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OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 1 released bringing multiple new features
14 Oct 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC

Didn't AMD's AMF switch to Vulkan video? OBS should just use latter directly (but it doesn't have AV1 encoding yet).

Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare come to PC on October 29
9 Oct 2024 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Plintslîcho
Quoting: ShmerlGOG release hopefully too.
Ha Ha Ha - I like your sense of humor, Shmerl. ;-)
Lol, I don't really expect it. Especially with that obsession with some external accounts and etc. Though Sony did that too and then dropped the idea for some of former PS games. After all sales matter more than dumb control freakery.

Wine 9.19 released bringing improvements for Wayland, Unicode and DirectPlay
6 Oct 2024 at 9:21 am UTC

Quoting: mrdeathjrthis is dont only broken thing on wayland, have many things to solve
That's a big one that affects my use case. I'm sure there can be more, but nothing else bothered me so far.

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
23 Sep 2024 at 8:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eikeand so many games need 32 bit support anyway.
Only legacy games. Nothing recent should require 32-bit (if something recent does, I'd simply stay away from it).

With Wine you can now run 32-bit games without 32-bit libraries (at least as long as they go through Vulkan path). The only need to have 32-bit libraries now is for old Windows games using OpenGL path (something like DX7 era games) or for old native 32-bit games.

So dropping 32-bit bloat could be a benefit and Steam client itself shouldn't be a thing that slows this down.

Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
22 Sep 2024 at 11:11 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about x86_64 support? (Steam client is still 32-bit.)
It's bizarre it's 32-bit to this day. Kind of same level of weirdness as github.com not supporting IPv6 still.

Wine 9.18 brings a new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg
22 Sep 2024 at 2:10 am UTC

New ffmpeg backend doesn't seem to help videos in Blood West yet.

29 games are getting delisted from GOG
19 Sep 2024 at 2:32 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: Cyba.CowboySadly, the overwhelming majority of GOG.com's catalog is either old and / or indie titles, or so-called "shovelware"; "AAA titles" are few and far between in the overall catalog.
Still, it just highlights the point. Even if GOG delists something in a way that removes the game from your account (which they don't usually even in the above case), if you take care to do backups, you'll still have it. So it's not really about all digital itself. That was my main point.

But yes, you are right that many games aren't available DRM-free. It is improving to some degree though? GOG has more newer games from big publishers than in the past these days.

29 games are getting delisted from GOG
19 Sep 2024 at 1:25 am UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThis is the most obvious downside to going all-digital, and a big part of the reason console manufactures are pushing this for the future... All-digital means you don't "own" anything and can have your purchase taken away at any time.
Wrong. It's the most obvious downside of using DRM. All digital DRM-free allows you to make your own backups, and no one can take it away at any time then any more than physical media you store it on. So if anything, GOG is the example of why DRM-free is important to prevent that.