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Reus 2 announced letting you shape humanity again
13 May 2023 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
We say native Linux vs not for what the game _target_ is, I'd never heard anyone call their development OS native.
13 May 2023 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: anewsonwe don't have any Linux users [on our team]Yes, that would have been obvious if they didn't say that they don't have any "native" Linux users.
We say native Linux vs not for what the game _target_ is, I'd never heard anyone call their development OS native.
Reus 2 announced letting you shape humanity again
13 May 2023 at 11:34 am UTC Likes: 4
13 May 2023 at 11:34 am UTC Likes: 4
> but since we have no native Linux users
I hope that's a typo and they meant "developers". Of course you don't have native Linux users if you don't have a native Linux build, what kind of an argument is that?!
I hope that's a typo and they meant "developers". Of course you don't have native Linux users if you don't have a native Linux build, what kind of an argument is that?!
Valve gave Steam store search a very useful upgrade
8 May 2023 at 8:20 pm UTC Likes: 2
8 May 2023 at 8:20 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Seegras> handling typos a bit better too, matching up names a bit closerTypos showing up no results is actually quite annoying. It's quite prevalent these days (and very useful) when software does a fuzzy match after showing the exact results.
Not sure how I feel about that. The bigger the indexed body goes, the more your queries get answers swamped with irrelevant stuff. Case in point is "I decided to ignore the numerical parameters in your error message" google.
Core Keeper is getting pets and a creative mode on May 10th
26 Apr 2023 at 2:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
26 Apr 2023 at 2:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
Core Keeper was really fun to play with my wife, but honestly the last two biomes (sea, desert) were a bore. Just vast areas of nothingness (water, sand) to make the biome huge for no reason. The jungle one is of the same size as those, but somehow felt more "filled".
Sci-fi puzzle game Photon Engineer out now, made with open source
12 Apr 2023 at 11:27 pm UTC Likes: 3
12 Apr 2023 at 11:27 pm UTC Likes: 3
I'd buy it, if nothing just to commend the dev for the from-the-looks-of-the-code well done engine (that's also free software)!
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 announced, plus RTX Remix released
12 Apr 2023 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 5
12 Apr 2023 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 5
Never had I paid so much attention to power until the Steam Deck, and specifically just a few days ago when I started replaying Shadow of Mordor. I went in with the expectation that I should set everything to low, ended up setting everything to Ultra and it still runs the game at 40fps without hitches and consumes just 12 watts.
It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.
It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.
Here's the top Steam Deck games for March 2023
5 Apr 2023 at 8:41 pm UTC Likes: 1
5 Apr 2023 at 8:41 pm UTC Likes: 1
I finally got around to playing Hollow Knight again (though the ending I really wanted was too hard :crying face:)
Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo
1 Apr 2023 at 12:37 am UTC Likes: 4
This extension came as an effort to solve a major problem with Vulkan and hopes to entice Switch developers to use Vulkan instead.
That said, the extension works extremely well on Nvidia, where every state is dynamic and shader stages are pretty much independent. On other hardware, draw calls using shader objects won't be as fast as pipelines (as Mike puts it, they are unoptimized). So, it's going to take a hardware iteration or two before this is really helpful on anything that is not Nvidia.
1 Apr 2023 at 12:37 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: TheRiddickFrom my understanding Nintendo use Vulkan API on the Switch to squeeze as much performance out of the platform as they can, for example I heard Skyrim runs on vulkan on the Switch.Nintendo supports both Vulkan and their own API. However pretty much no one uses Vulkan on Switch because it's not as fast as their own API (understandably, because their API is tailored to their specific hardware (which is nvidia based) while Vulkan is abstract).
This extension came as an effort to solve a major problem with Vulkan and hopes to entice Switch developers to use Vulkan instead.
That said, the extension works extremely well on Nvidia, where every state is dynamic and shader stages are pretty much independent. On other hardware, draw calls using shader objects won't be as fast as pipelines (as Mike puts it, they are unoptimized). So, it's going to take a hardware iteration or two before this is really helpful on anything that is not Nvidia.
The frantic Unrailed! gets a big free underwater update
15 Mar 2023 at 1:15 pm UTC Likes: 1
15 Mar 2023 at 1:15 pm UTC Likes: 1
> An intense and chaotic railroad construction experience
They are not lying! This game is an absolute must for anyone that has someone to play coop with.
They are not lying! This game is an absolute must for anyone that has someone to play coop with.
EVERSPACE 2 gets a Steam Deck and Linux release update
15 Feb 2023 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 1
15 Feb 2023 at 10:32 am UTC Likes: 1
"UE4 supports Linux very well, we've never tested it, but it's going to be fiiiiiine"
You can tell how wrong this is by the fact that UE4 has better windows support, yet they still have to put so much time in to make it work well.
Then reality hits and they're going to whine about Linux.
You can tell how wrong this is by the fact that UE4 has better windows support, yet they still have to put so much time in to make it work well.
Then reality hits and they're going to whine about Linux.