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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck Verified and out today
27 Jul 2023 at 8:30 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PenglingAfter all, the specs look pretty reasonable, aside from the massive 75GB of storage that's required for it!
I don't know where that 75GB come from, it only consumes 39GB here.

Quoting: F.UltraSo this being the first game to use DirectStorage 1.2 that all the Windows fanbois are up in arms about so will be interesting to see how loading times will be in WINE/Proton here vs native Windows.
DirectStorage works with Wine/Proton as well. On my PC with a PCIe4 SSD the Portal jumps are pretty seamless. On the Deck not so much. Can take up to 3 seconds.

Quoting: sarmadYeah, I'm interested to see how this performs on the Deck. I doubt it'll be as seamless as it is on PS5.
It runs at pretty stable 30 FPS on lowest settings with FSR. It's playable, if you really want to play it on the Deck.

NVIDIA are teasing something, likely their RTX 40 series GPU (updated)
8 Sep 2022 at 7:22 pm UTC

Unlikely that Nvidia will announce the 40 series. Two reasons: 1) Jensen Huang said in the investor meeting in August that the 40 series will come next year. 2) Nvidia usually doesn't announce Gaming hardware on the GTC, and they also have an AI Page online [External Link] for the GTC-

Prodeus cancels the Native Linux version, focusing on Proton compatibility (updated)
6 Sep 2022 at 10:49 am UTC Likes: 19

A crowdfunded game doesn't get a promised Linux port? Wow, that's new! /s

Lutris adds Amazon Games integration, plus Flatpak finally out (good for Steam Deck)
28 Aug 2022 at 1:00 am UTC Likes: 2

The Amazon integration doesn't work properly yet. The only thing which works, is connecting your account and load the list of games. None of the games can be installed, it just fails with an error on the terminal.

For the time being, I can suggest using the CLI tool Nile [External Link], it works great.

Steam Play Proton could get direct support for NVIDIA Image Scaling
31 Mar 2022 at 11:15 pm UTC

Quoting: x4merGlorious Eggroll version of Proton since V6.16(?), already has AMD FSR routines patch for fshack. NVidia now trying to get their routines in to main Proton instead of the AMD ones people have already been using for months via GE.
There was an attempt to add FSR to Proton, it was rejected: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/pull/116 [External Link]

KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 Nov 2021 at 7:14 am UTC

I don't know, I tried KDE many times in the recent years and did just recently again. It feels so amateurish at so many Levels, compared to Cinnamon what I use, that I couldn't even use it for a single day without having to tinker at so many things, that I gave up.

NVIDIA 495.44 stable driver is out for Linux, adds in GBM API support
26 Oct 2021 at 9:55 pm UTC

Quoting: minfaer- Gamescope - even if you run it in an X session, it is a wayland compositor
Gamescope does not need GBM and could have worked since 470, but Nvidia driver still needs support for VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier, which is not Wayland or GBM specific.

NVIDIA continues tweaking their work for hardware accelerated Xwayland support
18 Feb 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 Jan 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.