Quoting: druncopsykenIt's not in the hands of Valve to improve much now, unless they choose to ban games that refuse to support.

"There are 28 games released every day on Steam, and a finite number of Featured slots on the Steam front page. Why should your game, which doesn't work on Steam hardware, get one of those slots instead of another game that does work on Steam hardware? Hmm?"

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Quoting: AnzaSure, there could be developers who are not testing on Linux. I find more productive to assume the best of people instead of assuming the worst. Developers most likely are just very busy as event has strict deadline.

Yes, reporting issues takes a moment, but they won't be fixing Linux related bugs they don't know about, that's for sure. As bonus they will know that there's at least one Linux user interested in their game.

Also if enough of us actively report issues, we could test every game during first day of the event. There's at the moment hundred games included in the event that will potentially support Linux at some point (why else they would advertise Linux support). Of those, handful actually have a Linux demo (one can hope that Valve includes demo availability for the platform filter). I have bit problem that if the game works, I will play it, so I'm not effective at finding all those issues of missing executables and alike.

If error message states invalid platform, then the demo doesn't exist in the first place. With those it's bit too likely it's intentional.

If I'm an existing customer that discovers a way to make a game I'm enjoying better, or if a developer reaches out to a community I'm part of asking for assistance, then of course I'm going to help. Happy to.

This isn't that. The store page is explicitly and directly an interaction between them as the seller of a product, and me as a potential customer. The demo is an advert that's trying to wow me with how much I'm going to want to buy their product. If some marketing magic has got me to the point that I'm checking out their game and the advert doesn't even work?

Guess what? I am not wowed.

On the bright side, I'm unlikely to remember anything at all about the interaction, so it's not a black mark against the developer for the future. But is it a missed opportunity? Absolutely.

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Quoting: amataiBy the way, what is DLSS ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_learning_super_sampling [External Link]

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Quoting: fagnerlnIt can sound weird, but IMO they should focus on a sequel. They already put a lot of work on it, which is amazing, no doubts, but how much is too much?

I'm pretty sure they're doing well revenue-wise with their map packs. A sequel would split their player base, and a lot of them might decide to move on to something that isn't driving trucks.

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Quoting: AnzaShould actually complain about those that could have just packaging problems to the developers

Meh. If they don't have a working Linux demo then they're clearly not testing Linux. I just move on to the next thing, and they've squandered a chance at a wishlist. Maybe they'll manage a second bite of the cherry if they get their act together by launch, but maybe not. Plenty of other games.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo does anyone else wonder what's up with Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS 64 bit? The stat says it's at 15.38% and went up +15.38%. So, like, it just came into existence?

It did. The previous entry in that slot was Ubuntu 20.04.2. 20.04.3 was released at the end of August.

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I still don't quite get if it's a sequel, a prequel or what.

That's time travel for you.

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Quoting: MohandevirForgot about that piece of tech. Looking forward to see it in action. Didn't know it could be used for "FSR Scaling". Awesome!

Well, it can't yet, as far as we know, but they said that they're interested.

https://github.com/Plagman/gamescope/issues/215#issuecomment-885932306 [External Link]

Yes, FSR is potentially something we'd be interested in.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt might be something easier to implement with an officially supported build, optimized for the Steam Deck? Something like variable resolution, depending on the screen's output resolution (native or external)?

Gamescope already sits between the game surface and the display surface, and can happily lie to either of them as it sees fit (hence being able to easily cap the framerate at 30 fps if you want to, to save battery). It should be pretty straightforward to slot FSR in there as an automatic scaling method. There are already a couple to choose from.

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Quoting: MohandevirOne doesn't prevent the other. I mean, for edge cases like CP2077, FSR could help raise the fps counter for a smoother overall experience, on the native screen.

Sure, and once you've got the framework in place you could use it either way, but if you've got less than 1280×800 pixels available, that's not a lot of information to work with to make the image look good; you'd probably rather turn something else down other than the resolution to get better performance. Whereas having the same performance docked as not, and having an image that doesn't look too terrible, would be universally pretty useful.

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