diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt
index 4356c5f4de..cdffd9b24d 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GameNativeDrm.kt
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ object GameNativeDrm {
     @JvmStatic
     external fun nativeStop()
 
+    /** The scan-out pool layout the running session chose, "bgra" or "rgba"; valid after [nativeStart]. */
+    @JvmStatic
+    external fun nativeScanoutLayout(): String
+
     /**
      * Adopt a new display window for a RUNNING session without ending it: rebuild the publish
      * layer from [surface] and re-present the retained last frame, so a display power cycle keeps
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt
index 2633ed403d..dbf2d49281 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/display/GamescopePayload.kt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import java.io.File
 
 /** Versioned gamescope payload (gamescope, XWayland, scaling clients), fetched on the first gamescope launch. */
 object GamescopePayload {
-    const val VERSION = "20261029.1"
+    const val VERSION = "20261029.3"
     const val ARCHIVE = "gamescope-gamenative-$VERSION.tzst"
     private const val STAMP = ".payload.version"
 
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt
index 93f9519cd1..13dff9d07f 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/app/gamenative/ui/screen/xserver/XServerScreen.kt
@@ -2069,6 +2069,9 @@ fun XServerScreen(
                 }
                 SessionDisplay.GAMESCOPE -> {
                     (xServerViewInstance as XServerView).isGamescopeMode = true
+                    xServerViewInstance.setScanoutLayoutOverride(
+                        EnvVars(container.envVars).get("GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT"),
+                    )
                     xServerToUse.setInputEventSink(GamescopeInputSink())
                     // Ahead of nativeStart, which fixes the emulated mode's rate from this
                     // view's surface callback, so the panel's real rate must be set first.
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java b/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java
index ab8d4f7526..be74e0498a 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/widget/XServerView.java
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
 import android.content.Context;
+import android.system.ErrnoException;
+import android.system.Os;
 import android.view.SurfaceHolder;
 import android.view.SurfaceView;
 import android.view.ViewGroup;
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
 
 import app.gamenative.PluviaApp;
 import app.gamenative.display.GameNativeDrm;
+import timber.log.Timber;
 
 @SuppressLint("ViewConstructor")
 public class XServerView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceHolder.Callback, XServerRendererView {
@@ -57,6 +60,12 @@ public boolean isGamescopeMode() {
         return gamescopeMode;
     }
 
+    private String scanoutLayoutOverride;
+
+    public void setScanoutLayoutOverride(String scanoutLayoutOverride) {
+        this.scanoutLayoutOverride = scanoutLayoutOverride;
+    }
+
     public XServerRenderer getRenderer() {
         return renderer;
     }
@@ -80,6 +89,14 @@ public void surfaceCreated(@NonNull SurfaceHolder holder) {
             // when none is running.
             int rc = GameNativeDrm.nativeRetargetSurface(holder.getSurface(), defaultSize[0], defaultSize[1]);
             if (rc == GameNativeDrm.E_NO_SESSION) {
+                try {
+                    if (scanoutLayoutOverride != null && !scanoutLayoutOverride.isEmpty())
+                        Os.setenv("GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT", scanoutLayoutOverride, true);
+                    else
+                        Os.unsetenv("GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT");
+                } catch (ErrnoException e) {
+                    Timber.w(e, "Could not set GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT");
+                }
                 GameNativeDrm.nativeStart("gndrm", holder.getSurface(), defaultSize[0], defaultSize[1]);
             }
             return;
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java b/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java
index f0c4601bd1..293e25cac7 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/com/winlator/xenvironment/components/BionicProgramLauncherComponent.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 import com.winlator.PrefManager;
 
 import app.gamenative.PluviaApp;
+import app.gamenative.display.GameNativeDrm;
 import app.gamenative.display.GamescopeSettings;
 import app.gamenative.utils.LsfgQuickMenuHelper;
 import app.gamenative.utils.LsfgVkManager;
@@ -526,6 +527,8 @@ private void applyGamescopeEnv(Context context, EnvVars envVars, File rootDir) {
         FileUtils.chmod(xdgRunDir, 0700);
         envVars.put("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", xdgRunDir.getPath());
         envVars.put("GAMENATIVE_DRM_SOCKET", "gndrm");
+        if (!envVars.has("GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT"))
+            envVars.put("GNDRM_SCANOUT_LAYOUT", scanoutLayout(context));
 
         envVars.put("XKB_CONFIG_ROOT", gsDir + "/share/xkeyboard-config-2");
         envVars.put("GAMESCOPE_PNP_IDS_PATH", gsDir + "/share/hwdata/pnp.ids");
@@ -573,6 +576,14 @@ private void applyGamescopeEnv(Context context, EnvVars envVars, File rootDir) {
                 + new File(gsDir, "bin/Xwayland").exists() + " xdg=" + xdgRunDir.getPath());
     }
 
+    private static String scanoutLayout(Context context) {
+        try {
+            return GameNativeDrm.nativeScanoutLayout();
+        } catch (LinkageError e) {
+            return "bgra";
+        }
+    }
+
     /** Mirrors XServerScreen.resolveGamescopeMode; a session override (setGamescopeModeOverride) wins to force X11 for the open-container session (the setup/pre-install session has no separate arm and follows the game arm). */
     private boolean isGamescopeMode() {
         if (gamescopeModeOverride != null) return gamescopeModeOverride;
diff --git a/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so b/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so
index 7b46df8445..79f6cd490e 100755
Binary files a/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so and b/app/src/main/jniLibs/arm64-v8a/libgamenative_drm.so differ