Steam makes finding games with DualShock/Sense support easy! The open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA takes a medium step forward, Google wanted to buy Epic Games, and Ubisoft tests in-game pop-up ads.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:27 Speed shopping
02:53 Diablo multiplayer
06:59 Pedro the law breaker
STEAM NEWS
09:12 Yet another Steam sale
11:56 Steam Awards
14:58 Game Awards picks?
15:29 Controller support in Steam library
19:41 Proton GE gets D8VK
GAME UPDATES
23:56 Hunt Showdown nopes on Deck
27:49 Better warnings for Steam Deck games
30:27 Pocket Cars monster BUSS
32:16 Dangers of infrequent updates
NEWS
34:37 Open-source Nvidia drivers
38:59 VKD3D enables DXR
43:10 Google buying Epic games
48:18 Ubisoft popup ads
50:40 Thoughts on in-game ads
01:00:41 Ads in movies
01:03:06 Retro game ads
HATE MAIL
01:09:42 RAR on Linux
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Judging from my wishlist, this is a boring sale.
There is like 1 75% off game.
Though I have been very curious about Weird West, so I might actually buy it.
I Grabbed control complete (i only had the free EGS one), Tiny Tina’s Wonderland and Call of Cthulhu
The best deal I have on my wishzone is 70% off for It Takes Two.
Gotham Knights is $11 and I might add it to my abandoned superhero game collection.
We’re old and jaded and fat on cheap games to some broke ass-folks it’s game time baby
We mentioned it before but now it’s official.
Peeps using Playstation controllers will now start seeing the heads up notice when starting games
And you can see the DualSense/DualShock compatibility badges in the store as well.
There’s now compatibility notes for other controllers too.
I noticed that with my xbox controller.
And that explains the popup window.
Who is gonna be the crazy mofo who is gets this working with the PlayStation portal
Does it work with chiaki already?
D8VK, wooooooot
Disabled by default.
D8VK hit 1.0 back in May.
Plenty of DX8 games to choose from.
I noticed that indeo5 got enabled, I was trying a bunch of old games in WINE.
Version 22 needed winetricks icodecs and this one doesn’t anymore.
Steam: Game Updates
Getting a playable rating is automatic.
It’s a happy accident that the game works and you should not expect support.
It’s an unavoidable consequence of proton being a part of steam now.
Sometimes you get a bungie who flat out tells you “No”. sometimes you get this.
To their credit they pushed out a fix a couple of days later.
While I understand Steam exists to $ell games the Playable Learn more info could do with some additional booga-booga.
We know the risks but you need to think about such things as the Deck becomes more mainstream.
WARNING: This game could suddenly stop working on your device.
Sounds harsh but it’s 100% accurate.
Skuul bus
I don’t hate Pocket Cars, I really wish there was a bit more to it.
And they’re adding more to it, so I very much look forward to what they’re doing.
First update in eight months.
News:
NVK reaches Vulkan 1.0 conformance
Thanks to Mark at Collabora for sending this in.
Vulkan 1.0 is the most basic version of Vulkan.
We’re at 1.3 and there are many extensions which need to be implemented.
You won’t be able to use something like DXVK just yet.
However, apps that use 1.0 should run and be performant using Nouveau.
That is awesome and I hope it gets to the point where it becomes a valid alternative to the proprietary drivers.
No word yet on performance numbers, but we’re not gonna get a serious answer to that question very soon
It’ll be a crazy moon future when we have stable and working open source nvidia graphics from the bottom up
I hope you like DXR.
Apparently Hellblade: Senua’s sacrifice has an override to enable DXR whether you like it or not
DX12 Ultimate is now exposed on Turing and RNDA2+
Oh hey, i get a new thing!
Cyberpunk 2077 Raytracing fix which should stop GPU hangs
By the time I get to Starfield and Lords of the Fallen, they’ll probably be in a decently playable state.
Can you fkn imagine?
Googs and Tencent buy Epic in 2018, Launch Stadia, kills them both.
Google wanted Epic for the Fortnite because it printed money.
Definitely could have been interesting from a “buy your games on the EGS and play them anywhere on stadia” perspective
Maybe bandcamp wouldn’t be in such a precarious situation now?
Apparently the googs were also debating just buying out 1/5th of Epic on their own
Dare to pause your game to view the map?
That’s an advertising!
According to Ubi this was a technical glitch.
If you’re familiar with Ubi games you know the UI is plastered with DLC and paid items.
Even if it was a technical glitch it was due to the fustertruck of advert slinging infrastructure.
What happened to the good old day of shoving your unnecessary launcher full of ads?
Where are we at with in-game advertising?
Do you like your first experience with a game to be “give us more money”?
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