User:Kevinwidjaja21/Gaming on postmarketOS
This page will mainly focused on gaming on smartphone form factor only. This also excludes games that can be run through Waydroid.
Tweaks and software option
Due to XWayland high DPI scaling issue, games on phosh and gnome mobile will look blurry. Plasma mobile seems to be the best option for gaming. SXMO also doesn't have this blurriness issue. If Vulkan driver is available for the GPU, zink can be used as alternative OpenGL backend in case of buggy native OpenGL loader by using the command below.
MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink application
Game Tested
Tested on Oneplus 6T with 8 GB of ram, 128 GB Storage, postmarketOS edge, and plasma mobile ui.
| Game | Launching | Playable | Touchscreen Control | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SuperTuxKart | Yes | Yes | Yes (need to be enabled in setting) | Rendering issue with freedreno when shadow is enabled and AA disabled. No issue when zink is used. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10466 |
| Unciv | Yes | Yes | Partial (Pinch to zoom doesn't work) | Flathub |
| Flightgear | No | No | No | Issue with freedreno?? |
| Minecraft (Prism Launcher) | Yes | Yes | Partial (No multi-touch ??) | Flathub version can work. APK version has trouble with musl java. MidnightControl Mod works but seems unable to handle multi-touch. |
| Dolphin Emulator | Yes | Partial | No | Mostly only GC game are playable but GC with heavy graphics also struggle. Noticeable glitches when turnip vulkan is used. Errors when opengl is used. |
| 2048 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gnome version |