I don't want to be that person, and I'm very excited about the Steam Deck, but it's probably going to bomb in the mainstream media (remember steam machines? not that bad, but I expect the same kind of comments), so I wonder if we'll ever see these "testing" branches materialize.

Once more games are verified, the Deck will stand a second chance.

I'm keeping my expectations low on purpose. I only ask to be mistaken :P

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Quoting: skinnyraf

Quoting: MayeulCSimulaVR perhaps?

$3500 for SimulaVR is steep even if it is a standalone work-oriented headset.

Ah, I hadn't realized you were talking about their standalone headset. I was talking about their wayland compositor, which has existed for a while, and allows you some of the multi-monitor madness you were talking about :)

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Quoting: Philadelphus

A little Half-Life on the go? Will you be playing this one on Deck?

As one of the few FPS games in my library, yeah, I might try it just to see how it handles.

I'm waiting for the originals: HL1, Blueshift/Opposing force, CS 1.6. Not sure if they will get a facelift, I somewhat doubt it (but hey, they were ported over to Linux, soo...)

I also would really like to see Half-Life: Decay and its split-screen action ported over (originally developed for ps2).

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Quoting: MayeulCI don't have good spots for base stations

Not even on tripods? I screwed them on some wooden mezzanine pillars when I first got them. I've moved elsewhere now, and I don't really have free space for VR anymore :/

If I were to empty the living room, I guess I could use tripods, or stick them to the wall, maybe even drill the wall (a single screw should be plenty already.

It's true it's one more thing to set up, but in my case the most annoying step always was to clear up some space.

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Interesting that this was added as a launch option, and not the default. This is probably the default launch option when playing under the default configuration, but those who run windows on their deck might have to manually set it.

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SimulaVR perhaps?

I bought my HTC vive second hand for 200€, you just have to settle for something else than the last gen, just like "patient gamers" :D

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Quoting: BeamboomHere's hoping that this will also make Cyberpunk 2077 work again, after the massive patch yesterday...!

Just a quick update on this: It seems it was an installed mod that caused the problem. Worth noting.
So all is good in the hood, and I've started a new playthrough :)

EDIT: Nope, today it won't start again. yesterday I did a fresh install, I bet that if I do do again it will start again... until I start it a second time. something is amiss here...

Doesn't work on odd days? :P

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder if, someday, We can have The PC GAME PASS Xbox Client running on Linux...
That would be the maximum PC gaming compatibility achievement.

xbox gaming* ? :P

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Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: BekaI noticed something interesting when trying Wargroove.

Wargroove was crashing when intro video was playing on previous proton versions. It looks like they added some color testing/placeholder video instead of the original video, when you run game with proton 7.0.

Now it's not crashing anymore when you run the game. Before I had to run it with 'No intro' option.

That is the placeholder for missing WMF videos, my guess is that Yakuza 4 is the same type of "fix". That game used to simply freeze during loading on start because of intro/credits videos.

Quoting: damarrinI hope that means P4G gets to lose its unsupported tag soon.

Some of the comments report the videos in the game are just placeholders. So the game probably runs now, but without videos (I don't know the game, so I am not sure if it's just intros or actual part of gameplay).

Placeholders are shown while the video is captured and sent to valve's servers for transcoding. A few days later, proton downloads transcoded versions. Thus the first few players see the placeholders, and subsequent ones see the actual videos.

That's a stopgap. The real issue is that video encoding patents are a legal minefield. Although it should be easier in some countries without software patents (ffmpeg and vlc both started in France). Here apparently, videos can be shown directly if you have the codecs installed locally (trough gstreamer and ffmpeg). If I'm reading this correctly, at least.

Oh, I wasn't sure how that worked. What source of information are you using? Because I used to see lot of placeholders in games where I would suspect the issue would have been resolved already. I just tried Yakuza 4 and the intro worked, even though it did have some ocassional encoding artifacts.

Oh, it's a TL;DR of !that proton issue [External Link]. I might not be up to date though, it's a rather long read.

Quoting: SolitaryWhat I wonder though is what would happen if I applied restoration patch, because that actually replaces the intro with the one with original music.

I am not sure. It should work if you have gstreamer and the right dependencies, and it probably checksums the videos, so it shows the right transcoded video. That means it might just work as usual: the video is sent to valve, and someone else with the same patch should see it. I'm only speculating here though.

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Great, I'll finally be able to use my VR headset with X clients under sway :D

Quoting: slaapliedjeNice! I have to wonder, is there anything else they should be working on besides VR support? Not that I don't support VR, just seems like getting all the feature set of Xorg would be a tad more important. Then again the beauty of Open Source software is people can work on what they want to.

I don't really understand your question. Is it about wayland vs Xorg?

This news is about XWayland, allowing X client to use a Wayland feature (well, X had it before TBH): DRM lease.

Wayland has all the features a regular user cares about, although some protocols are still unstable or underused (looks at gnome and their D-Bus APIs for stuff like screenshoots, also KDE to a lesser extent).

A few features are still being worked on, like HDR. IIRC, color management was something missing, and I heard that graphical tablet support could be better.

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