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Proton Experimental sees fixes for Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy XIV, Black Ops II
30 Jun 2022 at 9:22 pm UTC

Final Fantasy XIV launcher exiting silently when there's not enough space to download the update.
Hehe, ran into that while waiting for my new 2TB SSD be delivered to replace my 1TB HDD.

They are really doing a good job there on Proton/Wine. I think the money Valve throws at Proton and in the end Wine really is worth a lot. Even if a lot of those implementations in wine are done by contractors/crossover, Valve pays up.

I still want a switch like steam deck with docking for my TV though. Sadly they seem to have cancelled the docking plan.

Steam Summer Sale 2022 is live so prepare your wallet
26 Jun 2022 at 8:00 am UTC

Too many games in my backlog for the years to come. I will wait a few more sales until I buy new games.

LightSpeed Studios (Tencent) joins the Open 3D Foundation
16 Jun 2022 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

This engine was probably the best thing which came out of amazon game studios yet ;-).

But wasn't it based upon the crytek engine? I wonder how they could relicense it to Apache.

Proton Experimental updated for Linux and Steam Deck, improving Final Fantasy XIV Online
4 Jun 2022 at 11:21 am UTC

I thought the launcher login below the news was intentional bad design by SE to fit with th bad design of the rest of their websites ;-).

Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
4 Jun 2022 at 11:18 am UTC Likes: 2

I spend my time in Horizon: Zero Dawn at the moment. Really enjoy the game, and runs great on Proton.

Next will probably be God of War.

NVIDIA stable driver 515.48.07 out now, Gamescope improvements and more
1 Jun 2022 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: melkemind
Quoting: TheRiddickI might need to switch to a NVIDIA card since I just found out my AMD card is not ALLOWED to do HDMI2.1.
I was running ycb420 this whole time thinking it was RGB, lmao.

The HDMI2.1 standard needs more open minded people running the show!
Isn't the plan for Nvidia to eventually replace their proprietary driver with the open source one, and if so, wouldn't that put you in the same boat?
Actually, the Nvidia open source driver DOES implement HDMI FRL (https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/src/nvidia-modeset/src/nvkms-hdmi.c#L2064 [External Link]).

This is legally more than questionable. I don't know if that slipped through when putting the drivers open source, or if they had some legal agreement with the HDMI Forum... but that well could end up in court.

SCS put the Heart of Russia DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 on hold for now
31 May 2022 at 5:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: STiAT
Quoting: Eike...is Ukraine historically a thing in the first place?!?
I feel slightly uncomfortable to be quoted this way. I have just been reiterating what Putin was saying.
Can understand that, a bit out of context to be sure. Will remedy that, though, my comment was to that context and not to the whole reply.

SCS put the Heart of Russia DLC for Euro Truck Simulator 2 on hold for now
31 May 2022 at 4:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EikeThat's strange, because Mr. Putin said that it would be about nazis, ah no, drugs, no, one moment, protecting Russians in East Ukraine, ah, is Ukraine historically a thing in the first place?!? ....
Historically speaking Russia would have to join Ukraine and not the other way around. The "Rus" were originally the northeners (Swedish, Danes, Finns, Norwegians) who settled in and around Kiew. This is where the "Rus" were governed from.

Originally the region was inhabited by the Pechenegs, who were a turkish normadic tribe, and who knows who was there before those. So the Turks could throw in their claim to the country too if we are at historical claims...

The Cities: Skylines - Colossal Collection Bundle is up and an awesome deal
26 May 2022 at 8:16 am UTC

Can you buy that and just unlock the DLCs if you have some of them?

I have about half the DLCs, but the rest struck me sometimes as too heavy.

KDE Plasma 5.25 Beta is out now for testing
21 May 2022 at 8:35 am UTC

I switched to Gnome after 24 years of KDE for it's simply more polished in Fedora, while the KDE spin is good, I like the Gnome Workstation better. Though, Gnome without extensions is pretty much unusable for me, while KDE ships most of that out of the box (tray icons, audio device handling, or in general audio handling).

KDE has long standing bugs especially in display handling which put me off in the end. They are either in the 15 minute bugs or even higher priorized, and if I saw it correctly the one which annoyed me most got fixed in this release (had this issue since 2018).

I may switch back one day. I really have a soft spot for KDE, but I am fine enough with Gnome for now.