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We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

(To be more precise than above: They didn't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

Don't ask me. :D
Wanting to be the only one (being supported)?
Fearing it takes away resources?
Having tried Linux, not having been able to cope with it, and now hating it? (I saw some trolls which seem to have this story.)

What baffles me more is the next though:

Nowadays, this job has been taken by Linux users.

(For the records: They mostly don't complain about their quality, but about their very existence.)

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From Eike:

We used to have a time when Windows users complained about Linux ports

...but why? I don't understand the logic behind this.

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The game is built around a premium store anyways, I already tried it because play testers have a couple of weeks of access before everyone else, it's a game completely built around the premium store. Like Liam said, Session and Skater XL are way better options.

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Nice! This sounds awesome, definitely putting it on my list.

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I totally get the point of a removable battery. That's the first thing I would do to use my handheld docked. I destroyed my Steam Deck battery because I tought it was safe and left it docked for quite a while (now 65% battery health). That was before the 80% max charge option.

But still having to buy a battery as an option... What a weird and bad idea!

And I will never get tangled in that cable and will never get it stuck in an armrest or table corner...

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I take my purchases very seriously. I would like to clarify that I will [still] not be supporting EA financially for the foreseeable future.



Sincerely,
My $50

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Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later

all of which are on AMD, or are able to be done (close enough) in opensource software with enough effort.

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which is why we should support indie devs more. Maybe we should come out with a campaign called 'indie alternatives' which it's aim is to replace all the non compatible AAA titles with Linux/steamOS comparable versions, only better, cheaper, more optimised and not riddled with micro transactions.

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So I confirm again that I'll skip this game

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Yeah online racing is not that great, players tend to turn it into derby, because they don't get any penalty, and ruining someone's race by pushing the other car is easier than fair race for the first place. Racing games are better played as a single player.

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This is why my next GPU will be AMD. Nvidia makes me sick with their lack of support. Few shiny features at launch are not worth getting a half abandoned device couple of years later.

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ray tracing is watching your average frame rate take a dive when you use the latter with little in the way of significant visual improvement

im not sure what im doing wrong but raytracing on most titles i have tested is glitchy & noisy to the point of being ugly and distracting. There has been raytracing prior to rtx for decades via software, it wasn't as noisy ? inefficient yes. I almost always turn it off , sometimes just running the shadows if the option allows.

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Quake news? In my GoL? It's more likely than you think.

Thanks! I needed this.

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• Quake 1 Original monster roast

Mmm sounds tasty!

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That reminds me of something I've encountered some weeks ago.
From DexterMorgan on "Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon" entry for ProtonDB:

during Steam installation on Arch system it defaults to the amdvlk driver when asking you to select a driver, as opposed to the vulkan-radeon driver. (...) Most other distros default to the vulkan-radeon driver for their Steam packages but if you see horribly broken environment textures and everything else is fine, odds are it's amdvlk.

So one error less here!

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how many people are only using the portability as far as to their sofa and bed.

With the deck that's probably a large percentage like, almost everyone. apart from those sicko's who play at their desktop right next to their gaming PC which is being used only for browsing / watching streams :D

i once bought a laptop table so i could use it on the couch / bed but the issue then becomes where do you put the mouse & now your wrist is bent reaching the keyboard and the fan noise is starting to annoy as the laptop is getting too warm & & etc..

the steamdeck fits it's purpose perfectly

( so does streaming from a pc to a retrohandheld / tablet )

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@UltraViolent I don't know about The Crew, but Forza Horizon without the online "features" are still great games. I only play online if I really have to (for achievements and festival events), and I don't enjoy it at all. Freeroam is the best part of the game for me. To each their own of course.

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You can do that with most laptops afaik.

Sure, you should be able to do this with every laptop (given a power bank yielding enough power).
Never seen anybody actually doing that though.

Part of the appeal of a handheld over a laptop is not having to lug around a giant power brick if you want full performance, having said that given the efficiency of newer slim-line laptops you can get decent performance on battery nowadays. and they can sit on your lap (belly) quite comfortably. A portable PC handhelds advantage is too be ..err portable :p

Well, yes, and to last long without a power chord, which are contradictory goals.
I wonder - I really do - how many people are only using the portability as far as to their sofa and bed.

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strangely designed

On the first image it totally looks like PSP.

The choice of having an external battery depends on your use case. E.g I'm indeed mostly playing my Deck plugged in and have set it to max charge 80%. If this opens up for more powerful hardware... well... it's a solution.

Not sure about the bazzite advertisment though. Cool to see it's "supported", yet if they don't offer it shipping pre-installed... that's weird. Saving some bucks on the Windows licence might be appealing to some folks.

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The decision to have an external battery sounds strange at first. But then, maybe it feels fine, having a lighter device in ones hands while the bulky battery sits on the table or wherever.

You can do that with most laptops afaik.

Part of the appeal of a handheld over a laptop is not having to lug around a giant power brick if you want full performance, having said that given the efficiency of newer slim-line laptops you can get decent performance on battery nowadays. and they can sit on your lap (belly) quite comfortably. A portable PC handhelds advantage is too be ..err portable :p

their own 'pocket 4' model is more versatile than this.

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The decision to have an external battery sounds strange at first. But then, maybe it feels fine, having a lighter device in ones hands while the bulky battery sits on the table or wherever.

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I wonder if this project would have had an easier time if they got some code/documentation/hints from the original dev to work.

…this is sarcasm, obviously. It would have been easier. Publishing specs/protocols for this kind of service should be the bare minimum mandatory thing to do at closing time, and I hope the stop killing game initiative move toward this direction. I understand that publishing actual server software and so on might be problematic (licensing, IP protection, etc.) but unlocking clients and providing some docs? Come on. Even if it's an horrible mess (as any project documentation should be hehe), if there's a passionate community around, they'll handle it.

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Looks pretty neat!

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Wasn’t the social features what made games like this? Very much like the Forza Horizon series if you take away the social online content like leaderboards and actual competitive racing the game wouldn’t be really that great.
Which is why true offline racing games like Ridge Racer, BurnOut, Split/Second (to name just a few) will always be better being preserved

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See, NVIDIA? This is how you do it.

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what AMD plan to do with amdvlk for Windows

Wondering the same, but the open source Linux drivers have been much better than the Windows drivers (on the OpenGL side as well) for quite some time. ATI's hardware has always been better than their drivers, going back decades, so having Valve, Google, Red Hat, and the rest solving that for them has been great for everybody.

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It was released a month ago, but it's not in the main stable repos and I don't have time for testing software any more... hence why I switched from Arch a good while ago now.

Also using Arch I learned the hard way that the first couple of releases of a new version aren't stable enough for daily use, despite being deemed "stable" in their own development process.

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Now that is really good news! Hopefully this means they will start working on ray tracing performance and all those features that Adrenalin for Windows has but Linux lacks.

I wonder if mesa 25.2 improves this even further

If you need it, why don't you install it? It was released more than a month ago.

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A bunch of people in that thread are asking what AMD plan to do with amdvlk for Windows if it's not going to be developed?

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I think ray tracing is largely a gimmick at the moment. The biggest difference in most games between max settings and max settings with ray tracing is watching your average frame rate take a dive when you use the latter with little in the way of significant visual improvement. I suppose we'll eventually get to a point when ray tracing is obviously superior without the performance penalty, but we're not there yet.

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