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Starcom: Unknown Space arrives in December, Linux support a 'high priority'
30 November 2022 at 2:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

The first game was excellent so I'll be shelling out for this, for sure, albeit, probably after it leaves EA.

The Next-Gen update to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with FSR 2.1 should be fun for Steam Deck
25 November 2022 at 5:53 pm UTC

Quoting: KlaasSo we expect a performance boost from FSR 2.1, but we do not know how much performance is decreased by the engine switcheroo.

That's true! Guess we'll find out on December 14th though.

The Next-Gen update to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with FSR 2.1 should be fun for Steam Deck
25 November 2022 at 3:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: setzer22Nice, I remember not being able to reach consistent 30FPS for this game on my Steam Deck, so I'm wondering if the new version will make performance a bit better.

Judging by Liam's video on Cyberpunk (in the article), I'd imagine you'll see a 10-15fps jump from FSR 2.1. It's an insane performance bump.

Valve puts up Proton Next (7.0-5) to provide easier testing of future upgrades
25 November 2022 at 3:53 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: dibzThey should have just copied Debian's different release names from the start, "stable, testing, and unstable."

Doesn't get more straight forward then that.

Yeah, but no way a commercial firm is putting "unstable" in the title of pretty much anything!

OBS Studio 29.0 Beta 1 adds AV1 Encode for AMD / Intel
25 November 2022 at 2:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Corben
Quoting: XpanderYeah i heard that, but why switch from a working solution to something that breaks plugins :(
From what I've heard, nobody wants to touch that code anymore. So it had to go. With the switch to qt6 many plugins broke... well, the usual update thingy, sometimes old stuff has to be cut off :-/
Too bad if really good functionality is lost then.

Quoting: XpanderXcomposite is pretty similar to perf with nvfbc to be honest, thats not an issue really, but i have to select what window i want to record then every time and if i want to record whole desktop, its sad story. Fullscreen capture (XSHM) is just epicly slow when you launch a game on the desktop. nvfbc was performant in all situations.
Exactly my reasons to use nvfbc still as well. I can just select one of my workspaces to capture, don't have to create sources for each window, etc...

Before I used nfvbc I had one scene where I created a capture window for each game, and used it as a nested scene in my main scene. But still, needed it's own source for each window to capture.

Hmm... how about a tool, that just creates a "window" of a workspace? Is something like that available? If there was a performant way of doing that, it would solve this issue.

I mentioned my solution for this on Discord a while back, but will repeat here. I have one "Game" scene which has about 20 sources - one source (Xcomposite) named and capturing each of the games I play. Then, when I switch to the Games scene, it automatically picks up whatever game happens to be running. Yes, it requires a touch of maintainance here and there, but it means that I don't have to constantly update one Xcomposite source to a new game window whenever I decide to play something else.

I'd just prefer that they created an Xcomposite capture that somehow recognised games - like capturing anything that started a borderless fullscreen canvas, for example.

Broforce is coming back for more action in 2023 with 'Broforce Forever'
25 November 2022 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: hardpenguinLove this game but it was riddled with bugs on Linux, including locking the display.

Old Unity version was the suspected culprit so an update might be a great thing here.

Wow - I never experienced a single bug! I guess I've only played around 20 hours though, and only in multiplayer. You know, honestly, given the chaos of this game, maybe there WERE loads of bugs and I just took them for gameplay. Absolutely possible in a three-player game!

Ubisoft making a return to Steam with Assassin's Creed Valhalla on December 6th
25 November 2022 at 1:56 pm UTC

Quoting: mylka
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: BlackBloodRumDid they remove Denuvo yet?

According to Augmented Steam (extension for Firefox)... nope.


this info is right above the languages. you do not need an addon


nice to have ubisoft back. i like AC and FC. splinter cell remake and hopefully a new prince of persia
but i hate the launcher. just a waste of DISC and RAM. especially on the stream deck you do not need more junk wasting RAM

Yep, of course. I wasn't intending to give the impression that you needed the plugin for that.

But as someone who won't buy a Denuvo game, ever, I appreciate that the plug-in puts that information on the store page in a way that I can't overlook. It also does, way, way more than just alert me to various DRM. I particularly like the link to ProtonDB, and also the price matching you get for stores like Fanatical. The colour-matching on wishlist and library items is also great. I pretty much can't browse the store using the client these days - web all the way for me!

Ubisoft making a return to Steam with Assassin's Creed Valhalla on December 6th
22 November 2022 at 5:40 pm UTC

Quoting: BlackBloodRumDid they remove Denuvo yet?

According to Augmented Steam (extension for Firefox)... nope.


Nintendo goes after SteamGridDB, likely for people doing emulation on Steam Deck
22 November 2022 at 4:38 pm UTC Likes: 6

I have fond memories of these guys - GBA, DS, 3DS, Gamecube, Wii, and even Wii U. It was that last one that broke me. Annoyingly, I'd bought it before they announced that they were closing the DS and Wii stores. If I'd seen that dick-move coming, I wouldn't have wasted my money.

They're repeating the move next year, closing 3DS and Wii U digital stores, presumably, again, to force existing customers to upgrade to Switch. But why bother? You know they'll just do it again, over and over - mediocre mid-term hardware release, then announce store closures of all older hardware.

Being a Nintendo fan at this point is like being an Apple fan. Same model really, and feasible if you keep opening your wallet.

Broforce is coming back for more action in 2023 with 'Broforce Forever'
21 November 2022 at 10:31 pm UTC

Such an amazing game, especially in online co-op with a couple of friends. Absolute, utter, glorious chaos.

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