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Mesa 25.1.3 emergency update released for AMD Radeon RX 9000 series (RDNA4)
10 Jun 2025 at 11:52 am UTC

If this issue only affected "users who have an old firmware.", is there a way to update that firmware? Or are you stuck on whatever firmware came with the card?

I think my mate was affected by this issue, but looking at firmware updater I don't see anything for the GPU there :/

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition is out now, needs a workaround on Linux
21 May 2025 at 8:38 am UTC

So I got SOC working using the launch option mentioned, and the into movie worked too, but the game fails to capture my mouse cursor? So my mouse is moving around the screen all the time, and I have two monitors, so the mouse just leaves the monitor the game is on, and when I click the game pauses because it's unfocused..

This happened on the OG games for me as well, but the mouse cursor wasn't visible over the game, so I could just turn my second monitor off and the game would work fine.

Is anyone else having this issue?

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 3:10 pm UTC

I switched to experimental and got through the shader compile.. or maybe I just got lucky that time

Update seems good so far!

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes
19 Dec 2024 at 1:00 pm UTC

Game is crashing while compiling shaders for me after the update :(

Edit: Aaaaand they've patched it! Nice

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review - works on Linux Desktop with Proton but poorly on Steam Deck
21 Nov 2024 at 1:12 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerThe graphics look like they are done in UE4 and they look not too far off what we saw in Call of Pripyat.
Is this bait?

Quoting: Cato-the-youngerNext, the "difficulty". There should not be difficulty in this game - there wasnt in the previous ones.
All the past games had multiple difficulty settings, so yep, this is bait.

Steam Deck comes to Australia on November 19
6 Nov 2024 at 10:32 am UTC

Finally! Too bad I already bought one from a grey market reseller though ^^'

Stuck for what to play this weekend? DayZ works really nicely on Linux now
2 Nov 2024 at 5:04 am UTC Likes: 1

Great to see you enjoying DayZ Liam! Probably my favourite game of all time, and I only started playing after Bohemia enabled BattlEye support for Proton.

Pretty awesome when developers actually seem keen to have their games working on Linux, which I believe Bohemia is, considering they were one of the first developers to take advantage of these proton compatible anti cheat options, and they actually fix bugs that only affect Linux users.

Because of that I've been able to have many many awesome adventures, make new friends, play on whacky modded servers, and just have the best time in this amazing game :)

Steam Beta adds new shortcut key to save a clip of recent gameplay
9 Sep 2024 at 1:18 am UTC

Quoting: CloversheenNeat, now if only it correctly read the keyboard input when trying to set a shortcut, apparently F12 is the same as [ and F11 is Z...
Quoting: Cloversheen
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: CloversheenNeat, now if only it correctly read the keyboard input when trying to set a shortcut, apparently F12 is the same as [ and F11 is Z...
I guess you can set it to whatever you need. I use CTRL-PAGEUP for marking, and CTRL-PAGEDOWN for capture. I just don't use it very often though (see my Microphone comment above), so I don't know other keys are matching that combination and triggering.

If I try to set it to Ctrl-PageDown by pressing the keybinding in the box it enters it as Ctrl+' :dizzy:
I'm getting the exact same behaviour 😬, haven't actually set a keybind as a result, would need to test if it actually works, despite showing random keys when setting up.

For example, my numpad numbers are entered as ABCDEF.. so weird.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has a new trailer - still releasing September 5
10 Jun 2024 at 4:01 am UTC Likes: 1

I'm so hyped for this!!

I was right with you though Liam, tried play Shadow of Chernobyl maybe 4 or 5 times, and just couldn't really get into it.. but something kept calling me back to it, and one day it just "clicked", and I played through all of the 3 original games and loved them.

Definitely recommend you giving it another chance, once you get through the first few missions, get yourself a decent rifle, and get used to the shooting mechanics, the game really hits it's stride and there's nothing else quite like it.

Turn the difficulty up, and the crosshair off, and immerse yourself in the world and the atmosphere, so you can experience how it's all changed once Stalker 2 drops in September 😁

EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux
19 May 2024 at 6:25 am UTC Likes: 1

Damn, I bought this recently after playing Art of Rally and wanting to try a AAA Rally Sim.. I've been enjoying it too, so this is a real shame :(