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Good to know. Thanks for updating. I don't do social media myself. Would never have known without this.

I don't do them either, and never have. His Mastodon felt safe enough to check with my tinfoil hat on.

I think he mainly posts his personal stuff on bluesky though, seeing as that's what he links in his "About the author" bit.

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@tuubi

Good to know. Thanks for updating. I don't do social media myself. Would never have known without this.

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Liam is fine. From his mastodon:

PSA: away for a couple days, no news from me till Wednesday night / Thursday.

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Are you OK? @Liam Dawe

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No news since 3 days... what's happening?

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FWIW CrossOver also made a new release with the battle.net fix (24.0.6).

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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

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Amazon knows how to be great service provider.
i just hope if they would be better on game developing publishing and so on.
But free games are wellcomes.

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> ntsync and the new drivers should help a fair bit

Dunno what Nvidia has planned for v570, but I wouldn't expect any major performance improvements? As for ntsync, that is more for robustness / correctness, it's not expected to be much faster than what Proton already does. It will improve vanilla WINE, which is what the touted benchmarks show...

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I'll come back to linux with kernel 6.14 (ntsync) and NV drivers v570. Lets hope that isn't too long.

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.

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Okay this is so unlike anything I would normally play and I rarely even try new games, but I am rather curious about getting a bit different cultural angle on gaming. Also I've been very curious about games that don't focus on violence (or spacial movement - racers, platformers). It seems charming.

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Thanks for posting stuff like this, as I just ran into a Battle.net update problem today, and I remembered seeing this article. The GE Proton 9-23 version fixed it! (I was previously using the Lutris default.)

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Oh man... good work, but BNet doesn't deserve Eggy.

@ElamanOpiskelija
You may not think it deserves it but many people use it and that's more than enough to get Eggy support.

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Oh man... good work, but BNet doesn't deserve Eggy.

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Does anyone have a fix for the gyro aiming on this controller when using Bluetooth on a steam deck?

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It kind of reminds of a more hi-tech version of the long-discontinued Pertelian X2040, which I had to write code to display stuff on (not as easy as it sounds!) for our company's clock in-out system (we're still using that display to this day, which - yes - was scary enough for me to code a fallback using ncurses to a normal display just in case). See: https://www.quietpc.com/pertelian-x2040

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I've had a battle.net install/update problem just yesterday. Fixed it by switching from flatpak to native packages, and also installing wine + as many optional wine dependencies as possible except the ones that clearly make no sense like printing libraries.

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Is there a commit and a link to the bug for this "Bnet update problem"?
Is it the "writecopy" hack in proton to handle some problem with chromium embedded framework or was it something else?

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I wonder what the [redacted] EGS game is... oh, that's the literal name of the game
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/redacted-d9d21e

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I feel like WC3 Reforged has been broken for over a year at this point. I remember last year trying to play it again since I really like Castle Fight custom map, and I too couldn't get past the lion doors. And prior to that I remember the game randomly freezing. Really sucks because for a few years there, WC3 Reforged just worked.

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@WorMzy
They've been doing that since (at least) Windows 8. No matter how many holes they make in their feet, idiots are going to keep on using Windows. It's not going to cause a mass migration to Linux.

I hear you. In my case, it was Windows 7. I wouldn't have made the effort if my drive -- and, subsequently, the Windows backup -- hadn't failed. I had nothing to lose and I certainly wasn't paying for another Windows license. I replaced the drive and installed Linux. Once done, I never looked back.

For most, I suspect it's too much like work. Installing a new OS can seem like a daunting task. Nevermind trying to figure out which distro is right for you, much less what "distribution" means in Linux parlance. Using USB Live drives to test distros were certainly a plus for me.

Do you make a total system backup first? What tool do you use? Do you set up a dual boot? Do you even know what a dual boot is? If dual booting, can you navigate the installation challenges related to Legacy BIOS versus UEFI?

If you are not tech-inclined, this is all very daunting. Assuming you get past all of this (or just replace Windows with Linux), then there is the learning curve for figuring out how to do everything in Linux that you knew how to do in Windows (personally, I enjoyed this challenge -- the forums are your best friend).

It's not difficult to understand why inexperienced Windows users would just choose to put up with the frustrating flaws of their preinstalled M$-OS that they know rather than switch to an OS they aren't familiar with. IMO, it's their loss ...

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Bogomips i used ur fix but dont work for me, on every 3rd game or so my cache seem fulll or something and makes the game not playable. show normal fps 140 but feels like 7-15fps

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So, Valve tells us foremont is not primarily a couch appliance/not a new SteamMachine.

I have long suspected Deckard might not include the computing unit in the headset like Quest/Meta. Maybe Foremont is Deckards (optional?) computing unit and HDMI is there to connect it to a TV as a secondary usecase?
The connection could either be streaming via Wifi7 or maybe the device will be worn like a backpack? Hope we will know soon :D

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While it does seems interesting, something about it just seems kinda off. I'll be more blunt than Liam and say the combat looks frankly godawful, some of those shots go ridiculously wide for a rifle style weapon. The transition between surface and space (and vice versa) is also very clearly edited, which from my experience with NMS, the hitch you get as the game rushes to load the necessary assets and proc-gen the area you'll be playing in is not pleasant. I mean, I think Hytale is interesting, but at this point is that game ever going to come out? Who knows.

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Interesting, though probably not for me since honestly I get nervous playing FPS games in the first place, much less ones that are actually horror themed. As for the retro FPS scene needing some more variety, eh, I could go either way on that. Stuff from New Blood is pretty varied, and Selaco is a visual feast. That being said, I do get where you're coming from, it does feel like you either get scifi corridors and modern weapons, or dark, spooky, rural/past times areas and more conventional weapons.

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The most unusual reason for a game getting delayed. lol

I will assume the conviction was just. I gotta have some trust in due process, otherwise I'll go crazy. So, in that case, hopefully the punishment is effective and the dev can be better at life.

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Cool for all the peeps who don't know how to host their own comms systems.

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It's even written in Rust? Extra neat. Looks like an excellent tool I'll have to try.

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Minecraft with the kids, but a little more interesting for me...? Yeah, I'm curious.

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This version seems to resolve Battle.Net install and games update, but:
- can not access Warcraft III reforged, I stay at the lion doors which never open

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