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Latest Comments by Xpander
EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals
27 Feb 2025 at 7:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

Generals and Zero Hour .. Nice..
Someone can maybe uncap/uncouple the 30 fps cap and the game speed being tied to FPS.
Theres hope!

Thanks EA i guess!

Metro devs 4A Games Ukraine rebrand as Reburn and reveal futuristic sci-fi shooter La Quimera
27 Feb 2025 at 6:17 pm UTC

What game engine are they using?
Hopefully it's not UE5
Music is super overblown :D

looks decent other than that. Will wait and see what they are cooking i guess.

Sadly the RoadCraft demo is currently broken on Steam Deck / Linux
26 Feb 2025 at 6:28 am UTC

Works here, but performance is pretty bad.
2560x1440, high settings, DLSS quality, runs about 50-70 FPS only
Ryzen 5800X3D, RTX 3080

Gameplay:
https://youtu.be/-TTYlOaRMKI [External Link]

Days Gone Remastered announced coming to PC as a $10 DLC in April
14 Feb 2025 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 3

What the heck? game that released 2021 on PC is getting remaster already?
whats going on in this industry. The original game looks great and performs woderfully, whats the point of remaster really.
switching to that unoptimized blurry/smeary UE5 now?

well at least its a DLC with 10 bucks i guess, so its not the worst.

Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity
7 Feb 2025 at 12:15 pm UTC Likes: 10

Everything is fake now. Companies are valued on hype. Internet is dead with full of Bots and AI. AI is more valuable than Creativity. Fake AI frames make our GPUs "faster".

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH should work better on Linux / Steam Deck with the latest Proton Hotfix
31 Jan 2025 at 10:02 am UTC

Dont know anything about that game or the issues, but does the Vulkan beta driver not fix the mesh shader issue?

550.40.83

Fix gl_NumWorkGroups behavior for mesh shaders

https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver [External Link]

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II from Warhorse Studios confirmed playable on Steam Deck
30 Jan 2025 at 7:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Probably Day one purchase for me. Maybe i even pre-order which i never do, but seeing there are no major technical issues from the reviewers who already play it, i might grab it earlier to hopefully pre-load before release.

Finished the first game recently also which i somehow had stopped playing after 60 hours. Very immersive and great game imo. Combat on the first one was a bit strange, but i mostly used stealth or bow anyway. Love the historical accuracy on this also.

Can't wait to play the second game.

NVIDIA Beta driver 570.86.16 released with VRR for multiple displays and lots of improvements
30 Jan 2025 at 7:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

So far been great on MATE, X11 at least

xpander@archlinux ~ $ nvidia-smi | grep Version
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.86.16              Driver Version: 570.86.16      CUDA Version: 12.8     |


No new issues to report yet, tiny bit of perf improvement (~5%) on dx12 games (cyberpunk2077 and wrc generations) since the 565 drivers.

GE-Proton 9-23 released with a Battle.net update fix for Linux / Steam Deck
21 Jan 2025 at 9:48 am UTC Likes: 1

I've been playing a fair bit of stalker-2 and noticed I was getting as much as 40fps less under Linux and it was quite noticeable. Probably compounded by Frame-Gen, still, ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit, I hope
Strange. I get better perf on Linux in STALKER 2, specially on CPU bottlenecked bigger camps. Other places seem about same in terms of performance.
Played 100 hours, finished the game with zero issues.
5800X3D, RTX 3080, 565.77 drivers
Arch Linux, MATE desktop,X11

Can 2025 please be the year more games add Text and UI Scaling
10 Jan 2025 at 5:21 am UTC Likes: 2

Yes Please, but the other way around. Every damn game these days has massive UI's taking lots of screenspace for no reason on a 1440p 27" screen at least.
Scaling options should be default for every game indeed