Steam launches a built-in gameplay recording system, GOG partners with Amazon for Luna streaming, OBS Studio gains AV1 NVENC support, Hori releases Steam controllers, and even old people love gamepads!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:11 Undocumented internet generation
01:45 Editing audio suuuuucks
02:41 A big dumper
03:58 Thieving Ring updates
05:38 Steam Game Recording on Linux
17:13 NVIDIA vs AMD recording
11:28 Record button on Steam Deck 2?
12:10 Steam controller usage triples
13:51 Old people love gamepads
16:07 Hori Steam controller
18:23 Do you need turbo buttons?
18:53 $19 billion unplayed Steam games
19:27 Steam Pile of Shame
21:30 Steam Deep Discount page
23:14 Top Steam games of May
25:14 Half-Life canceled OS9 port
26:01 Proton almost came to macOS
29:28 Distance Steam Deck updates
31:28 Cautionary tale of Early Access
32:32 Akhenaten / Pharaoh remake
35:04 NVIDIA 555 official
38:14 OBS 30.2 RC1 new looks
39:22 Amazon GOG Lunacy
46:25 Zardoz visual novel
46:49 RIP Sean?
47:52 We have YouTube at home
51:57 Video hosting options
53:53 Mastodon instance hoppers
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
It works after I change the hotkey to something new.
GPU acceleration doesn’t work on NVIDIA.
Export gives you 1080p h264.
Played around with it on Nv and AMD.
Something is borked with the 5600G if the Tomb numbers are to be believed.
I want this to make hardware encoding on AMD better and it has no reason not to, since the Deck is all AMD.
Maybe Linux will be better at AMD encoding than Windows in the not too distant future.
Well, it does work well enough on the 7800xt
Handles UHD@60 reasonably well. No real performance hits on CPU vs GPU encode
Would like some of that AV1 tho
Apparently this is the same clip record that is in DOTA.
The older I get the more I find myself looking for controller support in a game.
I’m surprised the DualShock/DualSense share is that high
Most people on Windows are SOL when it comes to getting them to work unless they use either Steam Input or DS4Windows
Then again, the DS4 is my favorite controller so far
I too was a little sad about dualshock representation, but I get it. Them’s expensive
Only 10% of controller use are steam decks, but it’s also a whole ass computer that recently came out
Gentle reminder that valve is giving out steam input for “free” (30%)
No rumble, no haptics.
No areolas and that left analog stick is in the wrong place!
I guess the thought here is that japanese audiences prefer a playstation-style layout.
It’s about $50, but it will only be available in Japan this summer.
When the hell are we getting a Steam Sidewinder!?
I have 179 unplayed games.
564 and counting.
Did you know the Summer sale is on?
And they have a Special Deals section for them deep discounts? https://store.steampowered.com/sale/special_deals
That’s a limited selection but it’s a step in the right direction.
There is a market to be tapped for those of us who don’t need another game to not finish / never play.
…but we gonna pick it up because 90% off.
Bundles also play a big part in this I figure
Lots of folks pick up bundles for one or two games and the rest they’ll never even think of touching
Notice how ITT popped up on the list.
It’s almost as if EA dropped the launcher so it would work on Deck.
Very happy to see Selaco be as popular as it is
There’s even a porn game on there, because it has survival elements
Hades is there cuz there are still very horny people who don’t want to play hentai games
Ah, that’s why we never got Proton on MACs.
That relationship has been strained since the 90s.
VALVe gave Apple two chances with the last one actually sticking for a good bit
But since VALVe can’t count to 3, I wonder if this is it for macos?
See a bunch of my points from last week
But no, Valve has to go out of their way to support apple
Always good to see Becky pop up from time to time.
Game Updates
64bit client
New Steamworks
Deck fixes and controller improvements
That all sounds good!
I wonder if it still crashes if you just play a bunch of levels back to back like it used to
15 community levels.
Haptics on Deck.
That fork of Julius but for Pharaoh rather than Caesar
You can dock your ships now, giggity
There’s a flatpak!
Empire logic has its own class now, which I guess means you can have more detailed behavior of NPC sides. For now it means boats work
News:
It’s not in beta anymore
I get a bit of wistful nostalgia for these now.
If you missed the beta release it’s time to get playing.
Wayland explicit sync in EGL.
GSP firmware.
Ability to select between the proprietary and open kernel modules.
EGL instead of GLX for NvFBC so that thing with the hacked drivers should work again.
You know the one I’m talking about, in OBS.
OBS Studio 30.2 Release Candidate 1
Linux support for native NVENC encoder.
AV1 for NVENC.
Shared texture support for QuickSync and VA-API.
QT Fusion style.
GOG would like to take a moment and remind everyone that Luna exists.
Still not in Portugal…
DRM Free + Super DRM == Regular DRM?
Finally someone other than Microsoft is trying this.
Was amazon gaming desperate or was gog?
I guess this is one way to get folks to try Luna who would otherwise never give it a look
Save syncing is handled via gog galaxy
This is a bid to get some games on Luna.
Seriously, they have 40.
Stadia pissed all over the streaming party and people know what happens to their games when a streaming service nopes.
And if you were unaware, Luna works on Linux as long as you are rocking Chrome 86+.
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