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13 years ago we appeared online, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
5 July 2022 at 9:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Vše nejlepší k narozeninám! 🙂

Denuvo announced Denuvo SecureDLC to protect DLC
4 July 2022 at 11:32 am UTC Likes: 10

I still think that making the games cheaper by not investing in anti-piracy system, which only causes trouble to users, would be much more profitable for the companies.

I don't think the game would have less sales if there wouldn't be any DRM attached to it.

Missed your Steam Deck email? Valve confirms a grace period to still get one
21 June 2022 at 10:26 am UTC Likes: 1

I finally got my e-mail yesterday, but wasn't able to finish the payment because of some unexpected error during the payment.
Now I'm trying to resolve this with support. So it's good to know that you have some grace period for this :-)

Steam Deck back to being the global top seller (by revenue) on Steam
20 June 2022 at 9:59 am UTC Likes: 1

I registered for mine on third day after the pre-orders were open and didn't get the e-mail yet. I still see Q2 in my steam profile, so there is still hope :-)

Total War: WARHAMMER III released for Linux with a port from Feral
17 June 2022 at 7:57 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: DamonLinuxPL
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: MohandevirDid they revamp the Feral launcher for better Steam Deck integration?

On Deck Feral titles are usually defaulted to Windows builds.

As most Deck users are normally Windows users and save file incompat, multiplayer incompat is not so desirable.
That sounds sloppy. Seems to me that Feral's ports (especially for AMD users) have performed better than Windows+Proton?

Nope. Just tested it and performance in semi-native version is much worse than in Proton on RX580 8GB. Also missing multiplayer with Windows and Mac version = broken port.
I just recommend to stay with Proton anyway. This is just bad port.
To be fair, though, I don't think most of this is ultimately Feral's fault.
That the port is so late - who knows when they got access to the game? The code sure changed a bit in recent months, given how broken it was on release...
And if CA doesn't "order" the multiplayer to be made compatible with Windows, which might be extra work = extra cost for CA.

In my experience, Feral ports have performed better than Proton, albeit not significantly (maybe 10-20%).

Still, while it's somewhat painful to say, Warhammer has generally been one of the cases where the Proton version is preferable due to mod compatibility, multiplayer compatibility and speed of updates. And WH3 is no exception.
It just seems sad and pointless to me; put in effort for a native port... only to have it work in lesser ways than the original. Granted this is why I hope with the Deck, more companies will just release cross-platform from the beginning. If they do it right, then it won't matter what OS you run, things should just work the same across the board.

It would be really nice to have to write one code which will run on any OS, just compile it for the specific OS. But I don't think this will never be true. Especially in the games, because of the optimizations and DRM.

Total War: WARHAMMER III released for Linux with a port from Feral
16 June 2022 at 3:50 pm UTC

The Proton version runs without issue, I already finished 3 campaigns run. I waited two months if Feral releases the native version, so I decided to go with Proton version instead.

The Steam Deck itself is not supported, the reason is the graphics settings can't be changed to something that could run on Steam Deck, so it doesn't matter if there is a native port or not.

But I'm glad that Feral finally released the native version, I will probably switch to it, I don't play multiplayer anyway. But if every patch will be 4 months late (original release is) I will probably switch back to Proton.

GOG Summer Sale now live with new releases from SEGA
6 June 2022 at 1:35 pm UTC Likes: 5

Although I like the DRM free games that the GOG is selling. I had issues with plenty of them and wasn't able to even make them running on Linux. So I decided to rather not buy anything on GOG anymore and instead support Valve with their love for Linux and their much more Linux friendly service.

Steam Client Update released with Remote Play improvements
1 June 2022 at 2:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: whizse
Quoting: ZlopezDefinitely, it's the best choice for external HDD that is being used by both Linux and Windows machines.
With a 4GB file size limit and 2TB partition size limit?

Unfortunately, those limits could be a pain, but it's the file system format that works almost everywhere. Which isn't true for most of the others :-/

Steam Client Update released with Remote Play improvements
1 June 2022 at 2:33 pm UTC

Quoting: Beamboom
Quoting: Zlopez
Quoting: ShadMessado people really still use FAT32 .....

Definitely, it's the best choice for external HDD that is being used by both Linux and Windows machines.
Why not use ntfs?

Not working everywhere, some devices can't read ntfs partitions.

Steam Client Update released with Remote Play improvements
1 June 2022 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShadMessado people really still use FAT32 .....

Definitely, it's the best choice for external HDD that is being used by both Linux and Windows machines.