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I’m really confused here… x)

Basically it's really confusing messaging from AMD and people assume the worst. But as the dust settles and we have seen a clarification of the clarification from AMD, it all ends up being a nice juicy nothing burger. But don't expect RDNA 1 & 2 to get FSR 4 INT8.

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It's features like this I would like to see in SteamOS for PC. And "wake PC with Steam mobile app" to download a purchased app then turn off again.

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That's very nice. But I thought the download/patch process in itself was power hungry :-). Yes, there always has to be a negative comment :-). Doesn't mean I am not thinking about getting me a hot standby steam deck. It basically replaced all my laptops and desktops for work.
I think it's several years that I've been earning money with my steam deck \0/. This can be turned into a meme somehow, but I do not have enough coffee in me to see it yet.

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Nice, I always wondered how they intended to handle this. Since it's kinda harder to implement than it first seems. The Deck is still a PC, it gets hot, it needs to release hot air while it's running, can't just have people turning off the screen and forgetting about that then leaving the deck in it's carry case. Making it a "deck will go to sleep soon as downloads are finished" thing makes sense reduces the chance of the deck drawing power and staying on with the screen off longer than necessary. The low power mode is probably like a downclock to get the deck running cool enough that hardly needs any cooling, to reduce the chance of fire if it was thrown into a stuffy sealed bag. And it was never clear how someone would activate this screen off mode too. Tying it to the sleep button makes it simple enough. Good solution I think.

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Rage 2 AsyncCompute issue is finally fixed after 4 years :)
No more hangs on map menu. This was the only issue i have had with nvidia drivers. Other than that their drivers have been rock solid for me at least.
More performance would be nice ofc, but i guess i'm playing games (not really into most of the triple A stuff) that perform great on my aging RTX 3080 as i really haven't seen much of a performance issues like some people seem to have.

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Hey yo, one of those flags is a Liberia flag. XD

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About time really.

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FINALLY!!!!!!!

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HUGE, INCREDIBLE, UTTERLY AND WHOLLY FANTASTIC. GOD BLESS THE STEAM DECK 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇱🇷🗽🦅🦅💥💥💥

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I really don’t understand the comments here. I mean, the 6000 and 5000 card will still work, and bug will still be fixed since it’s a maintenance mode and not a complete stop in support.

Everything. The current branch (580) has Maxwell support.

But the new AMD drivers will have RDNA and RDNA2 support too. Just not the new features on it. Or am I misunderstanding something?

Or does that mean that people using theses cards should stop updating their drivers? But then it’s not a maintenance mode, it’s a complete abandon of it, no?

Someone says that the 6800XT still work with good performances, but it will not change, it will still have great performances, even in new games if they aren’t too heavy, but that’s an hardware problem, not a software one.

I’m really confused here… x)

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weird but ok

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They fixed Metro Exodus EE once before. Then broke it. Now they re-fixed it. But I am certain they will break it again.

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YESSSS!!! PoE2 is one of my fav games of the past decade, but I never played 1 because of the lack of tb mode. I just can't stand rtwp. This is so wonderful and I'm so happy they're spending time revisiting such an old game. Love it!

As soon as I finish my playthrough on ANOTHER obsidian game (ow2) I'll definitely be giving this a go.

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The way I played PoE was to set it to pause after everyone made their moves in a round, then give them new commands. I called it liar's RTwP.

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I finished PoE I despite RTwP, and looking at my backlog I don't think I'll revisit it in the near future. The update is appreciated though, and the improvements Obsidian are making sound quite nice.

I did play a portion of PoE II in turn based mode, and liked it quite a lot. But it also made for slower gameplay and I never completed the game. Though I might not have in RTwP mode either.

I didn't (yet) succeed in carrying over the game saves to PoE II. :-(

I thought that worked for me, but I am not quite sure now, because I did not feel much of an impact.

Or it's just because none of the characters keep their levels or skills from the first game. And since PoE II plays in a different part of the world, I don't know if any decisions from the first game carry over in a noticeable way either.

But it's been a while and memory is hazy.

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I'll check Podman, never used it. I only experimented with lxc which is Linux's own container feature.

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Pillars of Eternity or Power over Ethernet. Both are PoE and I always think of both with the acronym.

Well, now you've got me praying for Power over Ethernet never going turn-based!

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I'm a huge GOG advocate, as they a) are based outside of the USA and have to comply with GDPR (in fact, not just lip service) and b) DRM free is growing in importance to me (I want to give my video game collection to my kids before I die - you can't do that via other storefronts). There is only one thing lacking and that is a new version of GoG Galaxy (3.0 is well overdue) and a Linux native version of that. That said, Heroic Launcher is a great alternative.

GoG is actually my first preference when buying any game.

On the digital preservation side of things, whilst I'm sure there was some good commercial reasons for CDPR to go for it, I'm a frequent donor as I believe that video game preservation is a critical thing to do, to ensure that all the generations to come, can see how this art-form evolved from simple sprites all the way to vast open worlds in 3D that is near real. Sure there are areas that could be improved, but GoG (CDPR) is the only firm in the world that is doing anything even remotely close to what is needed, and for that, I think we should applaud and support with some real gusto!

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Does it fail/gives you an error when you try?

Will need to take a look; thanks for asking!

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Isn't it nice that Microsoft lets them do such work on that old games, including the Linux version as it seems?

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I'm using Steam and I'm using my (Linux) PC for many other things, and I bet that's the case for most of us. So yes, I think their point is valid.

No it's not, because Bazzite is far more [...]

I cannot comment on Bazzite. I was talking about Steam being a gaming site, but many Steam users probably still using their PC for many things, not only gaming.

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Proton Hotfix is the extra special version of Proton that gets very sporadic updates, specifically when a game needs them so you shouldn't really touch it unless you need to.

It's the gaffer tape and chewing gum build of Proton.

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Yeah, they lost a sale here, thanks to Denuvo. I never played the originals, but would love to have given this a try.

Yeah... me too.

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I didn't (yet) succeed in carrying over the game saves to PoE II. :-(

Does it fail/gives you an error when you try?

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I didn’t liked the crew game until I try this one.
For me it’s the best free roam currently in the market. It’s better than FH5 (but not better than FH4). If you can have a look, I recommend it.

For additional info : starting the 5 November, if you own a game you can invite 3 friends to join you and play together, even if they don’t own the game (like a guest pass). There is only need to one owner of the game to be able to play all together.

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Distrobox uses rootless podman (or rootful if specified) and it's dead simple to use. One command to fetch an image and create a container (in one go), another to enter the container. The container acts like a regular distro so you can sudo apt install or sudo pacman -S and changes will survive unlike docker.

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Isn't realtime part of vanilla kernel now?

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I've found that my enjoyment of real-time with pause is directly tied to the party size. If the party is 4 characters, it's fine. If it's 6, I can't keep up anymore and have no idea what's happening and why.

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I prefer real time + pause mechanic myself, but it's cool they are adding an option for turn based mode. I wish games with turn mode only did the same the other way.

I remember I thought back then real time plus (configurable!) automatic pause is the optimum between tactics and action.

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Let's hope they understand that Linux-based os use a case-sensitive file system. This can be a problem if they do not take into account the issue of case sensitivity of the file system, for example, Fallout - The Frontier

The Frontier-Master NVSE
The Frontier-Hotfix nvse
You have two folders with the same plugin, so which one will load? There are other files and folders where the case of the file and folder names is different between the Master and the Hotfix

There is an updated master that combines the master and the Hotfix. This may not be a problem for this mod now, but there may be other mods with the same problem

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