Too big for my taste. Btw, I have fairly big hands and long fingers. Yet, I don't see myself spending hours with it. 8bitdo Pro 2 will remain my favourite as it seems.

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Quoting: PaldinoXHave Valve talked at all about using the Steam Controller on games outside of Steam? I own more games in my GOG library and if the controller doesn't function with games not added to the Steam launcher, that's a deal breaker for me. I don't even need the touchpad and gyro to work, just having the main controller function as a Xinput pad would be good enough for me.

That's a Xinput controller. A recent kernel and recent sdl2 or sdl3 should be sufficient.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThese weird graphics terms are always getting me confused. What the heck is "puppy stacking"? ;)

Iirc, there's a section that the character needs to collect and carry puppies one by one. This probably allows stacking them into the inventory.

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15" AMD laptop with Thunderbolt 4 support would be amazing. Who am I kidding, it won't happen...

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Quoting: TechnopeasantI was aware the Quake 4 port was largely playable but how is the Prey implementation? Has anyone made fully polished versions of these?

Quake 4 and Prey are fine with both proprietary versions and engine reimplantation. Especially Luxtorpeda offers out of box experience for both games with both engines.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/luxtorpeda-adds-classic-marathon-for-playing-the-native-linux-version-via-steam/

The engine reimplantation in question:

https://github.com/glKarin/com.n0n3m4.diii4a?tab=readme-ov-file#idtech4a-harmattan-edition-- [External Link]

Also, if you happened to own a legit CD Key of Prey, you can activate it on Steam, then use Luxtorpeda to automate the installation process.

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Quoting: neolithET:QW is already id Tech 4. Does that still count as old enough? 😄

Well, ETQW was released in 2007, I guess it's old enough. 😆 Among the old id Tech 4 titles, only Doom 3 and Doom 3 BFG received source code and source port releases. Quake 4 and Prey got Doom 3 source code based engine reimplantation made by the community. ETQW, Wolfenstein (2009) and Brink received no source code release or a modern port.

Despite that Makron's Horde community is still continuously develop mod, maps and custom content for ETQW which supports Linux, x86 macOS and Windows.

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Quoting: omer666Well that's good news, because it was the last legacy id software related game that was missing a source port

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars begs to differ. 😬

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Microsoft has to re-release Heretic II!

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Quoting: PyreticWhy are they using a custom script? Does Steam not provide separate options for Linux x86 and Linux ARM?

Not sure but when Apple switched to its own Silicon CPUs, some games offered option to launch x68-64 and Silicon versions separately. This was prior to Steam's native Silicon support; choosing Silicon to launch the game used to disable some x68-64 features such as Steam Overlay.

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Quoting: williamjcmFramegen is fake frames. But this is basically an image-to-image genAI system with "turn this character into one that appeals to Gamers™" as the system prompt.

Thanks for the clarification. That still sucks. 😅

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