After my concerns have come to pass (very nice having it during the stream... the rule: no stream without technical issues did hit me hard yesterday :D) I was able to play it until the train scene. After some tinkering around, the performance was quite good for me. On the level transition the game crashed, causing a lock up where I had to hard reset the PC (mouse cursor was working, but nothing else, no keyboard etc). After this, I wasn't able to start the game again, it just closes immediately and the play button in Steam becomes green again.

But it was working. And yes, it is awesome. The visuals, the haptics, the animations, the details. Omg, the details! You can open trash cans, find a dead rat in it, pick it up, perfect ragdoll behaviour... you can turn the pedals of bycicles... you can squeeze beverage cans... turn the nob on a radio... paint with pens on glass... the immersion is wicked sick.

Okay, the level of interaction is not new, we've seen this already in Boneworks, but still, the unique Half Life universe art style... it's giving me goose bumps.

Where Beat Saber was the "killer app" for VR before, atm Half Life: Alyx might be the same kind of eye opener. Maybe I'm biased though ;)

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Very cool Valve created a dedicated page for gamers who want to showcase Half Life: Alyx. Be it on stream or on the monitor or TV:

Streaming and Spectating Guide [External Link]

I'm not bold though planning a stream though, there can go so much wrong on Linux still :D
Just lately suddenly Beat Saber didn't start anymore. No logs got created, nothing. Turned out that opting out of SteamVR beta helped, though beta and stable were the same version ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe it was releated to this github issue [External Link], maybe not.

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Quoting: NanobangI just read an interesting article about Denuvo in Doom Eternal. [External Link] the tl,dr is that the Doom Eternal came with it's an additional .exe folder that is Denuvo-free. Yup, someone at Bethesda included a crack for their own game. :D It might be something to check out.

Yeah, I read that as well [External Link], but people tested Doom Eternal with Proton/Wine/Lutris and this denuvo-less exececutable already, but no luck.
After this faux-pas Bethesda could also remove Denuvo already... oh dear, I don't want to be that person who left that file in.

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Quoting: lejimsterI'm a bit confused. Is Doom Eternal working or not on Protom yet? Unless denuvo is supported in proton I'm guessing we will have to wait like we did with Doom?

Atm it doesn't work, people can't get it to run according to the github issue [External Link]. It seems Vulkan driver related, but might also be additionally Denuvo related.

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For those who where wondering about the browser source, seems like it wasn't included in OBS 25.0.0. At least not for me in the Ubuntu PPA. The upgrade to 25.0.1 fixes this.

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Hopefully Proton 5.0-5 will also include patches to get Doom Eternal up and running, but maybe it also needs a gpu driver update. At least with 5.0-4 it seems not to work so far.
Well, maybe I should try Doom Eternal on Stadia. Really a pity Bethesda is not interested in supporting Desktop Linux, though ID Software once released well working Linux binaries for their games (Doom 3, Quake 4, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars...).
Otherwise, HL:A will be the next hype game to be played ;)

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It's playable ON Linux. I can live with that initially. Awesome they are going to release a native Version afterwards. Maybe again a Vulkan version that's only available on Linux, and Windows gamers need to deal with the "inferior" old API, har har har :D

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We Linux streamers would be more or less screwed without OBS. I'm very happy this awesome software project exists and is pretty well maintained. The convenience it brings is without any competitor. I'm using OBS ever since, and except a minor issue here and there with capturing or with audio, it's quite stable and has a good performance.

Only thing I'm unhappy with right now is Ubuntu 19.10, where ffmpeg is compiled without nvenc support (I know I can compile it on my own, but I'd like to use the distribution maintained package). And OBS doesn't pick up the snap ffmpeg where nvenc support would be available. Although the OBS snap comes with nvenc support, I can't install any other 3rd party plugins (like input-overlay or NDI). I hope this get's solved in Ubuntu 20.04.

edit: aaah, nice: @m_wimpress on twitter [External Link]

Thanks to the assist from @rikmills88 I'm delighted to say the @nvidia nvenc ⚡ accelerated @FFmpeg has landed in #Ubuntu Focal Fossa. Projects like @OBSProject & @shotcutapp now have access to accelerated video encoding via both debs & snaps 🤘

I should have complained about this here earlier :D

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI just cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the linux files.
I switched to the linux beta, uninstalled, reinstalled, restarted Steam, checking integrity, everything.

It still insists on downloading the Windows files and starting them via Proton.
When switching to the Linux beta, it downloads a 29MB update - not an 8GB one.
And when trying to start forcing the Steam Linux Runtime, it complains about the missing linux launch executable. Removing the specific use of any Steam Play tool "updates" the game -> back to its Windows version.

I have the same issue, did you get this sorted?

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Oof... lots of games bought on Linux and then not counted as Linux games... oh dear, that's quite a loss in visibility, hm?
I've bought quite some games since the release of Proton to play those games on Linux, and I'd really like the devs to see those numbers. But I probably haven't played them in since I bought them, and iirc the platform you bought the games on counts then.

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