The new stable driver is 440.44... Yesterday, I tried running Shadow of Mordor's Linux Vulkan beta... Nope! Won't start. I get the loading ring on the black background, but it freezes dead at some point. Reverted to 435.21... No problem if not for the fact that my GTX 1660 Super is not recognized by this driver version.

Anyone else with this issue?

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Quoting: Liam DaweAgain, Proton is not the answer for online games.

In fact, what is really sad is that even native builds are no guarantee... We just got another proof of that (along with Natural Selection 2). Due to the rate of updates involved in those games, Linux is really vulnerable when it comes to online games.

Fortunately, I'm not a big fan of online games and got my copy of RL when I bought one of my Steam Controllers... When it wasn't even available on Linux... And that's another juicy chapter of RL on Linux... Oh well... We saw it coming, but it's not less frustrating.

Could the "unpopular" decisions Psyonix made lately turned out to be their downfall? The game might still be popular, but are the incomes as good as it once was? Could it play a part as to why they decided to drop MacOS and Linux? That's the usual pattern...

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The downward tipped arrow in the Epic Games logo is telling me a lot about what Epic is doing for PC Gaming...

Sorry!

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Quoting: Liam DaweEven if it works in Proton right now, they already said they will not support it. Any changes to their anti-cheat for example, could be a big problem. Epic also own EAC, who is to say they won't add in EAC since they won't have to pay for it. Again, Proton is not the answer for online games.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that EAC is the "new piece of tech" they are referring to, not naming it for obvious reasons, on the way to drop Steam.

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Frustrating is the word. I think the worst part is that they won't support Proton... It's not asking much when you consider their Linux support, over the years. Smells like another Epic *censored* move. How much time before they drop Steam altogether?

Edit: Is it using EAC? If not, it's probably going to...:sick:

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Quoting: Liam DaweValve are doing an AMA on Reddit today at 5PM UTC: https://www.reddit.com/r/HalfLife/ [External Link]

An AMA on Half Life only? It would have been nice to have more details about the ChromeOS thing...

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: MohandevirIn the first wave of games I completed when Steam launched on Linux.

Ah... Good ol' times! :)

ol' times?
I played those games on linux before there was a thing called steam. Or I've never seen it I think. Can't really remember. It was a let down that all episodes never were continued. Like SiN: Episode one, that was a great start of a story.
Hmmm, yes, I think there was some client. I played stuff with winex, cedega, pol. Tried crossover even, but that never worked. I sponsor crossover for years, but it never works for me. But yeah, that's years before Steam and all Valve games were officially released on linux.
I did replay them though... half-life has a great story.

"Good ol' times" like in "These were the early days of Steam on Linux when native builds of games were pouring on our platform with only good news all over the place." :)

Ok, just "barely" exagerated, but still, it was all about new stuff and new possibilities, at that time.

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In the first wave of games I completed when Steam launched on Linux.

Ah... Good ol' times! :)

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The more I think about it and the more I seriously think that a Google console with Steam, Stadia and Android TV could be a way, for Google, to help solve Android TV's adoption enigma, thus widening the potential user base of all these services...

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: MohandevirDidn't read through all the posts, but there is this bit of news that might have a link to what's going on or that Steam may benefit from...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plans-for-mainline-linux-kernel-support-in-android/ [External Link]

ChromeOS gaming PCs? Mmmmm... :)

Chromeos and android are like linux vs OS/2 . Good systems, but totally different.
It's nice to read though, because google will be forcing the manufacturers to support *mainline* linux instead of forking 3.10 in a 5.* age and call that support.
Chromeos is a basic normal linux system based on a readonly image with an overlay on top. There are a lot of nice things about chromebooks, for instance that google *enforces* manufacturers to have a developer and fully unlocked mode. The unlocked and developer mode boot with a big warning to the user it's not running certified chromeos.
This means: if you see someone boot his chromebook, and it shows no warnings, you can log into your google account, and never have to worry that that person can sniff or search your data on his chromebook. He can only delete your account.
It works pretty neat if you keep everything in the cloud, because it does not always work 100%.
I had to revert to a previous stable version because they fscked up ipv6, and I couldn't work anymore.
A fix is expected in the next stable release. But it does mean: erase all data and switch to old version.

You are right... I tend to forget that ChromeOs is not Android based... My bad. Still, they might begin to share al lot more code, over time... No?

I'm just having the wild idea of slapping Android TV's UI and app store on top of a ChromeOS beefier box, that runs Steam and Stadia... :)

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