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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Heroic Games Launcher now on Flathub, even easier to run Epic Games on Steam Deck
11 Mar 2022 at 5:06 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Mal
Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, I still do not want to support them (epic, not the devs of the game launcher) in anyway.
I guess this fixation with EGS is because the steam games works all flawlessly and there is nothing to make an article with?
Fixation? Odd choice of words, I've covered a lot on it.

Getting Minecraft and mods on Steam Deck is nice and simple
11 Mar 2022 at 1:58 pm UTC

Quoting: AsciiWolf
the current official Minecraft launcher doesn't save your password
Actually, it does - just not on the Deck. It is a Steam Deck/KDE issue that will hopefully be fixed. :wink:
I'm aware, adjusted text to be clearer.

Proton Experimental fixes Apex Legends, Xbox login and more for Linux and Steam Deck
11 Mar 2022 at 7:47 am UTC

Quoting: jens
DXVK-NVAPI is what provides the likes of NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex (by using LatencyFleX), NVIDIA PhysX and more to Linux with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton.
To clarify, DXVK-NVAPI is actually pretty thin and is mostly about providing a few NVAPI methods for GPU topology and forwarding entry points into other libraries. The actual DLSS calls are forwarded into DXVK and VKD3D-Proton which forwards things into the NVIDIA driver. Same for Reflex, as you stated, the actual work is done by LatencyFlex. PhysX also still happens in the PhysX runtime, DXVK-NVAPI only implements a few methods that are used to query PhysX capabilities for the present GPU.
Thanks but really the point remains the same, it's what enables it to happen. Not that it specifically does it all directly.

Here's how to get the EA App on Steam Deck with Bottles
10 Mar 2022 at 7:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MArKiToThanks for this tutorial. After years I can finally play Fifa on my main PC. Previous attemps using Lutris/Proton all failed, using Bottles it works fine without having to tweak!
Glad to know it helped, thanks for letting me know :)

Here's how to get the EA App on Steam Deck with Bottles
10 Mar 2022 at 2:21 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ridgeWhat's the difference between Lutris and Bottles? This looks promising.
Using the EA App to play Battlefield 4 via Lutris myself, and "on my machine" it works stellar (genuinely perfectly) until it has to update, at which point I need to reinstall it in a new prefix :P

Regardless, if anyone else reading this is wondering about it, for me it's much better than Origin, and I've been advocating its adoption pretty strongly for those still using that. Give it a shot first and then decide if it works out or ends up being the worst piece of crap you've ever used as well.

I installed it in a clean Wine prefix with nothing special installed, not even Mono, using Lutris Wine or GloriousEggroll's Wine.
Lutris is trying to do everything, Bottles so far sticks to Wine.

Blender 3.1 is out with better performance, new advanced features
10 Mar 2022 at 12:55 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: MinuxHey Liam, do you know any good videos to learn video editing with Blender?
Afraid not, I've learned most from what I already knew from other editors to random googling for quick answers and just general messing about.

Linux sticks above 1% still on the Steam Hardware Survey
9 Mar 2022 at 12:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Steam Tracker now up to date with the new monthly active figure from Valve (see the bottom).

Apex Legends gets Steam Deck Verified
9 Mar 2022 at 9:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: RichardYao
Quoting: VulphereNow we have official confirmation :)
It is not quite official. This indicates that it passed Valve’s testing. It does not mean that EA has made a long term commitment to allow Linux users to play Apex Legends.

However, I am optimistic that this will go longer than the month we had around 2020 when people could play with a patched version of wine that ran the EAC kernel module into the wine server.
You don't get any more official than it having EAC hooked up by the developer directly, with Steam clearly stating it's Verified.

Apex Legends gets Steam Deck Verified
9 Mar 2022 at 12:58 am UTC Likes: 8

Whew, good job I stayed up late to work on another guide video, funnily enough for EA on Steam Deck too - what are the chances? :)