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: 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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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.

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I still wish winepak [External Link] (expired https, but accepting that is better than http anyway) had caught on :cry:

It seems like the lack of an automated infrastructure made the project not sustainable.

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Quoting: Ali_JohnHeroic Games Launcher gave me the confidence to buy my first game on EGS, Sifu. There was no protondb to check compatibility, which is dumb imo, but luckily I found other players that tried different wine versions and lutris-fshack-6.21-6 worked well, even with the stuck on menu bug gone! Now, I'm wondering when can I play Pubg, Valorant and more!

Keep in mind that Heroic is unofficial, and could be cut out at any time... I prefer to remain on Steam for the time being !

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Quoting: TcheySeems like so many other "game changing" keyboards.

Just the same stupid non orthogonal QWERTY layout with some more options around.
It’s time the world opens out from QWERTY and similar (like AZERTY in France).

The TypeMatrix BÉPO is not the perfect keyboard, but it’s so better than AZERTY already... Also BÉPO was approuved as the second official French standard a couple years ago, so that’s something. Even if it’s almost impossible to find one in regular shops, at least you can buy stikers, or proper BÉPO from internet (overpriced) stores.

In english, i think the DVORAK jaout or something alike is "superior" but still marginal ? Not sure about non-french stuff though.

TypeMatrix is not the only game in town when it comes to ortholinear/orthocolumnar: I use a nice ergodox EZ, and I'm very happy about it.

For gaming, having the ability to game without moving your hand from the home row (ESDF instead of WASD/ZQSD) is really nice, it gives you better access to more buttons. I have a special "gaming [External Link]" layer that remaps those to WASD, and removes the escape/meta/alt buttons that are typically under my left hand. The real shame is that the keyboard firmware still needs to interact with drivers, so you can't produce arbitrary unicode codepoints on arbitrary keys.

It's a small improvement, but I still regret the lack of analog control and force feedback in keyboards.

I also agree with you on layouts, though we don't even see the AFNOR-approved AZERTY keyboard in French stores (LDLC hinted at something, maybe?). I need to try BÉPO, but for now I'm quite happy with my fully custom layout and blank keyboard.

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Hmm, I'm skeptical but interested. Joysticks are obviously superior for movement input, but I'm afraid the palm might lack precision/mobility to pull that off.

Now, this is just a touchpad... I'm pretty sure someone could cook up a libinput driver that converts a regular touchpad into some left joystick input!

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