That’s nice. But I think most people literally just hook up the big screen with an actual display cable.

There were apparently several, now that I look into it. I didn’t know that.

They seem to try to mitigate other issues, like asset streaming and other general bad practices in the code of the game.

It seems there are many things wrong with how Elden Ring was coded.

I suspect most people who buy one already have another gaming device. If I’m gonna play couch co-op games, I’m just switching the video output of my desktop to the projector, not docking my deck.

Yes. But Valve didn’t do anything special. They provide pre-compiled shaders for all games on the deck and can only do so because of how directx shaders are handled on linux.

All games on linux and windows when using DX12/Vulkan must compile shaders. They should be compiled during loading screens and such, not gameplay, then cached for use later.

Elden Ring in particular, didn’t precompile shaders before gameplay, and then when it did compile them, it would discard the shaders rather than cache them. As a result the stutter would happen non-stop and never go away.

On linux, the equivalent compiled vulkan shaders are cached by VKD3D, eliminating the stutter except when a shader is used for the first time. On the deck, Valve will deliver the shaders precompiled with the game download to eliminate the need to compile them at all.

The fix of providing precompiled shaders was only possible on linux due to the use of VKD3D. And even without them, on linux the stutter would go away after a while as VKD3D will cache them even when the game doesn’t. Fromsoft had to update the game to fix it from their side on windows.

It is. In fact at launch it ran better than on high end windows PCs because linux handles directx shaders better.

50?

So they left out vibration so it wouldn’t be the usual 60?

Those savings don’t take the price down to “will buy” they take the featureset down to “will never buy”.

This feature is epic. Being able to save a file to my phone from my tablet or vice versa is fantastic.

Yuss. My life can finally have some more blue plate specials in it.

There has always been ways to make stupid money in the game.

My favorite has been to cozy up to a local faction so I can get assassination assignments that pay the big bucks, and void opal mining was still super lucrative last I checked.

Bounty hunting is a bit slow, but taking on a a mercenary contract with a faction to fight for them in conflict zones pays well IIRC.

The real grind is engineering your ships and weapons, though that was also improved significantly by making it so re-rolling your mods can only make them better, never worse.

No, raw audio from the controllers mic only!

No it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration.

Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy.

If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux.

The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.

This from the man who thinks he’s “competing” with Valve?

Valve is figuring out how to run games they didn’t even develop on Linux, while Epic complains it’s too hard to do for even their own games…

That’s rich.

This can be read two very different ways, depending on whether you think the clam survived becoming a bra.

There’s a tenet of game design that I really like: “given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of the game, so don’t give them that opportunity”.

This is that, supercharged.

Not to mention that like all LLMs, this thing will likely hallucinate, telling you about mechanics that don’t exist, guide you towards a build that was nerfed to death five versions ago, send you on hunts for items that aren’t in the game yet, or tell you to press alt+f4 to open the “secret menu”.

The article has literally zero info about what they are actually going to do. It’s just people going “this is bad and these people are the worst, we do not want them here”.

Ok? So what are you gonna do about it?

All it does is mention that “tech that can be a game-changer sometimes takes a long time” and I’m guessing that’s referring to Riot’s plans to use AI to mass-surveill all voice chats to detect harassment.

“We were able to get so many people to buy GTA 5 twice. We want to do that again.”

Yeah no it doesn’t work on Linux. AFAIK never has. It’s almost like it’s supposed to, but it doesn’t if you actually try.

Hopefully they can get game broadcasting working on Linux, too.

It’s so dumb how game streaming and remote play together, work, but if someone just wants to watch, no can do.

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I’d joke about what they could do to her, she’s already in jail, and under severe restrictions, so what, double-jail?

But they absolutely could do so much worse. The only thing keeping her even marginally safe, is that whatever they do would only amplify her message.