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iFixit begin offering Steam Deck SSD upgrades
19 Feb 2023 at 10:00 pm UTC

Quoting: LembrittI want to upgrade to 1 TB. But have not seen any in my region (Sweden) that don't cost you an arm and a leg.
If you have any tips, please let me know.
I guess wait and see if they turn up in the EU storefront. They seem to have much (all?) of the other Deck bits.

Steam now allows transferring games between PCs and Steam Deck too
19 Feb 2023 at 1:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: damarrin
Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs is just me, or does the phrase
loading throbber
sound kind of rude?
It doesn't sound rude, it sounds enticing.
Are we due some Steam client rule 34?

Hunt: Showdown added Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck & Linux
18 Feb 2023 at 12:27 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: StalePopcornProtonDB posters are stating that it runs better in Linux than it does on their Winduhz installs
I hear you look better playing it on Linux too!

Wine 8.2 rolls out along with a new Proton Experimental update
17 Feb 2023 at 10:50 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: Avehicle7887
Indeo IV50 codec support.
Hmmm, I wonder which old games use this.
Quite a few oldies. Note that this is specifically for games using the ir50_32.dll. Wine already had some support for the Indeo codec through quartz/DirectShow.

AS for specific games, off the top of my head, Kings Quest 8 needed this dll. Interestingly Microsoft have disabled this dll in later releases so those games are broken in their native environment but will work in Wine...

The Force Engine for Star Wars Dark Forces improves Steam Deck & Linux support
17 Feb 2023 at 1:44 pm UTC

Quoting: Linuxeryes i edited the post now and downloaded and extracted but got even more confused
Yeah, so a binary Linux release is still on the TODO:

"In addition, a Flatpak/snap (or similar) package is planned for version 1.10, alleviating the need to manually compile the project. If you don’t want to compile the code, it might be better to use Windows for now or wait for version 1.10."

From: https://theforceengine.github.io/downloads.html [External Link]

The Force Engine for Star Wars Dark Forces improves Steam Deck & Linux support
17 Feb 2023 at 1:37 pm UTC

Quoting: Linuxerok so the packages here https://github.com/luciusDXL/TheForceEngine/releases/tag/v1.09.100 [External Link] are

TheForceEngine-v1.09.100.zip 7.8 MB 2023-02-16T19:55:02Z
Source code (zip) 2023-02-16T19:48:03Z
Source code (tar.gz)

but which one do i choose?? the top one is much smaller than the others? why is that? the size is also not indicated on the "source code" ones either? (but they are larger size) why is this? is it some sort of "light version" or what?

what exactly do i do with all this? :huh:
The first one is Windows binaries.

Sourced code almost always takes more space than a compiled binary.

(You are allowed to download the files and check yourself :wink: )

Steam had 83,000 new customers every day in 2022
17 Feb 2023 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

Slow down guys, you're going to run out of new customers in a mere 265 years!

D8VK is an in-progress implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK
15 Feb 2023 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: KlaasThe list of supported games contains two items that hurt:

1) Red Faction II: What a bland game and horrible sequel to a fun game. The first one isn't without flaws, but it has good moments.

2) GTA 3: I'm still very annoyed with the way re3 was handled – probably only to promote the cheaply made remaster.
Are you by any chance working on a merge request for D8VK where it detects bad games and refuse to run them?

Possibly using AI? (D8VK judges the game and if it's bad it goes Yeah, As If!) :grin:

10 years ago Steam released for Linux
14 Feb 2023 at 9:48 pm UTC Likes: 5

Love the little achievement in the article!

Now, to celebrate with (no lie) cake and a (Steam-ing) cup of tea!

Check out the demo of Full Void, a dystopian cinematic puzzle-platformer
12 Feb 2023 at 9:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

It took me 31 minutes to beat the demo, I died 23 times, or about once every 80 seconds.

The full game might need a higher difficulty level, because that's way above my usual average for platformers...