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Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support
1 Nov 2018 at 3:51 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestDXVK also still seems to read the cards and drivers used correctly (with DXVK_HUD) like I said, it's probably not gonna change anything, I'm just worried it might break some games for nvidia cards, if this really was an issue, it should have been done on a per-game basis rather than for all games, considering it seems to be a rare issue in the first place.
its not rare at all, basically all the UE4 games have this issue, some unity games iirc and some other games.
the other way around is more rare. When you need to fake your AMD GPU as nvidia.

Valve have pushed out another Steam Play update with the 3.16-4 beta including corefonts support
1 Nov 2018 at 8:51 am UTC Likes: 1

Great to see that nvidia GPUs are faked to AMD for games. This was causing lots of framerate issues on nvidia cards because UE4 games and some more called nvapi.dll when nvidia card was present and it just kept spamming it making performance go shit. Always had to manually fake the GPU.
DXVK_HUD still reports nvidia GPU though, so its all fine :)

Planet Nomads updated with optimisations and some needed fixes to the Linux version
31 Oct 2018 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 2

im still super annoyed that they don't provide multiplayer. Those types of games are boring when singleplayer only, unless they have really good story telling implemented.

The RPG Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues has gone free to play
31 Oct 2018 at 2:17 pm UTC

This game is really terrible performance wise at least and it doesnt look visually good either.
I get huge stutters everywhere and 28-70 fps, pretty much no matter the settings, maxed or lowest. resolution 2560x1440.
AMD Ryzen 1700X @3.9ghz, GTX 1080Ti.

Havent seen so bad performing unity game in a while tbh.

No Brakes Games have discontinued Linux support for Human: Fall Flat
30 Oct 2018 at 2:13 pm UTC

Last time i tried this game the multiplayer just crashed constantly for me, which made it unplayable. Singleplayer was fine though. It was few good months ago though. Sad to see things like these, instead of fixing the issues they just opt out.

Project Borealis, the fan-game aiming to make a 3rd Half-Life 2 episode now has a Performance Test for Linux
29 Oct 2018 at 4:56 am UTC

This is odd with the benchmark, Vulkan one was capped at 60 fps constantlyi also tried -NoVsync with no success

OpenGL (needed __GL_GlslUseCollapsedArrays=0 to make it render)


modified the script:
#!/bin/sh
BINDIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -fn "$0")")
cd "$BINDIR"
export __GL_GlslUseCollapsedArrays=0
LinuxNoEditor/projectborealis_ue.sh


Vulkan


It says 2000 fps as max, i saw 60 all the time, not even the minimum seems right as i didn't see it dropping below 60 anywhere.GPU was only 10% utlized on the Vulkan one, OpenGL one had GPU utilization around 65%

nvidia vulkan beta drivers 396.54.09

The Jackbox Party Pack 5 has launched as their first to officially support Linux
19 Oct 2018 at 7:15 am UTC

Love Jackbox games. Mostly played 3rd and 4th. Will get thisone as soon as theres need for it or i have friends come over :)

Stranded Deep adds a new experimental couch co-op mode to survive together
15 Oct 2018 at 7:31 pm UTC

couch coop, that means only local multiplayer at the moment? Looking forward to the real thing then :)

Valve have updated Steam Play with the 3.16-1 beta based on Wine 3.16 and new DXVK
13 Oct 2018 at 3:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: skinnyrafI hope they'll update drivers in SteamOS just as fast.
Meanwhile, Debian is stuck with 390.
Experimental is not as evil as it sounds and has got 396.54 at the moment:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver [External Link]
I did install from experimental several times and didn't run into problems.
Of course: no guarantee.
396.54 doest give you transform feedback. you need 396.54.09

Valve have updated Steam Play with the 3.16-1 beta based on Wine 3.16 and new DXVK
13 Oct 2018 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

that was fast. nvidia just got the vulkan beta drivers out with the transform feedback support.