Valve announces OLED Steam Decks! 3DMark Steel Nomad is headed to Linux, TuxClocker gets support for AMD GPUs, a mysterious Half-Life 1 update, and the worst distribution for Linux gaming.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Dangers of bagpipes
01:33 Hippy junk food
03:15 Audio interface history
07:35 Jordan on team Red
08:32 Smuggling
STEAM NEWS
12:34 Mysterious Half-Life update
15:19 Hiding your Steam activity
16:09 Our embarrassing games
18:42 Honry top sellers
19:24 Adjusting Steam content filters
20:30 Steam Deck OLED
25:56 eBay Deck pricing
GAME UPDATES
28:18 Why City Skylines is slow
31:23 Orbital Scrappage
32:22 Steam Fest benefits
33:05 What defines an asset flip?
NEWS
34:37 AMD drops support for VEGA
40:11 Tux Clocker AMD support
42:16 AMD colour correction
44:08 3DMark on Linux
48:38 Heroic gamescope UI
51:07 Epic store has not turned a profit
54:48 Epic should make a Steam Deck
59:45 Come on the show!
HATE MAIL
01:00:27 Worst Linux for gaming?
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
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Password protected update.
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It’s November 19th 1998 because you were wondering.
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I want to think it’s a remaster but Black Mesa.
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Steam Deck support?
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That’s the prevailing rumor
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25 years of the Free Man
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I’ll replay Half-Life when I forget about On a Rail again
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I’m pretty sure the end of half life 5 is you get on an tram that takes you to the beginning of half life 1
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Until then, I guess updating the old GoldSRC stuff to have steam deck compatibility is one way to shore up your back catalogue
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I guess HL1 would actually give you some decent battery life on the deck
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I have accumulated a friends list where zero fks are given.
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No shame, zero, none.
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Then again, I get it if you want to hide your COD play sessions.
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This will make the Steam top sellers list interesting as fk.
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Will this also hide from the “Person is now playing XXX Fuck Ur Mom XXX”?
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Or the status bit in the friends window?
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Hide your hentai games from your family and co workers
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Does it work with family sharing too?
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Seriously, how many horny games will be on the list of best sellers by month’s end?
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Fact Deck
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64 and 512GB LED models are dead
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10Whr more battery
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Wi-Fi 6E
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6nm APU vs 7nm
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90hz refresh rate
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“high performance touch”
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640 grams vs 669 grams
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deck dock now $20 less
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Available November 16 at 10am Pacific
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The 512GB OLED version is £480.
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That’s a damn good price!
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The LCD 256GB costs as much as the 64GB used to.
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You can buy the last of the 64 and 512 for a significant discount, as long as supplies last.
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I like the red/orange highlights of the limited edition, which is US and Canada only.
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I will pay the person who comes up with a way to use the OLED screen on the 1st gen Deck.
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*grabs tape* How much?
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They’re keeping to their word about maintaining a consistent performance profile for devs to target
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I am a bit jelly over the battery gains
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Hopefully there will be some aftermarket stuff that will help bridge the gap
Steam: Game Updates
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No LOD for any of the models seems to be the big one.
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It will render the exact same number of polygons in crowds, cars, etc., if you’re zoomed all the way out or all the way in.
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Apparently Cities Skylines be rendering teeth at all times.
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Blame the DOTS, apparently.
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That seems to be why Skylines has its own culling implementation.
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Unity’s integration between DOTS and High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) is still a WIP.
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Then we have things like a mesh for a pile of logs with over 100K vertices.
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They knew this was going to be a shiteshow before shipping.
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It’s not like Unity lacks built-in profilers that tell you what Renderdoc and NSight do.
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I guess they ran out of time and had to get it $hipped.
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The type that play Skylines will play it regardless and they know that.
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For the rest of you, give it 6 months.
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Nothing here is unfixable.
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Oh man it took me a second
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LGC 552, not that long ago
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New enemies, new weapons and a secret level
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In game direction markers so you can figure out where the fuck you’re going!
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Still looks like the janky unity game we all know and love.
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One nice thing about all of the (insert random) fests is getting devs to revisit games.
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I like Scrappage
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As asset flips go, this is one of the very few ones I genuinely enjoy.
News:
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If you’re using AMD proprietary Vulkan GPU driver, stop!
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If you have a Vega or Polaris card, yes that includes the RX 470, 480, 570, 580, 590 for they are all the same GPU, AMD doesn’t want to support you anymore.
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Buy a newer GPU if you want to stay their friend, or do what you should have been doing on Linux, and use the Mesa drivers.
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This covers most APUs as well.
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But as pedro mentioned, you should really just be on AMDGPU where all the cool shit is happening.
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If you want the one software to rule them all, as far as hardware clock setting goes.
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In theory, tuxclocker may be the future.
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As it stands, they’ve only just added the stuff that would bring it close to par with corectrl for AMD clocking
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Runs OOTB, although you probably want to have already sudo’d in the terminal before you run the start script.
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It prompts you for your password but then outputs a bunch of garbage while you type
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Kinda wish you could apply frequencies across all cpus as opposed to having to set each thread one at a time.
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I got a lot of them these days
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3D Mark 2001 was a big deal back in the Day ™.
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The not Matrix scene along with the field with a stream in it.
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Man, the future of 3D was here. We had peaked.
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3DMark comes to Linux before Unigine adds Vulkan to Superposition.
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What a weird timeline!
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Remains to be seen how much the price will be.
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No ray tracing but it’s not like people enable it without DLSS or FSR.
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Fancy new gamescope gui
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You can look at all your logs in the app now
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Closing the gap on them Lutris features
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IF you’re going to be a loss leader you still need to be able to muscle your competition out of business
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And of course Valve is just a small mom and pop shop so it should have happened by now
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Guess we found the limit to the Forknife cash cow.
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It took 1,180 days for the Google case to make it to trial, damn.
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The Epic store is not making a profit and that’s by design.
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They are burning money to generate growth.
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Thing is, that growth has yet to materialize.
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Epic Games projected the store to start turning a profit in 2023 based on, something.
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The Epic Games Store’s financial struggles are related to the free games.
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The case against Googs is hella weak compared to Apple because sideload.
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At this point perhaps Epic should just bite the bullet and make their own game console like the Steam Deck?
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They should be aggressively attempting partnering with acer or lenovo.
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I don’t think they have enough resources to make or support their own hardware
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Adding some free games or bonus forknife soda toa deck competitor could be a move
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