Hi!

I posted this on reddit and then saw that kde has a lemmy presence, so I am posting it here also, since I vastly prefer lemmy over reddit.:

Sorry if this isn’t the right place, but I have no idea where else to ask, I tried asking at discuss.kde.org but got no answers.

I am using Arch with KDE Plasma and an Nvidia GPU, when I play Steam games almost all of them work flawlessly but…

When I try to play older games (like Shadowrun Hong Kong or the rereleases of Sims 1 and 2, or Civ 4 or 5), the graphics are all scrambled like this:

Scrambled

The funny thing is, this is a photo of my screen, if I use Steam to take a screenshot it shows up normally in the screenshot folder…

Screenshot

As it only happens on old games I am thinking those do something different than newer games, it doesn’t matter what proton version I use and it only seems to happen under plasma.

Any help would be appreciated!

  • @BananaTrifleViolin
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    Plasma Wayland or Plasma X11?

    Nvidia and Wayland still has issues, even though KDE is defaulting to Wayland. Personally I don’t think Wayland is fit for purpose at present so I use X11. I have an Nvidia GPU (3070) and no issues with games including older games in X11.

    • @TechnoticaOP
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      Sorry, Wayland not X11. The weird thing is that it only happens with old games, I guess I could switch to X11, but I am pretty happy with Wayland otherwise. If there was any fix I could try I’d want to do that before switching to X11.