Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: LinasI wonder if they are ever going to officially support Media Foundation? There are so many games that work just fine, except missing video playback.

As I understand, part of what they're doing is some sort of re-encoding on Steam servers into a format Proton can work with. Don't quote me on it, but I'm sure I saw one of the people involved mentioning it. That, and they're telling developers to avoid it.

This is correct. It's a module called media-converter (written in Rust). From the Proton github repo:

This module is a gstreamer plugin which provides the ability to replace media
data encoded in certain formats with media encoded in another format. There
are two main components, `videoconv` for converting video data provided to
Quartz and Media Foundation, and `audioconv` for converting audio data
provided to XAudio2.

The broad idea is to hash the incoming data and replace it with data looked up
from a cache. If there is a cache miss, then the data is recorded to disk and
instead replaced by "blank" media. The conversion should be transparent to the
application (Wine, FAudio) so no changes are required to the application.

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Quoting: CyrilI can't find any "chimera" package on the AUR... :huh:

Same. Look for "steam-buddy", although that did not install for me.

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Quoting: VoxPelliChimeraOS (previously GamerOS), the arch based SteamOS 2.0 couch gaming distro, has a web app that you can use on any device in your local network via URL

Been wondering if that app can be used on a different arch-based distro.

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Quoting: VoxPelliI wonder if it will get a mode similar to the Steam one for the upcoming Steam Deck.

Sort-of, the dev is looking into a fullscreen mode for launching from Steam as a non-Steam app, and also the ability to add any installed game to Steam as a non_steam app.

I say "looking into" because that's the only thing said so far on the github. :)

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Quoting: Guest3k open issues on proton github say otherwise...

They don't typically close issues, even when the issue is fixed, to keep discussion open.

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Quoting: bwyanIn regards to FSR support, how does one go about configuring FSR quality levels? Is that even an option in this case?

You can adjust the sharpening level, but that's it. From the release notes:

"The default sharpening of 5 is enough without needing modification, but can be changed with WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_STRENGTH=# (0-5) if wanted."

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I know the IGN editor for our regional edition of the site and asked him to pass the corrections on to the US editorial staff. Maybe they will fix things.

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When they say there's less demand for native titles, that really just means there's bigger choice overall for people who game on Linux. Previously they were a niche player in a tiny market. Now the tiny market is not just limited to the niche any more. They'll be ok though, there's still mobile.

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RPS also still has an embarrassing article implying that Big Picture Mode is the operating system.

Eurogamer at least corrected their own version of that story.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: DaiKaiser93

Quoting: BlackBloodRumFeel like giving this writer a penguin slap with a wet fish.

The OS is built on proton? Proton is a version of Linux? Grrr so much inaccuracy.

I really wish IGN would fact check and research before they write!

There's other problems with their writing too but this is just an example of an immediate in your face mistake.

So please Liam help us out here! :D

The whole "The OS is built on Proton" bit sounds like the writer has no idea of what Proton is, that or he thought calling it a compatibility layer would confuse people. I personally would have gone with "although Steam OS is built of Linux, it comes packed with Proton, an utility that allows Windows games to run on it seamlessly" or something along those words.

I would expect Valve to tell them about those major mistakes.

That article has been there since 15 Jul, so I guess not.

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