I totally rely on Lutris, but weirdly only for exactly three scenarios: Overwatch (which I hardly ever play), Guild Wars 2 (which I hardly ever play) and Pokerstars, for the occasional mates poker night via Zoom, with many, many beers.

It's essential, but it's also kind of... not.

I still love it though. It could be more intuitive, to be honest, but once you wrap your head around the two tabs that matter, it's pretty straightforward. So glad to see it continue to get the attention it deserves.

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The gameplay actually looks pretty fun, but that footstep noise is brutal! I like the head dismemberment effect too - didn't expect that in such a simple game. Hopefully the footsteps can be turned down/off, or they come up with a better effect for them. Oof. I can still hear them...

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Yeah, pretty disappointing that the penguins are missing the hype train. Same old same.old.

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Ex-nvidia fanboy here: the experience of using AMD cards on Linux is just so much better than Nvidia, you just wouldn't believe.

No drivers, incredible performance, awesome stability. I got the last two with Nvidia too, sure, but I had to constantly update my drivers and sometimes choose between multiple versions of that driver. And I had to use nvidia-settings to enable things like full/forced composition pipeline, which often had weird effects on vsync.

So AMD has all the benefits and none of the drawbacks, in my experience.

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So, I played a good few hours of Lightmatter on Proton from last month's bundle. Then I started and completed The Suicide of Rachel Foster.

After the article Liam ran, I turned to Superliminal and finished that. Now I'm a few hours into Carrion.

So two proton releases and two native. I'm more impressed by the latter so far, although both of the proton games were pretty good. Lightmatter tries to ape Portal's style a little too much, and the puzzles aren't quite as elegant, but it's fairly tight and enjoyable.

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Pretty sure that's a pause from me. We'll see. It's only a tenner I guess, but pretty much none of that interests me!

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Is this something we the average user should attempt to get running? Or is it more of a behind-the-scenes report on what's probably going to be baked into the next version of Proton (or ProtonGE)?

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I'm tempted to see if this helps 7 Days to Die performance. On OpenGL, at 4K on my 5700XT I'm lucky if I get 40fps. Luckily my system seems to like the Vulkan renderer which bumps me to 60fps (mostly...) but with this I could force the game's resolution back to 1920x1080, then use the integer scaling to view on the 4K desktop again?

That might be worth a shot, I reckon!

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Over 6 articles, every day for 31 days. Probably more, since I know you try to post less over the weekends, so more like 7 or 8+ articles a day. Just incredible. I'm not sure where you find time to pitch into the Discord and Forums too, all the while running the Reddit site, updating Twitter and keeping the 7 Days to Die server up to date. And probably a heap of stuff I don't use/see (like Telegram).

How do you do it?? Although, I'm very glad you do.

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Mainly, I'm just delighted to see AMD push out a card on a par with and hopefully exceeding Nivida's best offering. Nvidia have had a large chunk of the 20xx series and all of the 30xx series largely unchallenged. Great to see some real competition.

On a personal level, I've just bought my 5700XT and it plays every game I own at 4K with no hiccups (GOL Discord user, Michael, has a great series of videos demonstrating the 5700XT's 4K performance on their Youtube channel [External Link] - all the vids from about April onwards are the 5700XT), but who doesn't love a bit more power and future proofing? And that Ray Tracing... that's going to be big in the coming months and years. Unlike PhysX, Ray Tracing is properly cross-platform (or will be soon) and I think it's going to take off in a pretty big way.

I might take a look at upgrading early next year, assuming the prices don't sky rocket thanks to mining (again).

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