Use Reddit? Come join our Reddit Sub as another place to follow the community!
Latest Comments by melkemind
Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk up their PC features, optimisations and Steam Deck verification
24 Aug 2024 at 1:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Rouhollah
Quoting: melkemindIt mostly looks good, although it's a bit puzzling that it has FSR 2.2 and not 3.1.
Thay are talking about a "heavily modified" FSR 2.2. Hopefully, it will suit the game's graphics better than just dropping the latest available version (FSR 3.1 doesn't look that much better than 2.2, though).
Perhaps, but they make a point to mention they have DLSS frame generation. By not using FSR 3, they're excluding most users from frame generation since only 4000 series nvidia cards can use DLSS frame gen, if I understand correctly.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard devs talk up their PC features, optimisations and Steam Deck verification
22 Aug 2024 at 2:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

It mostly looks good, although it's a bit puzzling that it has FSR 2.2 and not 3.1.

Until Dawn remake arrives on PC October 4, requires PSN account
15 Aug 2024 at 5:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KlaasOkay… So we have to hope that they get lots of negative feedback and bad sales so that they give up on the idea for future releases instead of abandoning PC as a platform…
If history is any indicator, it won't. So many games require alternate accounts, and they all sell well. The only thing that might get Sony some backlash is that people in some regions can't create PSN accounts.

World of Goo 2 is out now with Native Linux support
8 Aug 2024 at 3:29 pm UTC

Quoting: gaboversta
Quoting: melkemindSo, I just tried it on my Steam Deck and got a missing libraries error, specifically libcurl-gnutls.so.4. On my desktop, running Manjaro, it started right up with no problem.
Yep, getting the appimage to run on the steam deck is annoying. I had to install libcurl-gnutls, which worked using pacman.
Then it wanted libssl 1.1, which pacman claims to have as a separate package, but would not let me install (target not found). Getting the package from arch repos results in it being compiled with the wrong compiler version, so I ended up manually downloading openssl-1.1 from the steam os repo and installing it directly from file with pacman. After that, World of Goo 2 worked.
(Don't try forcing it to run in some steam linux runtime though.)
Every time I get a non steam game I get pushed further to replacing steam os…
The devs said they're working on the issue. Just for kicks, I tried installing the Windows version with Bottles on the Steam Deck, and it worked with no problems.

World of Goo 2 is out now with Native Linux support
7 Aug 2024 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

So, I just tried it on my Steam Deck and got a missing libraries error, specifically libcurl-gnutls.so.4. On my desktop, running Manjaro, it started right up with no problem.

World of Goo 2 is out now with Native Linux support
7 Aug 2024 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: soulsource
Quoting: poke86the Linux version is an AppImage and
it does not work out-of-the-box on Gentoo, because the AppImage does not contain all dependencies - the one thing that the AppImage format promises to solve.

So, what does one need to get the game to run on Gentoo?
The AppImage would need the outdated sys-fs/fuse version (slot 2 - luckily it can be installed at the same time as the up-to-date version). However, installing that will just lead to a different error message, this time about libcurl-gnutls, which is not bundled in the AppImage, though it should be.

In order to get the game to run, I had to first unpack the appimage (there is a command line switch for that), and then create a symlink in the game folder from libcurl-gnutls.so.i-forgot-the-version to /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.that-same-version. Then, launching the game with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="./" set (so that it finds the symlinked lib) finally gets it to run.

My conclusion from this is that AppImage does not make the dependency situation better. If at all, it makes it more annoying.
Considering it also comes with the Windows version, it probably would've been easier for you to just run it through Wine (I'm joking. Don't recompile me).

Steam will now show you who is playing on Steam Deck
1 Aug 2024 at 3:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

I just hope people in our community keep supporting the Steam Deck financially. It's definitely nice to have choices like ChimeraOS, but realistically, if everyone starts buying ROG Ally, Ayaneo, etc. and just installing Bazzite or ChimeraOS on them, they will go down as Windows sales. The last thing we want is for the Steam Deck to fail because those other distros and all of the success of Linux gaming depends on Proton, and Proton development would slow to a crawl without Valve's funding.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets Steam Deck Verified well ahead of release
26 Jul 2024 at 12:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ToddL
Quoting: melkemind
Quoting: TarosYay, no more special Proton build like for Inquisition.
That's funny because I'm playing it right now (never finished it back when it came out), and I was surprised I had to use that special DAI proton just to get my controller working. I'm excited for this.
I'm the same way with not finishing Inquisition back then but where can I get this DAI proton version? I'm thinking of revisiting this game soon and would like to have controller support when playing on my Steam Deck.
This is it:

https://github.com/cammoore1/DAI-proton-ge-custom [External Link]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard gets Steam Deck Verified well ahead of release
25 Jul 2024 at 12:10 pm UTC

Quoting: TarosYay, no more special Proton build like for Inquisition.
That's funny because I'm playing it right now (never finished it back when it came out), and I was surprised I had to use that special DAI proton just to get my controller working. I'm excited for this.

The new detachable JSAUX Dock will fit a Steam Deck, ROG Ally X, Legion Go and more
24 Jul 2024 at 3:21 pm UTC

I wonder how wobbly it is with such a skinny base. It kind of seems like it depends on the USB cable for balance.