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Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor delisted for Linux and macOS on Steam
4 Jan 2021 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 5

What are Feral up to these days, anyways? Anything new in the hopper? Surely their business model must be heavily suffering from the dramatic drop of Mac gamers?

NVIDIA has a small update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, plus naming changes to mainline
17 Dec 2020 at 1:23 pm UTC

Quoting: DoctorJunglistCyberpunk 2077 does some stuff that breaks DX12 api, and this extension helps remedy some of the effects of that (which are performance problems and crashes).
Ah, excellent. Then this is the one we want :)

NVIDIA has a small update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, plus naming changes to mainline
17 Dec 2020 at 12:37 pm UTC

Quoting: DoctorJunglistIt does however fix the crashes [in Cyberpunk 2077] with AMD cards, and there's no reason to assume it wouldn't fix them on Nvidia.
I thought this extension was more important than just preventing some crashes, but that it would improve both performance and visual glitches/errors?

Or was that another extension I am thinking of now that is missing in the Nivida drivers as well, related to the Vulkan API?

NVIDIA has a small update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, plus naming changes to mainline
17 Dec 2020 at 10:10 am UTC Likes: 3

C'mon Nvidia, there's only one extension we're waiting on nowadays.

NVIDIA release big new Linux driver with 460.27.04, LunarG Vulkan SDK Ray Tracing ready
15 Dec 2020 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor_type still missing though :(

Valve continues tweaking the new 'Proton Experimental' for Cyberpunk 2077
15 Dec 2020 at 2:42 pm UTC

Implemented the Spatial Audio sound API, fixing Cyberpunk 2077 world sounds.
... so, in essence the game now then works as well as it can on AMD/ATI cards?

Steam broke some huge all-time high records over the weekend
14 Dec 2020 at 2:23 pm UTC

I'll purchase CP2077 the very same day the affirmative reports starts rolling on at protondb in regards to running well on Nivida.

It may take a patch or two, both from CDPR and Nvidia - but that day will come, and I will be ready.

Valve updates Steam with more Linux improvements, new game properties UI
11 Dec 2020 at 9:14 pm UTC Likes: 2

It's more and more likely my next GPU will be an AMD one. I was hoping we'd get there, and now it seems we are.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-3 rolls out restoring controller hotplugging
8 Dec 2020 at 8:00 pm UTC

Quoting: ColdPieThe changelog is for user-visible changes. If you'd like all the details, check out the git log: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/commits/proton_5.13 [External Link]
Ah - lookie there. Ok that was really great to get confirmed. Thanks!

Steam Play Proton 5.13-3 rolls out restoring controller hotplugging
8 Dec 2020 at 9:33 am UTC Likes: 4

I continue to be confused about the descriptions of the fixes, as they seem to be fixes for specific games rather than general framework corrections/improvements. Do we really have a shitload of game-specific tweaks running in all our machines?

I know the argument that "they do fix general issues and use the game titles as merely examples of who was affected".
But wouldn't they then word it differently, like "fixed an issue with the handling of X in library Y, affecting games like [insert titles here]"?