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.
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.
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.
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.
Havent done much gaming on it so I wouldn’t know, but I hope so. Would probably be a deal breaker
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:
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.
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Is that bloodborne?! Didn’t realise it was available/ready for play on PC? Is this just a PS4 emulator?
Also, agree, Niri is fantastic!
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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.