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