Here's hoping there's no Anti-Cheat nonsense, even if it's got Proton support enabled this just adds yet another lifespan to the game (not to mention more Epic Games junk).

I'll keep a cautious eye on this, but at worst, we can stick to the tried and true ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN [External Link] (there are better ways to play Pac-Man, but this is convenient and legal.)

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It's nice to see, but Fallout 4? Yuck. I'd rather see further stability improvements (Steam Deck and otherwise) to the classic games, as well as Fallout 3 and, the best but most unlikely, New Vegas.

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This kind of Anti-Cheat is just another reason to avoid online multiplayer games. I didn't play games with them on Windows, and I'm certainly not going to play them on Linux.

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My library's already fully decked out, so nothing for me this time around. I think only two games from my wishlist are on sale from this sale, guess I'm not really into this category. :smile:

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Quoting: bisbyxAnother Valve update that improves the EGS experience on linux

Last time in recent memory that Valve fixed a competing "alternative" launcher, it was Battle.net, a few months before Overwatch 2 came to Steam. Maybe some games are planning to bundle the Epic Games Store on Steam as their launcher? :cry: Certainly none from Epic (unless they're really suffering, which I hope they are, but keep them off Steam) but maybe this is a new strategy like with integrating EAC and EOS malware: Bundle the launcher with games on Steam to raise those player numbers.

I certainly hope this is not the case, and it just so happens a patch that fixed the Epic Games Store made its way into the 9.0 rebasing, but still.

EDIT: Scored out the "competing" word, no one competes with Steam and gets away with it. :grin:

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Very glad to see the Framerate Limiter fixed. All games were defaulting to 10fps and the max rate was set to 60fps with no 90 option available, and the limit wasn't doing anything anyway. I thought this was a bug with Preview so I switched back to Beta and it persisted. Now that it's fixed I can go back to Preview. :smile:

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Hadn't heard of this one until this article, picked it up and loving it!

The devs even left a tiny easter egg in the game files :wink:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWasn't tearing supposed to be a bad thing?

I'm in agreement, but some people want it for gaming/drawing tablet purposes for the lower latency. Personally I've been gaming on Wayland for almost 2 years and never really noticed any latency, and always played games on X11 with compositing on. I'm just curious to see it on Wayland.

Also, on Wayland, tearing only applies to fullscreen windows, and the protocol I believe supports setting/unsetting it per-window (some Wayland compositors support this as of very recently, Plasma has implemented this for Adaptive Sync in 6.1). On Plasma 6 though, right now it's all-or-nothing and it's controlled by a checkbox on the Display settings page. Or at least, my understand is that it was, but I haven't seen this workking yet! :wink:

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Has anyone been able to get tearing to work for fullscreen games/general applications? Not having much success, even with Adaptive Sync turned off too, but even on my two other displays without Freesync I'm not seeing any tearing with the option enabled in System Settings.

As far as I understand Xwayland and KWin now fully implement the tearing protocol, and Mesa 24 should have support for the protocol as well. Tried out `MESA_VK_WSI_PRESENT_MODE=immediate` as well for some DXVK games, but not having any luck. Same story with Gamescope using `--immediate-flips`.

Videos in the Steam Overlay when fullscreen have tearing but that's regardless of this setting and always in the same spot.

I'm not really interested in having in on practically, I'm just morbidly curious to see tearing on Wayland, either in games, fullscreen YouTube videos from a browser, or anywhere. :smile: Maybe there's a step I'm missing or something isn't quite ready to be enabled at the flick of a switch yet.

Although for what it's worth, I did try the "Enable Tearing" option on my Steam Deck with the same games to see if I could introduce some tearing, and still couldn't see it. Maybe my eyes just aren't too sharp :unsure:

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I gave up on Humble Choice a while ago. I was grandfathered in with the Classic Plan and eventually I had two months in a row where I already owned every game, so I gave up. Even since, all of the headliner games are games I already own or have already gifted.

I have a Steam Collection for games specifically gotten from Humble Monthly as it was known back then, and it has 363 games. I think I certainly got my money's worth at the time, but never regretted cancelling.

Not a great lineup again, maybe it's because I have 1,923 games in my library according to the Steam filtering dropdown but I feel like a lot of the games have not been as good as they used to be. Though back in the day at least, it was a good way to beef up your library if it was small!

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