Quoting: const

Quoting: STiATI think a middle ground would be good.

I don't mind playing on proton/dxvk, it's a stack to build on for Linux, I don't see it as more or less than that. I even switched to that for titles which actually do have native linux support since the native linux versions are so badly optimized and the games just run better on proton/dxvk.

I think they should consider actually supporting Proton/dxvk for their desktop builds and steam deck, that would be a middle ground I'd like to see.

I think the time for native builds is certainly over. DXVK got too good for that, and we have to give kudos to Philip Rebohle, Joshua-Ashton and all the other contributors for that. And Valve for sponsoring that work.

Most of the times I have issues with games it's rather proton related than dxvk related.

And proton/dxvk/steam runtime is a lot less volatile and diverse than the current linux world, so it makes sense.

I don't think the time for native builds is over. A well done native build, linked against a stable runtime, can perform much better then a proton version. What we don't need any more are lazy 3rd party ports with proprietary middle layers and ending support contracts. These have not aged well and were replaced by Proton.

The time and effort which is required for that is a huge step. I don't see many developers or publishers going that route for not even 1 % of the playerbase, when they can do steam deck with proton/dxvk and minimal QA.

Let's agree to disagree on that one.

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I think a middle ground would be good.

I don't mind playing on proton/dxvk, it's a stack to build on for Linux, I don't see it as more or less than that. I even switched to that for titles which actually do have native linux support since the native linux versions are so badly optimized and the games just run better on proton/dxvk.

I think they should consider actually supporting Proton/dxvk for their desktop builds and steam deck, that would be a middle ground I'd like to see.

I think the time for native builds is certainly over. DXVK got too good for that, and we have to give kudos to Philip Rebohle, Joshua-Ashton and all the other contributors for that. And Valve for sponsoring that work.

Most of the times I have issues with games it's rather proton related than dxvk related.

And proton/dxvk/steam runtime is a lot less volatile and diverse than the current linux world, so it makes sense.

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Impressive. No arguments there.

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: STiAT"Fixed Wayland flickering issues" is missing. Oh ye - they didn't. Again.

I'm on Wayland and I don't have flickering at all, could you explain the issue?

Library: You select one title, if you mouse-over other titles, it sometimes just soft-highlights other titles fully or partially (sometimes more than one) and flickers those highlights in-out with mouse move. Sometimes it even manages to show the game-page of the flickering title you did not mouse over - even without selecting the game you are currently mouse-overing. The faster you move over your library titles, the more often it occurs, and the more extreme it gets. If you move out of the selection and just mouse-over "maximize" in example it also soft-highlights the last title you did hilight over and flickers. If you resize the window to a smaller size it happens less.

Library Game-Page: The game screen is not properly loaded, respectively, instead of the title picture of the game or even sometimes the whole window it is transparent showing the window you have below.

That changes as soon as you manually trigger a full window redraw (resizing, taking a screenshot) to the correct behavior, until it occurs again. Running OBS fixes this too, so I guess it's something to do with how redraws are conducted.

May be related to Nvidia drivers though, but it really is a ugly issue happening often enough (like every 5th click). Since this only happens in Steam and with no other application, I'd guess whatever they use (their own toolkit?) is not properly handling at least on Nvidia+Wayland.

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"Fixed Wayland flickering issues" is missing. Oh ye - they didn't. Again.

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I never was a huge Half-Life fan .. and I played through both and have to say - I didn't really enjoy either. Guess it's just not a game for me.

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I hope NVK will become viable for gaming in the next few years. I've had my fair share of driver problems with 535 and 545 nvidia drivers by now.

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Not convinced The Forge claim to what they are.

Last codebase update in 2022, the following on github describing their owm codebase:
* Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Vulkan 1.1

Their github looks like of somebody who never did software development having .exe of installers publicly available anyway hosted there (7zip)

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I often thought of switching, but even in testing and unstable they're a year behind. I understand stability concerns, and have no issue with that on servers, but makes it not viable as a desktop.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Salvatos> you usually only get the survey on one machine.
Not in my experience. I had it on two different desktops one week apart just last spring and I've had it on my laptop as well.

Got it on my Steam Deck, my laptop and my PC, this month. I decided to distro hop on my PCs and it triggered the survey for each fresh install (wasn't a fresh install for my Steam Deck).

Lucky. I had a survey once. And I have Steam open almost every day since it was released for Linux.

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