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HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review
25 Apr 2023 at 1:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Lamdarer
Quoting: TheRiddickBetter late then never. Would be nice if NVIDIA added better support in their drivers for 10bit(30bpc) and HDR options.
To be fair FireFox doesnt even have HDR support on Windows. Would be nice if it gets a push once Linux has HDR support. (maybe even before Chromium get's it under Linux?)
Well windows has AutoHDR for desktop which seems to work fine.
However most people want the HDR for games and media playback, not so much website browsing.

Quoting: mr-victoryMeanwhile I can barely distinguish 1080p from 4K and SDR from HDR.
Often OLED with its per pixel dimming zones is required to fully understand it. But its just a way to control those dimming zones which almost certainly most peoples monitors don't have, or have limited number of if even.

If you look at a VR helmet like Quest-2 you'll notice most blacks are actually just grey, it has no dimming possible in darker regions or able to brighten lighter/colour regions. Kind of why I find it hard to put on my PICO-4 (similar thing), I just can't stand the terrible colour gamut control and terrible greys everywhere.

HDR and Colour Management patches for Steam Deck + AMD GPUs under review
24 Apr 2023 at 1:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Better late then never. Would be nice if NVIDIA added better support in their drivers for 10bit(30bpc) and HDR options.

Valve improving Mesa graphics drivers on Linux for a "secret" game (update: Jedi Survivor)
21 Apr 2023 at 11:49 pm UTC Likes: 2

It would be hilarious if they released Half-Life-3 for 1 year exclusive on Linux. It just be awesome.

Doing a L4D3 game would be a mistake. The market is pure saturation point with those atm!

IF I was a betting man I'd say 100% Portal-3 since they already did the ground work for that in their VR demo. They can also make it a VR compatible game for upcoming headsets.

Linux and Steam Deck game manager Lutris has a fresh Beta out
21 Apr 2023 at 11:48 pm UTC

Quoting: Torqachufor gog games you don't need to install galaxy, at least for the old ones.
I hope I understood your post correctly
I'm talking about downloading and installing them from within Lutris. For epic it wants to install the windows app, meanwhile legendary api hooks exist.

Linux and Steam Deck game manager Lutris has a fresh Beta out
21 Apr 2023 at 10:24 am UTC

Wish they'd use a legendary launcher for EPIC and some sort of CLI GOG downloader tool.

The need to install windows launchers is just annoying and unnecessary.
Maybe given a option would be nice.

Valve rolls out Proton 8.0 to further improve Steam Deck and Linux gaming
18 Apr 2023 at 8:05 am UTC

wonder if they rolled out the reshade freeze up glitch fix with this release. (only happened in some games like anomaly, kenshi to name a couple)

Halo: The Master Chief Collection gets Steam Deck support
6 Apr 2023 at 7:13 am UTC

Just be aware that COOP/MP gets a bit wonky with certain Halo's.

No Man's Sky gets another huge update with Interceptor
5 Apr 2023 at 11:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's a decent game, certainly brings the arcade feel to the sandbox game world.
I sometimes play it but ultimately the gameplay can feel a bit sterile at times.

Asus announce the ROG Ally gaming handheld
5 Apr 2023 at 2:03 am UTC

I'm sure its going to be a good device, but the price will likely make people cry pretty hard. Btw this is just another 6800U handheld device from what I can gather unless their using the NEW AMD 704x APU's (unlikely).

Plus more Windows as a handheld OS... at least try and make a custom build somehow...

Vulkan gets a new extension to improve shaders with help from Nintendo
31 Mar 2023 at 9:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

From 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.