Twitch disbands its safety council, Team Fortress 2 drops to ‘Overwhelmingly Negative’, GOG is deleting cloud saves, NVIDIA open-sources Creator Toolkit, and 50% of PCs will be ARM in 5 years.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Gating Steam Wishlists
02:59 Knight Pedro
STEAM NEWS
04:10 Increase of Linux users on Steam
06:49 Odd screen resolutions
07:44 Oh yeah, mixing up the format
NEW GAMES
08:13 Unhaunter
GAME UPDATES
09:57 TF2 is mostly negative
10:52 Why are players mad?
11:53 The TF2 bot solution
12:49 The only way to fix TF2
13:29 Fishards open-source tournament
16:04 Running with rifles 1.98
NEWS
18:47 No new NVIDIA cards in 2024
19:01 Battlemage deep dive
25:07 Battlemage performance expectations
30:19 Open-source RTX Creator toolkit
24:29 GOG will deletes cloud saves
36:46 Angry if you lost all your saves?
41:08 Gaming on the EliteDesk 705 Mini
47:13 PC market 50% AMR in 5 years
56:52 Twitch fires safety council
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01:03:39 I would Linux IF
01:06:05 Physical games only!
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
STEAM UPDATE
SteamOS still keeps bumping those numbers up and by far the most popular GPU under linux is that Steam Deck APU
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I think it was the Linux Gamer that did the extrapolation of the numbers based on what VALVe have said are currently active accounts.
Over 5 million people on Linux these days if those numbers are accurate.
After a decade of almost being a full percent, Linux is the new #1 rounding error OS!
Dominating OSX by a decisive 0.85%.
Not so long ago we were the 0.85%.
+4.02% uptick in AMD AMD Custom GPU 0405’s.
Linux users like to game at 1080p and 800 x 1280.
NEW GAMES
If you have an overwhelming desire to bust
Written in rust but can compile to WASM so you can play it in your browser
Is Project Zomboid not cutting it anymore?
Ghosts!
GAME UPDATES
I bet Valve didn’t plan on supporting this game for seventeen years.
That said, why is this such a hard problem to solve?
People need to learn about the community servers.
Hashtag #SaveTF2 is still going, I see
There’s also #FixTF2 now
GODOT game.
Devs will open-source the game (MIT) if the community can beat them in a tournament.
I hope they still open-source the game if nobody shows up.
Neat, it does the magicka thing where you can build your own spells120
D-Day was 80 years ago and one of the longest running online Army Men style shooters on Linux is releasing a map centred around that particularly gruesome day in the Normandy coast.
I played a lot of Medal of Honor Allied Assault, that game’s version of this event was a genuinely hard bit on an otherwise easy game.
Running with Rifles on the other hand, that’s already a hard game.
I can imagine playing as the landing party in this map is going to be extra hard
NEWS
Xe2 will be slightly less fkd moving from SIMD 8 to 16.
12.5x increase in Draw XI performance.
Apparently AlchemistGPUs had a lot of unleveraged power.
I’m more surprised at Intel getting rid of hyper-threading.
This was speculated last year.
Coming to laptops first because Intel
Supposedly changing their proprietary drivers to make game compatibility better, which you won’t have to worry about on Linux since DXVK has been a thing on this side for a long time.
JPR has Intel at 0% share in the first quarter of 2024.
The Nvidia 30 series was released 4 years ago.
Battlemage has to be what, 50% faster to stand a chance?
I do want to give credit to Intel for attempting to hammer out their compute-stack.
It’s still poo, but they are actively working on it, unlike team #ef0707.
Seems like a lot of the architecture changes have to do with better utilizing the hardware available by reducing wasted resources and cycles
Right now the Rx580 in my TV box is due for a replacement and it’d be cool to replace it with some battlemage variant if they don’t completely suck ass.
Lol @ the performance comparisons using laptop GPUs
Fancy new rest API so you can hook RTX remix into other software
Last year they open sourced the game integration bit, which we saw a number of people use to add unofficial DLSS to games.
Now they’re releasing the sauce to the Creator Toolkit to further expand its compatibility.
Good on you NVidia!
Might finally be able to RTX Remix on OpenMW rather than just vanilla Morrowind
Any save files you have that aggregate over 200 mb are getting noped, so maybe back up your stuff
200 MB per game
Good guy, GOG.
Saving Linux users from losing their cloud saves by not having Galaxy on Linux.
How devastated would you be if you lost all of your save files?
I’m talking all of them, on everything.
I would be mildly perturbed for an afternoon.
I look at cloud saves as a convenience that can go poof at any time.
These are cheaper than a 2400G CPU.
Seriously, if you want a little fk around 2D gaming rig / media centre grab one before the prices jump back up.
You can shove a RX560 4GB GPU in it if you’re feeling brave.
A whole computer for cheaper than its uncut CPU variant
That’s pretty good
The price in canada land is about $200 but that’s still pretty good for a full system.
Here in linux land we have a heck of a head start on x86 and x64 emulation.
Microsoft has some catching up to do when it comes to software compatibility oddly enough.
Qualcomm is not messing around with their new SOC.
DaVinci Resolve just added support and For old Snappy Dragon.
Will we see a Steam ARM client before 2030?
Hah! No, it’ll be the same x86 client running in FEX
I guess setting performance expectations at the level of the steam deck gives any ARM based platform a lot more wiggle room in catching up
Although, I look forward to VALVe giving the FEX and Box86/64 people some money to improve what they’ve got
Twitch will replace the 9 member Safety Advisory Council with Twitch Ambassadors.
What’s the point of having a board unless you call the shots?
Swap them out with twitch ambassadors (read loyalists) and volunteers. That’ll make folks safer.
To celebrate, Twitch will increase the price of tier 1 subs.
I don’t think I’m the only one who knows this is going to have at least one major incident with one such “Ambassador” (read volunteer) pushing their agenda.
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