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Latest Comments by STiAT
Steam Link app now available for the Linux desktop
2 Mar 2021 at 11:03 pm UTC

Hmh, never thought about that for my home / couch setup. Not the Linux-PC side... that's one anyway, but I could put one of those Raspberry Pis to use and use it as a console setup for steam link on PC... never even came to my mind. And probably still can make use of those nice Steam controllers? :D.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer - Part 1: Dumpster Diving
1 Mar 2021 at 10:13 pm UTC Likes: 3

That's about the computer I used to run Gentoo on ... that were a lot of long compiling hours.

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing
19 Feb 2021 at 11:32 pm UTC

Hmh, I could not find why they forked it from wine. As a dev branch to be faster paced than wine or is it for technical reasons?

I know wine is quite conservative, but was that the reason for the fork?

There's no stopping the Viking invasion as Valheim hits 3 million sales
19 Feb 2021 at 6:52 pm UTC

Well, at least funding the rest of the game should not be an issue by now.

They still have a lot of plans, I managed to play it a bit by now, but I'll probably wait for the finished product for a play through.

Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland
19 Feb 2021 at 6:46 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: jensNice, with also Nvidia preparing for xWayland I guess I'm only missing Chrome/Chromium/Electron in Wayland land.
Does Chromium or vscode not work on Wayland?
Currently no. They are working on it though.

Steam Play Proton 5.13-6 is now officially out
13 Feb 2021 at 8:47 am UTC Likes: 1

I loved most the release of the Steam client on Feb 05.

Fixed a bug on Linux where compatibility tool selection wasn’t displaying correctly
That bug annoyed me a lot.

Valheim has become the next survival game hit on Steam
9 Feb 2021 at 9:39 pm UTC

Started playing, I was shocked how bad the character creator looked compared to the in game graphics which I find more appealing.

It's a fun game, but I did not have the time to play as much as I'd like, but I think for me it will be a game to play a few hours here and there.

Terraria for Stadia cancelled, due to Google locking the developer out
9 Feb 2021 at 9:35 pm UTC

One of the reasons I have my own nextcloud at a german provider which gets backed up every day to a storage service of my choice, my own domains and with that mail adresses.

I do not even have my contacts at google.

Costs me about 4 euros a month, which is not a lot.

I do use google... for everything I do not care if it's gone. Basically Gmail is my mailing list and mail for online accounts I do not care about overmuch, where I'd just create another account if it's gone.

Google shutting their internal game dev studios, focusing directly on Stadia tech
2 Feb 2021 at 10:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NuSueyFeel free to hate on me but I still love my purchase on Stadia.
Bought Cyberpunk 2077 on stadia, that cost 10e/$ less than on Steam/GOG on launch day (cause of the new user discount).
If i wanted to play Cyberpunk2077 on my hardware I would have to spend a few hundreds just to make it be playable (and streamable).
In my eyes that was definitely worth it. Played probably 70hours of it, love it & love the experience.
It just seems they are refocusing on just supporting other developers than to spend much more money just on their own production of games.

I am pretty sure we will see a ton of games coming to Stadia this year and even if it's still the underdog, I totally root for the underdogs.
I'm in the same boat here with AC:Valhalla and Cyberpunk. I do not even need my own PC, I can use my work laptop in the evening to play.

I don't regret buying it, but I see a risk of Google shutting down the whole thing at some point (or at least abandon it).

Google shutting their internal game dev studios, focusing directly on Stadia tech
2 Feb 2021 at 10:21 am UTC

I think that's a smart move, providing the streaming platform and getting a cut of the game price.

They'll just need enough devs/publishers willing to port to Stadia, for that they need a user base which makes it worth porting, and I'm not very confident they do have the userbase yet, or will have in the next few years.

I hope it survives though, being able to play on the TV or PC as I choose is really nice.