Goverlay 1.8.2 finally replaces the abandoned vkbasalt stack with vksumi for smoother runtime color grading and better HDR compatibility on Linux. The update adds dedicated management controls for Heroic and Lutris titles while renaming the cluttered proton tweaks menu to a cleaner EnvVars section focused on latency reduction. Several quiet but important patches fix broken variable injection, restore missing sync buttons, and prevent file name write errors that used to crash launches. Players should test their custom overlays after updating since the new shader layer handles scaling differently than the old deprecated tools.

Goverlay 1.8.2 Brings Better Color Grading and Non-Steam Game Support to Linux

Goverlay 1.8.2 lands on Linux with a much needed shift away from abandoned tools and better support for non-Steam launchers. The update swaps out the dead vkbasalt stack for vksumi, renames the proton tweaks section to EnvVars, and finally gives Heroic and Lutris users proper management controls. Anyone running custom game overlays or tweaking environment variables will want to check what changed before updating.

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Goverlay 1.8.2 Replaces Dead Tools with Active Alternatives

The most noticeable change involves dropping vkbasalt in favor of vksumi for runtime color grading. Maintainers abandoned the original stack months ago, leaving players stuck on broken shader chains that occasionally crash games during HDR transitions. vksumi steps in with a full suite of adjustments including brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gamma, temperature, tint, RGB gain, and 3-band lift/gain. Runtime color grading prevents the input lag or screen tearing that sometimes happens when post-processing overlays fight with modern display pipelines. The new high resolution toggles in material design pages also make it easier to preview changes without restarting games.

Non-Steam Game Management and EnvVars Cleanup

Managing non-Steam titles has finally gotten a dedicated space for Heroic and Lutris setups. Players who rely on those launchers often struggle with overlay compatibility, so adding proper management controls removes a major friction point. That former proton tweaks menu was always a cluttered mess of environment variables that broke more games than it fixed. Renaming it to EnvVars and grouping latency settings actually makes sense, unlike previous iterations that buried critical flags under obscure submenus. The old variable injection system was notorious for passing mismatched flags to games, so fixing those indexes prevents crashes on launch. Preserving the global fgmod script on startup also stops configuration loss after routine updates.

Bug Fixes That Actually Matter

Several smaller patches clean up edge cases that quietly broke workflows. It is common to see players lose hours troubleshooting launch failures when quirky file names trigger write errors, so adding the single quote to restricted characters in SanitizeFileName finally closes that gap. Optiscaler now loads the correct interface scaling value inside its trackbar, so resolution adjustments no longer stretch beyond usable bounds. Users still clinging to vkbasalt will notice the missing sync reshade button has returned, though switching to vksumi remains the safer long term path. Adding nerd-fonts as a hard dependency ensures the interface renders properly without falling back to system defaults that often break layout alignment.

Release Goverlay 1.8.2

Hello Linuxers ! almost a month since the last update, here are some new features e bug fixes.

Release Goverlay 1.8.2 · benjamimgois/goverlay

Grab the update when ready, test favorite non-steam titles first, and report any shader conflicts before they ruin a weekend gaming session.