So far it's not so bad. Not many things changed, which is good. I kinda wish they'd upgrade the whole client from the legacy cruft, but as long as they manage to expand it (like they did with big picture mode, proton and now this) it's fine. I just wish the client could be fully 64-bit though.

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Quoting: BeamboomWhat do people use that overlay for, when gaming? For Steam chat? I just simply never enter that mode other than if someone happen to message me during a session...?

Achievements, guides... or sometimes just checking time if you are on one monitor only :D

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Port quality aside, keep in mind that there were some game license that had the Linux button, even if they contained no files, so it's great they fixed it: for example BEAT.TRIP RUNNER activated from Humble Indie Bundle 4 [External Link] (it had a native version on Humble, but it was never uploaded to Steam for some reason) or TRAUMA from "Krystian Majewski Comp" [External Link] from some CD-keys. Or some extreme cases when game technically lauches, but due to Linux-exclusive bugs is not even playable, for example for the owners of a removed game Jerry McPartlin - Rebel with a Cause [External Link] (there's a few more obscure games in my library that didn't even want to launch too).

Quoting: gustavoyaraujoThat's pretty cool. But hey, are anyone here missing Proton updates?
:P

Maybe they are waiting for 4.0 to release? Or planning something bigger, such as more performance tweaks especially for DX9 titles (PBA? Gallium 9? VK9 eventually?) :)?

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Quoting: fedotixQuestion : the PS3 games are available where ? Can we purchase PS3 games then play with the emulator ??

You have to purchase the retail copies and rip them (they are bluray, not sure how easy they are to rip though, but it's definitely possible) or find a way to copy digital versions of the game somehow. I'm not sure if you need to technically own the PS3 too, as it was with PS2 emulator (to legally own bios firmware), as it depends whether the emulator needs the bios blob to run.

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So many puns in here... have you become a dad, Liam?

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Quoting: EikeCan you snowball someone to death?!?

Yup.

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After I did some testing, guess I'll repost what I originally posted on ProtonDB, for posterity:

Seems 3.16-5 is still not added to ProtonDB - quite a few games got some progress, including Elite: Dangerous (some, but not all fixes were merged), Dead Rising 3 and possiblyt others having audio now (but crashes), UE games not needing winetricks for audio to work properly (Red Orchestra 2 for example), 3D Mark starting (but can't get the actual tests to run), Just Survive and Just Survive Test Server launcher starting (but servers are dead) and my wife can play Dysan: The Shapeshifter now

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Quoting: GuestOnly unknown games in the whitelist, that’s disappointing.

Puzzle Agent 2, Stronghold HD and Botanicula are old, but not that unknown too.

Great to see the FAudio finally there though!

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The funny part is that the tablet boot screen looks like Linux booting :)

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It's strange really, as 11 Bit Studios got a lecture in Game Industry Conference about Linux gaming and one person that's been working on their games is really passionate about gaming on Linux (pun intended), being there for 10 years IIRC.

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