Many improvements to the HLSL compiler.

Still no improvement for built in d3dcompiler_47 needed for Cyberengine Tweaks to work. With native override it works OK.

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Quoting: x_wingIf good or bad depends of your application in the end. I really doubt that handling controllers setup is a CPU intensive operation plus you can use Python C API if you need some speed up for certain components. The only con I see on that project is that they are using Python 2, to which the support ended in 2019.

I suppose depends on how constantly it's used. If it's running all the time - it can be more CPU / RAM taxing than using something that doesn't require a beefy runtime.

On a normal CPU set up that might be of minimal concern, but on an APU resources are more expensive.

In general, I'd never recommend using Python for hardware support. Rust is a better idea.

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Hm. Looks like they are working on it. That's promising:

https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller/commit/4d0e6c7d469bc14119adfbf90ea2bcc45e331b95 [External Link]

I hope they'll publish some instructions how to use this on the Deck to enable controllers for non Steam games.

Python though isn't a good idea for APU use case. I wish they'd used some compiled language for better performance.

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Quoting: BlooAlienMaybe https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/standalone-steam-controller-driver-and-ui-sc-controller-gets-a-sweet-small-upgrade/ still works?

I'd expect something like that is needed, yes. But I haven't seen anything addressing Steam Deck specifically.

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About Steam Deck, I'm still not clear if input support and all the controller related stuff is tied to Steam or not. Let's say you get a GOG game (whether native or Wine use case). How are you going to integrate it with controllers without Steam? Is it possible? Are there open source libraries for Steam Deck controllers support that can be exposed to games and Wine?

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Biggest annoyance is not the lack of official client, but lack of support for Galaxy features on their server for Linux versions.

So no Galaxy API for updates (though there is a workaround using Linux installers and zip offsets that lgogdownloader can utilize) and no multiplayer either.

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Switched to the KDE Wayland session in this round of updates.

Good to see AMD GPU usage rising trend picking up again, now that GPU shortages and overpricing are over.

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Looks pretty cool! I hope they'll release the soundtrack too.

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Artist who worked on the game: https://valenberg.tumblr.com [External Link]

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I bought the game a while ago. Some hard puzzles (in a good way) and some elements of the story are kind of strange, but overall it felt good.

You can check the soundtrack here (it's very good):

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/virtuaverse-ost [External Link]

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