The 25th Anniversary Update for Half-Life is crabtastic! ProtonDB adds support for Chrome OS, Xbox cloud gaming on Linux, SDL powered SkiFree, and unlimited Limited Steam Decks.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:32 Immediate demonetization
03:19 Arch Pedro
STEAM NEWS
06:07 Steam Deck Limited buying restrictions
07:46 OLED eBay scalpers
08:13 Why are people buying scalped Decks?
12:18 Gamepass on Steam Deck made easy
16:14 The no Linux Steam timeline
17:28 ProtonDB ChromeOS support
19:34 Gaming on a Chromebook
NEW GAMES
20:43 Spacecraft Tactics
GAME UPDATES
22:45 Half-Life 25 Anniversary Update
24:19 Open-source crowbars?
28:05 Remaster vs update
30:34 Caves of Qud 7’th plague update
31:54 Necromancy tech startup
NEWS
33:21 Shaky YUZU
37:35 Switch performance in 2023
40:28 Dangers of YUZU on Deck
41:50 Shadow Cast game capture
49:18 Ski Free SDL
HATE MAIL
54:55 Bad gaming distros II
59:00 The worst distro is?
01:00:49 SteamOS on other handhelds
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
The biggest thing in handheld gaming launched this week and people are throwing money at their screen.
That’s right, the PlayStation Portal™ is now available.
Gotta at least attempt to kibosh the scammers
1 per good standing account that’s been active since before november
Most scalpers worth their salt already have several accounts ready to go
Judging by the number of listings on eBay, compared to the number of GPU listings on eBay during the apocalypse, I’d say VALVe’s method is effective.
That and limiting it to North America I’m sure helped a lot.
Scalper prices took a dive after Valve said they still had Limited decks laying about.
That’s good for those of you wanting to buy it outside of the US and CAN.
That sounds like Lawrence Yang just told you to go ask Microsoft about it.
So does edge just not install?
For gamers interested in Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) and Microsoft Edge.
Step one, grab a keyboard & gerbil and follow these 20 steps.
Now install a community packaged version of Edge.
Yeah MS, release an app on Steam.
I would like to peek in on the alt timeline where MS didn’t lose their damn mind with the Windows Store.
Yugioh, MTG and Vampire survivors are already rated as playable
I guess it’s not gonna be as reliable as a steam deck compatibility report cuz of the hardware variety
Though if it’s a more virtualized environment, they might be able to curb the software disparity.
You have to imagine anyone with a Cbook has pretty reasonable expectations, right?
Like, they don’t expect to be able to run Cyberpunk at 4K with ray tracing enabled.
Steam: New Games
Space ship tactics with online coop and PvP
Um yes please
Big kudos to the dev for sending us keys on Curator Connect.
Steam: Game Updates
1’st gen Headcrabs now officially supported on Deck.
It’s free for a limited time.
They brought back the software renderer but it’s limited to 900p.
They brought back the original main menu.
Over 1000 people going at it in multiplayer.
Still can’t play it on MAC.
Would have been really cool if ya know, open-sourced the damn thing.
Second update on the 17th fixed the movement not working on the Deck.
People are bitching in the Steam Forums that this is a bad remaster
And quite a few others are pointing out this was never a remaster, it’s just an update.
Complete Steam Deck compatibility with Controller support for one of the most in depth and yet inscrutable roguelikes of the 2010s, which is still in early access.
As someone who very much enjoys roguelikes, this is one of those games I wish I had the time to get into.
News:
Super mario wonder has some weird Vsync behaviour and likes to vibrate. A lot
Nvidia users should stick to the 53X drivers for best performance
Oh shit, I guess one thing we didn’t bring up last week about Polaris and Vega being nixed is that it hits windows users too.
Long term they’re working on Native code execution on ARM, meaning less overall emulation.
Apparently it also helps them on the x86 side by giving them better insight on how things actually work
Even Yuzu mourns the passing of Polaris and Vega from the proprietary drivers
Remember kids, RADV is probably going to support those cards until they release RadV 2.
Nvidia only as it uses NvFBC
You’ll probably need to patch your drivers or acquire a key to enable the feature
Is built on top of pipewire
Requiring PipeWire is a strange one.
X11 + Nvidia usually does not have that in the mix.
Shadowplay has been one of the sticky ones, locked behind the Windows and GeForce Experience gates.
Getting something like that to work on Linux without OBS has been something I’ve seen oft requested.
X11 only is unfortunate but not unexpected given the NVidia requirement.
Capturing games with minimum overhead has been an issue on Linux since the beginning of forever.
Back in the day I made use of a program called GLC that was inspired by an older program named Yukon.
Basically FRAPS for Linux.
Shadow Cast is keeping that tradition alive for those of you not wanting to deal with the OBS overhead.
Shadow Cast uses NvFBC (OBS no longer allows this) so it does have advantages.
Patching your drivers is wicked-simple.
More yeti noms
Maybe one day they’ll add mouse support. And sound
Mouse support would be nice, that’s how I played Ski Free most of the time on one of the library computers.
It compiles.
Now add online multiplayer… and raytracing.
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