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I tried doing manually a gamescope command line arguments for Overwatch and it didn't work.
I activated the necessary flags and took close attention to the resolution in game and of my display, made sur the game had HDR enabled etc and it never worked.
So if I can't get HDR to work even with gamescope on a stable game like OW...
But your tip to setup gamescope for the session is interesting. I might try that out sometimes.
But honestly HDR is quite anecdotal for me. It's not that visible. I much prefer to focus on optimizing FPS and input delay than tweaking for HDR.
Having to “tweak” for HDR is enough of a problem in itself. It should be a simple on/off switch in your OS, like it is on Windows.
Sure.
Honestly, I don't care for HDR. Even on Windows when I bought my HDR compatible display, i activated it in OW and couldn't see the difference.
I'm much more interested in better FPS playing competitive games than an imperceptible improvement on color rendering.
And I'm sure HDR support will improve in the future as Proton keeps on getting better.
Instead of focusing on the cons in my post I would suggest looking at the bigger picture and weighting each pros and cons and see how they affect your gaming experience.
Windows has plenty of very heavy cons outside of compatibility and it's only fair to account for them. Windows would have no problem updating mid game. Linux will never do that. That's a real life problem Windows gamers experience.
HDR is not “imperceptible”.
Also you talk about playing competitive games, yet you are on Linux, an OS where most of the popular competitive games aren’t available?