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Collabora partnered with Microsoft to get OpenGL and OpenCL on DirectX
24 Mar 2020 at 5:32 pm UTC Likes: 3

I may be completely wrong here, but would this part:
This means that a GPU vendor only has to implement a D3D12 driver for their hardware in order to support all three APIs.
not be a really bad thing?

Valve's latest Steam Labs experiment aims to unify game news and events
6 Mar 2020 at 3:51 pm UTC

Quoting: 14There's a news section on the home page? I guess what's the home page in your mind?
Sorry, the home screen of the library is what I mean.

Valve's latest Steam Labs experiment aims to unify game news and events
6 Mar 2020 at 10:43 am UTC

Hope they plan to replace the annoying news section from the home page completely with it.

Valve make some needed improvements to the Steam Search
26 Feb 2020 at 11:48 am UTC

That is the one lab feature I have been waiting for. Not sure what took them so long ;-)

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
23 Feb 2020 at 4:21 pm UTC Likes: 2

Had a night full of INSIDE and loved it to bits.
Had some friends proclaim CHAOS REBORN! and FOR THE KING! while having a jolly good time.
Had a few hours in DARKSIDERS 2 and still have to decide whether I love or it bores me to death.

Proton 5.0-3 for Steam Play released, Direct3D 12 support for Metro Exodus
22 Feb 2020 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: scaineJust a little point, but when you say

make sure you have Proton 5.0 installed in the Tools section of Steam
...well, I don't think that exists any more. You can still filter by "tools", but there's no section as such, so there's no way to install tools directly.

[Edit: So, after experimenting and googling, it turns out that you just can't "browse" tools anymore, but you can still type "proton" into your search bar, you'll still see results appearing, even if you haven't actually ticked "tools" in your filter. So tools still exist, you just have to know their name to install them - try searching "sdk" or "server" for more examples]
1. Check Tools filter
2. uncheck show only installed games filter
3. browse tools in the uncategorized section

BATTLETECH considered complete with one last patch coming, Harebrained moving on
15 Feb 2020 at 10:14 am UTC

Base game was and still is playable even with only 6GB of RAM if you have a decently sized SWAP partition/file on SSD. You will feel it though and will need to restart every other mission.
8GB makes it more enjoyable, but there will still be some swap activity in career/campaign mode (skirmish mode was always fine even on 6GB + SWAP)
The game could and should do a better job of memory management (Linux, Mac and Windows versions alike), but it is still absolutely playable with 8GB. Deactivating SWAP space is none standard behaviour, so one can not fault a game for crashing with a system configured that way.

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
24 Jan 2020 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 3

What I find even more concerning is that they are still selling the game with Linux and Mac support with no mention that the support will end on Steam (unless you you are lucky enough to see the small news section entry that will be buried before long)