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I don't care about any other updates... We have new pigs!

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The primary problem with kernel involvement remains: crashes.

I mean, sure... but when was the last time you had a game crash? I play a LOT of games, and an actual game crash, or worse, freeze? It's like once a year if that.

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​This dxvk version in my case runs ok with mesa 25 of 2025

Testing resident evil hd remaster seems work ok

https://i.imgur.com/IrWIXk2.png

https://i.imgur.com/xYfWuwm.png

and system shock remake (unreal engine 4) seems work ok too:

https://i.imgur.com/kSBv920.png

However them stay working now in two things:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4609

Big refactor that moves a lot of responsibility to the backend, where it should have been in the first place.

Key changes:

Vulkan surface and swapchain creation now happens entirely in the backend.

Instead of this clusterfuck where the front-end needs to manually synchronize everything through four different threads and then pray that it actually works, we now just set swapchain properties via a bunch of functions that can then get applied during the next acquireNextImage call.

Enabled automatic conversion between HDR10 and scRGB color spaces if the system only supports one of those and the game uses the other.

This is definitely not well tested with actual HDR content though.

Fixed broken blending with the HUD and software cursor in non-linear color spaces (sRGB if the image format is non-sRGB; HDR10)

Needs lots of testing, especially in D3D9 apps since there are so many weird edge cases wrt swapchain usage.

and this:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/pull/4602

[d3d8] d3d9 bridge & various other enhancements

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part45.html

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Bloodstained is amazing. It's one of the few games I kickstarted (Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, and (unfortunately) Torment Tides of Numenera are the others), and it was worth every cent thrice over. I would, in fact, recommend you don't get it in this bundle but rather buy it at full price as it's so good that I want to see more like it.

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It figures they'd do this a couple months after I broke down and got a new AMD GPU for my console gaming machine to replace the Nvidia that I'd had in it...

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If this was MIT licensed I could easily see Beamdog trying to use it.

They still could obviously, but they'd need to respect copyleft.

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I don't really understand what Bazzite being Cloud Native means. Does this mean that Bazzite is unable to function if the computer is offline (i.e., no network or internet connection)?

It works without internet connection yes. Cloud-native is a term that gets thrown around certain industries that boils down to how the OS is built and the tooling used. Bazzite is built and deployed in Github and that's how they do their upgrades too. It's a little confusing and not something most people commonly say. If you are familiar with continuous development and continuous integration (CD/CI), then it's the same stuff going on here with Bazzite.

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I don't really understand what Bazzite being Cloud Native means. Does this mean that Bazzite is unable to function if the computer is offline (i.e., no network or internet connection)?

The author says that "Developers and users alike can fork, contribute to, and expand Bazzite. This is what makes us Cloud Native". No, that's what makes them an open source project. The author used a buzzword they didn't quite understand.

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I don't really understand what Bazzite being Cloud Native means. Does this mean that Bazzite is unable to function if the computer is offline (i.e., no network or internet connection)?

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Strong Chronicles of Riddick vibes. Hence, wishlisted :)

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I see little hope for it.
The primary problem with kernel involvement remains: crashes.
Wine can't help, but be a really crashy program.
In the kernel a crash means a reboot, while in user space it means a signal: making it recoverable.

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I really liked the first Icewind Dale but never played through the second. Should try it again with this engine.

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Pictured - Far Cry 5

Looks more like Farming Simulator 24, Texas DLC, but what do I know!?

As for DXVK, it's basically a requirement when using vanilla Wine. Really a great project!

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I don't even use Bazzite on my desktop, but I use some of their very helpful scripts that make gaming setup easier. Overall, the Linux community is better because of them.

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Wishlisted. Definitively my kind of juice!

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so this is like openmw it seems. Love it! I never played the IWD games. I don't know why, because I did play the BG games, but somehow just totally missed the IWD ones. I might give this a try!

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I love a good single player scifi fps campaign, so as long as they can deliver, I'm on board. Wishlisted. Thank you!

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Nice! I've been waiting for a while for this.

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I'm not surprised, but it is good to hear.

Bazzite has a nice introduction that makes it easy for someone to install emulators and the like, which SteamOS doesn't have. That's in addition to things mentioned in the Reddit post like printing support. Also, Bazzite is way more up to date on Plasma and other KDE software than SteamOS. It's actually kind of surprising how behind Plasma is on SteamOS, considering the Arch base.

Essentially, I think Bazzite is better than SteamOS if you want something that can serve as a general purpose desktop OS in addition to gaming. That's why I'll keep running Bazzite on my desktop, even if SteamOS expands beyond handhelds into desktop.

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Apparently, these performance improvements are already being realised (for the most part) by esync and fsync, which Proton has enabled. There are some differences, but people should curb their expectations as far as game performance improvements go.

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Nothing to do with SEO, I've never bothered with SEO stuff. Our new Guides section is to get stuff down I keep wanting to do, but never did, because they would get buried by normal news. More to come on expanding the Guides section.

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Who would have thought Linux kernel would ever go in this direction, huh!

wait... 860.7 fps? is there even an monitor with that refresh rate to confirm its was runing at that speed? probably is a old game but i doubt the performance would be comparable on windows

Doubt it but it serves as a benchmark :)

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GamingOnLinux seems to be working hard on their SEO rating with all those new guides. I love them! Very useful, especially for the new Steam Deck and Linux users.

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Fanatical will make me broke one day 💸 Love their bundles

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(I know the EE versions were also ported to Android but - I suspect - with Google Play Store DRM, and the versions I have are GOG and Steam)

@brokkr
Have you tried using something like Winlator? This program attempts to run Windows games on Android and it might work with your GOG copy of the game. Here's the link: https://winlator.org/

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I can't see why Bazzite would go anywhere even if SteamOS is starting to gain some traction from major companies like Lenovo and MSI that are putting it on their own devices unless the creators decided to end the project.

Otherwise, if Linux can have many distros, then it shouldn't be any different on the gaming side as well since it's great to have many choices to choose from if you didn't want to use Bazzite and wanted another SteamOS like variant.

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I checked the homepage and part of the feature set is scalable ui and touch support. To me this is probably the greatest appeal: Move the PC game files to an android tablet and - along with scummvm - you have PC gaming even more portable than a steam deck.

(I know the EE versions were also ported to Android but - I suspect - with Google Play Store DRM, and the versions I have are GOG and Steam)

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wait... 860.7 fps? is there even an monitor with that refresh rate to confirm its was runing at that speed? probably is a old game but i doubt the performance would be comparable on windows

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Given the pace so far, it's probably still gonna be a few years until we get a proper desktop version of SteamOS. I could see 2025/26 being mainly about supporting all kinds of handhelds and maybe a console somewhere in 2026. That's the main form factor where SteamOS outshines Windows and the ideal chance to increase market share.

And once all that is done, there's still plenty that needs to be done on the desktop front for it to compete. We can't even be sure if they actually want to do a dedicated desktop version. Maybe it's gonna stay a console OS primarily and leave the general desktop space for others.

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