What I wonder more is that they can port it at all, as this game was a showcase for the fast SSD in the PS5 and the direct GPU access to the SSD. Either they have loading screens sometimes which the PS5 doesn't have or they can put all the needed Texturesin the VRAM somehow.

Besides that, fantastic Game, I played it already on PS5.

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What's more annoying to me is that in some Games on the first run predefined settings are set for the Steam Deck. But the profile is nowhere selectable. So if you change some things you don't know what the "curated" Steam Deck Settings have been.

In one Game the resolution was set to 1280x800, I changed some settings, and somehow it also changed the resolution to 1280x720. I couldn't change the resolution back it was not in the list of supported resolutions. So it seems the resolution was hacked into the configuration file. So changing back to "optimized" Settings wasn't easy after that, not doable within the game.

I kind of like the idea that I don't have to tweak the config on Steam Deck. Or the best of both worlds would IMHO of be you can tweak, but you can easily switch back to "recommended" Steam Deck Settings.

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Quoting: Guest8.6 tflops is crazy number for a handheld device, it is twice bigger than ps4pro, on par with rtx2070 tier GPU, and just a bit behind current gen consoles. you literally can replace a decent gaming pc with it

It's really just a number. What I see so far is that in real life the Z1 Extreme is only a little bit faster than the Z1 due to bandwith limitation to the RAM.

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Nice! For me personally it means I will buy more games on steam and less on PS5.

I wonder how it technically works though. Why does it need a special compositor for that and what about Kernel, DRM etc.? Are there changes too?

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: kaktuspalmeYes, but a user has to enable it. That's too much for a regular computer user to ask for.

No they don't. Installs that come with a desktop environment are on HWE by default. Headless server installs are not on HWE by default.

Oh I just see that since 20.04 they enable it by default. That's nice!
But I still see problems, for example the upcoming AMD 7000 Series GPU will probably not be supported by Ubuntu 22.04 until 2024 (correct me if I'm wrong). As far as I know, the LTS Enablement stack only allows you to update on an older LTS to some current LTS packages.
Sorry, I just saw that also non LTS-Ubuntu Kernels and Mesa will be used. I have to rethink the recommendation for distributions then.
But 7000 Series User will probably still have to wait until April 2023. But for sure a big improvement to how they handled it before.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: kaktuspalmeIf Ubuntu did Mesa and Kernel updates, I would put it on top. But without it I wouldn't recommend it, at least to AMD GPU users.

They do.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack [External Link]

Yes, but a user has to enable it. That's too much for a regular computer user to ask for.

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Quoting: utxIsn't counting the steam deck kind of cheating since its the hardware and not users using the desktop mode of it?

From the perspective of a Linux Gamer... no, while using the Steam Deck they are Linux gamers. More Linux gamers means more support regardless if they use the desktop or not.

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If Ubuntu did Mesa and Kernel updates, I would put it on top. But without it I wouldn't recommend it, at least to AMD GPU users.

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I hope there's HDR support for Linux soon. I have a PS5 at home and this is one of the games I would prefer playing on the TV. Because of the missing HDR support I would probably still buy the Game for the PS5.

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I'm also considering using Fedora, but less because of Fedora itself more because I would like to try out Gnome instead of Plasma for a while. And I think Fedora has a very vanilla Gnome. But besides that I'm still very happy with Solus Plasma, no reason because of that to switch. Just curiosity.

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