Latest Comments by Xpander
The first handheld to use PlaytronOS is some Web3 thing - the SuiPlay0x1
11 April 2024 at 8:59 am UTC Likes: 5

lol at the renders.

Has there ever been a NFT/blockchain game thats gameplay first?
Epic Games store is full of this web3 asset flip trash or very bad clones of actual good games.

Don't really understand the benefits of NFT either if you can just use microtransactions (not that i like microtransactions either, but for free games its fine i guess) that are way easier for end user to use, rather than creating random wallets and going through multiple conversion things to get something etc.

This looks like its gonna fail big.

Arch Linux changes vm.max_map_count to match Fedora, Ubuntu for better gaming
8 April 2024 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

It seems i already have changed mine way higher in the past. Still rocking the same Arch install i installed back in 2013. Just keep on Rolling!

xpander@archlinux ~ $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/80-gamecompatibility.conf
vm.max_map_count = 2147483642

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live
4 April 2024 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: ToddLThe worse part of all of this is the fact that people have to cheat on these multiplayer games in the first place. It would've been nice if everyone played these multiplayer games without using cheats/mods so that these companies don't have to resort to using crappy anticheat programs that block Steam Deck/Linux users.

thats the sad reality about humanity.
Also cheat program developers earn loads of money doing this...

but yeah i don't understand people who buy those cheats.... This is why we can't have nice things i guess. 1 from 100 or 1000 is ruining everything for everyone else.

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live
4 April 2024 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

The "sad" reality is that even those super deep kernel level anticheats don't help these days. Sooner or later something new is needed. There are so many hardware level AI based cheats around already that are basically undetectable by everything.. THere are even some Gaming Monitors that trying to come out with a AI assisted tech like seeing enemy characters as colored blobs or so on... Drawing aproximate locations by listening the game sounds etc... its gonna be nasty future for multiplayer games sadly.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition out now on Steam - works on Steam Deck
22 March 2024 at 10:21 am UTC Likes: 1

Didn't like the first game. Tried to start it 3 times with different mindset, but the gameplay was dull and characters super bland and uninteresting. gameplay was kinda meh also like tomb raider games. Environment was super well done though. And thats just me i guess. So i wont buy it. Maybe when its on big sale later this year or next year.

Good to see day 1 working big titles on Linux though!
Happy for those who want to play this!

Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming
18 March 2024 at 5:16 pm UTC Likes: 6

This sounds more like some pitch to get some investors in rather than something already somewhere. Sound kinda more like a scam even...
They also have some investors like Polychain on the website, which doesn't rise the trust factor at all.

But well, lets wait and see i guess.

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support
18 March 2024 at 3:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EhvisThat's more about the technical stuff. I meant a game where it should make a difference.

Cyberpunk 2077, The FINALS, Apex Legends(DX12), Deep Rock Galactic, Ghostrunner ...etc

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/technologies/reflex/supported-products/

dx11 games dont work yet afaik. you need to merge this PR to it: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/3690

VKD3D-Proton version 2.12 adds NVIDIA Reflex support
18 March 2024 at 10:49 am UTC

Quoting: rustigsmedSo I'm assuming with reflex support - nVidia frame generation may work now for those are after some fake frames.

Not yet.
Tbh its kinda pointless to have higher number of frames anyway when the input is like low fps.. yeah reflex will make input better but you can enable reflex without framegeneration also to make input feel nicer.

But reflex support is quite nice and seems to somewhat work with the games i tried, but hard to really say how much actually improved. My brain is old and slow.

Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
8 March 2024 at 11:41 am UTC Likes: 4

X11 still works perfectly here.. Multiple different refresh monitors and the likes have not been an issue on X11, just have to sync to highest refresh in order to prevent vsyncs/compositors cap to lowest.
Im quite sure that X11 will be still around quite some time. I personally can't switch before my Desktop Environment of choice starts supporting it fully without any edge case issues..So plenty of time to still roll on X11.

FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage updated with Steam Deck support and no more DRM
8 March 2024 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: hardpenguinNo steering wheel for this one? 😎

Its way too arcade game for racing wheel :D i doubt it even supports FFB.
I used to play Flatout games with keyboard when i was younger and it seems i still havent quite lost it...