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What's that? Another Steam Client Beta update? With a Linux platform filter? Yes it is
26 Sep 2019 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 6

I wish they add a way to easily see which version of proton a game is using and whether or not it has been whitelisted. That's the main thing I miss from the old library.

Whose Wine is it anyway? Wine 4.11 is out
21 Jun 2019 at 10:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Bugs fixed in 4.11
45218 Fallout 4 Script Extender fails to allocate trampoline buffers
Nice, I hope this fixes SKSE64 too. Hopefully Proton rebases on more recent Wine soon.

Canonical planning to drop 32bit support with Ubuntu 19.10 onwards
21 Jun 2019 at 12:31 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShmerlDebian stable provides an option to use backports repo, which has newer packages of some components. But I really recommend you to use Debian testing which is rolling (except for freeze periods). It's way better for desktop use case.
Yeah, I guess I could use testing or sid, didn't even think of those.
Apt-listbugs seems like a nice package to have. I probably would have moved already if I had known about that.

Canonical planning to drop 32bit support with Ubuntu 19.10 onwards
21 Jun 2019 at 12:01 am UTC Likes: 1

Great, I guess it's time to finally bail out of Ubuntu. May the distro hopping begin again.

Is there a Debian (stable) repo for more recent kernels and nvidia drivers or would I have to install that sort of stuff manually? Maybe it's finally time to give in to the Arch menace.

DXVK, the Vulkan-based layer for Direct3D 10/11 in Wine has a major 1.1 release out now (updated)
6 Apr 2019 at 7:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: arzardkAwesome news!
Spoiler, click me
Anyone knows where i can get latest Nvidia 418.49.4 Vulkan drivers for Ubuntu except from the Nvidia site? I know about ppa:graphics-drivers/dev but it seems like this ppa is abandoned since October.
Use the non-dev branch of the ppa https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link]
I've had issues with xorg dying on me randomly with 418.56 though.

Wine 4.3 is out with the XAudio2 reimplementation 'FAudio' included
2 Mar 2019 at 1:07 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Avehicle7887Anyone know how I can use FAudio with older Wine versions? I know Proton does this for a while but how about using it with just Wine?

So far I've managed to build the "libFAudio.so" library but I'm at a roadblock how to get Wine to use it.
Try using these mingw builds https://github.com/Kron4ek/FAudio-Builds [External Link] as dll overrides.

NVIDIA driver 415.22 is out for Linux, finally adding Transform Feedback support
14 Dec 2018 at 9:50 am UTC

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, finally, the Nvidia 415.23 PPA has arrived!

It seems there was a bug in the 415.22 version that was fixed in the 415.23 version.

Fixed a build failure, "implicit declaration of function 'vm_insert_pfn'", when building the NVIDIA DRM kernel module for Linux kernel 4.20 release candidates.
Good to know, thanks :)

Nearly six years after the Kickstarter, Stainless Games claim Carmageddon is still coming to Linux
18 Jan 2018 at 9:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: VodkaChicken
Quoting: Leopard2020 : It is still coming...

One thing to note ; i don't understand why they are referring releasing a GOG version as a reward?

People are buying it from there , you are not giving it away this game on there. You're just putting your build to another store ; at a price.

Reward term is irritating.
Kickstarter backers get a GOG key as a reward. It's like four years late but at least they finally delivered that.
Ugghh , disgusting practices.
They promised a DRM-free version for backers and they finally delivered it. Nothing disgusting about that.
I was honestly not expecting it to ever happen so this was a nice surprise for me.

Nearly six years after the Kickstarter, Stainless Games claim Carmageddon is still coming to Linux
18 Jan 2018 at 8:45 pm UTC

Quoting: Leopard2020 : It is still coming...

One thing to note ; i don't understand why they are referring releasing a GOG version as a reward?

People are buying it from there , you are not giving it away this game on there. You're just putting your build to another store ; at a price.

Reward term is irritating.
Kickstarter backers get a GOG key as a reward. It's like four years late but at least they finally delivered that.