Gamescope not working at all

[Anonyku05]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Are you using any gamescope patches or a forked version of gamescope?

• The issue occurs on upstream gamescope without any modifications

Current Behavior

Good evening,
I’m having a small issue with the application "gamescope," which is used to launch games/applications at a specific resolution. It used to work well, but after reinstalling Debian, I’m now getting this error message:

wlserver: [backend/headless/backend.c:82] Creating headless backend
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
vulkan: selecting physical device 'AMD Radeon RX 470 Graphics (RADV POLARIS10)': queue family 1
vulkan: physical device does not support DRM format modifiers
vulkan: supported DRM formats for sampling usage:
vulkan: 0x34325241
vulkan: 0x34325258
vulkan: 0x3231564E
wlserver: Running compositor on wayland display 'gamescope-0'
wlserver: [backend/headless/backend.c:18] Starting headless backend
wlserver: [xwayland/sockets.c:63] Failed to bind socket @/tmp/.X11-unix/X0: Address already in use
wlserver: [xwayland/server.c:92] Starting Xwayland on :2
wlserver: [types/wlr_surface.c:748] New wlr_surface 0x5630080539b0 (res 0x56300804b0c0)
wlserver: [xwayland/server.c:250] Xserver is ready
pipewire: pw_context_connect failed
Warning: failed to setup PipeWire, screen capture won't be available
(EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe

I’m not sure what to do to fix this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

PS: I'm forcing letterboxing because of a modpack in Minecraft that is meant to be played like that

Steps To Reproduce

1- Start gamescope with the following command: gamescope -w 1280 -h 1024 -f -- minecraft-launcher
2- Having the error

Hardware information

- Distro: Debian 12 (12.8.0)
- CPU: I7 4790k
- GPU: AMD RX 470
- Driver Version: _Will add_

Software information

- Desktop environment: KDE Plasma 6
- Session type: Wayland
- Gamescope version: Latest to date
- Gamescope launch command(s): gamescope -w 1280 -h 1024 -f -- minecraft-launcher

Which gamescope backends have the issue you are reporting?

• Wayland (default for nested gamescope)
• DRM (default for embedded gamescope, i.e. gamescope-session)
• SDL
• OpenVR

Logging, screenshots, or anything else

No response

[matte-schwartz]

I'm unfamiliar with Debian packaging. Is it up-to-date with the latest release of gamescope (3.15.14), or are you referring to the latest Debian 12 release? If the latter, what's the version reported by your package manager?

If Debian logs coredumps it would be helpful to see a coredump as well (coredumpctl, look for the number associated with Gamescope's core dump, and then coredumpctl info <x>) since there's not much to go on based on the log.

[Gpinchon]

Same issue here with Fedora 41 on an Intel Atom x7-Z8750, it's rather old so I'm going to check if gamescope still works on my laptop with an AMD 7840HS.

[peter1599]

Having similar logs and same problem. Only little difference that it never worked for me before also.

I tried gamescope multiple times with multiple games never worked.

Even gamescope vkcube not works.

System specs:
Operating System: CachyOS Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.8-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 680M
Dedicated Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060 Mobile (8GB)
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Product Name: ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA507NV_FA507NV
System Version: 1.0