Nintendo gonna sue somebody, and this time it’s the creators of the open-source Switch emulator, Yuzu! Roblox pulls the plug on Linux gamers, HDMI Forum rejects AMD’s Linux driver, FurMark brings hairy doughnuts to Linux, and Steam puts Chromium in a runtime container.
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:28 Fkn around with wireguard
03:50 Livestock tolerance
STEAM NEWS
04:38 Steam client update breaks some things
06:51 Dinos vs robots fest and picks
10:14 Are fests fested out?
NEW GAMES
11:20 Black Mesa devs announce new game
14:21 Wrath Aeon of Ruin
16:56 Window Kill
20:10 Dark Forces remastered
22:10 Sharp polygons on old games
NEWS
23:02 HDMI Forum rejects AMD Linux driver
28:42 Better connectors for PC
29:24 FurMark comes to Linux
37:33 The ‘I would switch to Linux but’ lie
38:10 $399 ROG Ally
39:47 Wall clocks in 2024
41:02 More cheap not Decks incoming?
44:15 Tecno Mobile AR
49:26 Steam Deck outdoors?
50:26 Nintendo sues Yuzu
HATE MAIL
01:03:04 WINE performance gains
01:10:40 Credits
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
On Linux, they are running Chromium in the runtime container now.
Should allow for bett… and it broke GPU acceleration.
Fixed a case where the client could get stuck in the shutting down screen.
It doesn’t get stuck in the shutting down screen, it just doesn’t quit for me.
The tray icon stays there until SystemD goes “It’s been over 90 seconds, you’re getting killed”
Having exhausted all other fests.
I’m not that impressed by some of these sales
Into the breach is 5 bucks though.
The biggest discount on my wishlist is Lego 2K racers and it isn’t even because of the sale
I picked up Devil May Yeehaw but so far no robots / dinosaurs.
…because it’s on random sale like everything elks.
Fest ™ =’s exposure mechanism.
I wanted to grab exoprimal but it’s 50% off and still $40
Steam: New Games
Are they gonna pull a thanos.gif?
Quarter Death 4
The colour palette they chose for those lines make me think of Opposing Force (green), Blue Shift (blue), Half-Life: Decay (orange), and purple for … something.
Rain?
That’s the most Q1 looking game I’ve seen to date.
Hey, use IDtech2 as long as you’re staying away from unity
Get your boomer-shooter cap on, Wrath is out of Early Access!
The premise of fighting the boundary itself in addition to the enemies is kind of a neat premise
Do I want to be fighting for my life on a windows XP desktop? I dunno about that
I played that “game” that came with some bundle of old Windows games/entertainment stuff.
It spawned some ghosts on screen and you had to double click on them to make them go away.
But the first time you clicked on them, they would start moving stupid fast until they deselected.
I do not long for those days.
They went through the trouble of getting Deck verified.
Another night dive joint. I wonder if the movement is more accurate in this one
The upres’ed graphics look really good, comparatively speaking.
News:
Quad-link DVI it is then.
That really sucks since you kinda want to avoid the binary drivers.
No 4K@120Hz over HDMI unless you go DisplayPort.
HDCP gonna HDCP.
Especially sucks for folks who want to use TVs as displays
Wen USB C on TVs?
As if we needed more evidence that copy protection stifles innovation
NO SPOILERS!
The GUI is a little choppy / borked.
./furmark –fullscreen –vsync 0 –max-time 120 –demo furmark-vk
38/39/41 @ 2160p Vulkan.
48.000000 / 50.296005 / 54.000000 but there was some artifacting at 4K like Jalaud in Discord reported.
– FPS (min/avg/max) : 77.000000 / 79.586891 / 83.000000 @2160P-ish
Seems to be only at 4K that the artifacts manifest on the 6700XT.
2560×1440 and lower is fine
Oh huh, the 7800xt gets a bit whiny
Also doesn’t seem to like to go full screen
Linux can once again be an effective tool for preventing your children from playing the Blox.
“Saw some cheating on WINE” – Did they actually or is this a case of the Warden and they can’t be assed?
I bet they get more cheating on Windows their bullshit system can’t detect than they ever have on Linux.
Roblox’s whole deal is to just sit there and collect rent and not spend money.
Properly implementing an anti cheat is way less cost effective than just nuking an entire platform.
Wonder if this is just the beginning.
Can’t imagine any of these (minus the deck) are flying off shelves because price + not Steam Deck.
Still up on the 29th
It’s much better hardware for the price of the entry level Deck, but you’re gonna have to either deal with Windows or Linux it up yourself.
If you’re listening to this show, you probably don’t care because you’re just gonna do exactly what you want to anyway.
Lololol
Do you gotta worry about the charge on the headset and on the console?
The NVidia SHIELD, the first one, meets Sony’s Glasstron… with an AMD APU.
Hand warmer!
When the initial VR craze hit I was looking forward to a nonstop VR2ER clip-fest. Never happened.
Sh*t like this has my hopes up *grabs mountain bike*
Offer an avenue to play Switch games at 4K/60?
How about offer an avenue to play switch games at 30fps
Nintendo’s argument seems to boil down to “decryption = circumvention”, even if you have a legit keys.prod file from your own system.
Yes, apparently teaching people how to extract the encryption keys is some sort of piratical behavior because it apparently matters what sand the software is running on
Emulators are good for other things too. Like software preservation (which nintendo is not a fan of) or accessibility
Sony learned the emulator lesson in the 90’s, stands to reason it would take 30 years for Nintendon’t to catch the fuck on!
Nintendo is taking a ‘trafficking in circumvention device’ legal strategy as opposed to a strictly anti-emulator legal strategy.
The last time we played this game it was Sony vs. Bleem! in 2001.
Sony lost, but the cost still shut down the project.
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