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Latest Comments by Xpander
Valve put out a new Steam beta client, plenty of Linux fixes and no more Steam Play zero-byte downloads
17 Jan 2019 at 7:22 am UTC Likes: 1

-Mouse scrolling was the biggest issue for me. Its now way better but could still use some work, its a bit jumpy when scrolling. Not a big deal anymore though

-Dialog for restart was annoying. Happened mostly when i limited the download speed from the client.

-0 bytes thingy was annoying also as i have my PC on 24/7 and sometimes the download list went crazy, so many games that it was hard to see which games actually got update

-IPV6 is nice to have also

Rest i don't really care or never seen issues. But good to see some fixes

Valve have detailed some changes coming to Steam in an overview post
14 Jan 2019 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 31

With the 0.82% Linux Share on Steam:

~738 000 Monthly Active Linux users
~385 400 Daily Active Linux users
~151 700 Peak Concurrent Linux users
~13 120 New Linux Purchasers per Month

Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB
11 Jan 2019 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: jens
Quoting: XpanderThere are actually more platinum ones as some people report issues with really outdated drivers or have distros that doesn't have file description limits increased to use esync.
Yes, but this applies the other way around to. I guess a lot people give a platinum rating if the game barely starts, but this is no indication that a complete play-through with all features (e.g. multiplayer) works without issues.
Yes, Ofc. But the outdated driver thing boggles me every time. Proton page clearly says whats the minimum drivers required, yet some people still run much older drivers and mark the games "Broken".

Ofc not to mention there are some native games reported also, the ones that don't have linux/steamOS icon in steam but actually have native clients available.

Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB
11 Jan 2019 at 2:58 pm UTC Likes: 8

There are actually more platinum ones as some people report issues with really outdated drivers or have distros that doesn't have file description limits increased to use esync.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 8:01 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Duke TakeshiHow is the current state of AMD and linux compatibility?

When I started switching from Windows to linux, I always bought Nvidia GPUs because the AMD drivers were complete rubbish.
Much Much better now if you can get the latest mesa versions and not using some really outdated ones. Still some corner cases with some games which causing system lockups or whatnot, but those things are usually rare. AMD Midrange cards (RX 570,580,590) are really good and Nvidia has nothing to compete them in terms of price and performance, unless you buy used cards.

AMD have announced the AMD Radeon VII GPU and more at CES 2019
10 Jan 2019 at 7:37 am UTC

Radeon VII seems disapointing to me. Same power consumption aka 300W and just around 25% faster than vega 64. Matching RTX 2080 on AMD picked benchmarks and is well ahead on 1 game, but the price is pretty close to RTX 2080 and power usage is insane compared to this. If the MSRP was 100 dollars less, it would be pretty good though.

As of Ryzen 3000 series, not much was shown sadly. Some random game benchmark with Radeon VII, where Lisa said it was just 1080p maxed (i guess she made a mistake there, it probably was 4K) and just 100+ FPS without GPU not even being fully utilized, shows like Ryzen was the bottleneck there. Cinebench was pretty impressive though, but AMD CPUs have always been good in multithreading and Cinebench.

I was expecting some teasers to Navi also, but seems there was none atm. And ofc i was hoping for Ryzen 3000 launch date annoucement.

Quite disapointing keynote if you ask me, most was just some idiotic marketing bullshit, but well its what those PR presentations always have been

An updated Steam Client is out, should be more responsive when downloading
9 Jan 2019 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have this 0 bytes bug on many native games also, which is super odd. Other than that its been pretty solid for me. I'm kinda scared about the new interface though as if they go with todays trends, everything will be big and hidden behind more clicks (less info on the screen at the same time). Hope im wrong though and please freaking bring the interface scaling slider into the client.

First-person base-building survival game 'Volcanoids' is making great progress on a Linux version
8 Jan 2019 at 9:44 pm UTC

Quoting: gabberToo bad it's single player ..

Cool concept, only missing multiplayer with dedicated Linux server!
MP is on the roadmap also i heard. This is what interests me the most also as singleplayer survival games usually dont work for me unless they are really story driven

First-person base-building survival game 'Volcanoids' is making great progress on a Linux version
8 Jan 2019 at 5:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Wooop Wooop. I watched all the dev diary videos on youtube and some more and i was instantly in love with this.
Went to their discord server and someone was nice to give me a key for beta testing. Cant wait to try it out!

An enhanced version of the fan-made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 'Project Borealis' performance test is out
7 Jan 2019 at 1:27 pm UTC Likes: 2

hmm Vulkan perf seems worse but is a lot smoother than OpenGL one.

OpenGL 1440p



Vulkan 1440p



edit: ahh now i see why, OpenGL is High instead of Ultra somehow