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Re:Gaming on Wayland by badsectoracula on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:11PM (#29561193)
No, AMD, i have a Radeon RX 5700 XT with the open source drivers. One of the sure-fire ways to crash the entire server seems to be trying to run Wizardry 6 from GOG via Wine, which essentially runs DOSBox for Windows. Somewhere when it tries to change video mode it crashes. Note that this doesn't happen if i use Gamescope under X (which essentially runs Wine under XWayland under its own Wayland compositor that runs in an X window).

Of course since this is a DOS game i can simply run it with native DOSBox, but this is just a way to replicate the issue.

Since i've found workarounds for these issues i didn't bother much, but i might try and see why it crashes at some point.

Also FWIW i do not really consider "gaming on Linux" when i have to use a Windows VM. Besides Wine (well, Wine staging) nowadays works perfectly fine. And if i wanted to use Windows, i'd just be using Windows :-P.

Re:Gaming on Wayland by GhettoComputers on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:47PM (#29561453)
I would rather not reboot and run windows as a captive OS. Would you call using the Win11 android emulator gaming on Windows?
Re:Gaming on Wayland by badsectoracula on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:37PM (#29562151)
I'd rather not bother with Windows at all.