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What have you been playing recently, come tell your thoughts
27 March 2021 at 12:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Finished Valheim Vulkan/Native (all bosses killed) couple of weeks ago. 125h of gametime. Without any massive building projects. Really great game. I like that exploration and discovery comes first in this and survival aspects are more of a secondary feature.

Warhammer Online (Return of Reckoning) wine/DXVK - My Go to MMORPG for some nice PvP action.

Thief (2014) Proton - Love the story and stealth mechanics. Completed chapter 5 currently. UI and stuff is a bit clunky but the gameplay under that is very good imo.

DiRT Rally 2.0 Proton - My racing game fix!

DOOM Eternal Proton - Still haven't completed it. Hate the platforming parts in this game, but love all the gunplay.

New OBS Plugin Offers Game Capture Solution on Wayland (for Vulkan renderers)
26 March 2021 at 6:14 pm UTC

Quoting: BrisseCool! Ultimately we need PipeWire-support though. Personally I have always been able to capture xwayland surfaces but for some reason the frame-rate in the captured footage is terrible. When I switch to GNOME on x.org I can capture smooth 60fps footage.

Whats wrong with pipewire? you mean direct support? Cause it work fine for me with pipewire atm. If i want to capture specific game audio only i will use qjackctl and connect the needed inputs/outputs with OBS.

OpenRazer 3.0.0 expands with many new Razer devices supported on Linux
24 March 2021 at 3:12 pm UTC

ohh nice Razer Basilisk V2 is finally in :) i had to build with its support manually so far.
The sad thing is that theres still no key rebinding stuff. theres a pull request thats been sitting there for allmost a year, but that only supports keybinds for keyboards.
I had to run virtualbox win 10 trial with usb passthrough with mouse to configure my buttons..luckily those things are stored to hardware, so i dont have to touch it anymore :)

EVE Online getting a full browser-based version with EVE Anywhere, will work on Linux
17 March 2021 at 3:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

I dont expect them to support all the browsers.. all im pointing out is the wording..they say that it works only with browsers from their supported list, which to me sounds like artificial barrier

Games that support linux are usually Ubuntu or SteamOS, but i dont have to fake my <insert distro> to be Ubuntu.

Its all fine if they officially support those browsers. Its logical to not cover them all.
It comes down to the wording like... "...provided the browser is in our supported list (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)"

EVE Online getting a full browser-based version with EVE Anywhere, will work on Linux
17 March 2021 at 3:08 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweThat was meant as in: original GeForce NOW needed you to force ChromeOS as a browser agent string and Amazon Luna blocks Linux last I was shown. Those types of artificial barriers. Of course for a browser-based experience, there's always going to be a list of what they say they support.

i mean yeah but the wording is super bad then. They could have said It works on every browser but we officially support this and that browser. but they seem to be artificially limiting the use of other browsers (user agent strings)... at least according to the wording.. might just be the poor choice of words ofc

EVE Online getting a full browser-based version with EVE Anywhere, will work on Linux
17 March 2021 at 2:56 pm UTC

QuoteNice to see no artificial barriers being put up and supporting many different browsers is great.

and

Quote"Happy to clarify that EVE Anywhere is playable on any desktop OS provided the browser is in our supported list (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari)"

doesn't really sound like no artificial barriers.

Windows 'not an emulator' compatibility tool Wine 6.4 out now
13 March 2021 at 11:08 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: PinguinoCould anyone give me a one-sentence summary on the difference between emulators and translation layers? I've done some searching and I think I got the gist of it (low-level emulators are basically trying to recreate the emulated OS instead of just wrapping individual functions), but I couldn't see much distinction between high-level emulation and a translator.

from my limited understanding is that emulators try to emulate everything from hardware to software.
wine doesn't emulate hardware, is why its a translation layer

Tuxedo announce their NVIDIA Ampere laptops with the Tuxedo Book XP15 and XP17
11 March 2021 at 3:24 pm UTC

Damn what a waste to have those GPU dies in laptops :D

Kick down doors and send reptile people flying in Anger Foot
10 March 2021 at 6:42 pm UTC

Gunplay is a bit shit, but i guess it can be improved..guns feel kinda lifless with no good feedack. kicking doors is pretty good. AI needs work. Music is Awful... other than that it looks pretty nice.. Lets see what they improve further down the road

The next AMD RDNA 2 card revealed with the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
3 March 2021 at 9:06 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI’m afraid at 230W this card will not be silent. Also it’s very expensive. Also it will not be available anywhere…

Hey. i have 325W 1080Ti and its very silent.. just super beefy.. Zotac AMP... 1200 rpm usually under load and ~72°C
So i don't think thats the problem really.. just when the radiator is thin and fans are shitty, then yeah ofc...