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Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3
27 Aug 2023 at 2:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirJust out of curiosity, what prevents Valve from upgrading Gamescope's integrated FSR with FSR2.2 or FSR3?
Requires extra data (vector/camera) which needs to be manually generated.

There is someone on patreon who is adding DLSS3 and FSR2 to games that previously didn't have such features. I can't be sure but I believe its handled via reshade, he even has frame gen working on games that didn't originally have support for it.

Point being, manual work is needed. You can't just toggle it on like FSR1 or similar methods which just use methods like TAA for upscaling.

These new AMD cards are NOT good upgrades for people using the 6700/6800 cards.
AMD has even made sure people understand these are for the 5000 series or below for upgrade. I see these as being almost like a 6700/6800 refresh, or a 1.5 upgrade in some sense since they are just barely faster and just more efficient cards.

Denuvo expand their Anti-Tamper and add special Unreal Engine Protection
25 Aug 2023 at 5:17 am UTC Likes: 1

any DRM should only be runtime, never kernel/persistent policeman on someone's machine because that opens up massive security risks and also gobbles up performance.

Epic Games' new exclusive deal gives devs 100% for 6 months
25 Aug 2023 at 5:13 am UTC Likes: 1

The EPIC API works fine from what I can see under Linux with apps that utilized it, BUT it would be very nice if EGS released their store app launcher for Linux and offered actual Linux branches for developers to use, and perhaps a inhouse baked proton like running, or just detect whatever the user dumps into a runner folder or something for the windows games.

I don't believe its hard to do considering several open-source projects have done these things already and often its work done by tiny teams on casual basis!

They should also bring community features including a modding support in their app.

Respawn now properly looking into Apex Legends bans on Linux & Steam Deck
25 Aug 2023 at 5:03 am UTC

Lucky this is just a f2p game, nobody is technically loosing their license copy of the game but I do know some people like spending money on DLC and store items so that would suck loosing them.

SteamOS 3.5 for Steam Deck gets a screen colour temperature setting
23 Aug 2023 at 3:51 am UTC

wish these sort of features could just be default for wayland de

NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 and Half-Life 2 RTX announced
23 Aug 2023 at 3:49 am UTC

Quoting: Guestthanks nvidia for not backporting dlss 3+ to my rtx 2000 series gpu, it is a good lesson for me, to never buy nvidia gpu again
It's due to new hardware components more so then anything else. I do hope FSR3 can work on 20 series cards in some fashion.

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
22 Aug 2023 at 2:18 am UTC Likes: 1

Now if we could tuck away support 10-bit (30bit) colour support, HDR, AutoHDR and extended multimonitor and VRR type support then I think linux would be in the magic zone.

Atm those things are very roughly supported, basically non properly working support.

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition gets a GOG release and 75% off
19 Aug 2023 at 6:23 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: fabertawehi-res texture DLC
For starters its NOT optimized which should be obvious given the size. There are mods on nexus that do a better job.
Secondly it can cause issues with other graphical mods such as face texture mods etc..

The hi-res DLC has a lot of ultra high resolution normal maps that don't help things except make everything larger. Again, investigate nexus for mods that improve the pack or replace it for a better experience.

Lastly FO4 is getting a Next-Gen update sometime soon (unless Todd lied to us), so playing it now may be premature!

Linux kernel gets an AMD Zenbleed fix for the Steam Deck APU
15 Aug 2023 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pageroundIf it connects to the internet, its better to be safe than sorry. I'll accept the performance hit. Will be interested to see the magnitude.
Depends on the risk. A lot of these need direct access to the hardware or specific server access.
If you enable all mitigations the hit in game performance will be quite noticeable. Where does it end? when the PC is spending 90% of its resources on security patching...

The risks are at the USERS fault in most cases.

Proton Experimental fixes Street Fighter 6 and disables NVAPI for Rachet & Clank
12 Aug 2023 at 6:18 am UTC

I didn't think Rachet and Clank even touched anything from NVAPI, did they start using it on the PC release for some reason?