https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475413
Bug ID: 475413
Summary: [Feature request] Window-level upscale similar to
Lossless Scaling/Magpie on Windows
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: 5.27.8
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: unblended_icing...@simplelogin.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When running a modern game on a under-power GPU it's common to set the game to
a lower resolution then upscale it to native resolution for FPS boost.
Currently on Linux this can be done:
- through Proton with `WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1` environment variable
- through gamescope with `-F fsr` option
However, both comes with their limitations:
- Proton only works with Windows games, not native Linux games.
- Proton's upscale only activates when a wine window is declared as real
full-screen with a lower resolution. Some games run as seamless full-screen
with their own up-scaling implementation which is sometimes worse than FSR.
- gamescope cannot attach to a running game. You cannot upscale an existing
running game with gamescope.
- gamescope does not handle multi-window properly. Sometimes custom proprietary
game launcher are used prior to game launch and this can confuse the gamescope.
- gamescope is not zero-copy.
- Mouse movement speed in gamescope is not consistent with the desktop
environment
- The fact gamescope being a full-fledged compositor that makes it more
instructive (eg.. input method, screen scaling, keyboard layout handling) and
resource-heavy than alternate solutions commonly seen on Windows
- Both solutions up-scales the actual window resolution, so capturing software
records them at unnecessarily-higher resolution.
Some limitations are expected to address and fix (some already has pull
request) but IMO this is better implemented compositor-level (as this is the
least instructive approach) so that:
- It can be integrated into KDE Plasma (eg.. Right click on titlebar -> More
Actions -> Upscale, Global Shortcuts, Window Rules)
- It doesn't intervene with recording software (eg.. OBS Studio can record game
at its original resolution)
- It works with games that use custom launcher
- It works with applications that's not game (Firefox is broken in gamescope)
- It doesn't care if the game is running in Flatpak or natively
- Mouse movement speed can be consistent
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Common solutions on Windows:
Magpie (FOSS): https://github.com/Blinue/Magpie
Lossless Scaling (Paid):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/
Excluding the "It only works with Windows games" part, these solutions don't
have any limitations listed above.
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