Have you tested/tried the cross platform multiplayer between Stadia and Steam players?

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Quoting: YourPalMarkTaking my first steps into Deep Rock Galactic. Plays great on Linux via Proton!

It's a great game. Got a little burned out on it myself during Early Access but will probably pick it up again soon.

Quoting: VulphereStill continuing with Valkyria Chronicles (1).

Love that game although I've still not actually finished it. Started playing it using Steam through Wine years ago but it kept crashing and I eventually got fed up of losing progress. Then I picked up a second hand PS4 disk and got nearly to the end (stuck at a big fight with a page an a half to go in the 'book'), and then I got it on sale on Switch. It's a great 'comfort food' game for me.

Quoting: X6205CODE VEIN with Proton works flawlessly

Got this to play with the girlfriend and, although it does work great with Proton, the way co-op works is a little weird.

I have been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Stadia, Asphalt Legends on the Switch and Tabletop Simulator, Rocket League and Dying Light on PC.

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Quoting: scaineI consider myself very lucky to have a Virgin fibre connection - 100Mb down and 20Mb. That's usually about 9Mb/sec downloads and 2Mb/sec uploads.

I'm on a similar connection in Cambridge and my latency is fine. On the other hand my girlfriend, on the same connection, got essentially a slideshow when she first tried it. There are things you can try, such as the Stadia+ extension [External Link] so you can choose your encoding method (although that seems to be broken right now) or a VAAPI-enabled Chromium [External Link].

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Quoting: SirLootALotNow that you say it it is strange indeed. However it has always had issues with x.11. The only thing, that worked, was not using a gui.
Does your Laptop also have an Intel GPU, that it falls back to? Because mine has none.

What sort of laptop is it? I have an old Clevo laptop which comes with a 555M as hybrid graphics with the i7 CPU. However I've never been able to use any official Nvidia driver with it because it's a custom 555M and the PCI ID number is not the same as the normal 555M one supported by older Nvidia drivers. At the time I didn't try to hard to work around once I'd discovered the problem as the primary purpose of that laptop was development rather than gaming.

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...working on our first Switch ports...

After watching Jim Sterling's gushing review of Alien Isolation on the Switch the other day, I was wondering if Feral had done the port.

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Quoting: GuestSo the potential developer looks at the situation and says "Why develop specifically for OS/2, when we can just develop for Windows and 'kill two birds with one stone?'".

If IBM had done a better job of selling OS/2 then developers would have had a different answer to the question. Users were asking the question "Why would I spend more money on OS/2 when I just want to run Windows programs anyway.

Quoting: GuestWow, I didn't know that about OS/2. Always fun to find historical examples proving your point.

It would be nice but it's not true, OS/2 failed due to a number of bad decisions made by IBM, the Windows app support was a last ditch attempt to save it. It's a popular myth among Linux users.

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Can anyone confirm that Dirt 4 multiplayer works cross platform with Windows? I had a quick Google and could find nothing specific.

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I'm reading through the footnotes on the Google Stadia page:

Stadia Controller requires a Wi-Fi® network and a mobile device running Android 6.0, Marshmallow or later, or iOS 11 or later.

Does this mean it won't be possible to use the controller/stream games directly with/to a PC?

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Played this at EGX Rezzed a few weeks ago, it is very beautiful.

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Quoting: ScooptaI don't think Linux will die like that but back in the day one of the reasons for OS/2's demise was devs built windows software with the mentality of "OS/2 can run it too so we're targeting both."

That's a myth. OS/2 was several times more expensive than DOS/Windows and didn't support 386 CPUs, the lack of native commercial software was a consequence of the lack of market share not the cause of it.

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