Latest 30 Comments

Quoting: JRayLambWow, looking at the specs, I only meet the minimum requirements.
Ultra Requirements -- My PC
32GB RAM -- 64GB
7900XTX -- 9070XT
16GB VRAM -- 16GB VRAM
Ryzen 9 7900X3D -- (damn!) 5950X

I gotta say, this is the first game I've seen that needed a CPU beyond what I have...

first game?

I mean ...

You have a bleeding edge gpu, tons of ram, and an (comparatively) ancient cpu. How did you even come to be in this build? Your cpu is half a decade old but paired with a brand new gpu?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: JohnologueAlso, scalping doesn't make manufacturers money, unless the company is doing something VERY illegal that would be discovered very quickly.

it might not do then extra money, but unless they are losing money to get marketshare on each unity sold (as consoles usually do) it will make then money, just not at scalped prices.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: Craggles086The cynic in me still thinks it was a small release on purpose, despite all the polite speak about underestimating demand.

Would be happy to be proved wrong.

But now resigned to hopefully pick one up on a later release.

Given its price and, ...um..., unusual aesthetic I don't blame them for being overly cautious.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Age verification laws NEED repeal because thats where all this current Bullsh*t started.. and folks NEED to be hounding their representatives to do so and to NOT vote for these laws or risk getting voted out.. but seems to me most of FOSS is staying silent on ALL of these issues and debating how to comply???!! Like WTF instead of calling folks to action.. the death of the internet is going to be due to our silence.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

When I see the acronym EFF, I default to the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa in my head. lol

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: JesTech

Quoting: Mountain ManPeople on Reddit lamenting that there's not even the option to give Valve your money upfront, and then they ship as units become available, which would be the sensible way to do it. Instead, it looks like Valve is going to put batches up for sale, and then it's going to be another mad scramble between customers and scalpers until they sell out again.

Valve could literally have let everyone sign up to get them a week early, and then sent out invites to buy randomly to the pool of applicants with a time limit of a day or something.

They could have also tied serials of these controllers to steam families for the first year too, so that scalping resulted in a brick if sold.

There's loads of options to stamp out the rampant scalping, but I think companies know it's in their best interest to have their stuff be scarce for the first year if they want to make money, and this controller is priced to make money unlike some past hardware releases.

Just a simple preorder system with a limit of two per account and units shipped in the order purchases were made is all they would have needed to do. Valve could defeat scalpers the same way they defeated piracy, by making it easy for legitimate customers to buy products.

As for tracked serial numbers and remote bricking of hardware, not just no, but hell no! That is an unacceptable solution.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: JRayLambWow, looking at the specs, I only meet the minimum requirements.

You meet the 'Ultra' requirements, just not the 4K Ultra.
Do you have a 4k monitor?

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: BrendanEven before this--even before ChatGPT launched, to be honest--there were more new games published on Steam alone in a week than I could have gotten around to playing in a year. Then add in those that are published on other game stores, consoles, phone app stores, and itch.io. If you want to go back further, shovelware was a drag even in the twentieth century.

The [video game crash of 1983](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983) – 43 years ago, almost half a century – was due to "several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality" (according to Wikipedia, emphasis mine). Yet somehow we keep acting like this is an unprecedented situation no one's ever had to deal with before.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

While I do (somewhat begrudgingly) agree that Matrix isn't really a Discord replacement...

Quoting: Liam DaweOh, and people keep bringing up this privacy stuff about age laws as if they only apply to Discord. Any serious chat app will also have to do similar things if they plan to run any services in countries where those laws apply. Thinking otherwise is daft, burying their heads in the sand level stupid.

I noticed this, and Matrix acknowledged it in their "welcome, sudden rush of interest from Discord users!" post. People do NEED to acknowledge it. I do think that "everyone will have to deal with age verification" is a reason to be even more careful and picky about providers. Corporations like Discord seem content to turn it into an unsafe surveillance tool...

I trust the Matrix Foundation's thoroughness and ethos to handle age verification in the least-bad way possible, whereas I'm concerned that some of the more "friendly/casual" alternatives like Stoat or Fluxer won't be as prepared even if they're well-intentioned (there are things I don't like about how either were presented to me, but it's partly projecting my feelings on Bluesky vs. Mastodon...).

My personal recommendation to friends has been to move our main chat/communication base to Matrix first to keep in contact safely, then to use more specialized services for specific things. Community game night? We can do it through Steam. I think that's better than having an "everything app"...but yeah, that's not going to happen for most people. I know. 😫

Edit: Forgot to mention as to the article's subject: I just use the Discord web client in a pinned tab. I think that cuts out a few features I don't use, but I'd recommend that to anyone who finds the desktop app troublesome. Or if the annoying mobile app changes are also in the desktop app.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

A notable new feature is VK_EXT_present_timing which is also a new feature of Mesa 26.1.0 which was released today. The purpose of this is to allow precise control of frame times.

Work has been underway for years, from VK_GOOGLE_display_timing in 2017 to becoming part of Vulkan 1.4.335 five months ago.

Keith Packard did some work for Valve aimed at improving frame timing for VR. [Text](https://keithp.com/blogs/present-period/), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWLqQciDEg).

Croteam CTO Alan Ladavac gave a presentation to GDC about using this. [Text](https://medium.com/@alen.ladavac/the-elusive-frame-timing-168f899aec92), [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zT8YSSFzw).

Hans-Kristian Arntzen did some [testing](https://themaister.net/blog/2018/11/09/experimenting-with-vk_google_display_timing-taking-control-over-the-swap-chain/).

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

That's a really nice trailer. Not just a bunch of disjointed, few-second-long clips chosen to look flashy with some rousing music over top of it all, but a calm, rational voice over explaining how the game works and what makes it different. Not that there's no place for flashy trailers, but I'm suddenly finding myself wishing more games had trailers like this.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Finally! So tired of having to reinstall it every week or so. Hopefully the other day was the last time.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

There are some real issues that need work, but the current crop of solutions are very much in the "Something must be done! This is something. Therefore, this must be done!" vein.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: CatKiller

Plenty of optimizations too, a bunch of which is for mobile chip

Note that the Frame [uses Turnip.](https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html)

If you think of that as just normal English, it's one of the sillier sentences I've seen in a long time.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Wow, looking at the specs, I only meet the minimum requirements.
Ultra Requirements -- My PC
32GB RAM -- 64GB
7900XTX -- 9070XT
16GB VRAM -- 16GB VRAM
Ryzen 9 7900X3D -- (damn!) 5950X

I gotta say, this is the first game I've seen that needed a CPU beyond what I have...

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

A bit off-topic, but @Liam, don't forget to add a "Steam Controller 2" entry to the PC info in the user CP ;)

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: JesTechThey could have also tied serials of these controllers to steam families for the first year too, so that scalping resulted in a brick if sold.

There's loads of options to stamp out the rampant scalping, but I think companies know it's in their best interest to have their stuff be scarce for the first year if they want to make money, and this controller is priced to make money unlike some past hardware releases.

Serial number DRM and remote bricking?
HELL no. Can't imagine you were hoping for anything but outrage posting that on a Linux site, but it's certainly outrageous and needs to be condemned outright, it should be as socially unacceptable as age verification, etc.

Also, scalping doesn't make manufacturers money, unless the company is doing something VERY illegal that would be discovered very quickly.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

It’s nice, but would much rather have better availability on the Steam Controller than stuff like this. Doesn’t matter if accessory makers can now make stuff if you can’t get enough product out

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: Mountain ManPeople on Reddit lamenting that there's not even the option to give Valve your money upfront, and then they ship as units become available, which would be the sensible way to do it. Instead, it looks like Valve is going to put batches up for sale, and then it's going to be another mad scramble between customers and scalpers until they sell out again.

Valve could literally have let everyone sign up to get them a week early, and then sent out invites to buy randomly to the pool of applicants with a time limit of a day or something.

They could have also tied serials of these controllers to steam families for the first year too, so that scalping resulted in a brick if sold.

There's loads of options to stamp out the rampant scalping, but I think companies know it's in their best interest to have their stuff be scarce for the first year if they want to make money, and this controller is priced to make money unlike some past hardware releases.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Damn. It really feels like we're walking backward at neckbreaking speed. It was not too long ago that Europe was seen as a bastion of freedom against a handful of totalitarian countries, and now, we're full steam ahead toward the destruction of freedom of speech and access to public resources everywhere.

It's heartbreaking. If we let even a handful of countries finalize their implementation of all this mess, it'll only serve either as an incentive for other to follow tracks, or even worse, as a justification to do so.

Hopefully we can stop this. I can't do much for what's happening in the UK, but all this already made me more aware of the options we have as EU citizen, even if they're quite… limited. Petitions and all that jazz.

Still, it's very worrying.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: rustynail

Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

Then it wasn't the official flat, yes. But it is official since a long time now. I bet there was even an article her on GoL abut it.

Yep, here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/ 3 years ago

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

This would be great. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this post. I payed for a 320Hz 1440p monitor but can only use 144Hz, which is scandalous. Please release this!

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have now seen two or three games where the difficulty factor is about a bloodsucking landlord demanding more. I feel like that says something.

It reflects on real life. We've seen that take down a few businesses where I live. The landlord sees the new business is successful and jacks up the rent, thinking they can take a greater share of the business' success. Instead, the business closes down or moves (rarely surviving the move) and the landlord is left with an empty space that no one will rent after word spreads about the landlord's conduct. We are a small enough community that reputation actually matters.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Never mind early access, I'm normally a gamer that waits years after the actual release of a game to play it, but for this one I'm sorely tempted to get it now - Subnautica is one of my favorite games and there's nothing else out there like it. Not that it's very important but $30 sounds very reasonable and they may also raise the price on release.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: Eocene84Where has the EFF been all this time? This is the first I've heard of them getting involved. Did they run out of funding or something??

[The full list.](https://www.eff.org/updates)
Mostly USA government overreach.

You're scared of your publicly accountable elected government arbitrarily locking off parts of the internet by arresting and blocking the operators.
You're completely right to fear those things and people like you keep them away.

In the USA the danger is getting shot in broad daylight based on inaccurate information pulled straight from the ssd of your phone for fully lawful acts on the whims of some rich dude, while the public can still do something about it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone> Valve continue to impress with their openness when it comes to their hardware.

Still far away from open hardware, but I was not even expecting an open source case. Well done Valve.

I already looked into both files. The STL file (for 3D graphic programs as Blender) is ~75MiB big in size. It is a super high resolution file with a single surface. So you have to cut them apart manually, which is annoying. The STP file (for CAD software) is ~8MiB and contains detailed surfaces you can select and edit easier.

If I find some time I may create my own case. There are some pretty unique ideas in my head.

Quoting: LoudTechieThe most major party besides Valve that does this seems to be [framework](https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13).

[Purism released everything](https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/hw) for their pocketcomputer Librem 5. Not just the CAD files, but also the actual hardware schematics. There is still room for improvements as opening the CPU (which becomes possible with RISC-V open hardware CPU manufacturers).

Yeah and [Mnt reform did even that.](https://mntre.com/docs-reform.html) with the Ls1028A module.
I wasn't comparing openness, but majorness with the minimum requirement of realeasing CAD files.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Quoting: GustyGhost1990s: Never share your real information with anyone on the internet.

And it was the damn feds that were telling people that.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

64 bit client when

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

1990s: Never share your real information with anyone on the internet.

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment

Where has the EFF been all this time? This is the first I've heard of them getting involved. Did they run out of funding or something??

View this comment - View article - View full comments - Report this comment