I dumped almost 80 hours into Megabonk somehow (a great Native Linux title), but mainly I've been achievement hunting retro games on RetroAchievements; some via RetroArch (regrettably) on Steam, but mostly going after GameCube titles and preparing to play some Wii titles. I even got a DolphinBar, and an official Wii Remote and Nunchuck in preparation for going after Super Mario Galaxy achievements with my partner (Wii Remote needed a tweak to work, but I even played some Sonic Racing CrossWorlds with my Wii Remote and it worked flawlessly).

I haven't been playing ARC Raiders because I avoid games with invasive Client-Side Anti-Cheat (afaik it's userspace on Linux, but I don't want to support developers who use kernel anti-cheat).

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Looks like it's by the author of D8VK? I could be remembering incorrectly though. Either way, pretty neat to see! I wonder if it'll stay standalone long-term or if it'll get merged in. I guess that would depend on interest upstream and how cleanly it could be merged in.

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Never had any problem with RADV in the... Gosh, 9 years since? From all the way back with my beloved RX480. I still remember the "RADV is not a conformant Vulkan implementation: Here be dragons!" warning. How far we've come.

Great news in my opinion. I haven't noticed any ray tracing performance gap, but I'm also using a 7900XTX and avoid using raytracing on principle when I'm not checking "max settings" performance with a game.

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You really don't need all that much space. When I play, I put down a really small floor mat (really small, just a square), and don't move from it. Helps stop you bumping into things too, as long as you feel the mat, you're good.

Sadly, I have extremely limited space. I don't really have room for lighthouses anywhere (I believe they go on stands in the corners, and three of my corners are inaccessible), my chair takes up all of the floorspace in my room so I don't have anywhere to place a mat. I suppose my bed could count :grin: But if I'm gonna drop all that money on a VR kit, I'd want to get the "full" experience.

Mind you, the only thing I think is worth experiencing in VR is Half-Life: Alyx. I've tried some of the other games and experiences, and I do not enjoy them. Half-Life: Alyx, for the story, and experiencing it in VR, is my primary motivation.

My other motivation is to own more Valve hardware! :tongue: I have a Steam Controller, Steam Link, Steam Deck LCD, and Steam Deck OLED.

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If I had enough playing space anywhere in my household, I would buy VR hardware from (and only from) Valve.

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Another disgusting piece of malware that no doubt people are going to play. Gaming these days is depressing...

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Heads up that a debit card also works fine, if you don't have a credit card. Although it bills you £1, rather than presumably £0 for a Credit Card. :grin:

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The lack of support for an Nvidia GPU was a big reason I was driven to Framework. This has been disappointing. Having these "AI" series chips is definitely disappointing too but I think that is more around naming on AMD's part.

I'm very happy with my original Framework 16 without a GPU module. It works very well, although I do wish they'd make a model with a bigger screen as 16-17" is too small for a laptop. Investment in this, smaller bezels, and a bigger trackpad would've been a much better investment than an Nvidia GPU and as others have pointed out a measly 8GB VRAM.

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I've never really had a reason to use Bottles. Steam for games, begrudgingly Heroic for the odd game, or manually running something with my system Wine usually does the job.

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I've never really had a reason to use Bottles. Steam for games, begrudgingly Heroic for the odd game, or manually running something with my system Wine usually does the job.

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