Quoting: fredrikfritteAnyone onboard this?

Yep, I am ;)
And so far I'm having a great time. Using Chromium (for better OBS capture, as Chrome somehow doesn't get captured) and I'm playing games on Stadia on a regular basis. I'm lucky to have a decent connection, so the Stadia+ network monitor states mostly a latency of ~4ms (sometime even less, with a jitter buffer of ~28ms). So controls feel pretty snappy to me.
I've completed Metro Exodus on Stadia, and recently started a new play through of Everspace. I got both games to claim without additional costs via the Pro subscription.
The only things I bought on Stadia so far are the Everspace Encounters Expansion DLC as well as Cyberpunk 2077 (with the Google Chromecast bundle).

I was pretty surprised to see that e.g. Metro Exodus was using DXVK in the credits. Also that the Stadia edition of Everspace is using Vulkan directly (so it's not the same native Linux version as on Steam/GoG which is using OpenGL).

From my perspective I can totally recommend Stadia, especially if you are a Linux gamer and want to play games that don't have a native version and don't work with Proton or use EAC (e.g. Dead by Daylight, Destiny 2, etc.). But it depends on if your device can decode the stream properly (most modern devices can do that easily) and it depends on your Internet connection. But you can test Stadia for free for one month, so it might be worth a try.

PS: I'm also pretty surprised how well GeForce Now works ;) But many games aren't available there or got removed by the publisher. Which I don't understand, as you have to buy the game yourself anyways, it's just you're not installing it locally, but running it on the nVidia servers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
GeForce Now would've been the perfect alternative to play EAC games.

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Unfortunately the new Bioshock: Return to Rapture mod from the workshop [External Link] doesn't work. I had to switch to the proton version, which still has issues with crashing on level transitions. Also using Vulkan as default renderer crashes the game with proton right away.

I wish they'd either fix the mod support in the Linux version, or fix Proton to make HL:A work flawless. Atm it's a... well, you need to be patient and have a high frustration level ;)

Also it's not possible for me to capture the native HL:A Vulkan window with OBS. Capturing a Vulkan DXVK window works. I capture the VR mirrow view, but though it has a higher FoV, it's lacking some nice features like smoothing the cam movement.

Otherwise HL:A is THE best VR game out there (at least story based VR game).

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When I enable "Model" on goverlay, it used to show my current model (e.g. 1070), but now it shows only NVIDIA.
Any idea how to let it show the currently used model again? From what I've seen, it seems to check against pciids.txt, which can be updated by update-pciids, but that doesn't help, though my current model is listed in that file.

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Yeah yeah, okay okay... I'll finally buy it :D
Have been looking at it for quite a while, and just for the native Linux support I wanted to support the devs.
But I have no idea when I'm going to play it, so I was hesitating. Well, not anymore. It's bought. Thanks -.-
:wink:

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Mixed reality is key in showing VR games on stream. And there is a lack of support for that in games as well as 3rd party software on or for Linux. Hopefully this will change it a bit.

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Quoting: EikeHow could you not recognize my ASCII art checkboxes?!? :D

This - obviously! :p - is what a radio button looks like:
( )

Haha xD
I did recognize the checkboxes, but the question "What's your favourite store to buy a game?" implied for me only one possible answer, which would result in a radio button ;)

Quoting: EikeYes, but it would have the problem the WINE question had back in the days: It would need frequent updates by the users, which most people probably won't do.

Hmmm, I thought the monthly friendly reminder would help with that. At least I'm quickly cross checking every time if my answers are still up to date. And I'm sure everybody else does so too :whistle: :woot:

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Liam DaweHappy to take suggestions.

"What's your favourite store to buy a game?"
[ ] Steam
[ ] GoG
[ ] Humble
[ ] Itch.io
[ ] 3rd party Steam key sellers
[ ] other

"Favourite" wouldn't be subject to frequent changes.
Maby one should add something like ("it it would be available at all stores") or the like.

How about a checkbox instead of a radio button? Because I'm not buying only in one store, though there might be the most favorite one.

But if the question would be more like: where did you buy games in the last month? And then you select the stores you used to buy something. And with buy I mean actually paying money, not grabbing the free EGS game. This could reflect if a store became suddenly interesting, because of an exclusive has been released (e.g. Stadia). Of course there should be a way for Linux users to use this store and play its games. But I think atm they are all somehow useable (lutris, heroic, Chrome browser)

What do you think about an option for subscriptions? Stadia Pro, Geforce Now, EA Access, etc.?

Wouldn't be a PC Info survey anymore, but well ;)

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• Fix No Man's Sky in VR mode

Haven't played NMS in a long time, maybe it's about time to replay and even check how it performs now in VR :wub:

• Fix voice chat failure in Deep Rock Galactic

I'm also kinda interested in this one, though I mostly play with friends and we use Mumble as voice chat. But maybe DRG has some nice other features, e.g. the ingame voice of Elite: Dangerous is the most atmospheric way to play that game.

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So far I'm really happy about the games that get added for Stadia subscribers. And still so sad those games won't be published officially for the Linux desktop. But I don't feel too bad, as with my purchases there I still kinda support Linux devs. Though I don't buy really much on Stadia, my only two purchases so far have been Everspace Encounters DLCs (the base game was free for subs) and Cyberpunk (as I got a Controller + Chromecast Ultra for free with it).

edit: nice little gimmick, Everspace on Stadia got updated to use Vulkan instead of OpenGL as the native version does on Steam.

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Dang, I missed the Kickstarter campaign. But I bought the game through their website [External Link], so the dev gets a bit more money.

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