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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 515.49.14 out now
24 Aug 2022 at 9:43 am UTC

Quoting: mr-victoryUse this:
https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all [External Link]
Looks like 515.49.14 is not added yet, last commit is a week old.
I used this for 515.49.14. Just use the custom version and enter the number, select vulkan beta and so on.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 515.49.14 out now
24 Aug 2022 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PirolisiIf only there was a clear guide to install it on Manjaro for a normie like me trying to use Linux.
git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all.git
cd nvidia-all
makepkg -si


and it lets you interactively pick the custom driver number when its not added into the scripts yet.

Spoiler, click me

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 515.49.14 out now
24 Aug 2022 at 7:20 am UTC Likes: 1

Nice. Been using the 515.49.10 since it was made available and its been amazing with the DXVK's graphics pipeline library [External Link] (..AKA the Stutter free experience™)

Now installed this one, lets see how this will handle everything :P

Valve dev understandably not happy about glibc breaking Easy Anti-Cheat on Linux
17 Aug 2022 at 9:36 am UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: TermyI tend to agree with the criticism about unstable APIs for many cases - but in this case, i really blame Epic for using a function deprecated for almost two decades in a recent piece of software.
Blame libstrangle and Shovel Knights devs also?
Still the issue is that it wasn't really advertised that its gonna get removed and is replaced with other method. It was pretty much hidden in some blogspots. Also what if you have some software that is way older. There needs to be a backwards compatibility.

Epic or EAC devs can fix this surely at some point, but what about the software that never gets maintained anymore?

Valve dev understandably not happy about glibc breaking Easy Anti-Cheat on Linux
17 Aug 2022 at 7:58 am UTC Likes: 17

Quoting: JpxeIsn't Flatpak the solution to this? Then you can just target the runtime environment and it will always stay the same as I understand it.
No its not a solution. It has its own issues with different GPU driver versions.
And also holding back updates or reverting breakages will pile up sooner or later and will be a huge maintenance burden.

Run around a cyberpunk city as a lost cat in Stray - out now
21 Jul 2022 at 4:02 am UTC Likes: 1

World details are amazing, sound is really good, animations are well done. Howerver, theres hardly any gameplay. Its more of a walking simulator with some extremely easy puzzles. You can't even fail jumps, it's mostly just press this button to do that when facing something, more like a QTE style thing than actual gameplay. I mean its good if you want to switch off your brain and just be a cat i guess.

ARK: Survival Evolved switches away from Linux Native to use Proton
11 Jul 2022 at 7:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: cbstrykerIsn't that for the native Linux version? I have the windows version installed (with DLCs) and it's sitting just shy of 250 GBs.
Just base game without DLCs is ~130GB for windows builds and ~70GB for linux native builds... with DLCs the windows builds go well beyond 200GB indeed

CRSED: F.O.A.D. is like PUBG with powers, now on Linux and Steam Deck Verified
26 May 2022 at 6:29 pm UTC

It's Free to play and its Native.. So there's that. Played couple of rounds, but imo its pretty awful. Combat is pretty bad. Audio-visual feedback is not very well done imo, the animations are pretty bad. First person view is kinda strange and third-person is even worse for this type of game imo. The Maps are kinda bland and boring also. Points of interest locations are like just slapped in and loot is sometimes very weirdly placed. Graphics look pretty OK (minus few visual glitches with water reflections and shadows) and the game runs well. Not the worst game out there but lacks a lot of polish. I might be spoiled with how fluid the combat in Apex legends is. But like i said.. Its free and just like 10GB to download and at least in EU zone i found the matches pretty quickly.

Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xwtuxXV6XA [External Link]

Developer of popular noise suppression tool NoiseTorch has dev machine compromised
19 May 2022 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Ohh sad. I have been using this for a long time and it's been amazing tool to clean up all the background noise. I think i will still keep using the build i have, cause other similar programs never worked great for me.

Proton Experimental bumps minimum driver version, more playable on Linux and Steam Deck
13 May 2022 at 5:26 pm UTC

afaik all the vulkan beta drivers since 470.62.05 support the VK_KHR_maintenance4 and the latest being 470.62.29. so those drivers should still work on older gen cards right?
Also this update is for experimental, so its not a big deal i think. Sooner or later the support for old GPUs has to stop somewhere imo.