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Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey
3 Sep 2023 at 8:10 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: poiuzThey dropped support for old games. So what?
So it means they don't give two sh*ts about gamers. They do whatever the heck they want for their own purposes. Gamers being completely not a consideration. QED.

Arguing any abstract arguments when they literally made already existing games on their own platform unplayable is pointless. Gamers care about games, not about Apple telling them "your games you paid for are now broken, have fun".

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey
3 Sep 2023 at 3:44 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: poiuzConsoles drop support for the previous generations all the time & people seldom care. Worst case scenario they just buy a remaster. Eventually there will be a community driven compatibility layer (if somebody cares).
I don't get any of your arguments. Apple is a PC vendor, so dropping 32-bit support and not supporting OpenGL / Vulkan directly harmed gaming on their own platform. It's glaringly obvious they don't care about this use case, Steam or not Steam. They deliberately make things worse, something Linux never has done for gamers.

Wine 8.15 is out now, plus more Wine Wayland work submitted
3 Sep 2023 at 4:36 am UTC

Good to see Wine Wayland moving forward.

What's the story with winesync though? I'm building wine-esync from staging, but I'd prefer upstream support.

Linux user share remains above macOS in the latest Steam Survey
3 Sep 2023 at 2:24 am UTC Likes: 7

Good. I don't get why anyone would use macOS for gaming. Apple completely doesn't care about gamers and does the opposite from supporting them. From not supporting OpenGL and Vulkan to dropping 32-bit support and so on.

Linux kernel 6.5 released
29 Aug 2023 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 3

The annoying Firefox on Wayland crash is fixed with this kernel.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3
28 Aug 2023 at 4:05 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeFunny enough, the PCB was the same size, but the heat sink just hung off of it about 4 inches further. It came with a bracket to stabilize it better... GPUs are just getting silly in size.
Congrats for switching to AMD.

I went for even bigger 7900 XTX and Sapphire Nitro+ model for it is especially huge. But the upside is that it's really silent and runs relatively cool even under heavy load. So massive heat sink is useful.

Deimos Games shutting, making Helium Rain and Astral Shipwright free to play
28 Aug 2023 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

So far it's not free on GOG and itch.io, but I suppose the developer just didn't get to changing that yet:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/helium_rain [External Link]
https://deimos-games.itch.io/helium-rain [External Link]

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3
27 Aug 2023 at 8:20 pm UTC

It's kind of funny they position 7800 XT as 1440p gaming card. I guess their baseline is 60 fps for this designation? Something like CP2077 runs at ~140 fps with 7900 XTX at 2560x1440, so I'd say it's a good 1440p card? 7800 XT wouldn't be enough.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3
27 Aug 2023 at 8:15 pm UTC

Quoting: omer666I agree. I'm looking into building a new rig soon and I was looking for a recent game to benchmark the whole stuff. Turns out there's no interesting title for me that's less than 2-3 years old. I'd want to try Cyberpunk 2077 now that it's less bug-heavy but turns out it's still 60 bucks and with the upcoming extension being quite pricey as well, I guess it's a no-go for me.
They make sales for it periodically. Though I think $60 for such sized game is normal.

Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT revealed, plus more details on FSR 3
25 Aug 2023 at 7:24 pm UTC

Quoting: Avehicle7887Reminds of when I played Grimrock 2, the jaggies were horrible until I learned about basalt :grin:
For some reason game's anti-aliasing has very bad performance, framerate is tanked completely. And their temporal AA option is worse. VkBasalt SMAA works with good performance in comparison.