Anything to make gaming easier, especially non-Steam. I’ll list what I know of so far:
Bottles.
Faugus Launcher. UMU-Launcher GUI, which is kinda like Bottles but for proton specifically instead of WINE. It’s early dev and lacks functional GameScope for now, but Bottles I noticed really doesn’t like me using proton so this was an alternative I found.
This is a unified launcher for Windows games on Linux. It is essentially a copy of the Steam Runtime Tools and Steam Linux Runtime that Valve uses for Proton, with some modifications made so that it can be used outside of Steam.
MangoHUD of course.
Heroic Games Launcher.
Lutris.
I have Itch.io’s launcher too.
ProtonUp Qt - grab various versions of WINE or proton for all these applications.
Winboat - Trying some experimental fuckery to use Vortex but I’ve not got that far yet, just got Winboat itself set up so far. edit: It worked surprisingly, modded Skyrim Special Edition, see my other comments here.
Fuck lact with a cactus. It underclocked my GPU without any doing on my part and would only leave it to work properly after i completely wiped and reinstalled my system without lact.
Unless you are some really obsessive tinkerer i feel fucking around with the clock speeds (especially when underclocking) really isnt worth it.
Probably a bug with power saving. All you had to do is to select manual tuning power option and then unroll the greyed out submenu which is not immediately apparent. There you would check max speed instead of the base speed.
I have to do this for VRAM but for core clock I don’t have this issue