Steam Hardware survey for January 2024 (lemmy.ml)
Windows 96.52%...
S&box will use Vulkan (Sandbox is spiritual successor to Garry's Mod) (sbox.facepunch.com)
Vulkan Video Finally Introduces AV1 Video Decoding Extension (www.phoronix.com)
Stuttering watching streams/cloud gaming
New desktop user here, when I try to watch a Discord stream or try to connect to a Parsec Windows host I get a lot of audio stuttering after a few seconds, leaving and joining the stream solves the problem but it comes back after a few seconds, have you found/solved this issue?...
One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Godot 4.3 will officially support Wayland (lemmy.ml)
github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/86180
GE-Proton8-29 Released (github.com)
hotfix: updated proton bleeding edge to include tekken 8 online match disconnect fix...
Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS (www.dexerto.com)
Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
With testing many different shaders over dozens of games, the generated instruction count was down by about 2.5%, the code size around 2% lower, etc. Some users report this quantifying in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 yielding 4~14% better performance.
Why I'm done with Nobara Linux: A Breakup Story with a Tech Twist (open.substack.com)
Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.
Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Faceit, ESEA and Vanguard anti-cheats (www.youtube.com)
GE-Proton8-30 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Steam Big-Picture wrong controls (Arch, KDE, Wayland, AMD)
My setup works perfectly with my old but gold RX580, the only issue is big picture: it recognize my controllers (SteamController or 8bitDo) but the buttons don’t work correctly (for example (B) doesn’t back but open a menu). I’ve tried to reset the chord or guide layout but nothing change.
GE-Proton8-28 Released (github.com)
fixed [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; no appID found. from being reported when running non-steam games...
How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC (iv.datura.network)
GloriousEggroll announces new project to unify Proton runtimes (files.catbox.moe)
github.com/GloriousEggroll/ULWGL...
AYANEO NEXT LITE no longer ships with SteamOS-like HoloISO Linux - Windows 11 instead (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Does it matter that Gnome doesn't support VRR? And why?
Question to help me increase my understanding on what’s going on in the Linux desktop stack. I’ve heard Gnome doesn’t support VRR while KDE does....
Mesa's NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Now Exposes Vulkan 1.3 Support (www.phoronix.com)
Beelink or Steam Deck for work/gaming on RV?
Hey all, I want to upgrade the setup that I use on my RV. I use a Raspberry Pi 3 for basically watching videos and some retro gaming. I want to be able to play more resource-intensive games, although definitely do not require anything AAA in the highest settings - I’m talking about Starcraft 2, Shieldwall, TABS, Humankind…...
Trying to install gzdoom on Manjaro but keep getting an error message. Any advice?
I’ve tried to install gzdoom both through the terminal and GUI and both times it returns the same error: _==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare()._...
Surreal Engine (formerly UTEngine): Open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, can run UT99 and Unreal Gold (v226) maps, and boot up Deus Ex (github.com)
Surreal Engine is an ongoing project to reimplement UE1, mainly focused on Unreal Tournament v436 and Unreal Gold v226 at the moment....
Valve Releases Proton 8.0-5 With Many Fixes, More Windows Games Now Playable (www.phoronix.com)
Looks like Valve is working on a 64bit and Vulkan upgrade to TF2's linux client
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11085299...
Debian for Linux gaming?
I’ve ordered myself some parts to build a PC for Linux gaming. In the meantime, i’m deciding on which linux distro to use....