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DXVK 1.4.3 released helping games with a large number of different shaders
19 Oct 2019 at 12:24 pm UTC

World of Warcraft Classic started having heavy freezes after reaching to new areas or completing quests, like 1-2 sec freezes. Switched back to previous version of DXVK and problems went away. Need more testing though.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
13 Oct 2019 at 9:38 am UTC

World of Warcraft Classic - with DXVK/Wine - works amazingly. This is the game i played a lot also when i started using Linux in 2007 fulltime. Nostalgia. Addiction is real.

AMD have announced the Radeon RX 5500 available later this year
7 Oct 2019 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 4

Meh :( i was hoping for 5800 or 5900

I dont get the numbering, Navi 10 is higher end and Navi 14 is weaker, what?

If you can't login to World of Warcraft or WoW Classic on Linux, here's a quick fix for now
9 Sep 2019 at 6:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

WoW Classic is the best thing ever happened to WoW :) Really enjoying it. WoW kind of died for me with Cataclysm. Though i have played all the expansions until the last one, they were just good for getting the story line and then quiting. Cause the modern WoW imo is just a buttonsmash through the content. Classic is amazingly frustrating yet rewarding :)

Game manager Lutris just had a huge update with D9VK, Discord Rich Presence and more
8 Sep 2019 at 6:54 am UTC Likes: 1

Just tested the Discord Rich Presence option. I dont use Lutris usually, but Discord sometimes shows like im playing wine64-preloader or similar and i was hoping that thisone is fixing that and showing the actual game name finally in discord ...but it seems it shows as Lutris and then a game name when i click on the name as a info.

I wonder if its possible to change that?


NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver 435.19.02, plus 435.21 stable driver released
30 Aug 2019 at 6:27 pm UTC Likes: 5

435.21 supersedes 435.17, it contains all 435.17 has + the mentioned xorg crash fix.
435.19.02 vulkan beta driver is based on the same 435.17 also but adds some vulkan stuff on top and doesnt have the 435.21 xorg crash fix. while 435.21 doesnt have the extra vulkan stuff the 435.19.02 adds

430.40 is completely older branch. 435.21 has lots of new additions over this

basically first number is the major version, 410,418,430,435 - those include major additions.
second number is the fixes number - fixes and minor features on top of the major branch
third number (only for vulkan beta testing) - has extra vulkan testing extensions or fixes that will later be merged into next major number of stable drivers

Try the first demo of the dino MMO Path of Titans, we have some testing keys to give away
23 Aug 2019 at 3:34 am UTC

Thanks for the key.

First i don't like appimage or snap. Luckily a community memember in discord was kind enough to extract the contents from the appimage, so i could use it standalone :)

It works but with few issues.
-It doesn't take any input when its in fullscreen. Alt+enter fixes it, Windowed fullscreen works. I have 2560x1440 monitor and i think the game tries to scale but fails. The resolution box in the settings menu is empty for me also.

-Second issue is framerate. I have a 1080Ti and with everything low except textures its around 60 FPS in the character creation and GPU being 98-99% utilized. with everything set to Epic its around 42-48 FPS in the same menu and GPU still 98-99% obviously.

Other than that, looks neat. Visually the game looks quite blurry though (disabling post processing and AA helps a bit), no sharpness at all, but thats common thing with UE4 as i have seen.

ANyway looking forward to the release of some actual gameplay

Attack of the Clones with custom Proton builds for Steam Play
20 Aug 2019 at 11:16 am UTC Likes: 9

you forgot the amazing proton-tkg where you can toggle off/on patches at your own will

https://github.com/Tk-Glitch/PKGBUILDS/tree/master/proton-tkg [External Link]

Open-world vehicle-based survival game Project 5: Sightseer has been officially released
19 Aug 2019 at 5:53 pm UTC

same, played a lot in 2017 and at the beginning of 2018, recently started again on the official PvP server, don't have huge amounts of time to play, but the game seem to have improved quite a bit. Linux specific issues fixed and New Neutral and Hostile NPCs with missions etc are added, new minimap and probably a lot more i havent discovered yet.

GOG are celebrating their Community Wishlist feature with a big sale
19 Aug 2019 at 2:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Klaas
Quoting: Xpandernot gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms
You mean you want to get spied on like on the other platforms. The mere existence of Galaxy brings more telemetry to games, even if you use the offline installers.
yes, i want to take advantage of their multiplayer features and automatic game updates and i don't really care about telemetry. + their new GoG Galaxy (invite only beta version) apparently supports steam and other launchers also, which on paper sounds good if all the things can be in one place.