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
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The biggest thing in handheld gaming launched this week and people are throwing money at their screen.
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That’s right, the PlayStation Portal™ is now available.
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Gotta at least attempt to kibosh the scammers
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1 per good standing account that’s been active since before november
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Most scalpers worth their salt already have several accounts ready to go
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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.
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That and limiting it to North America I’m sure helped a lot.
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Scalper prices took a dive after Valve said they still had Limited decks laying about.
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That’s good for those of you wanting to buy it outside of the US and CAN.
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That sounds like Lawrence Yang just told you to go ask Microsoft about it.
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So does edge just not install?
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For gamers interested in Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) and Microsoft Edge.
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Step one, grab a keyboard & gerbil and follow these 20 steps.
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Now install a community packaged version of Edge.
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Yeah MS, release an app on Steam.
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I would like to peek in on the alt timeline where MS didn’t lose their damn mind with the Windows Store.
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Yugioh, MTG and Vampire survivors are already rated as playable
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I guess it’s not gonna be as reliable as a steam deck compatibility report cuz of the hardware variety
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Though if it’s a more virtualized environment, they might be able to curb the software disparity.
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You have to imagine anyone with a Cbook has pretty reasonable expectations, right?
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Like, they don’t expect to be able to run Cyberpunk at 4K with ray tracing enabled.
Steam: New Games
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Space ship tactics with online coop and PvP
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Um yes please
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Big kudos to the dev for sending us keys on Curator Connect.
Steam: Game Updates
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1’st gen Headcrabs now officially supported on Deck.
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It’s free for a limited time.
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They brought back the software renderer but it’s limited to 900p.
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They brought back the original main menu.
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Over 1000 people going at it in multiplayer.
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Still can’t play it on MAC.
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Would have been really cool if ya know, open-sourced the damn thing.
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Second update on the 17th fixed the movement not working on the Deck.
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People are bitching in the Steam Forums that this is a bad remaster
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And quite a few others are pointing out this was never a remaster, it’s just an update.
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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.
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As someone who very much enjoys roguelikes, this is one of those games I wish I had the time to get into.
News:
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Super mario wonder has some weird Vsync behaviour and likes to vibrate. A lot
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Nvidia users should stick to the 53X drivers for best performance
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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.
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Long term they’re working on Native code execution on ARM, meaning less overall emulation.
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Apparently it also helps them on the x86 side by giving them better insight on how things actually work
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Even Yuzu mourns the passing of Polaris and Vega from the proprietary drivers
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Remember kids, RADV is probably going to support those cards until they release RadV 2.
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Nvidia only as it uses NvFBC
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You’ll probably need to patch your drivers or acquire a key to enable the feature
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Is built on top of pipewire
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Requiring PipeWire is a strange one.
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X11 + Nvidia usually does not have that in the mix.
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Shadowplay has been one of the sticky ones, locked behind the Windows and GeForce Experience gates.
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Getting something like that to work on Linux without OBS has been something I’ve seen oft requested.
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X11 only is unfortunate but not unexpected given the NVidia requirement.
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Capturing games with minimum overhead has been an issue on Linux since the beginning of forever.
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Back in the day I made use of a program called GLC that was inspired by an older program named Yukon.
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Basically FRAPS for Linux.
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Shadow Cast is keeping that tradition alive for those of you not wanting to deal with the OBS overhead.
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Shadow Cast uses NvFBC (OBS no longer allows this) so it does have advantages.
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Patching your drivers is wicked-simple.
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More yeti noms
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Maybe one day they’ll add mouse support. And sound
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Mouse support would be nice, that’s how I played Ski Free most of the time on one of the library computers.
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It compiles.
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Now add online multiplayer… and raytracing.
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