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Latest Comments by rcrit
Subnautica gets upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified
10 Mar 2023 at 2:20 am UTC

If you don't want to deal with the food and water mechanic you can start a game without them. I think there is an O2 mode for that too. I think they add to the immersion.

Shader cache downloads being a nuisance? Valve may have solved it
18 Feb 2023 at 3:40 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: 14
Quoting: rcritEvery time I restart the client I get 20+ downloads immediately, plus recompilation and today was no different. I restarted just now and got 21 downloads for a total of 2.6GB (with associated fossilize_replay processes).

Or maybe this is its last gasp and next time things will be golden.
I noticed the same happening to me. I'm not sure if it has gone away because I haven't been able to get on Steam for a while. But you're not alone!
Thanks for that!

I restarted the client just now to apply the latest beta update and for the first time in recent memory not a single download was done, so I have hope that things are indeed fixed.

The Force Engine for Star Wars Dark Forces improves Steam Deck & Linux support
17 Feb 2023 at 4:01 am UTC

I just finished the fourth level (Research Facility) and it plays fine. It's been decades since I last played it last so I can't say it's exactly the same. The AI doesn't seem particularly aware at all times.

Shader cache downloads being a nuisance? Valve may have solved it
16 Feb 2023 at 3:33 pm UTC

Seems like there is more room for improvement. I leave steam running all the time, sometimes for weeks, with an occasional scheduled download but nothing major. Every time I restart the client I get 20+ downloads immediately, plus recompilation and today was no different. I restarted just now and got 21 downloads for a total of 2.6GB (with associated fossilize_replay processes).

Or maybe this is its last gasp and next time things will be golden.

Grab a cuppa and listen to me chat to Brodie on Tech Over Tea
9 Feb 2023 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

When Liam said grab a cuppa I didn't think he meant one as big as your head :-)

It is an entertaining and wide-ranging conversation so worth the listen.

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux support
8 Feb 2023 at 1:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: WMan22Eagerly anticipating the Luxtorpeda implementation and Flatpak version.
This won't be added to Luxtorpeda as they are avoiding reverse engineered ports.

https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/816 [External Link]

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux support
7 Feb 2023 at 3:31 pm UTC

On Fedora 37 the pipewire development library (libjack.so) is in /usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/jack which is correctly detected by cmake but the final linking fails because the library path is not provided to the compiler. I appended -L/usr/lib64/pipewire-0.3/jack to the end of the giant link command in CMakeFiles/tfe.dir/link.txt inside the build directory to correct this.

NVIDIA driver 525.85.05 is out now for Linux
20 Jan 2023 at 1:37 pm UTC

This driver didn't work well for me in Fedora 37 with the new 6.1.7 kernel. My second monitor wasn't detected, though the screen was mirrored. The settings app was also missing most content which seems the opposite of their bug fix about non-privileged users running X.

Star Wars Dark Forces lives on again with The Force Engine
14 Jan 2023 at 4:05 am UTC Likes: 2

A PR for Linux is in the works. I built from the branch, https://github.com/mlauss/TheForceEngine/tree/linux3 [External Link], and played through the first level.

On Fedora 37 the build missing dependencies I had were: rtaudio-devel, rtmidi-devel, DevIL-devel
and glew-devel

I'm now officially converted to the RGB LED religion and OpenRGB is amazing
28 Dec 2022 at 10:09 pm UTC Likes: 1

I've always wondered where these blinged out rigs sit. My case is on the floor to my left so the only LED I can see is the front fan, and barely that. Do you have it sitting on your desk to your right to enjoy all the blinkin` lights to their fullest? I can never hear my case fans, I wonder how it is next to your head.