Getting Fedora on Deck with Bazzite, raytraced headcrabs with Half-Life 2 RTX, AMD launches the 7800 XT, GPUVis lands in mesa, and a NES emulator with built in network multiplayer.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:51 Playing with old hardware
02:23 New software for the podcast
04:32 Sugar free diet Jordan
05:07 Charging the Spectrum
06:21 Drive time Pedro
STEAM NEWS
08:07 Fedora on the Steam Deck with Bazzite
10:54 Nvidia powered Steam Decks?
11:57 Where is SteamOS?
12:16 Phil Spencer on Deck
12:48 BG3 on Xbox
13:22 Retro Deck button mapping
14:09 PPSSSPSPSSPPSPSPSPSPSPS
14:24 Newest system to emulate on the Deck at 60 FPS?
15:29 Denuvo Anti-Cheat on Switch
NEW GAMES
16:06 Zoria Age of Shattering
17:18 Dungeon Siege: the Movie
17:40 Do you still play games on a HDD?
19:12 DeathBulge
GAME UPDATES
21:40 Half-Life 2 RTX
26:35 Running with Rifles camera MOD
28:00 Asymmetrical multiplayer CAM
29:47 AMD announces 7800-xt 7700-xt GPUs
34:57 GPUs competing on gimmicks
36:32 NVIDIA SLI fixes?
37:33 DKMS works again!
38:57 Sony Playstation Portal remote play
41:05 Only $199!??
43:58 Epic offers devs 100% revenue share
48:49 GPUVis in Mesa
53:42 NES emulator with online multiplayer
HATE MAIL
01:03:34 Linux overtakes MAC
01:07:20 Building your first PC
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
It’s a mash up of steamOS, Poopos and Nobara
Will also run on your deck in gamepad-ui mode
Has all the necessary proprietary GPU bits for Nvidia and AMD installed
Apparently runs steam out of an arch linux based container what?
Given how long it’s taking ChimeraOS to resume support for NVidia, it was inevitable that something like this would pop up.
Did you buy a Steam Deck and end up feeling that you’re not getting an authentic Linux experience?
Seeing as how the STeam Deck JustWorks ™
Well, here is something to slap on it for some weekend tinkering.
Bazzite on Deck is ready to give you something to play with.
Ships with Lupis preinstalled, support for 32GB of RAM, Patched Mesa for gamescope, and the ability to dual boot into Windows.
You can now update this app from discover, although currently that’s the only way you can do it
Remapped button layout based on some user feedback
Realistically, what’s the newest system that you can emulate at 60FPS on the Deck?
Steam: New Games
They reached out over email to let us know about the upcoming release.
Always down to see more fantasy tactics RPGS.
This one also has some base building stuff a-la XCOM
This is this company’s second RPG after Gamedec.
THeir other game is a deckbuilder roguelike
It’s got a demo too!
Looking at the screenshots and trailer, it’s almost like they really liked Dungeon Siege but wanted it to be turn-based instead.
Going to be hard to compete with Baldur’s ding dongs in 2023.
Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands (RTheren)
Deathbulge has something in its front pocket for you.
It’s a hand-drawn RPG where you can attack baddies with music.
Were they able to licence the Spice World soundtrack.
Combat is turn-based but looks like it has a DDR’ish rhythm mechanic as well?
Steam: Game Updates
Can’t wait to stutter around in this bad boy.
I want RTX HL1 so I can see G-man’s beautifully ray traced triangle face
I look forward to not being able to play Half-Life 2 in 202X
Can we play with the Morrowind mod tools yet?
And by we I mean NVidia making them available and compatible with OpenMW.
Did NVIDIA make the MOD tools?
Rtx-remix went open-sauce a couple months back.
I would like to believe this will not require DLSS eleventy + framegen + whateverthehellthatnewraytracingthisis in order to have an acceptable experience at 1080p, medium.
Camera mod now available for people to play with.
I look forward to someone using it to have a semi-working over-the-shoulder third person view.
New map, Route 666, along with changes and fixes to existing maps.
Route 666 is also on the rotation along with the rest of the maps for the default campaign.
News:
“It’s not just about performance”
Bullsh*t.
Alright, price / performance.
AMD didn’t exactly rock the pricing boat with these mild bois.
AMD wants the $450 RX 7700 XT to be compared to the $500 4060Ti 16GB.
And if those graphs hold up to independent testing, that’s pretty good.
Even beating it in a bunch of Ray-Traced games.
It’s still too pricey.
7700 should be under 400 currency units.
Again we see AMD putting their faith in the new architecture and dropping the professor count.
If my napkin math is right the 7700 comes in a little cheaper than the 4060ti 16 g, at least in Canada
They finally fixed that stupid dkms bug.
I’ve had to manually regenerate my initramfs after every kernel update for a while
I guess some people on the open sauce driver are attempting to get some SLI configuration working and exposed some bugs
$199 for a Sony anything is, reasonable?
Requires broadband internet Wi-Fi with at least 5Mbps for use.
Use case?
It’s the Sony WiiU controller.
Probably the battery life will be better than the original WiiU controller.
Maybe devs of Sony exclusives can make games specifically for it which will make it so those games are forever stuck on the damn plastic shitbox.
This is the business equivalent of spamming that one move you know how to do in fighting games
According to epic the goal here it is to try to appeal to more indies
I’m all for giving the developers a larger cut of the sales, but how about actually making the epic games store a place where people ACTUALLY want to BUY their games
They’ve spent so long trying to woo the devs that they seem to have forgotten that that’s all for naught if there are no end users buying the games.
Literally everyone I know who does computer gaming things seems to only have an Epic account for the free games.
And while those are great, it’s not a great business model.
Epic is offering a 100% revenue share for six months of exclusivity.
Difficulty: People don’t buy games on the Epic store.
Previously, the only way for Epic to get exclusives was to pay the developers.
Now if Epic had spent some of that $$$ making the store something more than a glorified outlet for Fortnite DLC & Add-Ons, well, mabey?
They are still rocking that Windows only lifestyle in a Steam Deck world.
It’s pronounced guh-poovis
This allows mesa to export information that can help debug where a game is being blocked on the GPU
They want it enabled by default so that debugging stuff on the steam deck is easier
What kind of performance impact is that gonna have?
Wouldn’t it be better to have an option to allow people to turn this on and maybe even allow it to automatically upload those logs somewhere?
But let people choose.
GPUVis was created by Michael Sartain, an OG Linux Valve developer.
Having a GPU Trace Visualizer in MESA is a good thing.
Now you can see where games are blocking on the GPU.
Named after one of the more noteworthy famiclones
Built in GO
Built in network multiplayer. The game starts when both clients are connected
Keyboard controls only for now. Point and click for light gun
All of the TMNTs and Double dragons are playable
Both peeps need to have the ROM.
Considering how big those ROMs are, wouldn’t it be better if player 2 could just have it downloaded when connecting?
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