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  • Sludge@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 month ago

    I am currently on hyprland, but previously tried to cutover to Niri and I had issues getting steam games to launch consistently. Has Niri gotten a bit easier to use while gaming? I tried maybe 5 months ago and just ended up staying on Hyprland because everything has been working without too many issues.

    • memphis@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      1 month ago

      I’ve been daily driving niri on my gaming PC for about as long as you’ve been away. The only problem I have now and then is games will run in tiled mode, while the game itself is fullscreen, so I’m only seeing the left half of the game. Mod+Shift+F has always fixed it so far, and it’s rare enough that I haven’t looked into making a window rule. I don’t use Steam but I’m not sure that matters.

    • _hovi_@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Havent done much gaming on it so I wouldn’t know, but I hope so. Would probably be a deal breaker

    • ScytheDraven47@piefed.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Using Niri on CachyOS with a RTX50 series GPU (which seems to have the most issues with latest games/drivers). I jump between dozens of games and only had issues with 3 so far:

      • Monster Hunter Wilds (was broken for a couple months earlier in the year, just a driver issue fixed by update)
      • Ghost of Tsushima (again broken by a single driver update – haven’t tried again cause fuck Sony)
      • Enshrouded (single driver update once again, fixed within a week)

      So in my experience, yeah Niri is great for games. Especially having things fake-fullscreen while multitasking, jumping around between browser, Discord, etc

      *Edit Meant to add in contrast, Subnautica 2 launch day went perfectly, as did Windrose… So even new/early access seems absolutely fine.