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Latest Comments by DamonLinuxPL
XCOM 2's multiplayer being removed but will still work on Linux and Steam Deck
4 Mar 2022 at 4:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

It not affect native Linux version but affect Steam Deck. StemDeck prefer: "recommended_runtime: proton-stable". So multiplayer on Deck should stop working too.

Dying Light gets a cross-play update
1 Mar 2022 at 6:12 pm UTC

After this update native version from Steam no longer launch for me. Log show only illegall instruction...

Feral Interactive have no plans to update their Linux ports for Steam Deck
21 Feb 2022 at 4:41 pm UTC Likes: 5

That was easy to predict. Proton took Feral's business. Why should they update the ports for Steam Deck, since the feral ports have not been even selected as compatible with SteamDeck, but only the Proton versions.
As far as I know, all Feral games that lack Windows multiplayer have not been included in compatibility.

OBS Studio 27.0 RC1 out with Wayland support and browser docking on Linux
20 Jun 2021 at 10:47 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Azarel
Quoting: DamonLinuxPLYou can always disable pipewire by pass -DENABLE_PIPEWIRE=OFF flag to CMAKE. This should fix compilation on previous Ubuntu releases.

Anyway looks like to me that recording witch VAAPI on Radeon 580 8GB in X11 is broken... at least on my hardware (both in vaapi+x264 and vaapi+hevc). Just not sure if this related to new OBS 27.0.0 RC1 release or new libva 2.11.0... or maybe somethings else. Anyone see somethings similar?
I run a video stream system on PopOS running in an unraid VM with a RX480 4GB and I had Vaapi working for all of a couple of months. It stopped working just prior to 27.0 becoming available, so about 4 months ago. So I would guess there's an underlying issue with a library like libva. Exactly what your describing. Renders 1 frame every 30 or so seconds but has flawless audio. Is really weird. Back on software rendering and it's "ok".
Update Mesa to latest version. It is fixed now. Or if you can;t update it right now, just recompile mesa with this patch https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/9995 [External Link]

GemRB 0.9.0, the game engine reimplementation for the likes of Baldur's Gate
19 Jun 2021 at 2:36 pm UTC Likes: 4

For now there is a lot of regression in 0.9.0. So if anyone want play without crashing and some bugs, then better wait with upgrade to 0.9.1.
I update it yesterday and for me games like IWD and IWD2 are very unstable. I need to debug it then I try report regression.

Firaxis Games launch the Civilization VI Anthology Edition to get it all
14 Jun 2021 at 12:52 pm UTC

Civilization VI in Platinum Edition is available in Humble Choice.

KDE Plasma 5.22 is out now with a focus on 'stability and usability' and more Wayland
8 Jun 2021 at 1:24 pm UTC

Quoting: Pikolo
The modern Plasma System Monitor replaces the old KSysguard
What are they drinking??? This is a completely backwards decision. KSysGuard is the only answer Linux has to TaskManager. Plasma System Monitor is on the same level of usefulness as gnome-system-monitor - better than nothing but insufficient for power users.
They not remove it. It is only replaced as suggested app in Plasma flavor. This mean, ksysguard is still available to download and should be still maintained out of Plasma.
But yes, I agree that Plasma-systemmonitor is not a best choice...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets some big changes for non-Prime accounts
4 Jun 2021 at 12:42 pm UTC

Quoting: aukkras
What do you think to these changes?
They don't matter when CS:GO doesn't run due to this bug: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/2659 [External Link]
From what I see in this bug topic, it affects mainly Arch and derivates distros (like Manjaro). Also some people say Glibc 2.33 is to blame.
But some people on Ubuntu after updating GLIBC from 2.32 to the latest version 2.33 (which would be defective) say the game is still running.

Also it still works for me on OpenMandriva Cooker (tested also on Rolling release). Both with Glibc 2.33 and no crash at all. Maybe it is not related to c library but for somethings other. Maybe arch packaging issue or maybe arch carry any broken patch... Hard to say for now.

Attempt 4 - Collabora sends in futex2 patches for the Linux Kernel to help Wine / Proton
4 Jun 2021 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: XpanderLuckily running custom kernels with patched in futex2 or any other gaming related work isn't hard these days.
But yeah would be nice if it actually gets merged to mainline at some point.
Well, to take full advantage of Futex2 you need patch at least two more packages. One is WINE (or use Proton Experimental), seconds is GLIBC and this is much harder way. Not too much distros use patched GLIBC...
We at Mandriva maintaining these patches at Glibc for over a year. Like, for example, here https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/glibc/commit/2dd211b562923769b05e3e41f53270ec6f62ffbb [External Link]