Songs of Conquest is also still in Early Access...

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Quoting: MrowlI really want to buy a VR headset this year, and I'm strongly leaning towards the Quest 3. But if Valve were to announce the Steam Deckard standalone VR headset and price it competitively with the Quest 3, I would be on it in a heartbeat.

It's a shame to see PCVR in the sorry state it's currently in; I think the Valve Deckard, if it even exists, will help to revive PCVR and SteamVR in particular. But it does need to be priced in the $500'ish range, and will it be ARM or x86 based? How will PC / Steam VR backwards compatibility work?

From the rumours so far it looks like it will be a hybrid, an ARM chip from Qualcomm to do all the inside out tracking, hand-tracking etc. and an Steam Deck like x86 chip to run the actual games on. While this sounds like a good technical solution, this also makes it relatively unlikely that it will be below $500.

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Quoting: ZlopezI recommend switching to X.Org, the SteamVR didn't worked for me in Wayland at all. You can do this on login screen just before login in the system.

It works with KDE and Wayland. On Gnome you need X11 currently.

any idea what the reason for this is? i thought Gnome was meant to be a first class wayland citizen. It seems more and more that KDE is beating out Gnome with new features.

Some very specific feature that VR needs. I suspect it might have been added by a Valve contractor as their upcoming standalone VR headset will probably run the same KDE based OS as the Steam Deck.

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Quoting: ZlopezI recommend switching to X.Org, the SteamVR didn't worked for me in Wayland at all. You can do this on login screen just before login in the system.

It works with KDE and Wayland. On Gnome you need X11 currently.

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Quoting: TimeFreezeI know its kinda off topic but since the Intel Cards got mentioned: Against what could you compare an ARC 750/770?

Really hard to say due to driver issues and games not being optimized for newer architectural designs.

On Windows in 1080p they currently benchmark near the RX 7600 this article is about. But at higher resolutions and with ray-tracing etc. the more modern architecture of the Arc does give up to 30-40% benefit over similar priced AMD cards (but overall low framerates, so this doesn't help all that much).

The Arc A770 is also pretty much the only GPU in this price segment that is available with 16gb VRAM, which is likely going to be a longer term benefit and helps a lot with AI compute stuff (Stable Diffusion etc.) right now.

But on Linux the gaming performance of the Intel Arc is really not there yet due to driver issues and even under Windows the gaming benchmarks seem to fall quite short of what the theoretical power of these cards would suggest.

Edit: Ugh: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/234

And: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Arc-Graphics-Mesa-23.2

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Come one Intel... fix your Arc A770/750 drivers for Linux please. AMD and Nvidia seem to have decided to stop competing :(

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The 16gb Ti version might be cost effective for AI stuff like Stable Diffusion 🤔

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Is this the same company that already sued because of the Steam Controller a while back?

Edit: ah back paddles it was. So probably a different company.

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Nice Steam Controller cameo :)

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Early Access was IMHO supposed to be a way to improve the quality of games at release day and to allow enthusiasts to support small indie developers financially to complete games.

The reality today is that early access is doing the opposite. Steam presents them like normal releases and most players see them as such, but they give developers an excuse to release even more unfinished titles, and small developers now often abandon half-finished games because they think based on early access sales that finishing the game would not recover the costs.

I think this is largely Valve's fault for presenting early access titles in the store like they do.

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