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My experiences of Valve's VR on Linux
12 August 2020 at 2:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

I recognise your frustration. Although different because it was a good while ago and using nvidia gives different issues, you just start out endlessly googling things until you get a feel for the finicky stuff.

That linux_temp branch should be removed though. It was created to quickly distribute a fix for a critical issue and hasn't been updated since. It would have saved you hours of messing around.

Also there with the base station noise. Not a pleasant sound and I need to put up my headset sound quite a bit to drown it out. However, headset does switch for me these days. Although pulse has messed that up again if my main monitor went to sleep and then came back with pulse switching my audio over to the monitor (which can't actually play sound), but that's entirely a pulseaudio problem.

I also have no issues starting proton games from SteamVR home. First starts can be a bit weird though since it has that dependency install thing.

NVIDIA GeForce are teasing something for August 31, likely RTX 3000
10 August 2020 at 3:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

The leaked specs of these new cards appear to have lots of vram and memory bandwidth. Interesting to see how they will market that. Since there is no competition at that level, I expect some extremely high prices.


Quoting: ShmerlLooking forward to an upgrade, but not to Nvidia. Waiting for RDNA 2 cards from AMD.

Always waiting for the next card that is several years behind the times, right? Why are you even reading the nvidia related posts?

Total War Saga: TROY is now a 12 month Epic Games Store exclusive
10 August 2020 at 3:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eikehttps://twitter.com/feralgames/status/1292827642526408706

Also immediately clear that the Linux release has been delayed. If not cancelled.

Racing game 'DRAG' with impressive visuals enters Early Access on August 11
7 August 2020 at 7:38 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Luke_NukemI wonder how much influence Powerslide (by Ratbag Games) had on this.

Powerslide is easily the racing games I enjoyed the most. I spent so much time getting good. And it had a few silly challenge track as well (like The Luge). Good times. This game does remind me of it somewhat in style. Gameplay is another thing though. I played Powerslide with keyboard only because that was how things were in those days. That's probably not going to be a great option for this one. I'd like steering wheel support with some force feedback though.

Unrailed! is gearing up for launch with a discount before the price goes up
4 August 2020 at 9:21 am UTC

Only played this game a little. It's pretty tough on your own so trying it in coop would be nice.

Ova Magica blends Harvest Moon, Stardew Valley and Pokemon in the tech demo
27 July 2020 at 9:20 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cybolic
Quoting: kokoko3kEven if it is just a game, the idea that you make animals fight each other for your business disturbs me too much.
My child will never play this or any other pokemon related game.
Same here. No matter how cute any game of this type may look, the initial concept is much too disturbing for me. I haven't even seen any of these games try to hide the concept behind something more innocent, like having the creatures pillowfight or who-gives-the-best-compliments battles (which I have seen in other game types).

Maybe Ooblets will be something for you then. The battles there are dance battles. No contact at all. Currently only on the Epic Store though, but I assume the devs will eventually want to sell the game, so it'll no doubt come to Steam when it comes out of EA.

Destroy, consume, spread and stop at nothing - CARRION is out now
24 July 2020 at 2:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: subThe game mechanics look great.

But what is the actual game about?
I play as this monster blob and kill some humans?
I really fail to see the goal of the game from the videos. :D

IIRC from the demo, escape from where you were being held.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
22 July 2020 at 3:47 pm UTC

Quoting: silmeth
Quoting: EhvisSounds like a terrible idea. DXVK is for games and does not work for most non-game software. The default should not be limited like that.

What do you mean by ‘does not work’ here,

Don't know the exact limitations since I'm not an expert on the matter, but as I understand it, dxvk won't interoperate with the rest of win32. Something that games don't do anyway, but most desktop 3d software does.

Linux distro Fedora 33 may get DXVK as the default for Wine
22 July 2020 at 1:37 pm UTC

Sounds like a terrible idea. DXVK is for games and does not work for most non-game software. The default should not be limited like that.

KDE teams up with Slimbook to bring a stylish new AMD Ryzen 4800H laptop
22 July 2020 at 10:34 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: kit89It looks like a nice laptop, but I can't find what the weight of the machine is. Being advertised as a SlimBook I can only imagine it's not heavy, their website is somewhat light on information.

The weight is there on the pages. Written in very big numbers

Seems very similar to the Pulse in both specs and pricing. Nice to have choice.

Edit: oh wait, technically a different model for the weight. Can't imagine it's much different though since the Pro X 15 looks pretty slim to me as well.