Proton Experimental enables nvapi for a gang of new games, GPD announces their Steam Deck competitor, Steam introduces real-time charts, NVIDIA 40 series pricing would make a scalper blush, and navigating the Epic Store on Linux.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:51 New audio interface
02:15 Bricking a Mikrotik
05:32 Jordan vs nosey neighbors
STEAM UPDATE
09:42 Steam client beta friends filter
12:02 Proton experimental adds nvapi support
13:47 Real-time Steam charts
NEW GAMES
19:47 Flashout 3
GAME UPDATES
21:43 Splitgate final update
26:12 Dead Cells boss rush update
NEWS
35:20 NVIDIA 40 series announcement
38:18 Priced for miners
39:02 Can AMD RDNA3 overtake NVIDIA?
40:27 40 series pricing intentional?
45:10 GPD WIN 4 Steam Deck competitor
51:30 Rare Epic Games Launcher update
54:11 Super Tux Kart Vulkan RC 1
57:01 SDL adding support for GPUs
REVIEW
01:00:16 Chronescher
HATE MAIL
01:12:43 Excited about power supplies
01:14:13 Buying an Arc encoder
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
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Fuckin’ finally
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You can now filter games based on friends from the library
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You can also filter based on group chats up to 8 people in size
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The Sep22 update lets you search for friends using your custom nicknames as well, Jordan
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Yes Ass-slut?
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If you ran into an issue where you only got a black screen when streaming to a Linux box, the Sep21 update fixed it too.
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Now with extra bold to indicate the changes.
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Yeah, someone is watching.
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A metric fuckton of games get nvidia nvapi support
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WTF is that?
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“NVAPI is NVIDIA’s core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on all Microsoft® Windows® platforms. NVAPI provides support for categories of operations that range beyond the scope of those found in familiar graphics APIs such as DirectX and OpenGL.”
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It’s the thing you enable to get the DLSS.
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Remember kids, Proton lies to games to tell them you have an AMD card even if you’re on NVidia. Well… except for all them ones now.
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No more upside down videos
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No more dalmatian desert in BeamNG
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How about RT hardware / OS usage?
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Not entirely obsoleting Steam Charts yet, you can’t see it on the daily.
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I guess someone is getting sick of writing those monthly best seller posts
Steam: New Games
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Yes, this needed a third installment.
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Flashout 2 was universally panned but a lot can change in eight years.
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Pod racing is now a thing.
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Graphically it does look better and has VR support.
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It’s a single player racing game in 2022 so might as well move on.
Steam: Game Updates
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This is the end of development update
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Unique item drops will get duplicated over time to create a feeling of “endless loot”
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Battle pass is going on forever and ever and ever
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Splitgate is actually a pretty fun shooter.
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I remember when I figured out that that bonking people with the ball was a 1-hit kill, that was fun.
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A new map, new pro tiers, and a gang of game modes.
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New sprays and nametags.
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One of the longest running action roguelites, is getting even more stuff.
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The third door after the tailor is going to be the boss rush rooms, and you can do 3 or 5 back to back bosses with or without modifiers.
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Boss Rush comes with a few unlocks, some cosmetic, others less so.
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And there’s some new legendary item affixes.
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Save game backups highly recommended, though not necessary, if you would like to try this while it’s still in Alpha.
News:
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Lol and you thought you were tired of paying thousands of dollars for a video card
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DLSS3 also showed up in the announcement.
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New version of the NVENC along with dual encoders will be included in the 40 series.
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AV1 support landed in OBS so now we play the waiting game.
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The 4090 looks like a 3.5/4-slot design and that’s a bit silly.
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4090 24GB $1599 & 4080 16GB $1199.
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$3.50 says they will try to get away with $500 4060s.
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If the last 2+ years taught us that scalper pricing can get fucked.
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That miner revenue stream has dried up and regular ordinary consumers are not going to pay that with the flood of cheap 30 series cards on the market.
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AMD can come in with RDNA3 and disrupt the hell out of the GPU market if they want to get medieval with the pricing.
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Being slightly less greedy is not going to cut it.
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AMD saves a lot on die costs by forgoing AI and ray tracing fixed function accelerators and moving to smaller dies with advanced packaging.
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Base level 4080 with 12GB is $999.
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But it’s a 4080 in name only.
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192-bit memory and almost 1K less CUDA doodles.
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I already felt pretty good about my decision to buy the 6700XT, now it’s just confirmation bias.
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Now, how much of this is Nvidia keeping 40 series prices high to help burn through 30 series stock?
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As someone in the market for a new GPU this is pretty disheartening
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$900 for a 4070 is not really another purchase I want to swallow, especially if I can get a used 3080/3090 for less than that
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Now nvidia knows they actually don’t have to even try to compete with intel
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Hopefully the 7000 series is priced a little more sanely
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RGB shoulder buttons ZOMG!
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Heavy on the details unless you’re looking for the price.
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Over $400 and it’s not a Steam Deck competitor.
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The cheapest GPD Win 3 launched at $850.
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But…butt it’s better than a steam deck says the marketing
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That comparison table is the kind that Gamers Nexus likes to tear apart.
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That CPU Geekbench score they show for the Deck is on Windows.
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2TB SSD, so minimum $900.
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Apparently this is a “dual OS” machine because you can’t run windows on a steam deck
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The EGPU support is kinda neat.
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1080P low is their run target
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Looks like a competitor to Heroic although this one purports to be more focused on EGS
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They got a flatpak and an appimage, or you can install from pip
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Has some screenshots but looks pretty bare bones compared ot Heroic.
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They got some catching up to do
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The thing that hit me was that people actually use Heroic on windows because the EGS client is pretty bad, apparently.
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Launch with –render-driver=vulkan to try it out.
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I’m only getting resolution options for 1024×768.
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And a warning message about old OpenGL.
SDL Shader Tools (Oil_of_Hope)
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SDL 3D API that focuses on the shaders, written in SDLCL, and passes everything to the lower level Mantle-based APIs we’re already more or less familiar with.
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Limp mode planned for OpenGL 4.5 and DX11.
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WebGPU support is also planned
Game: Chronescher
Webzone: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911170/Chronescher/
Devel: PurpleSloth
Engine: Unity
Price: £3.99 / $4.99 / $5.69
Wazzat: Chronescher is a challenging turn-based puzzle game in Escher-esque spaces. Use impossible geometries, teleportation and environmental snapshots to navigate your mind and uncover your lost memories.
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent us keys on Curator Connect
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
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Launches clean on Debian Testing.
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Fullscreen and CYOA mode for resolutions.
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No official controller support but it attempts emulation mode with Xbox controllers.
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It’s arguably unusable.
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A+D and a lot of clicking.
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No performance settings but you do get the basic bitch volume & music sliders.
Fun?
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This is a game designed for Android and iOS / something with a touchscreen.
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Why it’s not on the Play or Apple store is beyond me.
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If you’re going to play this on the Steam Deck get ready for a touch-fest.
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On PC you’re stuck with the keebs & mouse and it killed the experience for me.
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“we don’t exactly know how the game could be played with joysticks”
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That’s what PurpleSloth said when asked about proper controller support.
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Grids, you do it with highlighted grids like all the other puzzle touch games that implemented proper controller support for desktop.
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For $4.99 you get a fun little puzzle game that scratches your brain on occasion.
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Level design is nice and I enjoyed the perspective twist fuckery.
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With 50 puzzles in 6 biomes there is a lot to keep you occupied for the money.
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Unfortunately like most mobile-first games Chronescher is best experienced in quick hits.
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Have 3 or 4 minutes to kill? Let’s take another crack at that level we were stuck on.
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Even playing on the desktop I found myself checking email and reddit.
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I think these games work best as a sitback experience where the player can zone out and focus.
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That’s just me.
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At the end of the day it’s cheap and you can get your $$ worth even if you’re playing with the keebs and gerbil.
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
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Launches OOTB
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Holds 60@ “fullscreen”. There’s a full screen tickbox and you can drag your resolution of choice
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No controller support, just click which makes me think this is a mobile port but no!
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A little unfortunate too cuz there isn’t really anything mouse or touch specific about the ui
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Graphics get the job done. The art style is a little sparse but no real complaints
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The harp loop did get a little grating after a while. I wish there was a bit more variety in the music
Fun?
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It’s a decent little puzzler
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Rotating the camera and changing the perspective changes the level a la captain toad
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Having to deal with sliding block puzzles from multiple angles is a fun twist on sokoban
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Each set of levels tosses a different modifier at you. Sometimes you can make portals, sometimes you can snapshot and restore
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There is a story here, but they’re doing the nonverbal thing. Solve puzzles to unlock the fragments of your shattered past
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But honestly, we’re here for the puzzles. And as far as puzzles go, they’re pretty fun.
Launch/Looks/Sounds/Control
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Launches out of the box
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Fairly barren on the options
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Mouse/Touchscreen affair, though you can use left and right on the keyboard to turn the map.
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Very simple graphics and inoffensive music.
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Perfectly functional
Fun?
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Did you like Monument Valley? Because this is Cairn Gully.
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If putting Escher in the name didn’t tip you off, there’s a lot of impossible geometry shenanigans happening.
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“Oh, but that gets boring after a while doesn’t it?”
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Right up until they give you the Dark Crypt teleportation ability or the Camera from Snapshot in the second chapter.
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And I’m guessing in the 3rd chapter you get to use all of them at once.
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It gets proper mind-fucky in the best possible way!
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For the price, it’s a good game to have on your laptop to give your brain a proper workout if your job is otherwise completely mind-numbing.
Verdict:
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