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My current little wish-list for Steam Deck upgrades
17 January 2023 at 8:40 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ShabbyXHibernate would be slower than just adding a few seconds though, why not recharge the deck every few days if you don't play it (but somehow left it in the middle of a game you didn't want to quit)?
There's a hybrid option too:

Suspend, then hibernate, but only if battery falls below a certain limit or a set amount of time have passed. Resume would be just as fast if it was still in the suspend phase, and if hibernated you would save the battery.

State of the industry: MSI offered a chance to win the ability to buy a GPU
17 January 2023 at 8:34 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: slaapliedjeHere's what I want to know... what are people needing 4080/4090s for? 8k gaming?
Probably those dang Warhammer games. They are 40K!

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin got a big speed boost for Steam Deck
12 January 2023 at 10:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CyborgZetaJust did a fresh install and re-enabled my settings one-by-one, testing Vulkan each time to see if it works. When I checked the box for "Enable API Validation Layers" in the Advanced tab, I got the problem I've been experiencing. That's why Vulkan never worked.
Thanks for sharing the solution!

Get a whole load of Wadjet Eye Games adventures in this new bundle
11 January 2023 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: dibzThese games are great. If anyone is considering this, doesn't already own them, and likes old-school point and click adventure games do yourself a favor and get these. It's downright criminal how cheap the bundle is for what you're getting!

To note, not only do they have native linux versions, but WadjetEye hired the dev that did the linux ports in a post-proton world where he absolutely did not need to do that.

To note #2, ScummVM also semi-recently added the AGS interpreter -- which is what these games are made in -- to ScummVM and you can play most if not all of these games in ScummVM if you'd rather for some reason.

Primordia and Gemini Rue are some of my personal favorites for this type of game, and I pretty much always recommend them whenever Point and Clicks come up.
+1 to what the hyperkinetic three-foot lagomorph wrote above ⇧

The only thing to not like about this bundle is that I already own all these except Technobabylon...

Steam breaks more records with 33 million online, and over 10 million gaming
9 January 2023 at 2:52 pm UTC

After all these years, still Counter-Strike?

CS:GO is 10+ years old, the original 20+. Time to try something new?

ASUS stick an OLED display into a controller, Dell want to reinvent it
8 January 2023 at 7:13 pm UTC

Quoting: MrowlJust wait for the Steam Controller 2, imo. Would also be cool if Valve let us use our Decks as a controller, somehow, like a Wii U GamePad for our PC.
I would be surprised if someone had not already trie this. Doing a quick WiFi gamepad (read input events on the deck, send it off with UDP, play the events on a uinput device on the PC) seems like a 30 minute project.

If latency is an issue another alternative is Bluetooth:
https://github.com/xenogenesi/hidclient
(That's for a software keyboard/mouse but it should be similar for a gamepad)

A third option might be to use the Deck as wired USB gamepad. But it depends on if the Deck hardware supports USB Device Controller (UDC):
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/02/18/modern-usb-gadget-on-linux-and-how-to-integrate-it-with-systemd-part-1/

System Shock remake due to release in March
6 January 2023 at 8:55 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: BumadarI soooooo want this to be good, be like the original, please please please.

But I guess it can probably never compete with that first time experience no matter how hard they try, so i should try to remain neutral and open minded:)

Look at you hacker.....
The original System Shock is fantastic! I still vividly recall the first time I played it.

Granted, it was only a couple of weeks ago....

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 hits a big milestone with all games now bootable
5 January 2023 at 8:32 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: JahimselfAre the performance good? I mean do you need powerfull hardware to run games?
It's quite CPU heavy, 6+ cores are recommended.

Full requirements here:
https://rpcs3.net/quickstart

Epic Games are killing off a bunch of classics like Unreal Tournament
4 January 2023 at 8:58 pm UTC

Yeah, ironically there's actually less DRM on the Epic store then there is on Steam.

I haven't actually bought anything on Epic yet, but most of the giveaway games I have been interested in runs fine in Wine/Proton without the store client running.

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