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Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now
19 October 2023 at 12:50 pm UTC

Ohh neat. First game worked pretty much flawlessly for me on Linux back in the days. It had few performance drops in some areas from what i remember though, but overall was working well and i really liked the game.
Price is a bit steep for a kind of "walking simulator" though. Will wait for a sale before i grab it. Have pretty big backlog of games anyway.
Nice that they kept the native builds still around. Something different to all those UE4 copy-paste games also :)

Recent NVIDIA drivers are causing issues for Proton
19 August 2023 at 6:51 am UTC Likes: 3

Interesting. Haven't encountered this issue myself yet. Been happy with the latest 2 of the 535 drivers. Currently 535.98.
the older 535.54 had shader cache issues and some corruption in some vulkan and vkd3d-proton using games, but this has been fixed with the latest drivers.
Been super solid experience for me..but im on Ampere and i hear people have some issues on turing and below with cyberpunk hangs etc. I personally played cyberpunk 2077 (~65 hours) with zero issues.

Kingdom Come, The Ascent, Oblivion, Rain World + more in Fanatical's Platinum Collection
4 August 2023 at 6:10 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeReminds me that I should play more of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Fantastic RPG.
One of the Most immersive games out there. Combat is a bit weird at first, but once you get used to it, its pretty damn good. Theres ofc a lot of weird/funny jank in the game also, but still. I love the fact that NPCs have their own daily routines. Where they eat, where and what time they work, where they live etc etc. It makes it so immersive to just spectate people about their routines and then rob them clean lol.

Linux continues hitting above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
4 August 2023 at 5:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KlaasI've got an OT question – are you from Estonia and what languages do you speak? I was recently reading about the differences in the demographics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

estonian, which is similar to finnish (Finno-Ugric)language in some ways. Latvian and lithuanian is completely different to our language, dont understand a word from those.

Linux continues hitting above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
3 August 2023 at 7:40 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: EikeI cannot tell you if the numbers are close to reality, but from what I've read Estonia has a strong public open source strategy.

What? I live in Estonia and i don't know anything about this. lol
at least not in massive scale. There ofc are some small initiatives here and there.
Could be i live under the rock though

NVIDIA driver 535.86.05 out now
19 July 2023 at 4:00 pm UTC

Quoting: EhvisAny notable remaining issues that weren't there in 525?

I have none. 525 ones had cyberpunk2077 crash within 10 minute of playing with Xid109's. but 535 is all fine, both 535 drivers.

NVIDIA driver 535.86.05 out now
18 July 2023 at 7:38 pm UTC Likes: 2

Not listed on the changelog, but this driver seems to fix also:

- Fix broken shader cache issue that was in previous 535. Basically it didn't read the shader cache from disk and compiled new one each game start

- Fix for Metro Exodus EE graphics corruption, no need to use the workaround __GL_b5f2b3=0xFFFFFFFF anymore

those were the only issues i encountered with previous drivers and seem to have been resolved.

Proton Experimental fixes up New World and Aura: Fate of the Ages
16 July 2023 at 11:00 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SolitaryCan you be more specific? I don't remember if I had to do anything, but maybe I did... I have played Arkham Asylum long time ago, and last time I played it was on Steam Deck and that was also year ago.
Have you read and checked solutions here? https://www.protondb.com/app/35140

There seems to be one advice repeating even on Deck protontricks d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43

shouldnt it be protontricks 35140 d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43

without the game id, it installs it into what prefix? :D

Get a bunch of cyberpunk games in this latest bundle
13 July 2023 at 2:08 pm UTC

Quoting: yokem55Does anyone know if the new Observer fixes the motion sickness the old one seemed to give a lot of people?

What gave the motion sickness to you exactly?
I personally played it at launch and after tweaking the ini files to increase the FoV,disable the idiotic chromatic abberation, disable depth of field and remove the 63 fps cap, it was pretty ok to play and i quite enjoyed it. Played the native linux build and back near the launch, so things might have changed a lot since.
Or was there some weird HeadBobbing issue?