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NVIDIA continues tweaking their work for hardware accelerated Xwayland support
18 February 2021 at 2:58 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: PJshame nvidia still hasn't made their gpus work with Wayland :/ . This annoys me every time. I wonder when this drivers related clutch will come to an end.
That's not correct, Nvidia GPUs work with Wayland, this is about xWayland.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 January 2021 at 4:54 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: vhostOnly few eu countries use euro.
It's actually the opposite, the EU has 27 states and only 8 don't use the Euro. Those countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 January 2021 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: rkfgThis is very bad and stupid. They basically force Valve to set the same prices everywhere, no matter how strong economic is in certain countries. I

No they don't. They force Valve and other Publishers to redeem keys all over the EU no matter in which EU country they have been bought. If Valve changes the Prices due to this, it's all up to them and not forced by anyone.

NVIDIA has a small update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, plus naming changes to mainline
17 December 2020 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BeamboomC'mon Nvidia, there's only one extension we're waiting on nowadays.
That extension which fix the crashes in CP2077 does that just by accident. Maybe the extension wouldn't even help on Nvidia in the same way, the actual cause for the crashes is a bug in the game itself.

Furiously intense ball-smashing game 'Lethal League Blaze' is now available on Linux
22 February 2020 at 9:49 am UTC

Hmm, looking on the Store Page screenshots, it has the same levels like Lethal League. And even from the feature description I don't see any new. What exactly is the difference which makes it worth to buy Lethal league Blaze?

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations
3 February 2020 at 1:46 pm UTC

Quoting: BielFPsMy only complaint about Cinnamon is the lack of Wayland support, which I assume it's because their Mint Boxes with shipped Nvidia Cards.

I think it's a waste of time and effort to jump on Wayland now. Not only is Wayland not feature complete yet, most of the used hardware doesn't support it anyway (Nvidia). Especially as a gamer I don't see why anyone would want to use Wayland when the performance will suffer badly because of xWayland.

vkBasalt, the Vulkan post-processing layer has another new release with new effects
1 December 2019 at 10:25 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickAs this project moves forward I'd love to see a in-game popup gui to configure things, that be pretty neat. Nothing too serious thought, reshade's GUI kinda gets crazy at times.

I wish the same, nothing which needs to be done quick, but would be great for later development. It's no fun to find good settings when you have to restart the game all the time.

Valve has now confirmed Half-Life: Alyx, their new VR flagship title
19 November 2019 at 12:43 am UTC

There is not much I have less interest in than VR. Probably the next Valve title after Artefact which will fail, because of not enough possible customers.

Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets
12 November 2019 at 7:42 pm UTC

Quoting: MohandevirEpic must be thinking that it's a loss of time to implement Vulkan when Proton is doing the job for them...
Vulkan is implemented in Unreal Engine, it's even default API for Linux builds.

NVIDIA have released the stable 440.31 driver update for Linux, plus a new Vulkan beta driver
4 November 2019 at 9:43 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: kaimanIt already lists the 440 driver. *Updating right now ...*

That's still the beta driver (440.26), but should be updated to stable in the next days.