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It's been over "20 years in the making", Blender 2.93 LTS is out now
3 Jun 2021 at 9:42 am UTC

Quoting: robertosf92Can this happen with GIMP? Not in quite some time, I think.
Don't think so either. For professional level 3D modellers/renderers there was a huge market gap. For a lot of supporting parties there is a clear benefit of having one sit in a place that was affordable to regular people and companies just starting out. This is not really the case for image manipulation where Adobe stepped in to serve that segment by itself.

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
2 Jun 2021 at 11:50 am UTC

Quoting: robredz
Quoting: toojaysHopefully this means Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will be playable soon. Although I only have a 2060 so maybe it's irrelevant.
It plays OK on my system minus the RT and DLSS which show in options but not accessible. and DLSS should help with a 2060 once up and running. Real test will be when we see what Proton does with Q2 RTX v the native Linux version.
That's the normal version, not the enhanced edition. And Q2RT in Vulkan, so doesn't require any translation.

Quoting: mylkayou cant buy non TI
why the F do they make a TI then?
Maybe to distribute their mining restricted GPUs so that they actually have a chance of delivering them to gamers?

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
1 Jun 2021 at 8:30 am UTC

That must also mean that the 470 driver is about to be released, which is probably the more interesting thing right now.

Quoting: toojaysHopefully this means Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition will be playable soon. Although I only have a 2060 so maybe it's irrelevant.
Don't think that it has much to do with that. For that vkd3d just needs more complete DXR support than it has now.

Get Company of Heroes 2 and Ardennes Assault free to keep on Steam
27 May 2021 at 8:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: axredneck
Quoting: Liam DaweWorks fine here tested across Firefox, Chrome and Android.
It redirects me to https://store.steampowered.com/ [External Link] on both Chromium and Firefox
All links work for me. Maybe a regional thing?

Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux
26 May 2021 at 5:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoIt seems the Enhanced Edition will have MacOS support [External Link]...
Maybe Linux is next.
Mac has RT support?

SCS put up an open Beta for multiplayer in Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim
25 May 2021 at 8:14 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PinguinoAs someone who only plays single-player ETS2, I'm a bit confused. Isn't World of Trucks their multiplayer server? If memory serves me well, I remember seeing some screenshots of multiple human-driven trucks on the same map, so what am I missing?
It wasn't yet. For the past couple of years it just served contracts and special events, but no multiplayer in a sense of letting people actually drive in the same world. However, it has always been the vision to make that happen once they can figure out how to practically do that.

SCS put up an open Beta for multiplayer in Euro Truck Sim 2 and American Truck Sim
24 May 2021 at 6:08 pm UTC

I haven't been following ATS/ETS2 as closely lately, but I wasn't expecting this. I suppose they had to start somewhere and they have a lot of work to do before they can truly make it so that thousands can share the world. And this will work properly for Linux clients!

Talking Point: how about a monthly Steam Game Pass from Valve
23 May 2021 at 10:44 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Liam DaweOh and on the subscription versus buying to own argument. The Steam agreement is clear you don't own Steam games.

The Content and Services are licensed, not sold
https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/ [External Link]
They might write those things, but I doubt it would hold up if it was ever legally tested. At least under European consumer protection laws.

Bee ready for the honey as Hive Time gets a sweet update for World Bee Day
20 May 2021 at 8:56 am UTC Likes: 2

Hive Time has been an exceptionally smooth experience for me. It works on ultrawide without issues. And when I went to do my usual key rebinding, I found that it had bound both the qwerty and appropriate dvorak keys to the actions, which was a nice touch. Only had to rebind one.

NVIDIA update their NVAPI open source interface helping "Windows emulation environments"
20 May 2021 at 8:46 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: TheSHEEEPIt is really interesting to me how much work and money goes into this.
This cannot all be just for the few percent of gamers using Linux.
I would bet on the fact that nvidia's Linux support is primarily focussed on their professional users in the graphical industry. Linux gamers do provide a nice test bed for driver support though.