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Driver updates for AMD RADV to give nice boost for Linux and Steam Deck
13 Apr 2023 at 11:30 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: drjomsI was under impression that RADV is half baked driver implementation from AMD directly?
You're thinking of AMDVLK, the driver from AMD. It's not widely used but I'm not sure if half-baked is the correct description.

Death Stranding Director's Cut, Aliens: Fireteam Elite and more in Humble Choice
6 Apr 2023 at 8:24 pm UTC

Quoting: GroganIt may or may not have more content, depending on what the difference is between the two. Supposedly the director knows best, but the bean counters have the final say. It's probably mostly bollocks, but it would be silly to have a director's cut if there wasn't something better or at least different about it.
It's weird, because the directors cut of Death Stranding is measured as being shorter in length compared to the normal version. So presumably that means they removed stuff instead?

(Or maybe I put too much trust into the ratings on howlongtobeat.com [External Link]...)

GOG giving away Deep Sky Derelicts during the finale of their Spring Sale
1 Apr 2023 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderMan so many free games I will instantly forget about cause they are on GOG and not Steam.......
Have a free Steam game [External Link] instead!

(Kinda surprised this one was actually published by SEGA!)

Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari DLC releases April 13th
1 Apr 2023 at 11:50 am UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: constNow, after weeks without Vampire Survivors, I consinder myself clean
You should start a Vampire Survivors survivors group!

Short underwater survival game FarSky now free on itch.io
29 Mar 2023 at 9:00 pm UTC

Quoting: silverhikarihas anyone who has played the game gotten sound to work? as after switching java to 8(openjdk) to get the game to load i can't seem to get any sound. i am using pipewire in case that causes problems?
Should be a log file in the game dir or in ~/.FarSky/log/farsky.log

It might help you figure out what's wrong,

Short underwater survival game FarSky now free on itch.io
29 Mar 2023 at 8:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

I had some problems running it with the native libs supplied, but running the .jar manually with
java -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -cp ./farsky.jar -classpath ./lib/*:./farsky.jar game.Main works fine.

vkd3d 1.7 is out now for the Wine translation layer
25 Mar 2023 at 10:57 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PikoloWTF is a case-insensitive float? Case sensitiveness would normally be a feature for text data types, not numbers
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/commit/dd36215a00174a1db560021562bad84cd37e3071 [External Link]
AIUI, essentially it allows for declaring a variable using "float" or "FLOAT"?

Here's how to run Diablo 4 on Steam Deck
24 Mar 2023 at 4:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

The cruel torments of hell:


Proton Experimental fixes up Call of Duty: Black Ops III videos
23 Mar 2023 at 9:43 pm UTC Likes: 5

Aren't both of these games Call of Doody?

Atari are acquiring Night Dive Studios
23 Mar 2023 at 5:17 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: slaapliedjeActual current Atari is somewhat decent, as a whole lot of the bad apples from when they first announced the VCS are gone, and they're attempting to shift solely to video games + whatever hardware
That's good to hear.

Reading through the Wikipedia article about the history of Atari is quite depressing. The things people have abused that poor trademark for... The Atari cryptocurrency! The Atari Hotel chain! *shudders*