Is official proton ever likely to get FSR fullscreen support? Right now it's consider a Proton-GE "hack". But it's so vital for 4K gaming on modern AAA games that it means that I pretty much use Proton-GE for absolutely every title these days.

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Some good stuff in this one. Project Wingman will scratch my VR itch, but the real steal here is BPM - the trailers give me goosebumps... how can you resist "Doom meets Necrodancer"?. And there's always Wrath for some old-school shooty magic.

Personally, I'm also really interested in TimeLie, and I've always wanted to try out House Flipper.

Not sure about the rest, but that's an easy $12 from my perspective. I don't think I've paused now since about March! At the end of the day, it's less than two pints of lager - it's difficult for me to justify not buying the bundle.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo since February we've gone from the doldrums of 0.8% to the not-quite-so-doldrums of, looks like over 1.1%, which is, what, something like a 37% increase. Not too shabby.

OK, the total's still tiny. I'll definitely be interested to see what happens when Steam Decks start to sell.

Definitely tiny in relative terms, but it still blows my mind to think that there are potentially well over a million active monthly users on Steam that run Linux. It's pretty incredible given the choke hold MS has on the vast majority of the population.

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Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: EikeWindows 11 might play a role as well.

They already have more marketshare than linux :(

I think the implication was that a) Win 11 is both underwhelming and has high hardware requirement and b) if you're going upgrade/re-install to a new O/S, it's a good time to try Linux anyway.

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I guess it's all about SteamDeck, Proton and anti-cheat these days, huh? :grin:

As Dr Károly Zsolnai-Fehér (Two Minute Papers [External Link]) would say: What a time to be alive!

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I had NO IDEA this was going to be native. For some reason, I'd gotten it into my head that while the first one was native, this one wasn't!! Amazing news. Bought it - let's see how it stacks up to a) the original b) Immortal Redneck and c) Gunfire Reborn (via proton).

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

I heard Death Stranding called a walking simulator so many times, it actually put me off buying/playing it. Then I saw Corben streaming it, and realised that the whole thing was just a joke. Bought it and sank some hours in. Great game.

Ha, it's a sort of joke. I mean you have to balance out your steps and such as you're walking or you fall over... Not sure how it works on the PC, but that's how it was on the PS4.

Well, yeah, sure the act of walking/balancing is an early gameplay mechanic. But "walking simulator" as a game genre means something entirely different. Indeed, it's usually used as an insult for a game with no engaging mechanics at all, no danger (no health bars, no death), little to no interaction... all you do is walk around. That couldn't really be any further from Death Stranding, where death is remarkably easy, the walking mechanic, strapping luggage to different parts of your body, crafting, RPG elements, open world exploration, vehicles... and later in the game, guns/grenades and full on fire-fights.

But I thought it was literally a walking sim genre game and was put off buying it!!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Personally, I'm getting seriously tempted by DEATH STRANDING on Steam as it's 60% off and seems to work well with Steam Play Proton nowadays and it seems it hasn't seen a higher discount yet.

I bought it, couple of minutes ago, before reading this article... :grin:

The Walking Simulator. I bought this on the PS4 back when Sony didn't release PC games. 😜

Every time I think of it, I think of the conversation in Clerks II about Lord of the Rings vs Star Wars...

I heard Death Stranding called a walking simulator so many times, it actually put me off buying/playing it. Then I saw Corben streaming it, and realised that the whole thing was just a joke. Bought it and sank some hours in. Great game.

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Quoting: DeadCode

Quoting: scainePulseaudio 15 is now weirdly "meh", now that the world has re-focused on Pipewire instead. I suppose Pipewire still leverages PA under the hood though?

Pulse has been feature complete and stable for most users for a couple of years now. It makes zero sense to write all new audio core and introduce a bunch of new bugs just because a small group of loud mouths can't stand the PulseAudio dev. For 99% of Linux users PipeWire will show zero improvements over or Pulse.

Spoken like someone who hasn't used bluetooth headsets, had to use a PC with multiple inputs and outputs (PA still doesn't have a way to choose a default), or had to constantly restart PA because of crackling in VR.

PA is a bit of a car crash. It was a useful step up from Alsa for multiple-stream support... for about a year, then ALSA got that baked in, but most distros had committed to PA by then. I can't think of a single upgrade to PA that's made using it any more pleasant. It's stale, and I'm extremely glad Pipewire is shaking things up again.

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Quoting: Julius

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Julius@Liam is there a reason the GoG links are all pointing to some ad-tracking redirect?

This was answered before. GOG changed their affiliate program, this is who they use now.

Well it gets fully blocked by uBlock Origin, which certainly is a bit annoying.

So I don't think those affiliate links are going to work for most people.

They're pi-holed too, but it's easy to whitelist them, and you probably should since all of GOGs affiliates will use them, not just GOL. As for uBlock, just turn it off for gamingonlinux.com, since there are no ads on this site anyway. Or indeed any tracking cookies (other than GOG's affiliate links, the cookies required to log you in, and one to remember if you allow YouTube to load a thumbnail).

This entire site is like how a lesson on how to respect your visitors.

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