MSI teases a fierce Steam Deck competitor! Portal Revolution gets a day one Linux release, AMD ray tracing performance gains with radv, Steam ends support for Windows 7 & 8, and Daggerfall Unity hits 1.0.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 New project announcement
05:35 The DELL whisperer
STEAM NEWS
08:49 Steam Awards 2023 winners
10:26 Native Linux award winners?
11:05 A new Baba game
12:07 Steam ends support for Windows 7 & 8
16:35 FSR 3 on Steam Deck
GAME UPDATES
19:49 Portal Revolution released
20:20 Releasing gamed in December
21:13 Valve game approval process
22:42 Art of Rally 1.5.1
23:54 Racing in first-person
NEWS
24:59 Nvidia SUPER teasers
29:22 Sony messing with thrid-party controllers
30:47 MSI Steam Deck competitor
34:21 Powered by SteamOS?
38:06 AMD MESA RT performance bump
42:36 Daggerfall Unity 1.0
45:36 Open Beast of Rage 4.0
HATE MAIL
49:54 Micro Manchines
55:56 Eating Styrofoam
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
The results are in from the “didn’t play it but liked the thumbnail” awards.
Starfield is so innovative you guys!
Also, Hogwarts is the best on Deck? The fuck?!
Booooooo
RDR2 is a LOL because Rockstar hasn’t touched it in a few years.
At least BG3 and Lethal Comp made the list.
No native Linux games in 2023 but did we have any last year?
It’s official.
With an average 120mil monthly users .93% is 1.1 million.
In addition, future versions of Steam will require Windows features and security updates only present in Windows 10 and above.
WTF does that mean? Are we going to be getting some FTPM stuff in the steam client?
Newer Visual C, .NET, and DX12 versions, along with new driver/hardware support
And shedding the need to support pre Intel 3000 CPUs
This isn’t going to cause a huge spike in linux usage. It might encourage a folk or two to pick up a steam deck since they’re on an old computer anyways if they’re stuck with 7 or 8
Do you think there are any Windows 8 loyalists out there who hated 10+ and 7?
If Strider ran Windows he would use 8.
So it works, and it does improve FPS
But thems some uuuugly frames
Framegen also introduces some input latency.
The Mod in question comes from a developer named LukeZ and you should join his patreon if you want to get it and play around with it
Steam: Game Updates
This is a fan game that’s set between the first two portals
Has a whole mess of new levels and puzzles
And you could play it, but Valve was a little understaffed for the holidays and nobody was around to authorize the release on steam in time for the stated release date
Womp womp
Coming spoon ™
Yeah, that 2-3 business days goes out the window on Dec 1’st.
I’m really really shocked that Valve is manually reviewing games.
Like, does this get special treatment because it’s a MOD?
Aaaaand it’s out.
Moar creditz and better leaderboard connectivity, along with a bunch of bug fixes.
Still no chase camera closer to the car, that is unfortunate.
News:
Nvidia teasing their low-key AI accelerators.
On the low end you get the 4070S for $599, same as the 4070 MSRP.
Closer to the 4070Ti than to the 4070.
We were in desperate need of a GPU to fill that segment.
Waiting on the 4050 Super 24GB.
Nothing to change the recommendation of buying used / AMD.
You still won’t be able to afford the one you actually want
Maybe the 4060 Ti Super… Super Ti? … maybe that one will be good.
Another device that shows Windows gaming on the go is still not quite there.
Intel was sliding in on the comments of the tweet, so it’d be interesting to see an Arc powered handheld.
But certainly not for the price they’re going to want for it.
ZOMGWTFBBQRGB!11!
Who is going to be the first company to get Valve’s blessing for SteamOS on their hardware?
Valve claimed they were cool with that from the start and you have to imagine someone has knocked on their door by now, right?
Someone supposedly has put it through the Geekbench:
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=claw
Get a 200% performance boost with this one simple trick.
They were able to optimize the conversion of 1D ray launches to 2.
More threads =’s more brr.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart can creep over the 60ferps mark with using a 6700 XT.
Should be delivered in time for mesa 24
Added RT performance will be nice. I look forward to finally hitting 60fps in Quake 2
It’s done!
Well, kinda
The game is 100% beatable and all major systems have been implemented.
Now the focus is going to be on mod compatibility
It works and going through the tutorial I’m always reminded just how much of a step forward Morrowind’s combat was, which a lot of people claim is the worst.
Daggerfall is free from the Elder Scrolls website.
Moving away from monolithic updates.
No more PSP for you
There’s also some effort being put into making the final product a little more tamper proof cuz the lead dev doesn’t like all the romhacks
“…the world’s most powerful 2D side scrolling engine.”
Bold claim there, Cotton!
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