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.

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Since no one else has said it yet, ZFS is underrated for gaming. Compression saves considerable disk space if you have a big library, you can stripe HDDs for better performance, and snapshotting makes backups a breeze.

      • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Been happy on ZFS since before btrfs stabilized and worked out its kinks, so I can’t personally vouch for it — but nothing against it in theory :).

      • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        (not the poster above)

        btrfs is the only fs I’ve ever seen people have issues with, so I didn’t even want to try (though, I do recognize that that is just personal bias). I also don’t need the backup/rollback features.

        Happily running xfs.

      • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Just a voice chat for me and my friends. Can’t from Dolby Axon before it shut down, and before that trying to use teamspeak, ventrillo and a few others was painful.

        And let’s you share some kinks in the chat. So useful for us. Pretty much just a straight replacement for what we used to use.

        I have no interest in using it as anything other than just a way to talk to my friends when playing games because in game voice was always so bloody janky.

        Not sure why they trying to make it a social media platform but so far it does exactly what I need it to. It’s getting kind of bloated for my uses, I don’t need bots and a thousand different channels, not am I trying to build anything like a social media following. It’s literally just a tool that works for me and the crew

  • UndergroundGoblin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    I’m using Ludosavi to make a copy of my savefiles. It’s able to automatically detect installed games and local savefiles. I just discovered it and using it to make a copies of the savefiles on my Main machine to transfer them to my Steamdeck running Lutris. Maybe I try to configure an automation which makes a copy every time a savefiles has been updated and sync it with my Steamdeck. Just for a seamless transfer without manually copy ever folder by hand if I want to sync my savefiles.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    I wrote a vod renamer app that also automatically logs me into SC2 after closing the blizzard app’s ad.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Batocera has been pretty great for organizing and playing retro emulators on cheap consumer hardware like a raspberry pi, works with my preferred controllers like leverless for fighting and something like this for everything else

    USB video game controller with 3 shoulder buttons per side and 4 back buttons for a b x y so you can keep your thumbs on the sticks

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.

      • WereCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        I’ve just done it yesterday for the Expedition 33 as well :D But I’ve used it for other games previously, it works surprisingly well on RDNA2.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago
    • MangoHUD
    • Heroic Game Launcher
    • Ludusavi
    • rdmodman
    • Bottles
    • Proton Plus and ProtonUp Qt
    • GPU Screen Recorder