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Quoting: syylk

Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM

Isn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

You are correct, and I realise I didnt finish my train of thought, that is the cost savings in going over to arm, smaller device etc, can be used to dampen the effect, even just a little, on the sum price with the more expensive memory for the standard sku with a x86 apu with memory and such.

But that is just an arm chair thought, I'm not to well versed in component prices in these devices, there might not be any cost savings at all with the higher end snapdragon cpu's from qualcom.

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$40 is kinda steep for a 20+ year old game, even if it has "improved" visuals.

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Quoting: ZlopezLet's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

I'd say, before it's too late, but the environmental damage is already being done. Because of this, at least in the US, our dictator-in-chief has thrown us all in on AI, so when it bursts, the economy is going to tank hard. He likely won't even suffer consequences because he'll just blame the democrats or China and his followers will eat it up.

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The expansion is 25$ on Battle.net. I'm going to wait until they either give us a way to get the Steam version for cheap if we own the Battle.net version (unlikely to ever happen unfortunately...) or until there's a sale where its cheaper to buy it off Steam than buy the expansion on Battle.net (which probably means years of waiting). I'm glad its finally on Steam, but I don't want to pay for the game twice.

Edit: actually, that would be the third time, I bought the original on release day in the 90s.

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I'm playing through Ghostwire Tokyo right now (got it on a huge discount during a steam sale, and am loving it so far!) which has rt, but as with all games I turned it off. When I get updated to this new mesa, I'll turn it on and see how it goes. It's a ue4 game, so I'm not really sure what to expect.

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And AAA developers still make games like RTX 5080 and 32GB RAM grows on trees!

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$40 ... !!! 😂

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I played the original three or four years ago for the first time and while controls and graphics are a bit clunky it held up surprisingly well, in my opinion better than something like Morrowind where certain mechanics are just inscrutable to modern players

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I'm sure they're gonna be so relieved when they make the move fully to wayland to not have to do all this extra work to support both x and it.

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this is so wonderful of them to do. I don't really need any of those games but I'm gonna get it anyway. I was so glad to see the news this morning that the murderous roaming squads of masked men are "drawing down" aka leaving town. WOOO!

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This was right in the middle of my college years (I'm so old lol) when I wasn't playing anything single player / rpg (but was playing a ton of multiplayer party stuff) so I totally missed this one as well.

Very excited for this to release as everyone heaps so much praise on it.

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This is so wonderful! I love when I see a game on mobile or desktop that's developed with godot. Makes me like it just a little bit more.

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Quoting: TarosIf VR finally just works as good as in Windows (which is a shame for my Valve Index) I can finally get rid of Windows completely.
This is my only use case for Windows. I mean in Linux I cannot even see my desktop because of wayland or I don't know.

When using Steam VR, opending the desktop from the Steam VR dashboard is a hit or miss. Often closing the dashboard and opening it again might make it work though.
Yet, try WayVR. If you're not using Envision and have it enabled there as a plugin, you'll need to download it manually and start it once manually, it'll add itself to autostarted apps in Steam VR. You'll have to allow sharing your screen in the Desktop Portal dialog, but then with double tap on B (or A?) it'll open the desktop in VR. Or tilt your left wrist and a little widget will show up, where you can click on the icon for your monitor and the keyboard.
Et voilà... your desktop in VR :)
Works best with Monado instead of Steam VR though 😆

I hope Valve will improve the Steam VR experience, maybe they did in the meantime... I got used to Monado with WayVR and it works so smooth. With my Index, with my Quest 3 (through WiVRn).

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Ah.

I really want that to be good, but between the footnote, the reviews, and the "blizzard-ness" of things, I'm really wary of it. I have no problem with the price, but given everything else, it feels like a trap.

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I just went ahead and deleted my account. I don't use Discord all that much, I'm pretty sure I can do without it.

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This is awesome, and they added a new class. Last time I played it was back when it came out.

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Note that you do have to login at least once every 30 days, so there's an online requirement even for offline play. I do feel like this should be part of the steam deck verified statement on the store page.

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Funny thing, I have Diablo 2 sitting on my shelf and just this week I reopened it for the first time in years and I was intrigued by the fact that the 3 CDs are all stacked on top of each other. I should probably rip them and store the ISOs on my backup external HDDs, but it's Diablo 2 so I don't really care.

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Nostalgia is strong in this one

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Quoting: foxyDRXI wouldn't be surprised that they would introduce some kind of hardware revision to justify price increase. Maybe not steam deck 2 but something like nintendo did with switch oled

Well, they already did that once.

Another reason would be to fill the gap between generations, if that is starting to look wide enough, but it still all depends on what AMD is/was able to supply.

I'm still on the LCD, and it fits my purposes, but if SD2 is likely to come much later than anticipated I'd consider a revised unit. With, say, a bigger battery and some revised hardware design to carry it even further.

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perhaps the screensaver would work in other distros? That would be, afaik, the first Wayland compatible screensaver! the currently most widely known screensaver program, XScreensaver, works only in x11

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Quoting: scaineb) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

Of course it is. In many ways it's similar to AI. The core technology is great and has valid uses, but the way it is presented for consumer use is nothing short of a scam. If you've ever done global illumination in something like blender, you're well aware of how high samples/pixel count needs to be to generate something that looks presentable. These numbers are so far away from anything that can be done in realtime, that you know something fishy is going on. Nvidia calls it "de-noising", but in reality it means that they have to "guess" 99.9% of the data. So basically upscaling on steroids. So the price of getting slightly better global illumination is a ton of artefacts. Of course that last part is never mentioned because you can't sell GPUs with that.

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You'd probably need to emulate the Switch versions of D2R and D3 to play these offline at all.

Anyway, the price is a joke. No sprites, either - which, to me, is a subtle indicator of how much Blizzard really cares. I.e.: not a whole lot, gib money pls.

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As someone mentioned in their user review, the game appears to have:

- Mandatory Battle net account linking
- Always-online / online DRM

:-(

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I wouldn't be surprised that they would introduce some kind of hardware revision to justify price increase. Maybe not steam deck 2 but something like nintendo did with switch oled

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Quoting: LampHope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM

Isn't the CPU that's the bottleneck.

It's RAM, storage and GPU.

ARM processors still need good old main memory.

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So far ray tracing games that ive tested were CP2077, RE8 and Elden Ring. With CP2077 ray tracing is bugged making some trees go all black etc. RE8 had a PCGamingWiki noted bug where performance gets constantly lower when using ray tracing. With Elden Ring i get stutters with ray tracing enabled. I wonder if this driver would help to alleviate the stutters in Elden Ring.

So far it seems that ray tracing implementations are just pretty shoddy and not worth the time. The ray traced reflections do work nicely in CP2077 where i think that the best practice is just to enable the reflections and leave everything else baked in settings.

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Hope that this accellerates their decision to drop the x86 arcitecture for handheld compute and go all in on ARM for the future version of the SteamDeck, pushing down the cost, size and weight.

Then issues like this will dtill be felt but not as much.

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Quoting: SlayerTheChikken

Quoting: GerarderloperAMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

Yes, the $1000 more hardware is 1000$ worth better at raytracing, ofcourse.

It's not quite that clear-cut, but it's not far off! It's awkward, because the top end AMD card, the RX9070, doesn't really have a direct equivalent Nvidia card - it's somewhere between a 5070ti and a 5080 (probably nearer the lower end), at least at 4K. I can pick up a RX9070 from scan.co.uk here in the UK for around £650 (which still, to me, feels like a crazy amount of money!). The 5070ti is around the £850. But the next jump up, the 5080 is about £1200, which is... unimaginable (to me).

And then there's the £2750 you'll spend on a 5090. I mean, I wouldn't, but that's scan's price for anyone with money (and electricity) to burn!

But the point is moot for me anyway, on two levels:
a) I'll never buy an Nvidia card again, unless they fully open-source their drivers and get them merged into the kernel.
b) Ray-tracing is utterly underwhelming in every video I've seen using it.

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Let's hope the bubble around AI will burst soon.

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