I know, this is offtopic, but just a question. Is GOverlay available in windows 10? Just wondering. Cuz GOverlay is so good.

I'm on CachyOS.

It says vkBasalt is missing, yet, i can see the effects and stuff in the vkBasalt tab. I have since installed vkbasalt from AUR, and goverlay now says "All dependencies OK." But that still leaves the question how to use the thing in game.

Optiscaler is installed as well, but i can't open anything in game.

It says at the bottom to use "fgmod %command%" variable, but how do i use that variable in Heroic? Is that a "wrapper" or an "environment variable"? I don't have anything in Steam righ now that can use optiscaler, nor do i have anything in Faugus Launcher that can use it, but i assume "fgmod %command%" enables Goverlay in game there?

I tried putting it in the environment variable (since Heroic says this is where the %command% stuff goes), but i can't just put "fgmod" there, it insists on an = sign and a value after it. I tried putting 1 (so it reads fgmod=1 %command%), but when i press insert in game, it doesn't open the Optiscaler interface. didn't try for vkBasalt since i didn't put any effects in the right column, but i assume it's just not working, otherwise i'd at least see the Optiscaler interface i guess.

EDIT: Heroic is the CachyOS repo version, not Flatpak.

But also, it says it's missing vkbasalt... So i assumed it wouldn't work anyway since i didn't have it installed...

I know how to manually install optiscaler in a game folder, and run the script, that works, but if this is an easier way to use it, i'd like to do that instead (so i don't have to install it separately for each game). Or am i wrong in how this all works and i still need to manually install it regardless?

I looked at both the Goverlay and fgmod github, and there's no mention on what to actually do with it, other than how to install or build the program. That's all well and good, but, what about using it?

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

UPDATE - SOLUTION:

Goverlay isn't one thing it seems, each part of what it offers must be enabled separately.

Concerning fgmod, Heroic wasn't recognizing the ~/fgmod/fgmod as a file or folder, that's why the game was crashing. Putting the entire path in the left part of the wrapper input box fixed this issue, meaning, /home/user/fgmod/fgmod. So, just the wrapper, no arguments.

Not sure why that was the case, but there we go...

In the first comment, felix_ribiero posted how to get vkBasalt working in Faugus Launcher with ENABLE_VKBASALT=1. In steam you'd just put %command% after this, and in Heroic, those go into environment variables. Left input box is ENABLE_VKBASALT, and right box is the value 1. No need to put = sign in there.

Optiscaler should work in Faugus normally with ~/fgmod/fgmod like in the picture provided.

As for Mangohud, in Steam, it's mangohud %command%, but both Faugus and Heroic have a checkbox to make it work. I guess Goverlay just acts as a configuration utility for mangohud then, how you want to make it look, etc.

Haven't tried vkBasalt yet, the effects seem to get stuck in goverlay for some reason so i don't want to mess with it yet. The vkcube thing always shows with the ASCII effect and i can't remove it, idk why. But Optiscaler works in game now in heroic when i provided the entire path. I guess it just got confused about the ~/ part. Not sure why, this just points to the user's home directory, but apparently Heroic doesn't recognize this.

If there is a better way to achieve this please let me know, as I am somewhat fresh out of the academy..

Trying to match what I had with afterburner, I have goverlay configured how I like it, with some toggles for FPS limits too. I would like it to run on all games, regardless of platform - which I have achieved by using the toggle in the overlay to set it to act globally. However the effect (as with afterburner - where you could set exclusions), is that I now have the overlay in things like the terminal. Is there an approach that allows me to exclude certain apps. If not, is there a better way to implement the overlay into games - even those not launched from Steam?