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Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring
9 January 2024 at 1:27 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: ZlopezI'm surprised to see Jim Whitehurst as Interim CEO for Unity. I thought that he currently has some top management function in IBM after being CEO of Red Hat.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-whitehurst-is-stepping-away-from-ibm/

Heroic Games Launcher 2.11 released with custom library categories
1 December 2023 at 1:07 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: pageroundGreat app. I use it for my gog games. Does anyone know if there is a way to show *only* installed games? That way im not tempted to install more :)

It is an option in the new Filters: Show Installed only

KDE Plasma 6 goes Wayland by default, initial HDR gaming support
14 November 2023 at 3:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm sorry they don't consider session management a show stopper. IMHO its quite a big regression.

NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues
1 November 2023 at 3:20 pm UTC

Looks like there is a problem with the new driver launching CS2 under Wayland and/or gamescope:

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cs2-stuck-on-valve-logo-on-startup-545-beta-branch/269778/9

A fix was done but landed after the release was cut.

Just flipping through their forum shows quite a lot of people having a hard time with Wayland still.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features
17 October 2023 at 5:02 pm UTC

Quoting: sniper_nine 535.43.13 vulkan beta drivers work fine with 3090ti gpu. Not sure about the normal beta branch drivers though I am thinking the the fix needed for starfield didn't make in the normal beta branch drivers. I couldn't get any of the dlss mods to work. So for me fps are like 24-40 mostly around 30-35 though. But that is at 4k with the graphics maxed out. I haven't done much testing though. I spent some time trying to get the dlss mods to work but couldn't seem to get them working yet.

DLSS 3 requires a RTX-40 series card AFAIK.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features
17 October 2023 at 3:30 pm UTC

With the last stable release, 535.113.01, eglinfo core-dumped on me on Fedora 37. It broke ksysstats (used by plasma-systemmonitor) so I backed down to 535.104.05.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello is leaving 'effective immediately'
10 October 2023 at 1:44 am UTC Likes: 1

I can endorse Jim Whitehurst. He was an amazing CEO at Red Hat.

Humble removing the Humble Games Collection from Humble Choice
9 October 2023 at 8:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: dpanterLike this comment if you didn't know Humble had a launcher application.

I could never get past the authentication running it in wine. I don't know if was SAML, OpenID or something else, but it was redirecting browser-based auth the simply blew up inside of wine.

Embracer Group continues cuts with Beamdog shedding 26 people
19 September 2023 at 2:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

Companies asking "do we really want to do this?" when it comes to being bought? Absolutely yes. Those in charge walk away with a ton of money and the rest, well, that's up to them. I think even well-meaning owners fall into this trap. When they are no longer in charge, they are no longer in charge and can't protect their former staff.

Happy Birthday to Steam as it turned 20 today
12 September 2023 at 1:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Apparently I opened my account almost exactly 4 months after introduction. I have the 19 year badge.

I remember the frequent struggle keeping Steam working in Cedega. Finding and installing the Tahoma font for wine. The early days were really quite rough. I still have my Orange Box around here somewhere. My first games were imported from that.

I remember the excitement when I was included in the Linux beta (sorry work, I *cough* *cough* am not feeling well today).

I remember when I had more games on CD/DVD/direct download than on Steam. I still have shelves full of them but they are dwarfed by Steam keys now. It's really too much. I've never even launched some of them (blames Humble Bundle).

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