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News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By Tevur, 23 Mar 2026 at 8:15 pm UTC
By Tevur, 23 Mar 2026 at 8:15 pm UTC
FSR 4.1 is already available as DLL, which you copy in your game prefix.
Newest-Beta OptiScaler and Proton-CachyOS can do this, too, afaik.
It does also work for RDNA3 via FP8 emulation as did FSR 4.0 before.
My hope, perhaps, maybe, if possible... a new INT8 DLL for RDNA2, that would be great!
Newest-Beta OptiScaler and Proton-CachyOS can do this, too, afaik.
It does also work for RDNA3 via FP8 emulation as did FSR 4.0 before.
My hope, perhaps, maybe, if possible... a new INT8 DLL for RDNA2, that would be great!
News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By tarmo888, 23 Mar 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
It isn't about upscaling, it's about managing what to do during the limited time. Instead of brute-forcing all the pixels, they could render less pixels and do more complex render. Instead of lowering the quality of the world, they could just lower the render and upscale it.
There is no point of adding more resources for raster if all that developers want to do is more raytracing.
By tarmo888, 23 Mar 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.It isn't about going lower and lower render resolution, that just happens because more stuff is rendered, but your PC stays the same.
I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.
Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.
It isn't about upscaling, it's about managing what to do during the limited time. Instead of brute-forcing all the pixels, they could render less pixels and do more complex render. Instead of lowering the quality of the world, they could just lower the render and upscale it.
There is no point of adding more resources for raster if all that developers want to do is more raytracing.
News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By Jarmer, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:48 pm UTC
I do live video streaming engineering as my career. I can tell you first hand that the VAST majority of content I handle is still 1080p. Like probably 95%. Occasionally we will get a 4k ingest, but it's not often. For decent bandwidth, you also need a 4k signal to be hevc 265, whereas a 1080p signal is just fine on good ol ancient avc 264. For stuff in post, a lot more is rendered out in 4k and streamed out in 4k, but even for some of the edits our team does, a lot of the source is delivered in 1080, and then they upscale it on the render so it's just fake 4k LOL
By Jarmer, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:48 pm UTC
Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.8k is officially dead (for now at least). The manufacturers aren't making them at all anymore, so you can't buy them even if you wanted to (which you shouldn't.) -- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/lg-joins-the-rest-of-the-world-accepts-that-people-dont-want-8k-tvs/
I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.
Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.
I do live video streaming engineering as my career. I can tell you first hand that the VAST majority of content I handle is still 1080p. Like probably 95%. Occasionally we will get a 4k ingest, but it's not often. For decent bandwidth, you also need a 4k signal to be hevc 265, whereas a 1080p signal is just fine on good ol ancient avc 264. For stuff in post, a lot more is rendered out in 4k and streamed out in 4k, but even for some of the edits our team does, a lot of the source is delivered in 1080, and then they upscale it on the render so it's just fake 4k LOL
News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By eggrole, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:27 pm UTC
Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.
Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.
By eggrole, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:27 pm UTC
Quoting: ChrisznixPerfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮
Quoting: Geppeto35Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.Has anyone ever stopped to ask those voting this way WHY? I don't follow European politics closely so I could be wrong about this, but from what I can tell the major voting point is immigration and the downstream effects (like increased housing prices as one example).
Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!
Add to this, people calling them Nazis for wanting something different than you might want will only exclude them and dig them into their positions. If you are an open-borders proponent (or whatever the issue might be), you won't change any minds calling people names and telling them they are wrong/dumb.
Extremism is created when there is a lack of communication, and I see this divide worsening as people seemingly refuse to engage civilly with one another. Futher, I am hesitant to call anyone extremist when they simply have a diffent opinion. Is it really extremist to want to stop immigration and deport some of the current immigrants? Compared to rounding them up and shooting them - an actual extremist view? You might not want that, but is wanting that (the deporting, not executing) really extreme? If so, can I argue that importing them is at the other end of extreme? That is an honest question. FYI I don't think either position is truly extreme.
News - Classic haunted mansion puzzle adventure The 7th Guest is getting a full remake
By tuubi, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:07 pm UTC
By tuubi, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:07 pm UTC
I never really got into FMV games or interactive movies or whatever you want to call them, but this looks like it might have a better balance of gameplay vs cut scene. And real actors inside a rendered game world? In my opinion that worked pretty well in Cyan's classics and of course the wonderful Tex Murphy adventures.
News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By eggrole, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:07 pm UTC
By eggrole, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:07 pm UTC
So ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.
I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.
Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.
I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.
Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.
News - Minecraft Dungeons II announced for release in 2026
By Serious_Table, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:02 pm UTC
By Serious_Table, 23 Mar 2026 at 6:02 pm UTC
Quoting: Geppeto35As Liam said, it's available on Steam (which is where I bought it) and it works great with Proton. If you're using it on the Steam Deck, you'll want to login to your Microsoft account from desktop mode first, but it will then work just fine in Game Mode.Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?
Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!
News - AMD FSR SDK 2.2 released with FSR Upscaling 4.1 and FSR Ray Regeneration 1.1
By pb, 23 Mar 2026 at 5:43 pm UTC
By pb, 23 Mar 2026 at 5:43 pm UTC
It appears that they didn't replace the girl's face, so should be ok.
News - EndeavourOS Titan released, devs comment on age verification laws
By Caldathras, 23 Mar 2026 at 5:16 pm UTC
Done. Haven't used social media for over 10 years. Been using adblockers for even longer.
Unfortunately, where I live, the community is obsessed with Facebook.
By Caldathras, 23 Mar 2026 at 5:16 pm UTC
Quoting: g000hLeave Meta platforms. Stop using WhatsApp, stop using Instagram, stop using Facebook.
Quoting: g000hUse Adblocking technology like uBlock Origin and Ghostery.
Done. Haven't used social media for over 10 years. Been using adblockers for even longer.
Unfortunately, where I live, the community is obsessed with Facebook.
News - Minecraft Dungeons II announced for release in 2026
By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:12 pm UTC
By Liam Dawe, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:12 pm UTC
Quoting: Geppeto35Just buy it on Steam?Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?
Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!
News - Minecraft Dungeons II announced for release in 2026
By Geppeto35, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:05 pm UTC
By Geppeto35, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:05 pm UTC
Quoting: Serious_TableI am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.How does it work on linux? My kids ask for and I see a lutris entry. Do we have to do tricks, cause it don't work with the Java edition?
Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!
News - Survival-crafting colony sim Oceaneers washes up onto Early Access shores in April
By bisbyx, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
By bisbyx, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
I had to check to make sure this wasn't a Don't Starve sequel from Klei.
News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By Geppeto35, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:00 pm UTC
By Geppeto35, 23 Mar 2026 at 4:00 pm UTC
Yesterday, the French municipal elections also saw a historic breakthrough for the far-right party, which openly aligns on nazis and fascists roots, helped (as right before the WWII) by the traditional right wing that fears a true left elected.
Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!
Sadly, it smells like our generation could be "all out of bubblegums" in the next decade in this mad world!
News - New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
By Jarmer, 23 Mar 2026 at 3:28 pm UTC
using the flatpak steam app is fine, just please don't go around telling people this version "works brilliantly and performs way better" ... it's simply not true.
By Jarmer, 23 Mar 2026 at 3:28 pm UTC
Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?LOL what on earth is this comment.
- flathub steam app is not published by Valve
- flathub steam app is not supported by Valve
- Valve themselves recommend using the native deb
- flathub steam app is WAY out of date (7 months ago was most recent update)
- flatpak steam has lots of issues and problems being reported by users
- your "marked improvements in performance" comment is misleading. I'm assuming you mean because of the libraries? This has a positive effect on some systems and negative effect on others. So it is DEFINITELY not an improvement for everyone on all systems.
using the flatpak steam app is fine, just please don't go around telling people this version "works brilliantly and performs way better" ... it's simply not true.
News - D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
By Avehicle7887, 23 Mar 2026 at 3:00 pm UTC
By Avehicle7887, 23 Mar 2026 at 3:00 pm UTC
Quoting: VerglasI am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.That screenshot made me want to start playing it. It has been sitting in my library for over 10 years and I never installed it.
News - New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
By dpanter, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:27 pm UTC
By dpanter, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:27 pm UTC
Flatpak Steam is crap, but I'm OK with people thinking otherwise.
News - Give fascists the finger and a few bullets in Too Many F*cking Nazis
By Chrisznix, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:26 pm UTC
By Chrisznix, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:26 pm UTC
Perfect timing. The rightwing party of germany just claimed almost 20% in one of the lands...🤮
News - D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
By Verglas, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:01 pm UTC
By Verglas, 23 Mar 2026 at 2:01 pm UTC
I am not tech-savvy enough to understand exactly what this is about, but that screen shot of TA Kingdoms brought a warm and fuzzy feeling to my stomach.
News - Opera GX is now available for Linux
By Galactic-Man, 23 Mar 2026 at 1:17 pm UTC
But your Us focus confused me; isn't Opera owned by the Chinese now? [Link to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)
By Galactic-Man, 23 Mar 2026 at 1:17 pm UTC
Quoting: Wolfgang RoseThese days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'. In contrast Vivaldi is still privately held (not floated) - so right now at least is still within GDPR.Props for the CachyOS and Vivaldi love: what Opera started Vivaldi very much has improved upon.
I'm not being anti-US, I'm just taking precautions against a prevalent business culture that is actively hostile towards its customers. At the moment the only US tools I'm using are Steam (as I have such a large back-catalogue) and Lutris. I'd opt for Heroic Launcher instead, but it is just not as flexible as Lutris. I use CachyOS which is a Deutsch distribution based on Canadian Arch.
Still hoping to see GOG.com bring Galaxy to Linux, then I can remove Lutris from the equation.
But your Us focus confused me; isn't Opera owned by the Chinese now? [Link to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(company)
News - Wine 11.5 released with support for Syscall User Dispatch on Linux
By mr-victory, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:59 pm UTC
By mr-victory, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:59 pm UTC
A number of VBScript compatibility fixes.I'm interested in this one actually due to a very very old app
News - Minecraft Dungeons II announced for release in 2026
By Serious_Table, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:29 pm UTC
By Serious_Table, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:29 pm UTC
I am beyond stoked that they're doing another Minecraft Dungeons. The first one was honestly a sleeper hit for me and became my favorite ARPG, right up there with Diablo 3. The "easy to learn, difficult to master" aspect of their loot and gearing made it so easy to fall into, and a lot of Minecraft mobs were suddenly a lot more terrifying in the context, especially Endermen.
Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!
Fingers crossed the second has that same sauce!
News - New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
By praz01, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:23 pm UTC
By praz01, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:23 pm UTC
Quoting: EikeAs built/as tested! Unless you can match lib versions on your native OS with one tested by Steam/Lutris/Heroic or compiling wine/proton and fine tuning it, this is optimal. Most of the benchmarks out there are on Snap vs deb, but same holds for flatpak vs native.Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?
News - GE-Proton 10-34 brings fixes for God of War Ragnarök, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XIV
By Sojiro84, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:12 pm UTC
By Sojiro84, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:12 pm UTC
Weird, currently playing GoW: Ragnarok and have no PS-SDK issues with the earlier Proton-GE build.
News - Wine 11.5 released with support for Syscall User Dispatch on Linux
By mrdeathjr, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:02 pm UTC
By mrdeathjr, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:02 pm UTC
This wine version use more space than 11.4, 11.5 once stay compiled use 4.1gb (around 32400 files) meanwhile 11.4 use 3.5gb (around 30100 files) in my case
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News - D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
By mrdeathjr, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:01 pm UTC
By mrdeathjr, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:01 pm UTC
this dxvk version in my case work with some old titles like this:
earthworm jim 3d
also this game need executable hex edit for fix font issue: in my case replace this value in hex E8 B3 0F 01 00 8B F4 6A FF for 66 90 89 E6 68 FF FF FF 00
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earthworm jim 3d
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also this game need executable hex edit for fix font issue: in my case replace this value in hex E8 B3 0F 01 00 8B F4 6A FF for 66 90 89 E6 68 FF FF FF 00
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News - D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
By Chrisznix, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:48 am UTC
By Chrisznix, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:48 am UTC
This is what i am really here fore. Linux has the potential to bring all the game eras together. I'm a huge fan of those little retro handhelds because they let you experience 40 year old games together with new ones with an interface that even my old mother would have understood.
Now, with GameNative and stuff, you can even use an 180 Eurodollar device as a mini steam deck, along with the old stuff. I've bought one of the cheapest android retrohandhelds that is feasible to do it on (the Anbernic RG 467H) and man is it cool to have a little steam deck in your pocket. It´s hit and miss on most games, but it is almost perfect for things like darkside detective, Ball X Pit and stuff like that.
Now, with GameNative and stuff, you can even use an 180 Eurodollar device as a mini steam deck, along with the old stuff. I've bought one of the cheapest android retrohandhelds that is feasible to do it on (the Anbernic RG 467H) and man is it cool to have a little steam deck in your pocket. It´s hit and miss on most games, but it is almost perfect for things like darkside detective, Ball X Pit and stuff like that.
News - The Darkside Detective: Backside of the Moon gets a first demo
By hardpenguin, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:13 am UTC
By hardpenguin, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:13 am UTC
Nice light comedy series with no-nonsense adventuring gameplay. Glad to see the series thrive and develop
News - GE-Proton 10-34 brings fixes for God of War Ragnarök, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy XIV
By Szkodnix, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:11 am UTC
By Szkodnix, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:11 am UTC
Okay, the change with determining primary monitor is huge.
It was a huge pain in the back that Proton Wayland games did not respect my choice of a primary monitor. I guess that will no longer be the case.
It was a huge pain in the back that Proton Wayland games did not respect my choice of a primary monitor. I guess that will no longer be the case.
News - New Steam Beta can run the Linux client inside a container with 64bit
By Eike, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:07 am UTC
By Eike, 23 Mar 2026 at 11:07 am UTC
Quoting: praz01Why is this even being done? As someone else said in these comments Flatpak Steam already works brilliantly with marked improvements in performance over native. I'm reluctant to invest in another container implementation when I'm so heavily invested in Flatpak. Is this another Snaps? Why can't they tweak the existing flatpak implementation?Why would anything run faster in Flatpak than outside?
News - RTS fans absolutely need to check out D.O.R.F. Real-Time Strategic Conflict
By Brokatt, 23 Mar 2026 at 9:26 am UTC
By Brokatt, 23 Mar 2026 at 9:26 am UTC
I had never heard of DORF but I love old school RTS. You always give the best recommendations Liam 😄❤️
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