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Steampunk survival game Volcanoids has a huge combat upgrade
20 January 2021 at 8:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Will give it a shot if i get some time. The combat was indeed pretty dull. There was no real feedback from shooting weapons didn't have any real kickback, bullets didn't have drop, enemy AI was dumb and there just wasn't any satisfaction from it.. Rest of the game seemed really nice though.

Update your NVIDIA drivers due to multiple security issues found
10 January 2021 at 1:07 pm UTC

i'm safe at least :)

xpander@archlinux ~ $ nvidia-smi | grep Version
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.32.03    Driver Version: 460.32.03    CUDA Version: 11.2     



but yeah, things like these happen quite a lot lately. More research is put into checking this kind of stuff i guess?


Quoting: BasianiLatest Nvidia driver also has bug for Detroit: Become Human, you can't play after chapter 28, it crashes, need to downgrade 440. After som search in web, it's clear that same happens on Windows too. So, newer drivers have not only security problems.

Ohh thats weird... i played through all of the game with 450.xx drivers..different ones. havent tried on 460 though

The Linux distribution I was most thankful for in 2020 - EndeavourOS
10 January 2021 at 12:51 pm UTC

been on Arch (MATE desktop) for 7 years now, just keep rolling and rolling. Can't remember any major breakages. Few package conflicts with AUR have happened, but easy to fix. Few times i have messed up by tweaking some wrong configs, but easy to revert the changes anyway. Super happy. And i love systemd also.. easy to make new services, super fast boot aand so on. Can't wait for systemd-oomd to become a default and stable.
Ohh last 4 years i also run with testing repos enabled, so theres that :)

xpander@archlinux ~ $ cat /var/log/pacman.log | grep -a -m1 filesystem
[2013-01-21 17:45] installed filesystem (2012.12-1)

Proton Experimental gets Microsoft Flight Simulator VR working on Linux
9 January 2021 at 12:08 am UTC

and this update breaks DiRT Rally 2.0 with my G920. worked on previous proton-experimental. Still works fine on the latest stable though. Will debug whats going wrong..i guess the new input handling things done something :(

NVIDIA 460.32.03 released - their first stable driver with official Vulkan Ray Tracing
8 January 2021 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Leopard3-) Nvidia performance will not likely improve. Nvidia is not eager to investigate/help perf issues with vkd3d-proton from what i get. Pascal/Turing and older has really bad perf with it and it won't change. Ampere is better but that is likely due to that lineup in general being better.

Thats not entirely true. Death Stranding and Cyberpunk 2077 seems to run as expected on my pascal (GTX 1080Ti) at least... checking several youtube videos of people running the game on windows with same/similar hardware and i can see the perf is where it should be.. about ~15% worse on same settings.

The special case is Horizon Zero Dawn though, where performance is exactly half of what it should be.

Don't have any other DX12 game to test on vkd3d-proton though.

NVIDIA 460.32.03 released - their first stable driver with official Vulkan Ray Tracing
7 January 2021 at 5:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

so far so good.. time for some proper testing

xpander@archlinux ~ $ nvidia-smi | grep Version:
| NVIDIA-SMI 460.32.03    Driver Version: 460.32.03    CUDA Version: 11.2     |

Here's a few of the Linux games we're excited to see through 2021
6 January 2021 at 11:57 pm UTC

Valheim, can't wait!

Looking forward to Prodeus and Metro Exodus as well, even though the latter works perfectly in wine/proton and probably Prodeus also

Open source Linux instant-replay tool ReplaySorcery has some major upgrades
24 December 2020 at 8:28 am UTC

looks good but it seems to grab both of my screens. guess it needs configuring, also the framerate is shit on some stuff because of the whole screen capture.

OBS also has replay buffer feature, which works a lot better, but the only thing is that you have to do few clicks before you start your game, to capture the game window.

Quake II RTX adds support for the official cross-vendor Vulkan Ray Tracing
15 December 2020 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ageres
QuoteAny GPU and driver that supports VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline will now work with the Ray Tracing here.
But what GPUs support that? Is there a list?

All card the driver supports. List is here: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/167671/en-us

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
9 December 2020 at 10:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: RaabenAh, so business as usual with their recent drivers..

?
i have had few of their driver hangs in the past, but can't recall from recent times. (im using their vulkan betas most of the time) And i think nvidia drivers are pretty good at recovering after hang, so you dont get system hardlocks like with AMD... but iirc AMD is working on gpu recovery also, if its not already done.

anyway that's a bit offtopic for this