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X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
16 April 2023 at 4:48 pm UTC

Is that with our without Steam?

…cuz Steam tends to map everything to a virtual gamepad hiding the real thing and that may not work with X4.

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
13 April 2023 at 6:24 pm UTC

Quoting: ValckThis is likely not about you setting cookies, but being an external site
I'm also that external site and I ain't setting no stinky cookie 🙃

Thanks for your praise :) That really motivates me to do such stuff.

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
13 April 2023 at 8:41 am UTC Likes: 4

The flying part is kinda optional and only really required at the beginning. It's a sandbox game where it happens that you can also fly every ship

…and I'm totally bonkers on this anyway.


(What's with the Accept & Show? Ain't setting no freakin cookies)

In motion: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/gAmZsfTun1Ppp4RS8Sa6FM

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
12 April 2023 at 8:14 pm UTC

Perfect. I just figured that out too: https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=414524&p=5172395#p5172395

My default config is empty and the shipped lib seems to default to alsa. Setting this (or ALSOFT_DRIVERS=pulse) seems to do the trick

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
12 April 2023 at 6:53 pm UTC

Huh… the shipped openal.so failed to play nice with PipeWire. Chances are it also doesn't work on PulseAudio. It only offers default and Jack. I assume that's Alsa and Jack.

I removed `game/libs/libopenal.so.1` and now it picks up the system's lib and all is good:

Quoteldd X4
[...]
libopenal.so.1 => /lib64/libopenal.so.1 (0x00007fe66d25c000)
[...]

X4: Kingdom End and free major upgrade out now, making it Steam Deck Verified
12 April 2023 at 6:31 pm UTC Likes: 2

that game. Just finished downloading my copy (after one failed attempt, thanks GoG!)


Also: Looking for Linux players interested in trying a modification I wrote specificity for Linux for stuff like companion apps. _No_ Proton players please. This is indeed platform depending.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free to keep this weekend
8 April 2023 at 11:53 am UTC

Just checked. Works for me even with launcher on Steam with Proton Experimental on AMDGPU.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free to keep this weekend
8 April 2023 at 11:24 am UTC

Don't see no launcher with GoG. Does this point to BSG.exe in Steam?

EVERSPACE 2 out now, devs focus on Proton for Linux - Steam Deck optimizations planned
7 April 2023 at 5:12 pm UTC

Gents… new game suffering from performance issues is not exactly hot news. Give it some weeks 👌

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is free to keep this weekend
7 April 2023 at 4:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Nice. I have that on GoG but the more the better 🙃 Pew Pew