Quoting: WorMzy

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Quoting: WorMzyI got fed up with the slowness of the new UI. I get that some people want to point and click stuff, but the 'classic' keyboard bindings are sooooo much faster (especially if you've used them for years and it's pretty much muscle memory at this point). I pretty much see Steam DF as a gateway drug to classic. :wink:

Doesn't the new "classic" build use the same UI?

Dunno, the latest build is only on Windows right now and I haven't checked it in wine/proton. I'll be very disappointed if it's just the steam version with the updated tileset stripped out. :unsure:

I quickly tried it on my Windows PC at work. It's indeed the Steam version without the tileset and without the soundtrack.

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Quoting: WorMzyI got fed up with the slowness of the new UI. I get that some people want to point and click stuff, but the 'classic' keyboard bindings are sooooo much faster (especially if you've used them for years and it's pretty much muscle memory at this point). I pretty much see Steam DF as a gateway drug to classic. :wink:

Doesn't the new "classic" build use the same UI?

I do agree, btw. The old UX was not great, but it was thought through, worked, and was incredibly fast to use, once one remembered the keybindings.

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I didn't put in that many hours since release. Just 50 or so...
Compared to the time I played the game before the Steam release, that's basically nothing.

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Blumenkrantz' blog is worth reading. He has a very entertaining way to write about code optimization.

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I really hope the movable keyboard works on the desktop.
It does already appear on different screen edges based on some heuristics, but that functionality does not work well (at least for me) and having the option to move it to a different edge manually would be a great improvement imho.

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Quoting: Matombosounds like they normaly render with dx12 but have a buggy fallback for dx11 or vulkan in the engine. they saw that their default dx12 renderer didn't work on the SD but the fallback did. so they hacked in an if-case based on that env varble to chose the fallback. obviously not much thought went into it, otherwise they would have choosen something more semanticaly sensefull, like checking for wines self identifying env variables

just educated guesses

I investigated this approach for one of the games I am working on too. The fallback to DX11 in case of WINE, I mean. The performance impact was drastic, so I decided against this. With a bit of work (and a lot of help from the Steam Deck developer's forum) I managed to fix the game's issues with DX12 (at least on AMD hardware...), so now players on Proton get acceptable FPS together with correct graphics.
And as a free bonus, that work also fixed a general graphics bug that by sheer chance never surfaced on Windows (but could very much have appeared after the next GPU driver update).

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Concept Nyx system which is sort-of like a shared server that does everything for multiple people across different screens.

Wait, have they just "invented" X11?

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Nice timing! Just when I ordered a new (okay, not sooo new, Rx 6700 XT) GPU with dedicated ray-tracing support.

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This version restores a consistent look&feel, by using server-side decorations on all Xfce windows by default.
I'm very happy about that change, even though I probably won't switch back to Xfce any time soon.

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Let me be frank:

If I were to make the traffic laws, any screens in cars would be forbidden due to safety concerns (backlight distracts drivers, and any reflections of said backlight on the car windows are potentially deadly). Touch screens even more so. You can find a physical button without looking, simply by your sense of touch. This does not work on a touchscreen.

In addition, steering wheels would have to have a mechanical connection to the wheels at all times. Same for brakes. That stuff must be fail-safe. It cannot rely on the presence of electrical power, functioning power-steering, etc.

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