Quoting: Mountain ManIt seems strange to me that driver developers have to make their drivers work with games instead of game developers making their games work with drivers.

Kinda been the case since the start when ya think about it.Quake wasn't exactly made to run on a GPU, but a lot of GPUs were made to run Quake. Too oversimplified, but the jist is 3d games came firat and GPUs came in later to run them but better.
When the cutting edge hardware and software development is best as a joint venture.

I hesitate to call Starfield cutting edge though. I mean I saw swf files inside some of the game data archives... Meaning it is likely in some way using Macromedia Flash, or some such derivative.

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Funnily enough, I can only get this game working on the Steam Deck. Upgraded to the latest version of Linux Mint with a 6.20 kernel, helped the game launch but it crashes minutes after boot. Can't get it working under Windows 10 as it shows an error of my GPU not reaching minimum spec, but it's a 6700XT with the newest drivers so I think it's because my version of Windows 10, being LTSC, is too old to run Microsoft funded games...
Don't really want to "upgrade" my Windows install, nor do I want to risk bricking my Linux install by tampering with drivers... So I guess I'll just tolerate the smudgy 30 fps look on the Deck until things iron themselves out on the Desktop side.
Shame really, the plan was to Stream it from my Desktop onto the Deck while at home and go full handheld on the go like I was doing with Cyberpunk.

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You know, I have a handful of native linux games sitting around that just don't work anymore, and the process of getting them to work is either impossible or more of a headache than just running the windows version via proton. Backwards and cross compatibility has not ever been a focus for the desktop linux, and for pretty good reasons honestly, most of the efforts to future-proof already compiled software packages has... been more of a recent effort.
I don't want linux gaming to become entirely reliant on proton as that still solidifies Windows as the definitive platform, but I don't think that'll really happen. With how things currently are, it's all about increasing market share at any cost, and reducing game devs workload to get their game's running on linux is working to accomplish this. I imagine as market share grows, porting tools will become more refined and engines will continue to keep up or add support, we'll reach a point that native porting to linux for most devs will both be trivial and profitable, if we keep it up hopefully we'll reach a point where they'll be porting games not to linux, but to windows, lol. I think It's important that we somehow completely ensure that software compiled today for linux can still be ran a decade from now, maybe not by default but via some sort of readily available compatibility packages.

I am sort of crossing my fingers that Microsoft bungles up really really bad soon, in some way that even companies reliant on their product will find unforgivable, like a huge price hike or locking users out of their own PC for having internet opinions, something that effects bottom lines more than switching to a new platform.

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If the next Steam Deck contained this tech I'd buy it in a heartbeat. The deck is powerful enough that I'm sure I'll be gaming on it for quite a few years, but if they released a smaller lighter and quieter but just as powerful model tomorrow... Yeah, I'd waste my money.

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I quite enjoyed that Starship Troopers FPS from... 2006? well "enjoyed" is a bit of a strong word rather I saw immense potential past all the jank and bad design, it did huge swarms on a scale I didnt see again until World War Z. Looks like this'll be a substantially better game, glad, series really deserved a better game than that, maybe a tad sad that it's doesn't seem to be aiming to replicate the swarm size of the movie or 2006 title though.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: StalePopcornUnfortunately everyone has a price

Not everyone has a price, it just rarely makes a functional difference because the people who don't have one rarely end up in positions of power.

Of course everyone has a price. Won't you sign up for a microsoft account if you were given absolute rulership over the world including ownership of microsoft itself? Everyone has a price, it just lies somewhere in between zero and the above.

Well yes everyone has a price but some people don't take cash for one reason or another. Conveniently however cash is quite easy to convert into other forms of extortion for that type of individual.

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Losing wine support as an unintended consequence of implementing anti-cheat is one thing, but going out of your way to block wine is... Well, kinda silly. If wine is able to emulate every function the anti-cheat needs to... Block cheating, then there is no reason to block it, and if it can't emulate all the needed functions than the game wouldn't function anyways so it's a non-issue.
I don't know the inner workings or how intention the blocking is, but if they are going out of their way to block wine specific code they are legitimately wasting their time, time that could be spent ensuring minimal wine support.

Only reason to intentionally block it is if you have substantial evidence of cheaters using wine and Linux systems, and I have trouble envisioning that some kid would gothrough such an effort, I have a hard enough time getting my Lil', cousins to remember their darn email passwords or so much as install a program.

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They oughta build up options for users to manage their shader cache more readily, be nice to turn it off on a per game basis since so many simpler games do not noticeably benefit from it performance wise. Even just a single button to purge cache for a game or for the entire library would he nice, in case you need to free up space or suspect the cache is causing technical issues.

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I'm almost inclined to say that Linux users are spoiled these days but... Well, you know I like being spoiled, I do not miss the days of having to compile a large portion of my software from source, and having to go on a dependency hunt or recompile any time I updated or switched my distro. Some software being such a headache to get compiled that I still keep the resulting binaries around as trophies, depite them not working on my current system for one reason or another.

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Quoting: AvikarrIn my opinion:
Dead Space Remake uses totally new tech, considering graphics. I think, we need to wait for Steam Deck 2, with newer hardware to perform at least reasonable frame rates and so on. Personally, considering Steam Deck itself, I thought to myself:
"Okay, I'll wait for Steam Deck 2, and then I'll buy this toy for grow ups!".
It is first iteration, technical demo, or something - in my opinion. Next generation of Steam Deck will definitely kick arse! And to be honest - all of us know, that Steam Deck 2 (or whatever they will name it), will be A THING!

The Steam Deck is already an iteration past technical demo in a sense, as it has roots that date back to Valve's earliest hardware releases. While the second Deck will probably be even better, this first iteration is so damn good and the improvements will probably be rather minor honestly.

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