hello i installed opensuse tw today, and i wanted some guide to optimize the distro for gaming. before i was using cachyos w it had everything preinstalled. i installed opensuse after reading many positive things. is there any guide to do after installation and how to optimize for gaming (kerner change, various tweaks?)
You should at least describe what your expectations are or what you want to achive. Normally there are no additional changes required to run games on Tumbleweed. Steam, wine, lutris , heroic and other games/tools run out of the box and just fine.
https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/15vz7dr/hows_gaming_on_tumbleweed/
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I have found that Steam from the repos and proton work perfectly out of the box with tumbleweed. I don’t think it would be worth it with using a custom kernel or tweaking stuff. Bottles is also in the flatpak store if you want to play games outside of Steam.
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I can follow only this guide? No need any other tweaks? And can help me what i do After installation?
i think it would be useful for the guide to cover the use of gamescope, given HDR is becoming more widely available in [all] necessary componets:
- games
- monitors
- software/distros
questions such as where to get iot from? i.e. from obs if you have obs steam, or, flatpak if you get steam from flatpak…
how to enable it generally? i.e. specifying a gamescope render resolution… pointing steam/heroic config at gamescope
how to enable is specifically? i.e do i want some games to use gamescope, but others not…
Most of the gaming I do on openSUSE works just fine once the damn NVidia drivers are working.
But both Gamescope and Gamemode don’t quite work as intented or out of the box.
For example, Gamescope requires XWayland on Xorg, which is not automatically installed for some reason.
And Gamemode I have yet to even get working.
I know you need to add the user to the correct group these days (“gamemode” I think?) and that makes that part work, but gamemode is still not activated in any Steam game, despite adding “gamemoderun”, and I’m not getting any errors.
Manually running things with “gamemoderun” works though.
This has worked in the past and other distros, but recent versions on openSUSE just don’t work anymore.
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