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Latest Comments by mylka
Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 Jan 2021 at 4:44 pm UTC

whats the solution to this?
make games expensive for everyone, or cheaper?

What Never Was: Chapter II gets a teaser trailer and a Steam page
14 Jan 2021 at 11:03 pm UTC

i was surprised, that they already used vulkan back then. i hope chapter 2 is longer

The open source Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher has a big overhaul
12 Jan 2021 at 3:41 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: edoThey should focus on providing proton support before even thinking about adding features not strictly needed by the epic games


just add the proton GE folder as default wineprefix and you can choose between all of your downloaded GE versions
i just tried 2 games and they work OOTB

Looks like we may see Steam properly on Chrome OS by the end of 2021
11 Jan 2021 at 12:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: HoriI came here excited thinking that Steam will become available for ARM... I'm disappointed :(
since apple makes ARM CPUs now i guess it wont take long

AMD make switching between Vulkan drivers AMDVLK and RADV easier
9 Jan 2021 at 3:13 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: mylka
Quoting: fagnerlnAMD and Valve are two of most helpful companies and must be supported from us.
meehhh they kicked the AMD sensor thingy (k10temp) out of kernel 5.10 because a lack of documentation. now some values are useless and i have to stick with kernel 5.9
Well that's not quite the whole truth. The module exists and still reports temperatures, but the reason it doesn't report voltage and current any more is not just about the documentation. Here's the relevant commit message:

Voltages and current are reported by Zen CPUs. However, the means
to do so is undocumented, changes from CPU to CPU, and the raw data
is not calibrated. Calibration information is available, but again
not documented. This results in less than perfect user experience,
up to concerns that loading the driver might possibly damage
the hardware (by reporting out-of range voltages). Effectively
support for reporting voltages and current is not maintainable.
Drop it.
If there's code in the kernel that might risk damaging your hardware (or simply provides unreliable data), I'd say removing it is a good decision.
i dont think linus wanted to kick it out so my point still stands. its AMDs fault

Epic Games has acquired RAD Game Tools so they now own Bink video and more
9 Jan 2021 at 3:22 am UTC Likes: 1

and still no money for a linux client, or a client, that does not suck

AMD make switching between Vulkan drivers AMDVLK and RADV easier
9 Jan 2021 at 3:19 am UTC

Quoting: fagnerlnAMD and Valve are two of most helpful companies and must be supported from us.
meehhh they kicked the AMD sensor thingy (k10temp) out of kernel 5.10 because a lack of documentation. now some values are useless and i have to stick with kernel 5.9

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
6 Jan 2021 at 4:35 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: mylkathe appimage finally shows me my games
it would be sooo awesome if we could download native linux versions from epic through this launcher

i just went over all the free games i collected, looking for native linux games and IT....IS.... A.... LOT!!!!!!!!!!
A launcher can do nothing about the fact that none of those Linux versions are available in Epic's store. There's nothing to download. But maybe that's what you meant.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/heroic-games-launcher-is-a-new-unofficial-epic-games-store-for-linux/comment_id=196223

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
6 Jan 2021 at 3:53 pm UTC

the appimage finally shows me my games
it would be sooo awesome if we could download native linux versions from epic through this launcher

i just went over all the free games i collected, looking for native linux games and IT....IS.... A.... LOT!!!!!!!!!!

Heroic Games Launcher is a new unofficial Epic Games Store for Linux
5 Jan 2021 at 1:58 pm UTC

Quoting: leo523No store for Linux and EAC not working for Linux they have nothing to attract me. I will use Steam only.
they have free games. you could play rocket league for free

lets see how it goes. maybe epic is nice and makes some kind of linux API, so developers can upload their linux version of games and we can download and play them.

just over christmas there were some games with native linux port. stranded deep, cities skylinie, oddworld, alien isolation