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Latest Comments by Xpander
Embark confirm "Duo prioritized matchmaking" for ARC Raiders and lowered store prices
12 Nov 2025 at 1:44 pm UTC

Nice. I bought the game through your fanatical link and have been having a blast playing with a friend.
Yesterday managed to kill the Leaper (the robot spider that jumps). Super fun game tbh and runs like a dream.

Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
10 Nov 2025 at 9:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

ARC Raiders - just bought it recently so just over 3 hours atm. Love it!
Flatout Ultimate Carnage - just for nostalgia, havent forgotten how to drive with a keyboard
FUMES - decent little indie car combat game.
Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning - my go to PvP MMORPG.

NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version
5 Nov 2025 at 12:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

Hm... time for some testing, if this AsyncCompute fix also fixes the VR async reprojection issue. Sounds similar enough. If so, it would be a huge improvement, as this is still an issue with any driver after 550. It might not be prominent on more powerful GPUs, yet my VR rig is either a 2080 oder 3070, and here it is happening when not using the 550 driver.
I doubt its about VR async at all. The game ran great with AsyncCompute but it just hanged when opening map/inventory. That got fixed. I doubt it has anything to do with VR async reprojection but worth a try i guess.

NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version
5 Nov 2025 at 12:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Never could get into Rage-2, kind of got real bad reviews, lots of empty nothing to do in the gameworld I heard.

What people think about it?
It's not a great game if i'm honest with you. Story is bad, Most of the characters are bland, cringe and uninteresting. Lots of idiotic busywork on the open map etc... but that being said. Combat is amazing if you can look past any of the other issues the game has. Combat is kinda like DOOM 2016 and it gets even better if you unlock all your abilities.

NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version
5 Nov 2025 at 5:50 am UTC Likes: 3

Rage 2 AsyncCompute issue is finally fixed after 4 years :)
No more hangs on map menu. This was the only issue i have had with nvidia drivers. Other than that their drivers have been rock solid for me at least.
More performance would be nice ofc, but i guess i'm playing games (not really into most of the triple A stuff) that perform great on my aging RTX 3080 as i really haven't seen much of a performance issues like some people seem to have.

The extraction shooter ARC Raiders is out and appears to work on Linux
30 Oct 2025 at 4:05 pm UTC

Server Slam playtest worked flawlessly without any issues for me and with great performance (epic settings, static lighting, DLSS quality 2560x1440 100+ FPS with 5800X3D/RTX3080). Great to hear it still works on the launch. I will keep my eye on it and let the dust settle a bit and then probably grab it also.

Assetto Corsa Rally announced for Early Access in November
17 Oct 2025 at 12:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

What's the problem with UE5?
Unoptimized crap with blurry TAA

There are very few devs that actually can tame this engine well. But hopefully those devs can. What i hear its custom UE5 engine, so theres hope.

Assetto Corsa Rally announced for Early Access in November
17 Oct 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC

Great news, but from what i gather its UE5... hopefully they customize it enough though.
just 2 locations and 4 stages isnt much either. Will keep my eye on this when it gets closer to release.
From a little gameplay i saw from traxxion channel on youtube it looks pretty nice simulation game for rally fans though.

Please make it stop - Google Chrome to be reimagined with AI
19 Sep 2025 at 9:07 am UTC Likes: 4

vivaldi
Still clean of AI and they wrote a blogpost on their site about it
"Why Vivaldi won’t follow the current AI trend?"

even firefox added all the AI slop with 141.. so yeah every major browser on the planet has this crap.

The big Call to Arms update for Valheim is out now
9 Sep 2025 at 5:30 pm UTC

Any news about when we might expect this game to be finished with all the content(remaining biome(s))?
haven't really checked this game since the early access release and finished it back then with the content it had, but have been waiting for this game to get released to start playing again.