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Curious if this will fix the graphical issues with The Asus Tuf Gaming A16 (FA617-NT) Advantage Edition. It has a Mux switch for an AMD 780 iGPU and RX 7700 dGPU. Whenever the iGpu is in use, you get weird flickering in every linux distro I've tried. (Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora 42 and even OpenSuse)

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Quoting: PeterI'm all in on CachyOS for gaming but not tryed Kubunto though.

CachyOS is by far the best I've ever used and I'll happily recommend it to anyone

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Multi Display VRR support for Wayland? I can't seem to find that in the list!

Quoting: StellaFSR has way too much artifacting. Even on the tiny Steam Deck screen I can already see it.

That latest versions of FSR3.1? are pretty good and much better, 3.1 is significantly better then 3.0. It is to be believed that RDNA4 will have accelerated FSR as well. So I think the tables will turn pretty soon and DLSS won't be the BEST option, just another.

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I gotta admit, I wish people would stop referring to this branch as Stable in any way. From Nvidia's own site regarding the new Feature Branch:
What is a New Feature Branch Driver?
This driver provides early adopters and bleeding edge developers access to the latest driver features before they are integrated into the Production Branches.
Formerly known as Linux Short Lived Branch (SLB).

I have had mostly good but some showstopping bugs using this branch, and with Fedora and others going to pure Wayland only it's been a hellish experience for me. I get that Wayland is the future and I even love that future, but this branch isn't stable. It's nowhere close to stable, and otherwise stable distributions running this branch have caused headaches I haven't had in linux for years.

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I haven't tried Steam Link on a RPi, but my OG Steam Link device is still working fine and was cheaper then a Pi 5.

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Quoting: Liam DaweUpdated the article with testing info.

@Liam, Anti-Cheat Expert (ACE) has Steam Deck CPU ID detection, so the anti-cheat whitelists the LCD model Steam Deck but all other Linux devices are blocked.

It's not known if the OLED Steam Decks have been whitelisted yet.

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Quoting: poiuzYou lack the ability to read a simple two sentence comment, so I can assume with pretty certainty that all your claims are false.

Believe what you want, if you think that's not how corporate world works and no one is bound to contractual obligations as a dev of such big companies. I'm under NDA myself for the past 2 jobs and I'm a mere support engineer(and have dev friends on such companies that reported some of the limitations they had).

Your "simple 2 sentence" phrase has built-in sofism where I can't dissociate Intel from Mesa with the "There's no bashing Intel without bashing Mesa."

Quoting: poiuzI wasn't bashing the Mesa contributors, you are.

Stop making false claims.

You were the one who implied that I can't dissociate Mesa from Intel, and that all criticism would also automatically apply to Mesa

I've specifically pinpointed my first opinion to the fact that Intel drivers are subpar and that is most likely intel company's fault, and a lot of work is made at Mesa side to remediate that. And yet, you insisted that this is somehow "bAsHiNg MeSa"

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Whew, the recent reviews are a trip.

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Quoting: CatKillerSince Valve want strategic not-Windows, dogfooding all the things on Linux would be a sensible thing to do, which they've historically done badly at. Their VR headset not fully working on Linux and their games launching without Linux builds being prominent examples.

Honestly, if VR got fixed on Linux, it would basically remove my need for using Windows ever again. It's the main reason why I think the Deckard is still a ways off, with how little work is being done to improve the Linux side of things.

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Holy Captcha batman! GOG is having me do like 20 Captchas and giving me like 10x errors for every game I'm redeeming today.

I feel like I just trained the entire next generation of self driving cars. Everybody be careful on the highways.

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If you use Arch / Frogging family makepkg I have a patched version here
https://github.com/TuxThePenguin76/nvidia-all/tree/565.77
looks to be working ok for me so far. All the shaders are recompiling on Steam

Edit: Now merged into mainline

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Quoting: nwildnerYes there are employees in some of the contributions, and they might have signed up a NDA that restricts how, when and what they can contribute to multiple projects, which leads them to implement those changes on Mesa to keep the games running without being allowed to contribute to the drivers without further approval of their managers, or contribution on a limited scope.

You lack the ability to read a simple two sentence comment, so I can assume with pretty certainty that all your claims are false.

Quoting: nwildnerYou are reversing roles here and trying to use a sophism to justify that Intel Employees having their actions limited by their company is enough to bash Mesa Project as a consequence, as if Mesa is the one to blame for Intel company bad decisions.

I wasn't bashing the Mesa contributors, you are.

Quoting: nwildnerAlso, assuming Mesa is purely maintained by Intel is also a really bad point of view - https://www.mesa3d.org/developers/

Stop making false claims. I never assumed anything you are suggesting.

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat is the added value today for Linux users to buy a Nvidia?
To my point of view and Linux gamer experience, it appears to me today more comfortable to use a AMD GPU, because of his better integration with Linux Mesa/Kernel.

DLSS, reflex, nvenc, cuda like Xpander mentioned, along with still being overall better cards then AMD, although this is mainly at the high end if you ignore/don't need the mentioned features. Desktops using non-Wayland distros have absolutely no problems. However, I believe anyone with two GPUs such as AMD on-board and an nvidia card do have issues in general.

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat is the added value today for Linux users to buy a Nvidia?
To my point of view and Linux gamer experience, it appears to me today more comfortable to use a AMD GPU, because of his better integration with Linux Mesa/Kernel.

For me 99% of what keeps me on Nvidia is DLSS. It has the widest game integration vs. FSR and XESS, and superior image quality. FSR has way too much artifacting. Even on the tiny Steam Deck screen I can already see it. So yeah, probably not gonna switch to AMD unless their upscaling solution becomes significantly better

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Ah ff ... Still New Feature Branch. Will explicit sync ever land in the true "stable" driver series?

*Sad my distro still not packaging nfb driver noises*

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat is the added value today for Linux users to buy a Nvidia?
To my point of view and Linux gamer experience, it appears to me today more comfortable to use a AMD GPU, because of his better integration with Linux Mesa/Kernel.

DLSS, reflex, nvenc, cuda


No issues to report so far. But had no issues with the beta 565 either, so theres that.

xpander@archlinux ~ $ nvidia-smi | grep Version
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77                 Driver Version: 565.77         CUDA Version: 12.7

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Quoting: legluondunetWhat is the added value today for Linux users to buy a Nvidia?
To my point of view and Linux gamer experience, it appears to me today more comfortable to use a AMD GPU, because of his better integration with Linux Mesa/Kernel.

for me it is because it was the only card i could get at a good price(the card was a 980ti) at the time of the great gpu shortage a few years ago, i plan to someday upgrade to a amd card since i don't use any of the fancyness the nvidia cards give like ai or ray tracing though since the card i have at the moment plays most game i want to play it is not worth it to upgrade yet.

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What is the added value today for Linux users to buy a Nvidia?
To my point of view and Linux gamer experience, it appears to me today more comfortable to use a AMD GPU, because of his better integration with Linux Mesa/Kernel.

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Updated the article with testing info.

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Quoting: redneckdrowThanks for the warning, it's very much appreciated. Companies are only going to get worse about this sort of thing (Getting tax breaks all the while.), given that the vast majority of gamers don't seem to understand why they should care.

There remains hope. Look at Larian Studios with Baldur's Gate 3 and Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, to highlight a couple of games where the whole package was great.

True enough, I can't speak for WH40k: SM2, but BG3 is great!


Warning: pedantic, nitpicky, 30-something nerd rant below!

Spoiler, click me

Even if BG3 decided to use the stupid "Murder in Baldur's Gate" storyline. BG3 tramples on established lore, but its worth as a truly great CRPG by decent developers cannot be understated. It's worth noting that it has the same gith-focused Macguffin/avoid or embrace assimilation by evil questline as Neverwinter Nights 2 and its Mask of the Betrayer expansion.

Sorry about that, I'm something of a Forgotten Realms nerd. I own most of the 1st-3rd and 5th edition sourcebooks (there is no 4th as far as I'm concerned), and around two-thirds of the novels.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: CaldathrasOver Blizzard's lifetime, I have watched Blizzard devolve into the greedy, anti-consumer corporation it's is now. I had hoped that Microsoft buying them might signal a change in direction to Blizzard's attitude

Bwahahahahaha!!! I needed a good laugh this morning.

Yeah, that's a bit like scheduling an AA meeting at a distillery, and expecting it to work out well for sobriety.

Edit: fixed my double post, sorry.

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I wonder if they fixed the hopeless flashing of application elements or entire windows?
Can I install from some repo?

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What CatKiller said, I wish Valve dogfooded more on Linux. Nice to see NVIDIA video rec. hwaccel get a fix! Though I see NVENC fail to initialize on OBS if I'm low on video memory, so I wonder if that might have an effect too.

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Quoting: KlaasI'm still stuck with the SteamDeck's internal controls getting broken until a complete reboot every time I run anything wine related. (…)

Current Main channel OS version fixes the issue.

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it's just an android device, so yes, you could offline whatever geo area you want into google maps or osmand or whatever other mapping app you want and then use that offline with gps all day long. I have done that multiple times on trips abroad when I didn't want to turn on cellular data to save money.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: EikeGPS by itself shouldn't need a SIM card though?

Well, true, but I'd need the maps, and the bus/train connections when not on a car/bike :)

I've got no idea about the device we're talking about (so don't listen to me!), but if you don't need information about the current traffic situation (traffic jams and the like), this could be preloaded.

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Quoting: EriThis is the F2P MP game that supposedly has a remaster of the original Black Hawk Down campaign inside, right? I wonder how are they going to monetize that or if it will be playable during the MP open beta. I have fond memories of the PS2 game.

Yes, that's correct and this is probably why they delisted the original Black Hawk Down earlier this year.

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Historically, combat has been pretty low on the players' wish list. Everybody always voted for more content and more realistic homesteading simulation. Now that those boxes are checked, and the dev team put a lot of efforts into making it awesome, the combat may be slowly getting on top of the stack of todos. But there are a lot of disagreement on how it should be done. Definitely not like Minecraft, as it ruined the game for a lot of players, which ended up moving to Vintage Story. :) Some people want something more along the lines of Valheim with parry and blocking but without the stamina, that would work for me, but the dev team doesn't seem to want that style of combat. One thing's for sure, they will need to get rid of hitscan-style hit detection, its just too limiting (the upper corner of that dead body's hit box is in the way? Sorry, your swing hits it and misses your intended target... WHAA!?). We'll have to wait and see what they comes up with.

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That game is great in many aspects, but combat is just awful. Ther's almost no audio-visual feedback in combat. It's actually so bad that i just can't play it. The rest of the game mechanics are very well done though.

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You guys are missing the point; the Steam endgame is collecting games, not playing them!

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Quoting: poiuz"Those folks" (which develop the Intel drivers) are employees of Intel. There's no bashing Intel without bashing Mesa.

Yes there are employees in some of the contributions, and they might have signed up a NDA that restricts how, when and what they can contribute to multiple projects, which leads them to implement those changes on Mesa to keep the games running without being allowed to contribute to the drivers without further approval of their managers, or contribution on a limited scope.

You are reversing roles here and trying to use a sophism to justify that Intel Employees having their actions limited by their company is enough to bash Mesa Project as a consequence, as if Mesa is the one to blame for Intel company bad decisions.

Also, assuming Mesa is purely maintained by Intel is also a really bad point of view - https://www.mesa3d.org/developers/

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