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antheas

Aantheas use the overlay by double tapping legion r

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:08 PM

Right; that brings up HHD. Within HHD if you try the beta TDP controls it throws an error if it detects SimpleTDP installed

Akuma

AAkuma @HikariKnight do you know how i use pipewire with Gamemode ?

HikariKnight

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:08 PM

pipewire is already used in gamemode through wireplumber

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:08 PM

Just removed it and am trying the HHD TDP controls now

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:09 PM

Actually it is doing something. Its just not as predictable as SimpleDecky TDP was. If I set it to 8w my total system wattage stays ~22w, but if I bump it up it will hit 30-35w total power usage. So ... its like the baseline is higher than I was used to before

HikariKnight

HHikariKnight pipewire is already used in gamemode through wireplumber

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:10 PM

I think they mean adding the -pipewire-pipewire flag to steam in gamemode

Xipher

XXipher Actually it is doing something. Its just not as predictable as SimpleDecky TDP w...

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antheas•6/1/24, 6:11 PM

maybe you have unrealistic expectations

Zeglius

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:11 PM

and i think modifying /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam/usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam would work but is readonly

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antheas•6/1/24, 6:11 PM

whats 22w

Akuma

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:12 PM

When i Open Steam -pipewire
In Terminal
Steam Link works

Akuma

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:12 PM

When i Open the Gamemode.. It doesnt work

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:12 PM

Thanks Zeglius i give IT a try

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:12 PM

Looking at the total system power usage. When I was using simpleTDP I could get it down to around 17w (Albeit most games ran like crap at that power level)

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:12 PM

With HHD it bottoms out at ~22w, but will go up to ~34w

Akuma

AAkuma Thanks Zeglius i give IT a try

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:13 PM

I dont think you can modify it

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:13 PM

But give it a try

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:13 PM

best way would be doing a pull request to add -pipewire-pipewire in here https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session-steam/blob/015e09825d4f9a2dfdbc20fc2711e2dcee2af68a/usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam#L98C1-L99C1 or a patch

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:15 PM

Doesnt think they would Help me
Because they Love sunshine

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:16 PM

... okay -pipewire-pipewire with kde plasma be like

Akuma

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:16 PM

Yes this is what i See too

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:18 PM

sorry i went afk

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:18 PM

Well; this seems to be working. Im going to reinstall SimpleDeckyTDP and see if maybe its just the baseline that changed with a floor of ~20w total system power UPTO 35w

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:18 PM

there should be an env var or something you can change i believe @Akuma or a config

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:18 PM

Hmm ok?

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:18 PM

i believe i saw something about it long ago let me try to find it

Xipher

XXipher Well; this seems to be working. Im going to reinstall SimpleDeckyTDP and see if ...

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59smoke•6/1/24, 6:19 PM

You can only manually limit the gpu and cpu. Set mango HUD to Max details and you'll see how much each is using

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59smoke•6/1/24, 6:20 PM

The total includes everything else. The screen, WiFi, Bluetooth

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:21 PM

Not a bad idea. Havent looked at the detailed view in a while. Not since before valve made the change that broke the sliders

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:22 PM

you can add this to ~/.config/environment.d/gamescope-session-plus.conf~/.config/environment.d/gamescope-session-plus.conf

CLIENTCMD="steam -gamepadui -steamos3 -steampal -steamdeck -pipewire"

CLIENTCMD="steam -gamepadui -steamos3 -steampal -steamdeck -pipewire"

and i believe that should maybe work?

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:23 PM

I thought Bazzite didnt include a user session conf by default. Will have to check when my LeGO finishes reboot

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:23 PM

it if doesnt work then they need to custom image and edit /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam/usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:24 PM

No environment.d folder under my user config. Pretty sure they will have to add it to the system conf as you posted above.

Xipher

XXipher No environment.d folder under my user config. Pretty sure they will have to add ...

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:25 PM

you need to make it

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:25 PM

it is not there by default because we place no files there

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:25 PM

Thats what I thought

HikariKnight

HHikariKnight you can add this to `~/.config/environment.d/gamescope-session-plus.conf` ```bas...

Akuma

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AkumaOP•6/1/24, 6:26 PM

Dont have this file

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:26 PM

Could they just copy the /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam file over to /var/home/$USER/.config/environment.d/gamescope-session-plus.conf and add the line and have it used instead of the system conf?

Akuma

AAkuma Dont have this file

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:26 PM

make it

Xipher

XXipher Could they just copy the /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam file...

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:27 PM

nope because that sessions file is a script for gamescope-session-plus

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:27 PM

its not a list of environment variables

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Hunanbean•6/1/24, 6:27 PM

That was the strangest concept for me. A config file, that does not exist, in a folder that should be there.. Just make it! and then it works!

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:29 PM

I dont think it will work

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:29 PM

Zeglius

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:29 PM

XD

Zeglius

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:30 PM

I think something like the sunshine workaround with mount binding could solve it(?)

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:30 PM

deck@LegionGO:~/.config$ cat /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam|grep -i clientcmd
export CLIENTCMD="steam -gamepadui -steamos3 -steampal -steamdeck"

deck@LegionGO:~/.config$ cat /usr/share/gamescope-session-plus/sessions.d/steam|grep -i clientcmd
export CLIENTCMD="steam -gamepadui -steamos3 -steampal -steamdeck"

Yeah they would need to create the conf file in the $USER/.config/environment.d folder and probably include the default CLIENTCMD options and just add -pipewire at the end within the " "

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Zeglius•6/1/24, 6:30 PM

so we patch the file within the user session, set it il usr/local and bind it

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:30 PM

easy fix for us to do to just edit that script though

Xipher

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Xipher•6/1/24, 6:31 PM

Isnt that script in the immutable tho? It will get reset on reboot

DocMAX

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DocMAX•6/1/24, 6:31 PM

the included wine 9.5 does not seem to have dxvk included. how can i install it?

Xipher

XXipher Isnt that script in the immutable tho? It will get reset on reboot

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HikariKnight•6/1/24, 6:31 PM

for us to do