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Latest Comments by Xpander
Check your Steam Library against Steam Deck compatibility easily
15 February 2022 at 11:13 am UTC

Quoting: EikeI'm looking forward to see the coloured section grow. :)

red coloured?

i have:

VERIFIED: 22 games (2.82%)
PLAYABLE: 25 games (3.21%)
UNSUPPORTED: 5 games (0.64%)
UNKNOWN: 727 games (93.32%)

NVIDIA fix up a Vulkan problem with the v510.54 driver release
14 February 2022 at 4:10 pm UTC

I kept hearing that some people had issues with freezes etc after alt+tab and i wondered why i never seen those. Well that explains. Anyway updated my drivers to this version also just in case it fixes some other random bugs :D

Tim Sweeney has a point about Fortnite EAC support
9 February 2022 at 7:31 pm UTC Likes: 3

Very well said. Great article/opinion piece.

Future sci-fi indie RPG Beyond Mankind: The Awakening now on Linux
9 February 2022 at 1:53 pm UTC

Sadly yeah the native client runs pretty poorly. OpenGL 30-55 FPS range. with vulkan argument it gets 60+ but with weird frametime spike every 5 sec or so. With proton it runs smooth™


Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm3WRg9pVnc

Epic Games CEO says a clear No to Fortnite on Steam Deck
8 February 2022 at 8:47 am UTC Likes: 10

He probably has all the statistics and knows the insides, So i think he is right. I find it stupid that people just start calling out with names for no reason though :( but i guess its the internet.

But thats probably bad news for every other big game like Apex Legends and so on also sadly.

Indie store itch.io comes out swinging against NFTs
7 February 2022 at 1:10 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: mphuZ
QuoteNot only has Valve banned NFT games from Steam...

But at the same time they themselves support a third-party NFT platform: https://dmarket.com

That's convenient, isn't it?

that has nothing to do with valve.

Stadia continues the slow downward spiral
5 February 2022 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 3

Yeah. I predicted this when it launched that 2 years down the road it will be pretty much in maintenance mode.
Terrible Launch, awful business model, restricted to some countries only, not enough games and so on i guess.

Over 120 titles are now Steam Deck Verified
4 February 2022 at 12:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

Ohh what. I didn't even know Supaplex is on Steam. Thats my childhood. Remember playing it back in 96 or 97 or something. Looks like also linux native, might grab it just for nostalgia :)

NVIDIA 510.47.03 is out adding Vulkan 1.3, GeForce RTX 3050 support
1 February 2022 at 3:00 pm UTC

nice. just updated to it and it seems the Sharpening profiles work nicely. Added it for my browser to make it all sharper :) i know it was possible before also with the env variables, but now its even easier.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
28 January 2022 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 10

Still same old GPU :( Damn those prices. I want to upgrade already.