Quoting: drmothFor anyone using multichannel 5.1 or 7.1 HDMI audio like I do, Pipewire is useless. Multi-channel surround audio is awesome, and much nicer than using headphones.
I have a 7.1 surround system that's driven by an audio receiver. Pipewire fails to deliver multi-channel audio through Proton games (I believe native should work), and given that most Linux games are being run through Proton this is a deal-breaker.

The gitlab issue is here:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/876 [External Link]

EDIT: It appears a solution may have been found at the end of the thread.

I had the opposite issue, my 6-ins/6-outs soundcard being considered as 5.1 with Pulseaudio, and having all audio in being merge into input 1, and all audio out being merged into outputs 1/2.

Switching to Pipewire fixed the issues with inputs output being mixed, without even having to resort to make unnecessary cabling with Cadence/Catia :smile:

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Ah, Unreal Tournament... One of the first game I played on PC, I remember spending hours on the demo.
A great game :smile:

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy[...]

So. Here's Valve, trying to break the cycle. [...]

It seems that Microsoft is also trying to break the cycle, seeing the increasing number of people being p*ssed off by Windows 11 (like I was with Windows 10) :tongue:

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VERIFIED: 14 games (7.29%)
PLAYABLE: 14 games (7.29%)
UNSUPPORTED: 1 games (0.52%)
UNKNOWN: 163 games (84.9%)

The unsupported game being For Honor, and I think it was just when I tried the demo. Speaking of which, demos seems to be included as well, but some of them were installed just to find out if the game could run on Linux.

Also, some of the "unknown" games are native games, such as Albion Online, Carrion, Children of Morta, Don't Starve, Pine, etc.

Fun fact: Slay the Spire is only Playable, but not Verified, I wonder what's wrong, since I believe it was released on the Switch

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Looks like quicker wrist pain :grin:

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Quoting: ElectricPrismEverybody keep up on exercise and personal wellness, we need to function in order to help those that need us.

^Exactly this.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: sub

Quoting: gradyvuckovicSurprised there's no "Steam Deck Sale" planned. Maybe they will wait a year, make sure everyone who wants a Deck, has one, before they do the sale.

(1/2 off-topic)

I'd like to see Valve giving devs/publishers a discount on the platform fees as an incentive when they provide a native Linux build for a long time.

Wouldn't that be an even greater thing for the Steam Deck?
I mean that would help twofold:
Getting more games to the Deck, making it more attractive,
plus, giving native Linux games a push.

But then, publishers would be able to release their Linux build on some other platforms, rather than being dependent on Proton... Now, I am not saying that Valve is trying to do anything evil, just pointing out the fact that more Linux builds may not be that much beneficial, from Valve's point of view.

If there was a big enough audience for Linux stuff for anyone to care about it just as a market rather than, as Valve does, for strategic reasons, it would be easy enough for other platforms to deploy Proton. It's open source after all.

You are speaking about other platforms implementing Proton, which I agree with, but I was speaking about game publishers being able to put native Linux version on other platforms than Valve's, independently of the other platforms implementing Proton or not.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: gradyvuckovicSurprised there's no "Steam Deck Sale" planned. Maybe they will wait a year, make sure everyone who wants a Deck, has one, before they do the sale.

(1/2 off-topic)

I'd like to see Valve giving devs/publishers a discount on the platform fees as an incentive when they provide a native Linux build for a long time.

Wouldn't that be an even greater thing for the Steam Deck?
I mean that would help twofold:
Getting more games to the Deck, making it more attractive,
plus, giving native Linux games a push.

But then, publishers would be able to release their Linux build on some other platforms, rather than being dependent on Proton... Now, I am not saying that Valve is trying to do anything evil, just pointing out the fact that more Linux builds may not be that much beneficial, from Valve's point of view.

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Quoting: xavi

Quoting: furaxhornyx

Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo the title is "Vampire Survivors". So, are you a vampire trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, or just a person trying to survive vampires?

The latter. Basically think if Castlevania was a twin-stick shooter.

It gets very silly towards the last five minutes or so (runs are max 20 minutes long, then you die).

So, do you ever "win", or is just a "survive as long as you can, but you will inevitably lose" ?

If you survive for 30 min in a zone, you win and then another zone is discovered.
I bought it yesterday, played for 2.6 h and won two times.
But there are achievements, and more weapons, ...
Think roguelite because with the coins you find you buy more power for your stuff.
In my opinion Risk of Rain is much better, but this is easy to play.

Quite addicting! but I suppose just for a few days.

Thanks, probably not the kind of roguelites I like then... Or maybe I'll try it on a sale :wink:

EDIT: noticed that the game price is very low already... Maybe I'll give it a try, out of curiosity, then

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Purple Library GuySo the title is "Vampire Survivors". So, are you a vampire trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, or just a person trying to survive vampires?

The latter. Basically think if Castlevania was a twin-stick shooter.

It gets very silly towards the last five minutes or so (runs are max 20 minutes long, then you die).

So, do you ever "win", or is just a "survive as long as you can, but you will inevitably lose" ?

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