They fixed Metro Exodus EE once before. Then broke it. Now they re-fixed it. But I am certain they will break it again.

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I wish it were more popular than U-Stutter Engine

Unreal Engine does not have to stutter, most devs simply don't care.

See Satisfactory for example, one of the best running and even complex UE5 games I ever played and doesn't even stutter with tons of factories on screen.

Which makes me assume other devs simply don't care. :sad:

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Let me guess they disabled forced ray tracing on handhelds? :grin:

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Next Nintendon't lawsuit coming?

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Whut? Why not just update the existing thing instead of making a new release?

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My personal KDE Neon is Kalpa. :grin:

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They got rid of the flickering eg. fixed their shaders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP8_sSvaxi4 [External Link]

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I hope the Steam Store will now be less tedious to use on Deck

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I hope they enable LAN multilayer with this version after they explicitly removed it from the original (GOG, Steam) version. While some can patch the game to support LAN again it will become very wonky.

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I've already had success with both Steam's and Lutris' runtimes to get finicky native games to run. I assume this is what you're alluding to ...

Yes exactly. Plus Steam itself ships the Steam Linux Runtimes 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 which also do bundle 32bit libraries in different versions which might be used by certain games. Sometimes you may need to switch the Linux runtimes to have any success in both flatpak or native Steam to get them working.

However there are some games which even by using all these wonderful runtimes (flatpak runtimes, steam runtimes) do not want to behave. Some of the older Feral Interactive Ports have all sorts of issues. More precisely the Feral launcher. While the game itself works fine the Launcher often times causes trouble and likes to core dump. But that is no difference if running said game natively or via flatpak.

As an example: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Tomb_Raider_(2013)#Launch_issues_on_Linux [External Link]

Judging by my own experience and experiments I personally had more success to get old 32bit native Linux games running via flatpak than natively (as I still was running a distro which had 32bit support). Be it via Steam or Lutris to run my GOG games.

Concluding: Even on a Linux distribution still offering 32bit packages flatpak can be a game changer already.

Hence taking a step further and stripping old 32bit libs from the base OS isn't too far imho.

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