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Latest Comments by mr-victory
Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility
2 Mar 2025 at 6:16 pm UTC Likes: 4

itch.io has a native client like Steam, use this for gog.

Monster Hunter Wilds looks unplayable on Steam Deck but good on Desktop Linux
6 Feb 2025 at 3:13 pm UTC

RAM almost maxed out, SteamOS may need larger swap or more aggressive swapping.

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters
5 Feb 2025 at 5:51 pm UTC Likes: 18

Didn't Apex EAC get hacked in a tournament a month or so after blocking Linux? I am not taking their word.

Epic Games devs talk about solutions to the Unreal Engine stuttering issues in games
5 Feb 2025 at 1:12 pm UTC

> There’s a partial misconception that Direct3D 11 didn’t have these issues

Pre-GPL Apex Legends on Linux? Anyone?

War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux
25 Jan 2025 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 8

I see where you are coming from but War Thunder is one of the last games to drop Linux, they had *native* Linux & Mac support for years.

Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows
15 Jan 2025 at 6:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Bad performance with some DX12 titles, worse RT perf compared to Windows, lack of HDR or multi monitor VRR support, performance regressions with driver updates etc.

Intel and NVIDIA drivers holding back a public SteamOS release, Valve not trying to compete with Windows
15 Jan 2025 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

AMD has open source drivers and proprietary libraries for compute (ROCm), we could see a similar outcome for Nvidia.

Why are there so many different Proton versions? Proton 8, Proton 9, Experimental, GE-Proton
10 Jan 2025 at 3:59 pm UTC Likes: 3

Liam, could you add Proton Sarek to this guide?