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Tempest Rising brings back memories of Command & Conquer
17 August 2023 at 9:14 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: pete910Only thing you do need Proton-GE as default it just crashes part way through the campaign start.
Proton Experimental was fine for me.

Quoting: pete910Is there likely to be a native version @Liam do you know?
Not that I am aware of.

Quoting: pete910Also when did you get a 5800x and a 6800xt? Could have sworn you was Intel/Nvidia
The AMD CPU was quite a while ago :), the AMD GPU was just in the last week thanks to Samsai :)

ProtonDB now has filters for PC and Steam Deck reports
16 August 2023 at 8:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: EhvisNice! That was a big nuisance.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderFor example...... Look at WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship.....
It works great now at least on my system..... But 2 and 3 years ago it didnt seem to work at all...... And those now out of date borked reports seem to still weigh the overall rating down to "Silver".........

Applies the other way around as well. Some games update and stop working and reports of previous versions keep the rating high long after the time it started to fail. A reduced weight for older reports or older proton versions would definitely help.

A "trend" rating could be helpful.
It does have that, with a squiggly arrow on the rating at times. Needs to be made clearer though.

ProtonDB now has filters for PC and Steam Deck reports
16 August 2023 at 11:50 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: EhvisNice! That was a big nuisance.

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderFor example...... Look at WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship.....
It works great now at least on my system..... But 2 and 3 years ago it didnt seem to work at all...... And those now out of date borked reports seem to still weigh the overall rating down to "Silver".........

Applies the other way around as well. Some games update and stop working and reports of previous versions keep the rating high long after the time it started to fail. A reduced weight for older reports or older proton versions would definitely help.
Yeah, there's a lot of issues like that. Which is on top of lots of reports that are clearly just wrong. I hope eventually they do some moderation and cleaning up of reports directly.

Baldur's Gate 3 is going to get some big updates
16 August 2023 at 10:30 am UTC

Quoting: emodTotally, and I would add to that list being able to swap party members without having to remove one and then add another.
Yeah, that was especially annoying when one is dead.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux
14 August 2023 at 1:05 pm UTC Likes: 3

Updated with note about the VKD3D-Proton MR.

Quake II Remastered shadow dropped, Playable on Steam Deck
11 August 2023 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: AsciiWolfWhat about the original version? Is it still available?

By the way, I still dream of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars being re-released on Steam.
When launching you get the option to launch the new or the classic version.

Valheim has a rather large bug-fix release in testing
9 August 2023 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SoulprayerThe mouse capture issue on multi-monitor setup on Linux is still not fixed :(
Yeah that one is a bit frustrating. Since you have an AMD GPU, you could try Gamescope?

83 of the top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
9 August 2023 at 10:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: scaine
Quoting: HxEWait, where is destiny 2. Shouldn't it be in the top 100?

Yeah, it's 25th overall for me right now, 23rd by daily players. I wonder if the list changes by time of day so much that even the top-25 can drop out briefly. Maybe when the US is asleep?
At the time I took the snapshot, Destiny 2 had a player drop-off. It was not in the top 100 at that time. You can see it on SteamDB. Doing the top 100 based on current players is certainly not foolproof. I will look at doing another way as well soon :)

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux
9 August 2023 at 10:08 am UTC Likes: 1

NVIDIA initially put the wrong changelog up. This has been corrected now.

Now official: you can buy a refurbished Steam Deck from Valve
8 August 2023 at 10:14 pm UTC Likes: 12

Quoting: GroganHmmm... that doesn't bode well that there are quantities of "refurbished" Steam Decks already.

1) People not happy and returning them
2) Returns of defective units, repaired.
This is perfectly normal for quite literally any hardware. There’s really nothing to look deeper into.