And here am I, using nVidia since decades, barely having issues and even being happy about DLSS and nvenc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I remember being very disappointed about ATi back then, when the fglxr driver wasn't updated for X anymore and I couldn't use my Radeon X1950 Pro anymore, and the card wasn't even that old. nVidia instead still supports really old cards with their legacy drivers on modern systems.

Sure it all changed in the meantime, from my experience though nVidia cards are not half as bad as you could get the impression by some comments. Neither my Ubuntu nor Arch system had issues with the proprietary drivers (fingers crossed).

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Also Orbital Bullet [External Link] works, but that's one even marked as unsupported. ProtonDB [External Link] lists it as platinum though. Works well on Deck.

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It's now available: https://community.stadia.com/t5/Stadia-General/Stadia-Controller-How-to-Enable-Bluetooth/m-p/86195/thread-id/35077 [External Link]

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My way of playing the Division 2 would have been Stadia... it even had crossplay with PC players. I bought it on sale... well, got refunded.
It's available via GeForce Now, but currently only via Ubisoft or Epic, where I don't own the game. And it being borked on Steam, I guess I won't play it at all now.

We have other games to play...

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Cool! And interesting what they all track! Devices, operating systems, genres... everything! Well, I have to admit in this case I don't mind. If it would be Microsoft or Google, it would be different :whistle:

Here's mine: https://s.team/y22/cqrpgmf?l=english [External Link]

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Nice picks, I'm interested mostly in the same games. This show did get me excited for some titles... gosh, I don't want to wait for years for them to finally come out. When will DS2 release and eventually come to PC? 5 years?! :shock:

Let's hope Proton will work with most of them ootb, so we don't have to wait even longer when they finally release, and Proton needs to be updated for them.

But when checking the history of the former Playsation exclusives coming to Steam, they even try to get a playable or even verified mark for the Steam Deck, so chances are good.

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nvfbc for EGL, please.

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Really a shame that Valve hasn't fixed the Mongoose timeout bug. I've played Alyx with Proton, native, the Bioshock Alyx mod Return to Rapture [External Link] with Proton (though it crashed a lot on level transitions), but now I can't get it to run at all. Disabling ipv6 didn't help :-/

Also it was time for me to replace my Index cable again. A damaged cable causes the weirdest issues. Funky pixels flashing randomly in the HMD in all colors, audio cutouts, screen flashes... up to the HMD not being recognized. It's not the HMD that's broken, it's "just" the cable. Now it's all fine again, until this one wears out too.

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Quoting: XpanderYeah i heard that, but why switch from a working solution to something that breaks plugins :(

From what I've heard, nobody wants to touch that code anymore. So it had to go. With the switch to qt6 many plugins broke... well, the usual update thingy, sometimes old stuff has to be cut off :-/
Too bad if really good functionality is lost then.

Quoting: XpanderXcomposite is pretty similar to perf with nvfbc to be honest, thats not an issue really, but i have to select what window i want to record then every time and if i want to record whole desktop, its sad story. Fullscreen capture (XSHM) is just epicly slow when you launch a game on the desktop. nvfbc was performant in all situations.

Exactly my reasons to use nvfbc still as well. I can just select one of my workspaces to capture, don't have to create sources for each window, etc...

Before I used nfvbc I had one scene where I created a capture window for each game, and used it as a nested scene in my main scene. But still, needed it's own source for each window to capture.

Hmm... how about a tool, that just creates a "window" of a workspace? Is something like that available? If there was a performant way of doing that, it would solve this issue.

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Quoting: XpanderThey still haven't reversed the commit that broke NvFBC it looks like :(
Still using the v27 because of that. I will have to look for alternatives soon i guess

They switched to EGL, nvfbc (which I'm also still using via OBS 27 as it's awesome, both performance-wise and usability-wise) needs GLX though. And they don't want to maintain GLX anymore.

The OBS Linux maintainers said though, they've put in a lot of effort to make xcomposite capture much better and more performant. They advice to use windowed fullscreen for best results. Haven't tested it yet, but as other plugins are also dropping support for older OBS versions sooner or later, I'll probably upgrade at some point.

Or nVidia implements nvfbc for EGL in their driver... ha, yeah, I know... but we can dream, can't we!

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