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Latest Comments by shimmy
Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support
12 Aug 2024 at 4:11 pm UTC

Big yay for UMU support! Already enabled and I'll be testing how it runs. Immediate problem - seems that it's working from a different prefix and my God of War saves are out of game's reach. Not that it's a problem, I only played first 10 minutes :grin:

Heroic Games Launcher v2.15 has expanded GOG support, EA games from Epic Store support
12 Aug 2024 at 4:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PyrateI guess that means I can play Battlefront 2 from Epic? That'd be sick. Really great work from the Heroic team.
Yes! It was so funny to me that because multiple layers of shite (EGS, EA) this wasn't previously possible. I ended up buying myself a copy of Battlefront II on Steam anyway mostly because of this :grin:

Proton Experimental brings initial D3D12 for OpenVR, fixes Overwatch 2 crashes
22 Apr 2024 at 8:34 pm UTC

Quoting: drjoms"fixes Overwatch 2 crashes" - played it a lot, never had any.
It doesn't crash with Proton 8. This was fixed for user reports (GitHub) while running Proton 9.

Othrewise it's quite stable. I have 300 hours on Steam alone with Proton GE 8 :wink:

Discord Overlay for Linux adds PulseAudio / PipeWire integration
8 Apr 2024 at 4:48 pm UTC

The overlay is great, expect one issue that stops me from using it: it doesn't work with VRR enabled in full screen games.
So yeah, once this is on, the experience is quite horrific.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files
26 Mar 2024 at 6:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Have you made the jump to Plasma 6 yet? Or are you waiting for a bit for bug fixes to roll in?
When Fedora 40 is out... I'll consider it. I've just updated to 39, so I'm in no rush. Though it's tempting, of course.

My XPS laptop runs F40 with 6.0.2, but I barely use it, so in general it works great! :grin:

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements
5 Mar 2024 at 8:36 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Fix missing mouse cursor when using KMS capture on a GPU with hardware cursor support.
Sounds suspicious. Did they start using Pipewire + XDG portal or they are still stuck with kmsgrab?
Still kmsgrab, AFAICS.

Steam Beta adds explainers to Steam Deck performance menu - plus fixes for Desktop too
19 Jan 2024 at 12:45 pm UTC Likes: 3

Still no sign of proper resolution scaling. Sigh.

SteamOS 3.5.3 Preview fixes LCD issues, plus Steam Deck / Desktop Beta adds HDR info
15 Nov 2023 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Awesome! I don't see it in the beta with 2 games I tried (The Witcher 3 and Horizon ZD) with Steam Beta (Flatpak). According to PCGamingWiki they should have the support :grin:

Nonetheless, great to see it. No more guessing. Now let's go Plasma 6! Can't wait for the HDR gaming mode.

Proton 8.0-4 brings more game support to Steam Deck and desktop Linux
6 Oct 2023 at 5:13 pm UTC

Tested quickly in Overwatch 2 - I know get unplayable 40 FPS. Back to GE-Proton (or Experimental, might try it too).