GE-Proton8-23 Released (github.com)
added reverts for vrclient to allow VRChat to work again (pending proper fix from valve: ValveSoftware#1199 (comment))...
Wipeout Game Rewrite: How to Play it on Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
GE-Proton8-22 Released (github.com)
Alan Wake 2 HDR fixup added from upstream: ValveSoftware/wine@1182ef7...
GE-Proton8-20 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Counter Strike 2 update - Configured SDL to prefer X11 over Wayland on Linux (steamcommunity.com)
Wine-GE-Proton8-17 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Part 4 of the Wine work for Wayland is now merged (www.gamingonlinux.com)
One step closer to full Wayland support.
Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Terakan Driver Continues Working To Bring Vulkan To The Radeon HD 6000 Series (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr WIP Vulkan support for old HD 6000 cards (late 2000s/early 2010s) developed by dev that also works on Xenia and implemented the complicated fragment shader interlock extension used by some emulators
Steam Games Made With Unity (store.steampowered.com)
Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Last month The RADV ray-tracing pipelines support was enabled by default but then later disabled for VanGogh APUs, notably the Steam Deck. Now though with the latest ray-tracing code in Mesa 23.2-devel the RADV driver is no longer blocking the support for VanGogh.
Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness (www.phoronix.com)
The Wine development release 8.14 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
FEX-Emu 2308 Continues Striving To Be "The Greatest x86/x86-64 Emulator On Linux" (www.phoronix.com)
ProtonUp-Qt v2.8.1 improves Heroic Games Launcher support (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Starfox meets Vampire Survivors - Whisker Squadron: Survivor out August 21st (www.gamingonlinux.com)
ProtonDB now accepts Chromebook reports (www.protondb.com)
Mini Royale will have playtest today at 6:00 PM CET, they also offer native port (store.steampowered.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5322096...
Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine (www.phoronix.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?
netris – Terminal-based multiplayer Tetris clone (playnetris.com)
Also available via SSH:...
GE-Proton8-21 Released (github.com)
fixed washed out colors on some games with FSR disabled and incorrect screen resolution applied (such as Deep Rock Galactic) – thanks loathingKernel...
GE-Proton8-19 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Currently free at GOG: Beholder 2 (2018, native Linux) (www.gog.com)
