Quoting: scaineIt's got a very Firewatch-y vibe, at least graphically. I love a good narrative adventure, even if it's a walking sim, and this looks like it'll be much more than that. Love it. I've wishlisted and will likely buy this (the main game) when it appears.

Doesn't really look like Firewatch to me actually. Firewatch was stylised but not low-poly and often breathtakingly beautiful. However, even with that, Firewatch was still carried by the dialogue. Those are pretty big shoes to fill. At least a short prologue should give us an idea of what they'll be shooting for.

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Quoting: FaalhaasTested Half-Life: Alyx native, but my NVIDIA causes more stuttering in Linux than in our beloved Windows :). So I am hoping buying an AMD will solve that my next hardware upgrade.

By the way, shouldn't Steam list Half-Life: Alyx [External Link] as a Linux (Steam Play) game now?

All I can suggest for nvidia is to choose settings so that 99.9% of your frame times fall within the HMD refresh rate. Setting it to 80 Hz can help with that and is still plenty smooth. Otherwise you can reduce the rendering resolution (which defaults to 150%) or in-game settings. Second is to select legacy reprojection for the game (and all games). As far as I can tell, legacy will just skip a frame if a frame time is missed. This is not great, but massive better than whatever mess reprojection is trying to put on the display (which looks more like two frames blended together). And also why you want to frame times to be consistently good. If you can get that set up, it's perfectly fine. And it's actually not that hard on Alyx because the game is very well optimised for high fps.

They might consider the game to be in beta and let it be thoroughly tested before putting it on the store.

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Obviously Half-Life: Alyx. Only played a little bit on Proton, so it was time to start for real now. Hands down the best VR game so far. It looks fantastic (which is quite rare in VR) and runs smooth as silk.

Other than that I've been sampling loads of unplayed games.

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I like the look of the game, but it's too much maze and too little puzzle for my taste. Still looks like a good game for the right audience though.

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Quoting: Faalhaas

Quoting: tuubiValve does note that performance is not great on Nvidia hardware, like Liam says in the article.

Yes, he did. Lately, I am getting more and more convinced to go for an AMD card next upgrade, since I am both a Linux and a VR user. Looking forward to that AMD Big Navi or Navi 2x or RDNA 2 or whatever it is called. :)

To be fair, it's not actually performance that is the problem, it's how things are handled when the framerate is not reached. Apparently Mesa/RADV has helpful extensions that nvidia doesn't.

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Quoting: PatolaHow do you do that? "Legacy" reprojection?

It's a setting in the per app graphics settings.

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Quoting: ShmerlThat's good to know, Liam! If you have access to their Discord, can you please ask if they already implemented this item [External Link] in UE5:

What do you want to ask? Vulkan in UE4 is already there. For UE5 they wouldn't start using OpenGL.

He's referring to the multithreaded rendering. Vulkan (and DX12) may be supported, but they don't actually improve performance.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: NezchanI'd rather not have to resort to Proton for a supposedly native game, but I may have no choice in the long run.

Have you tried Linux Runtime as a compatibility tool that you can select the same place as Proton?

Hell, I don't even understand what that sentence means!

It's a special Linux runtime that may work better with older games. It's listed as a steamplay choice in the same place as the proton versions.

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Quoting: Guest... from serious stuttering. In the VR world, it's called reprojection. I do not suffer from this on Windows with the same hardware.

Windows has all that async reprojection + motion smoothing that is not yet in the Linux steamvr.

Anyway, I simply avoid it by choosing settings that almost never exceed the allocated frame times and putting it on legacy reprojection. But that's for nvidia though.

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Well, one item can be moved now. :D

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