamescope project for HDR support, and now a Valve developer has teased trying it out. This has been a long time coming, with work needed to support it across multiple parts of the Linux stack but it's starting to get there now.
For those not aware, Gamescope is a micro-compositor that's used on the Steam Deck to display your games and it can also be used on desktop too. It gives you a whole lot of control over what games are doing, with lots of work from developer Joshua Ashton going in for HDR support.
Writing on Twitter, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned:
New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most.
Griffais showed these shots:
An increasingly exciting time to be a Linux gaming fan and it looks like 2023 will be the year of HDR. As Griffais said though, there's a lot still to do and this is just the start of it actually working.
On their Fediverse account developer Joshua Ashton also showed off more of Death Stranding with a HDR Heatmap.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Jan 5, 2023
Quoting: CatKillerAt least (in my experience) the Steam Client on Linux is far more stable / less problematic than the Mac version on the M1 I have. It is constantly needing refreshes if I go to the store, or simply stops working and needs to be killed / started again.Quoting: drjomsIts probably a limitation of your DE/Chromium on Linux, which is used as basis for Steam Client.Most everything else is fine with it, including Chromium. Just conky - which is kinda understandable because it's old and a bit on the janky side - and Steam. I guess for the same reason; although they've the resources to fix it if they bothered to.
Not sure how much of that is the 'Rosetta' stuff, or what, but seems it at least needs to be 64bit there or it wouldn't launch anymore.
Quoting: benjamimgoisQuoting: basedThis is awesome, HDR looked great back in Windows, hope we get it going on Nvidia as well :)
According to discord, the HDR implementation is on Gamescope, so we might need Nvidia proper support for it first.
So I'll have games running on my Steam Deck that would look better on my monitor than on my 3060ti PC lmaooo
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