Commented - linux_gaming

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play (www.phoronix.com)

Heroic launcher improves GOG support with language, DLC, version management and more (github.com)

Note that when the changelog mentions “Windows builds” or “Mac builds”, they mean the games, not builds of Heroic itself… I think.

Wine 9.2 (www.winehq.org)

For At Least One Game, Mesa's NVK Driver Can Outperform NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Decided to try it… Hat in Time 1080p, Very High, VSync OFF. NVK is vulkan-nouveau-git gddf2ca4, on kernel 6.7.0-rc5-1-mainline. Blob is 545.29.06. 3995WX+RTX3090. Proton Experimental....

NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance (www.collabora.com)

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)

Even Ubuntu - one of the slowest Linux distributions wipes the floor with windows. Even without huge optimizations that are present in the newest kernels and with the worst CPU governor. Wonder if slower GPU performance is due to mentioned governor?

Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities (www.phoronix.com)

netris – Terminal-based multiplayer Tetris clone (playnetris.com)

Also available via SSH:...

Linux Desktop Market share keeps increasing, 3.19% now. +0.07% for August (gs.statcounter.com)

Chrome OS saw a good raise too. OS X(Mac) saw a decrease.

New update for Dota 2 might pull me back in, with new reporting and matchmaking (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Attempting to Emulate Blue Archive on Linux (wenkdth.org)

Rest in peace Dustin 'Crusader' Reyes, a pioneer of Linux gaming news (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Wipeout Game Rewrite: How to Play it on Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness (www.phoronix.com)

Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Windows 11 vs. Linux Gaming Performance On The ASUS ROG Ally (www.phoronix.com)

OpenMW - An open source port of TES3 engine (openmw.org)

OpenMW is an excellent version of Morrowind and arguably probably the best.

The UNIX Pipe Card Game (punkx.org)

This game looks like a fun way to brush up on your shell skills.

Bazzite 3.6.0 Update Release - Day 0 Support for the ROG Ally X (universal-blue.discourse.group)

Dimhaven Enigmas: upcoming native adventure game (Steam demo) (store.steampowered.com)

As reported by GamingOnLinux, the folks behind the modern Myst-like Quern have a native Linux demo out on Steam for an exploration-heavy first-person adventure game called Dimhaven Enigmas....

GOG revives the original Resident Evil, plus Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on the way (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code (www.phoronix.com)

tl;dr Performance for Blazblue Centralfiction using Zink should be greatly improved once this MR is merged...

NVIDIA Exploring Ways To Better Support An Upstream Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Nvidia hope to include their open source kernel driver in the stock kernel in the future. This would mean no more need to make sure that Nvidia driver modules are in sync with the running kernel. And is hopefully a good sign for future open sourcing of the various parts of the driver as a whole.