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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Dune: Spice Wars is out in Early Access, works on Linux and Steam Deck
28 Apr 2022 at 4:19 am UTC

That's pretty cool that they are using an open source engine for a high profile game. But I wonder why that one specifically. Is it better than let's say Godot?

By the way, animation sequences in the game trailer look pretty good! Surely not small budget.

Dune: Spice Wars is out in Early Access, works on Linux and Steam Deck
27 Apr 2022 at 6:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Oh, a new Dune game? That's very cool! I hope DRM-free release is planned.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight
25 Apr 2022 at 6:57 am UTC Likes: 2

Yeah, may be propose for SteamOS to simply include it by default.

See what's eating up drive space on the Steam Deck with Filelight
24 Apr 2022 at 7:39 pm UTC

Doesn't Deck come with KDE? So you can probably pull it from the repo if your set up in not in immutable mode. Unless SteamOS repos don't have such packages?

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions
24 Apr 2022 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: LNX
Quoting: Shmerl...is working again with this release with latest Mesa...
Debian + latest Mesa? Really? Is there easy way for my MX linux to get fresh Mesa 22 up&running?
I don't use packaged Mesa for gaming, but build Mesa main and run games with it.

See here:

https://gist.github.com/shmerl/f4e5f76871239158cf083e37c5da56f4 [External Link]

See also here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Building_Mesa_from_source

Wiki article is outdated in the sense of building, but it gives an idea how to run things with such build.

Wine 7.7 is out with more PE conversion work and theme additions
24 Apr 2022 at 3:17 am UTC Likes: 1

Cyberpunk 2077 is working again with this release with latest Mesa main (it was crashing before due to insufficient stack size).

Intel announced the Core i9 12900KS as the 'world's fastest desktop processor'
28 Mar 2022 at 8:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Not bad, but hopefully AMD can do better with 16 cores / 32 threads CPUs.

Wine 7.5 is out now with initial OCSP protocol support
27 Mar 2022 at 2:19 am UTC Likes: 1

An interesting addition in this Wine - built in HLSL compiler. I.e. D3DCompile is now hooked into latest Wine code:

https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/d3dcompiler_43/compiler.c#l940 [External Link]

But Cyberpunk 2077 with Cyberengine tweaks you still need install d3dcompiler_47 override. While it's not crashing anymore without it, the tweaks UI itself isn't working either.

Isometric party-based RPG Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness has launched
20 Mar 2022 at 4:34 am UTC

I personally like real time + pause gameplay for these kind of RPGs, so I'll probably get this after some round of bug fixes updates and some additional reviews about the writing.