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
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It’s a mash up of steamOS, Poopos and Nobara
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Will also run on your deck in gamepad-ui mode
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Has all the necessary proprietary GPU bits for Nvidia and AMD installed
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Apparently runs steam out of an arch linux based container what?
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Given how long it’s taking ChimeraOS to resume support for NVidia, it was inevitable that something like this would pop up.
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Did you buy a Steam Deck and end up feeling that you’re not getting an authentic Linux experience?
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Seeing as how the STeam Deck JustWorks ™
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Well, here is something to slap on it for some weekend tinkering.
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Bazzite on Deck is ready to give you something to play with.
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Ships with Lupis preinstalled, support for 32GB of RAM, Patched Mesa for gamescope, and the ability to dual boot into Windows.
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You can now update this app from discover, although currently that’s the only way you can do it
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Remapped button layout based on some user feedback
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Realistically, what’s the newest system that you can emulate at 60FPS on the Deck?
Steam: New Games
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They reached out over email to let us know about the upcoming release.
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Always down to see more fantasy tactics RPGS.
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This one also has some base building stuff a-la XCOM
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This is this company’s second RPG after Gamedec.
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THeir other game is a deckbuilder roguelike
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It’s got a demo too!
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Looking at the screenshots and trailer, it’s almost like they really liked Dungeon Siege but wanted it to be turn-based instead.
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Going to be hard to compete with Baldur’s ding dongs in 2023.
Deathbulge: Battle of the Bands (RTheren)
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Deathbulge has something in its front pocket for you.
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It’s a hand-drawn RPG where you can attack baddies with music.
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Were they able to licence the Spice World soundtrack.
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Combat is turn-based but looks like it has a DDR’ish rhythm mechanic as well?
Steam: Game Updates
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Can’t wait to stutter around in this bad boy.
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I want RTX HL1 so I can see G-man’s beautifully ray traced triangle face
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I look forward to not being able to play Half-Life 2 in 202X
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Can we play with the Morrowind mod tools yet?
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And by we I mean NVidia making them available and compatible with OpenMW.
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Did NVIDIA make the MOD tools?
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Rtx-remix went open-sauce a couple months back.
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I would like to believe this will not require DLSS eleventy + framegen + whateverthehellthatnewraytracingthisis in order to have an acceptable experience at 1080p, medium.
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Camera mod now available for people to play with.
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I look forward to someone using it to have a semi-working over-the-shoulder third person view.
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New map, Route 666, along with changes and fixes to existing maps.
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Route 666 is also on the rotation along with the rest of the maps for the default campaign.
News:
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“It’s not just about performance”
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Bullsh*t.
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Alright, price / performance.
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AMD didn’t exactly rock the pricing boat with these mild bois.
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AMD wants the $450 RX 7700 XT to be compared to the $500 4060Ti 16GB.
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And if those graphs hold up to independent testing, that’s pretty good.
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Even beating it in a bunch of Ray-Traced games.
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It’s still too pricey.
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7700 should be under 400 currency units.
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Again we see AMD putting their faith in the new architecture and dropping the professor count.
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If my napkin math is right the 7700 comes in a little cheaper than the 4060ti 16 g, at least in Canada
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They finally fixed that stupid dkms bug.
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I’ve had to manually regenerate my initramfs after every kernel update for a while
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I guess some people on the open sauce driver are attempting to get some SLI configuration working and exposed some bugs
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$199 for a Sony anything is, reasonable?
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Requires broadband internet Wi-Fi with at least 5Mbps for use.
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Use case?
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It’s the Sony WiiU controller.
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Probably the battery life will be better than the original WiiU controller.
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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.
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This is the business equivalent of spamming that one move you know how to do in fighting games
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According to epic the goal here it is to try to appeal to more indies
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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
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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.
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Literally everyone I know who does computer gaming things seems to only have an Epic account for the free games.
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And while those are great, it’s not a great business model.
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Epic is offering a 100% revenue share for six months of exclusivity.
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Difficulty: People don’t buy games on the Epic store.
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Previously, the only way for Epic to get exclusives was to pay the developers.
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Now if Epic had spent some of that $$$ making the store something more than a glorified outlet for Fortnite DLC & Add-Ons, well, mabey?
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They are still rocking that Windows only lifestyle in a Steam Deck world.
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It’s pronounced guh-poovis
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This allows mesa to export information that can help debug where a game is being blocked on the GPU
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They want it enabled by default so that debugging stuff on the steam deck is easier
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What kind of performance impact is that gonna have?
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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?
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But let people choose.
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GPUVis was created by Michael Sartain, an OG Linux Valve developer.
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Having a GPU Trace Visualizer in MESA is a good thing.
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Now you can see where games are blocking on the GPU.
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Named after one of the more noteworthy famiclones
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Built in GO
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Built in network multiplayer. The game starts when both clients are connected
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Keyboard controls only for now. Point and click for light gun
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All of the TMNTs and Double dragons are playable
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Both peeps need to have the ROM.
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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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