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Mesa 24.0 out now with AMD RADV ray-tracing improvements, more NVIDIA NVK improvements
1 February 2024 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eri
Quoting: somebody1121
Quoting: EriA few weeks ago I read something about a new shader compiler for this Mesa update, with a small performance gain in some games. What happened with that?
I think that you are referring to https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACO-Last-Minute-Mesa-24.0
Exactly! So, is LLVM replaced? Or did I misunderstand what this was supposed to do?
LLVM will be replace by ACO on the opengl part but not right now, on the vulkan part it's been years since they made the switch. This is an improvement made on the compiler.

Mesa 24.0 out now with AMD RADV ray-tracing improvements, more NVIDIA NVK improvements
1 February 2024 at 2:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EriA few weeks ago I read something about a new shader compiler for this Mesa update, with a small performance gain in some games. What happened with that?
I think that you are referring to https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACO-Last-Minute-Mesa-24.0

Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 released with GPU fix for Starfield
1 September 2023 at 10:34 am UTC

https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/1678#issuecomment-1702489043

It seams that the nvidia situation is complicated... With AMD it appears that it needs an updated version and proton experimental to work, mesa-git for better performance.

Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 released with GPU fix for Starfield
1 September 2023 at 7:59 am UTC

I've been able to play a littel and works well, regular proton crashes on starting a new game but using protonGE works well. I still need to see if there is something to note beyond the caracter creation but the intro worked ok.

Homeworld Remastered Collection and Severed Steel are free on Epic Games
28 July 2023 at 10:43 pm UTC

Well the launcher is different and allow to easy load mods and appears to be loaded with the patch 2.3, on gog it's still on patch 2.1 and requires the mod to be fixed... Also if the patch 2.3 it's the same that the mod provides i hope they asked for permission to be included by default since it's part made by the community. Now let's see if this version is also put on gog and steam (Maybe it's already included by i don't own it there).

Edit: it's all ready on steam but i don't know if contains the community patch or not.

Homeworld Remastered Collection and Severed Steel are free on Epic Games
28 July 2023 at 8:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Those are great games, but they need a mod to work well, specially the first one.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/homeworld-remastered-players-patch
With the steam version it's just needs to install from the workshop, but for the gog version have to do it manually and tweak the launch options. I think it will be the same process. When i get home i will try.

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 announced
17 March 2022 at 5:48 pm UTC

I hope they release the source code soon so godot 4 can add this (Although it need some TAA implementation first for the motion vectors)

Steam Deck Verified has issues, Grand Theft Auto V edition
13 March 2022 at 2:51 am UTC Likes: 4

For me it's very simple: If a game requires another launcher, it should never go throw verification.

With game updates you already have an unknown factor, with a third party launcher it's even bigger... (It's rare that rendering it's broken on updates so it should pass. Horizon zero dawn it's the only game i know that break the rule)

Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit gets dismissed
21 November 2021 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzdyx5Vj00

This is a good video about that 30% cut and looking through the payment methods

Take-Two filed a lawsuit against the reverse-engineered GTA III and Vice City developers
3 September 2021 at 9:34 am UTC Likes: 11

It sounds a little like they don't like mods, something i understand for multiplayer, but for single player...

Quote"Defendants have sought to exploit a potential market that belongs exclusively to Take-Two"

I don't like this argument, it could be use against OpenMW, even if the engine it's a clean room project. Even can be use against some mods like DarkSouls fix, especially since can take some "market" from the remaster...