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Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 Jan 2024 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: dirkdierickxyeah, you missed what made the game worth playing, the shooter action parts are not that special at all, the story is. completely marketed wrong. action junkies will wonder what all the fuss is about, and gamers that like a good story will skip it because it looks like an action game.
Sorry! Guess I should have planted a smiley at the end. It was a joke :tongue:

But I'm sure there are people who did skip the story and robbed themselves of a fantastic experince.

Valve seeing increasing bug reports due to Steam Snap - other methods recommended
30 Jan 2024 at 5:58 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeOn the bright side of that, this would be ran via Wine, which itself is sort of sanboxed in ways where you'd still have a separate folder structure that particular install is only aware of. So the most that would be trashed is the install directory of that particular game.
I think Proton still maps Z: to / for game prefixes. I would assume Windows malware would happily make a target of that.

Spec Ops: The Line gets delisted on Steam - you can still buy it elsewhere for now
30 Jan 2024 at 12:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

It was a bit overrated i felt. Then again, I skipped all the cut scenes and had the audio muted - maybe I missed something?

Wine 9.1 released starting off another year of development
28 Jan 2024 at 7:38 pm UTC Likes: 4

I'm mostly interested in seeing the improvements made in 9.0 continue to mature. E.g. Wayland support and the new WoW64 support.

For WoW64 specifically I'm hoping we'll see new prefixes created faster and maybe taking up less space?

I'm also hoping for continued support and improvement for the old timers. DirectX 7 and backwards. The kind of games even modern Windows struggle to support.

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements
24 Jan 2024 at 10:56 am UTC Likes: 11

Essentially this is the long awaited replacement/improvement for esync and fsync.

Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux
17 Jan 2024 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: michaldybczakHow do we enable Wayland driver in Wine and in Proton (when based on Wine 9)?
Compile with Wayland enabled (--with-wayland) and then enable the driver in the registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\Drivers\Graphics="wayland,x11"

Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support
13 Jan 2024 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 4

This is my current one:



I guess the lesson is - don't pick your wallpaper on an empty stomach.

Pillars of Eternity from Obsidian has a new patch coming nearly 9 years after release
10 Jan 2024 at 4:43 pm UTC Likes: 3

I still think of this game as The Power over Ethernet RPG.

Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
6 Jan 2024 at 8:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: XpanderThis is the site i used yes.. For example EA Sport WRC shows unsupported, but i have been playing it since launch. Clocked 75 hours in it. Sons of the Forest is another one. Works perfectly.
Portal RTX, WRC Generations, WRC 10, Dirt Rally 2.0, RAGE, State of Mind, Mafia, Mafia 3 Definitive Edition, Valley, Project Cars 2, Elder Scroll online just to name few that are marked as unsupported but working without issues on my Linux PC.

But i guess they are somehow unsupported on Steam Deck maybe.

Edit: What i meant that they were tested by valve but marked unsupported i guess due deck incompatibilities?
EA WRC actually checks for and refuses to run on the deck (unless SteamDeck=0 is set).

I guess Valve just respects the game developers decision in this case.