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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
24 Nov 2024 at 5:30 am UTC

The game looks cool, but it's crazy demanding. I get around 60-70 fps with RX 7900 XTX at 2560x1440 and max settings (upscaling off).


Wine 9.22 released noting the 'Wayland driver enabled in default configuration'
24 Nov 2024 at 5:22 am UTC Likes: 1

Wayland is enabled, but not used unless you unset DISPLAY.

Wine 9.22 released noting the 'Wayland driver enabled in default configuration'
24 Nov 2024 at 5:21 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: WMan22What do they mean by "Support for Display Mode Virtualization", is gamescope built into wine now or something?
It means if the game tries to set fullscreen resolution to something low, Wine will scale that to your display resolution. Except now it's not doing it neatly, placing the result not centered and leaving transparent band on the right if aspect ratio doesn't match. I filed a bug about it. Not sure what gamescope is doing, I'm not using it.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
24 Nov 2024 at 4:33 am UTC Likes: 1

Just got the game from GOG. Is it compiling shaders for this long on every startup?? That's just insane.

And something is seriously wrong with such design. I can understand first time compilation, but if there was no underlying hardware / graphics driver change, there is zero reason to recompile any shaders again unless the game doesn't cache stuff.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
21 Nov 2024 at 11:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

The price looks a bit crazy though. Did you buy the full version?

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
21 Nov 2024 at 2:01 am UTC

Quoting: Jarmer(also can we all just ignore the troll in this comment thread pls)
Troll who probably didn't even play the game but knows that the story is bad.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
20 Nov 2024 at 6:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Leahi84Why are they calling it Chornobyl?? It's supposed to be Chernobyl.
Depends on the language transliteration. I think they changed it due to Russia invading Ukraine, since Chernobyl is Russian transliteration and Chornobyl is Ukrainian one.

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
20 Nov 2024 at 6:49 pm UTC

Looks cool. I'll probably wait for a bunch of bug fixes follow ups before buying it.

EVERSPACE 2 fixes videos playback on Linux and Steam Deck with Proton
15 Nov 2024 at 8:44 pm UTC Likes: 3

I wish these engines didn't use some junk video codecs in this day and age. It's good to see that Everspace is trying to fix it, I wonder how exactly.