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So Colossal Order mismanaged Cities Skylines 2 so poorly they've been fired instead of shut down and our now self-employed. Got it. Will be surprised if they last very long. I feel like they've lost the trust of too many people to be successful.

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I don't doubt Colossal Order screwed up here, but I also have the feeling Paradox could have actually helped instead of releasing a broken, unfinished game and then letting it fester for 2 years before "parting ways" with the devs. Whether that was stepping in earlier in development to steer the project, growing the team or providing dev support, or doing whatever the issues called for when it wasn't too late.

I'm sure the new devs will look upon the code in horror and just pump out assets until there is nothing left to milk or until the game can no longer take more. Not their fault, naturally.

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Argentina amazing place... cheers from Argentina!

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Wouldn't it be better news the other way round? I.e. the game remaining with the original devs but free from Paradox?

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Yeah, moving games to a new developer always turns out great. That's how we got the fantastic, Kerbal Space Program 2! Right?

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Not really all that surprising something like this would happen after the mess that is Cities Skylines 2. Hopefully the new team can bring it into a better state and Colossal Order does better with their next project.

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@1xok I assure you they won't let you run on "any shady Windows machine".
I tend to aggressively debloat Windows to keep it running on ancient hardware(part of my job) and gaming ability is one of the first things of consumer value you lose(full telemetry, ads and bloat are the first victims, but those you don't actually want).
Also many anti-cheat systems nowadays require TPM2.0 and although essentially all hardware, since 2008 supports it, activating it in BIOS is often required. Valorant even excludes itself from systems with old keyboards.

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I had a lot of fun modding and making levels and mission expansions for this back in the day.
I remember a couple of developers at Lucas Arts taking time out of their day to answer questions via email regarding video codecs, coding, etc.

That was a different time

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this is a fantastic shooter, one of the all time greats to this day. highly recommend picking it up if you haven't played it before!

hopefully the videos will work without too much fuss in proton :)

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Added some notes for Debian.

Our wiki is bad.

Installing nvidia-drivers on Debian is basically
> apt install nvidia-driver

I made I video talking way too long for the easy task of installing Steam plus Nvidia drivers on a virgin Debian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6mXW7KPoU

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Strange. If it's an official stable version, odd that it's not listed as an available option on the Compatibility tab.

It's there for me. May require it to be installed, and to restart Steam so it's all properly picked up.

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Added some notes for Debian.

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It looks promising, but currently its more like a tech demo (..), will see when it gets more developed

I was about to say Xpander is already warming up their steering wheel 😄

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No LLVM makes life so much easier when compiling for Android and/or Waydroid. If I don't disable LLVM, clang++ can't find certain headers and fails very quickly lol

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I have multiple friends and family who previously had no interest in the Deck and certainly no interest in Linux who are now planning to buy the Machine and some also interested in the Frame.

When I asked why, the Machine has really resonated with them. They've seen my Deck and think it's good but wasn't for them as they just didn't want a handheld and it is now a bit underpowered for their tastes. Most are gamers and either already have much older machines they were planning to relace and so this is still a upgrade for them, or they have a decent PC already but wanted something small and quiet in an HTPC style for their lounge or bedroom. They really like the small form factor, the decent but not power/thermal hungry specs, the resulting low noise factor, and the console ease of use of the device, while still allowing them flexibility as a PC for game modding and custom changes if they decide to.

A number of them were not exactly anti-Linux but they were definitely Windows first and generally shied away from Linux in any form. Seeing SteamOS over the last few years, even on a handheld they didn't want, has changed their minds.

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Can someone please make a GabeCube startup video...

It's not exactly what you want, but it's close.

https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/YozvX/gabecube_startup_video

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Can someone please make a GabeCube startup video where all the cubes rolled look like companion cube colors edges when the cube jumps into place in the middle it becomes a heart.

That would be legit.

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yeah, meson is confusing with false vs disabled. disabled is probably fine for it.

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https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/wine-10-19-released-as-we-head-towards-wine-11/?comment_id=285780

thanks now appear this:

meson setup build64 --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -Ddri-drivers-path=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri -Dplatforms=x11,wayland -Dvulkan-drivers=amd -Dvulkan-layers=anti-lag,device-select,overlay -Dtools=drm-shim -Dglx-direct=true -Dgbm=enabled -Dgallium-extra-hud=true -Dlmsensors=enabled -Dllvm=disabled -Damd-use-llvm=false -Dgallium-va=enabled -Dvideo-codecs="all" -Dgallium-drivers=radeonsi,zink -Dbuildtype=release


mesa 26.0.0-devel

Directories
prefix : /usr
libdir : lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
includedir : include

Common C and C++ arguments
c_cpp_args : -mtls-dialect=gnu2

OpenGL
OpenGL : YES
ES1 : YES
ES2 : YES
GLVND : YES

DRI
Platform : drm
Driver dir : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri

GLX
Enabled : YES
Provider : dri

EGL
Enabled : YES
Drivers : builtin:egl_dri2 builtin:egl_dri3
Platforms : x11 wayland surfaceless drm xcb

GBM
Enabled : YES
External libgbm : NO
Backends path : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gbm

Vulkan
Drivers : amd
Platforms : x11 wayland surfaceless drm xcb
ICD dir : share/vulkan/icd.d
Layers : anti-lag device-select overlay
Intel Ray tracing: NO

Video
Codecs : vc1dec h264dec h264enc h265dec h265enc av1dec av1enc vp9dec
APIs : va vulkan

LLVM
Required : disabled

Gallium
Enabled : YES
Drivers : radeonsi zink
Platforms : x11 wayland surfaceless drm xcb
Frontends : mesa va
HUD lm-sensors : YES

Perfetto
Enabled : NO

Teflon (TensorFlow Lite delegate)
Enabled : NO

User defined options
amd-use-llvm : false
buildtype : release
dri-drivers-path : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri
gallium-drivers : radeonsi,zink
gallium-extra-hud: true
gallium-va : enabled
gbm : enabled
glx-direct : true
libdir : lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
llvm : disabled
lmsensors : enabled
localstatedir : /var
platforms : x11,wayland
prefix : /usr
sysconfdir : /etc
tools : drm-shim
video-codecs : all
vulkan-drivers : amd
vulkan-layers : anti-lag,device-select,overlay

Found ninja-1.12.1 at /usr/bin/ninja

Only need change -Dllvm=false to -Dllvm=disabled as suggest meson a minor thing

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Oh! And I just tought about the fact that the Steam Frame, with FEX, could become the development basis for an Arm based Steam Deck 2. Who knows?

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One thing is particularly funny: they let you play from any shady Windows machine. But they block an console-like system.

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Crazy, I tried Steam Link yesterday and today and still getting the Steam VR - Error 499 (Video Encoder) issue on Arch (EOS) and Fedora 43 - two separate AMD systems.

ALVR continues to work without issue.

Its funny because a couple beta versions ago it was working perfectly with Steam Link :(.

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@Mohandevir Many anti-cheat vendors offer Linux compatibility nowadays, but there're often reasons not to use this product/feature.
VAC is the most obvious solution.
EAC and BattleEye work too.
Denuvo can be considered an anti-cheat provider that works on Linux.
You also have that anti-cheat solution whose name I always forget that only works on Steam Deck.
Fairplay is an interesting story. It's [certainly not an internally developed solution.](https://www.fairplay.ac/) It's one of the more extreme interpretations of server side anti-cheat. By doing most to all of the gaming at the server side it's easy to check for cheating.

Interesting thing I found:

Spoiler, click me

The FACEIT league actually has its own anti-cheat system, but if that one worked on Linux I would be pretty surprised.

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@CIAPA Do the xinput_calibrator and or xinput count.
xinput_calibrator is an x.org frontend for xinput, but straightly assumes you want your mouse to point up and do nothing fancy.
xinput is a pretty intuitive cli tool for managing this.

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May be I'll open a Mesa bug to suggest the above.

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I don't understand why people recommend balena etcher, when you have something as efficient, lightweight and easy to use as those 2 small tools.

Because the writer tool only seems to work well with Linux Mint installers. It corrupted the installers for some of the other distros I've tested. Tuxedo OS comes to mind...

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Rumour has it that this uses Denuvo. That, the launcher and the microtransactions are enough for me to say "no thanks."

@soulsource

On Switch, at least, you could work around the login-requirement by disconnecting from the internet. I don't know if that's an option on PC.

I can confirm that, at least in Windows, you can set the launcher to offline mode. It's a bit of a hassle, however.

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Strange. If it's an official stable version, odd that it's not listed as an available option on the Compatibility tab.

As Liam said, however, it can be found by searching the Steam Library manually.

I've tried Proton 10 and GE 10 on a couple of games over the past month or two and had zero success even getting them to run. Had to fall back to 9 which has been flawless. I'll probably wait a while to try 10 again.

I've experienced this too. Steam is set to default to Experimental for me. A number of my games wouldn't launch when Experimental moved to the 10.0 base. I had to switch them to a stable release based on 9.0 to fix the issue.

On the other hand, I just picked up Stray (52% off at Fanatical). It actually runs with better frame rates on the 10.0-based Experimental (and GE-Proton 10.25). It was appreciably slower on Proton 9.0-4.

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Interesting issue i trying compile without llvm but in my case dont work show llvm is required for radeonsi

It works fine without llvm now. Radeonsi recently switched to aco compiler by default. You need to configure the build with meson to turn off build dependency on llvm like this:

...
-D llvm=false \
-D amd-use-llvm=false \
...

Not sure why they didn't make the second switch be automatically set to false when the first switch is false, may be they'll fix it, but for now the above works.

If build fails, I recommend reading meson.build to figure out why. The above was clear just by reading the file.

See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/meson.build?ref_type=heads#L226

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IMO the trends are showing that competitive shooters is a bubble. Not only are many of them struggling to get the sales they want lately, but given what's going on with Arc Raiders it's clear there's a narrative shift (and consequently why so many games "journalists" are talking negatively about it).

I'm not saying competitive/online shooters will go away, but that the level of competition, and the amount of it, people want isn't actually what everyone thinks. A lot of this is being driven by streaming; whether that be fortnite (which in it's own regard will sustain itself), DayZ, rust, or Tarkov, so much of this is propelled by streamers.
Ironically I think the streaming world also is causing a drive for cheats/hacks, since there's a large enough percentage of each game's community that play that game for 8+ hours a day which forces you to be way better in order to just have fun at the end of a long day at work.

Couple all that with the move to external cheating solutions and Kernel A/C is going to collapse sooner or later.

Time will tell, and Arc Raiders will be one of the best indicators on where things will be going, but I can't imagine that invasive A/C actually has a future.

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