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Latest Comments by Ehvis
The Godot powered Slay the Spire 2 has already hit over 3 million sales
16 Mar 2026 at 11:49 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Avehicle78873 Million Sales and they didn't have the decency to keep the GOG version up to date. No matter its' success, these guys lost all respect from me.
There is no gog version. If I were to guess, not until early access ends.

Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever
14 Mar 2026 at 12:55 am UTC

Quoting: BigJIs it buggy at all? It’s “early access”
Haven't encountered any. Some placeholder graphics in the unlocks screen is everything I was able to detect. Devs have said more content (monsters, cards, etc) will be coming, but otherwise it feels very polished already.

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver
12 Mar 2026 at 9:25 pm UTC

Quoting: memvirus
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
To do that I had to drop my kernel to 6.14 (which is now also unsupported I think) and remove one line from the code. But any drive above that messes up my VR (among other things), so it has to be done.
hey man, I'm trying since weeks to get back to 565 from currently 580
It updated automatically and it seems like I have no choice or way back....

I'm on POP OS (No wayland) and kernel 6.17.9-76061709-generic

Is there actually a way to get back to 565.77? Can you please tell me how?
Not exactly and it'll take a bit of doing. But I installed the old packages from the Launchpad PPA. This failed because the glue module wouldn't compile. Then I just went through the compile log and tried to fix the errors. Doing that for a "too old" driver on a "too new" kernel was just too much, so I enabled the older kernel from before my distupgrade. This combo only required commenting out a single line from the driver to make it compile.

There's not exactly a manual for this and if it's still broken after a reboot then you'll have to continue from the console. So if you're not prepared to just do it and deal with whatever happens, it may be easier to just downgrade the whole system.

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver
11 Mar 2026 at 5:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/
To do that I had to drop my kernel to 6.14 (which is now also unsupported I think) and remove one line from the code. But any drive above that messes up my VR (among other things), so it has to be done.

Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026
11 Mar 2026 at 4:11 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: tarmo888Godot has Linux ARM64 and even ARM32 in the UI and you don't even need ARM hardware.
Cool! I know what I have to do. 😁

Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026
11 Mar 2026 at 3:33 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?
It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.
I don't even think there is a game engine that exports native Linux arm builds. Although they should be there for mac, so who knows what can happen in the future.

NVIDIA 580.142 released for Linux - the new recommended driver
11 Mar 2026 at 9:25 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: hardpenguinHmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.
I've tried drivers up to 585 and always returned to 550 because of too many issues. So sticking with the older driver definitely not the worst idea.

Performing Right Society (PRS) sues Valve over video game music
10 Mar 2026 at 2:37 pm UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: BloodScourgedouble-dip? 🤔
The music industry has been the front runner for double dipping for decades. And while they say it's to protect "the artists", I highly doubt that the artists would see any notable income from it.

Slay the Spire 2 becomes the biggest roguelike deck-builder on Steam ever
7 Mar 2026 at 11:59 am UTC Likes: 1

Slay the Spire was one of those games that despite being single player had this slowly increasing player base (not counting short peaks of course) that went up to 20k peak daily players. This is what happens when that collection of regular players dives onto the new thing.

The unintended flex by the devs on twitter towards Marathon was absolutely hilarious though.

Transport Fever 3 confirmed for Linux and macOS support
6 Mar 2026 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

I guess they already did all the work for the previous games and keep making use of the work they did to get a multiplatform engine. Good to see. Was interested regardless, but native will surely hasten my purchase.