Steam Deck gets a global resolution override

Finally!

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Quoting: TactikalKittyHonest Question: Why would you not use anything other than the Proton Experimental? Is there any real world use case that I would want to use the stable or and older proton version vs the up to date Experimental?

I'm gonna say this as someone who actually ran Proton Experimental for months (and still do for certain games since they only work with them), it mostly won't matter, either Experimental will run that one game that Stable can't, or it'll be the same. But to make it clear: I play a wide range of games, old and recent, and I never had an issue due to a "regression" in Experimental.

I know this is all taboo talk, but this was just to honestly answer your question, based on actual real life experience.

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Quoting: RevenantDakIf a game breaks, because of an update (eg. EA App), THEN you try the latest version. If that doesn't work, then you try Experimental or, if available, Hotfix.

For me, the opposite happens here, EA App doesn't work UNLESS I use Proton Experimental, at least that was the case 2 months ago across several days when I had to reinstall the damn launcher a dozen times before I figured this out, I don't want to "test" if the launcher now works with the regular Proton because I'm really done with troubleshooting that specific issue, it still works under Experimental, I don't care what I "should" and "shouldn't" do here, no offense.

I selected regular Proton as default for Steam now to make you all happy, it's probably no different and all games would work on either version, but for EA games I'm sticking with Experimental.

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Quoting: dpanterDo not use Experimental as default or as a permanent choice. It cannot be overstated or repeated enough times. Come on people.

I think you left the part where you explain what's so bad about using the Experimental version as default :wink:.

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Quoting: PyrateThat's my preferred Proton version anyways .

You're a fan of the don't use this or it might kill you and everyone you know build?

Yes, and I never ran into an issue. Besides, it's the only Proton option that made the stupid EA launcher work for the games that require that to play.

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That's my preferred Proton version anyways :grin:.

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I guess that means I can play Battlefront 2 from Epic? That'd be sick. Really great work from the Heroic team.

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Quoting: RedWyvernThis as it's a layer-distro on top of the base Arch repos, though the tweaks made to the standard installation are significant if still reproducable on Arch.

Same with Nobara and Fedora really.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: PyrateI'll continue to crap on them, keep em on their toes.

You think you're keeping them on their toes, they see Linux users as entitled and annoying. These companies aren't supporting Linux because of *you*, they are doing it because they have large customers who pay them for it. And they support Linux to the extent needed by those contracts.

I think you got me wrong, I don't use Nvidia, I'm not that dumb, so I'm not necessarily expecting anything from them. The furthest I ever went (which is exactly where my disliking comes from) is helping a friend get his laptop up and running after he just switched to Linux, it's such a terrible experince to get those damned drivers to work, I nearly gave up before we finally fixed it. That experience alone is why I would never say "Folks here like to crap over Nvidia" and play devil's advocate, I'll just settle with saying on Linux they suck.

Quoting: ShabbyXSorry to be blunt, but sales coming from Linux users is not significant enough to them, and we don't statistically matter. So maybe instead be nice and the developers who are doing the work would be more motivated to take extra care of you despite the business decisions.

Do I really have to spill that out? This is the first time I see someone assuming frustrations at Nvidia are made towards the developers instead of management and the higher-ups, but I hope I made it clear now.

Otherwise I don't disagree with the rest of your comments, I just shared my opinions as an end-user not involved in the ins of development, commenting on what I see from the outside, and that I don't agree with the "this is fine guys" view towards something as undersupported as Nvidia on Linux.

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Quoting: ShabbyXFolks here like to crap over Nvidia, but you have no idea how valuable their contributions to Vulkan are. Same with Google, people were celebrating Stadia's downfall while in truth it was a _massive_ setback for Vulkan and its ecosystem.

It's disappointing.

I get what you mean but I don't agree at all. A few good deeds shouldn't stop people crapping over adversarial companies. Whatever they contributed is cool and all, but until they make (for example) the Novideo experience on Linux not unfathomly horrendous, I'll continue to crap on them, keep em on their toes.

Stadia failing is a net positive, who knows what will happen to gaming if cloud streaming got accepted this early (it's probably inevitable, but the later it happens the better).

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