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Age (identity by another name) verification faces the same barriers that gaming anticheat has with Linux. They both seek to restrict users in some fashion on an operating system which is fundamentally built around not restricting users.

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I don't use the Epic store but I can leave a message to the author should they peruse this thread for some reason:

Thank you for your work, and for passing the torch!
You have certainly earned a good rest and I hope you have a good time with your future endevours.
Cheers and thanks for supporting Linux gaming! ❤️🌟❤️

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeI wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

I guess that would depend on how comparable their pricing is -- if System76 has lower prices, they might not be too heavily impacted.

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Sadly, Bazzite is not for me. They have very poor Nvidia legacy hardware support. CachyOS, on the other hand ...

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It's easy to give money to support the engine. I am however not amazed, this developer has left the GOG version of their first game abandoned with several missing patches (I'm aware 1st game doesn't use Godot).

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I wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: brokkrI have had some games, notably Hitman WoA and Shadows of Doubt, get killed by the memory manager after they had consumed all VRAM (8 Gb) and subsequently all RAM (16 Gb) on my old desktop. So far the only fix has been to make a large swap partition - and play less of those games and for shorter time spans (probably a good idea anyway) Curious to see if this might help.

That sounds like a memory leak in the games (or drivers), this shouldn't really help, though the gameplay may be smoother for a while. However, that issue sounds interesting for mesa devs to know about.

Besides a swap partition, you may consider swapping to compressed ram (zram).

You're right, of course. It's been almost a year so I kinda forgot the nature of the problem. I did discuss it a fair bit on the EndeavourOS forums but despite some good suggestions and a lot of testing, I never got any closer to finding a solution.

I never really considered reporting upstream. Guess it's worth a shot.

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Quoting: syylkUsing Debian is the age verification! (cit.)

I came here to see this comment and I'm not disappointed! 😄

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This entire debate is so silly, it's not even funny. Anyone want to guess how many seconds it will take for somebody releasing a de-age patch for whatever distros chosing to comply with that crap?

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Hopefully the Godot-devs (Juan in particular) actually start taking technical-excellence seriously at this point.

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That's pretty fantastic! Looking forward to see what they will do with the funds.

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The power of open source! 🔥

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I'm not a PS3 guy but I'm hella impressed with this update, and the sleek video presentation as well. Kudos team!

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Love seeing SBOMs and more security features within the build pipeline <3

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Quoting: brokkrI have had some games, notably Hitman WoA and Shadows of Doubt, get killed by the memory manager after they had consumed all VRAM (8 Gb) and subsequently all RAM (16 Gb) on my old desktop. So far the only fix has been to make a large swap partition - and play less of those games and for shorter time spans (probably a good idea anyway) Curious to see if this might help.

That sounds like a memory leak in the games (or drivers), this shouldn't really help, though the gameplay may be smoother for a while. However, that issue sounds interesting for mesa devs to know about.

Besides a swap partition, you may consider swapping to compressed ram (zram).

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Quoting: wytrabbitWould this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

No, they do not have dedicated VRAM. iGPUs have lower memory bandwidth usually, but access to the whole system RAM. They don't go trough a relatively slow PCIe link to access the main memory, unlike desktop GPUs.

Here the improvement is really to help decide what app to keep in VRAM and what app to "swap out" to system memory, so it doesn't apply to systems without dedicated VRAM.

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I would welcome a post (or an edit) introducing https://modding-openmw.com/ and especially showing a setup that works well on Steam Deck.

Their scripts make modding really easy. But unfortunately the Total Overhaul seems to be too much for the Deck. Would be nice to see a configuration close to it which can be run on the Deck.

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I have had some games, notably Hitman WoA and Shadows of Doubt, get killed by the memory manager after they had consumed all VRAM (8 Gb) and subsequently all RAM (16 Gb) on my old desktop. So far the only fix has been to make a large swap partition - and play less of those games and for shorter time spans (probably a good idea anyway) Curious to see if this might help.

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Would this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

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Using Debian is the age verification! (cit.)

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Good to see some more love for VR on Linux - although of course i've sold my index in hopes of the frame in H1/26...damn AI bubble 😭

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Quoting: kaktuspalme

Quoting: Purple Library Guy11% for English speaking . . . that's insane. But, once again says to me that something needs to be done about China not doing Linux.

I still don't understand why asian countries and china especially adopt Linux slower then the rest of the world. One would think they would be happy not relying on US closed source Software.

A. It depends on the asian country. India is an Asian country and has an 18% overall Linux penetration in their market.
B. This's deliberate market strategy. Microsoft has put a lot of resources and some excellent ideas to Asian ecosystem construction. They were already big in western markets when Asia started to become realistic and they used this to obtain marketshare.
A two tricks Microsoft pulled:
- intentional piracy in Asian markets.
Asian markets tend to have pretty protectionist policies one of which is forced technology transfer, but policy only works through legal methods. Piracy and smuggling circumvent official policy.
- solid localisation: asian languages are very well supported in Windows

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No, I won't play RE from 1998

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15" AMD laptop with Thunderbolt 4 support would be amazing. Who am I kidding, it won't happen...

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Quoting: KoopaAlso some big studios dont care about this... I live in Argentina, latam-usd region and some AAA have exactly the same price as in the US. They didnt care about regional pricing before... I have doubts they will suddenly care.
Tbh what it looks from my end, is that regional pricing is falling apart, fewer studios do regional pricing by the day, to me Valve's move is kinda a desperate move because they dont want regional price to fall apart.

Indeed. Here in Brazil is the same thing. There are some "deluxe" special edition of some games that can reach a third of the Brazilian minimum wage. Most of the big AAA Studios like Activision, Sega or Konami, practically do strait US Dollar conversion rates.

What is sad is that Steam took a lot of people of the piracy scene here, but apparently big studios want those people to go back there ASAP.

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What do you think it will be?

A Framework Steam Machine 😉

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In an interview on the Dualboot Diaries podcast, the Framework CEO said that half of the computer they sell are Linux. So these guys are really surfing on the wave of Linux growth. Good for them.

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I would love to play MW3 in split screen on my Steam Deck docked. But the game is stuttering. I think I have to accept that the SD is not enough powerful to handle the game...

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Charging LED now changes color when charge limit is reached, rather than only at 100%

That's good. It's seemed like a massive oversight since they rolled out the charge limit feature.

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I do hope they have cleaned the stinky people from their big tent.

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