Someone who isn’t into strategy games will play shallow strategy games like fire emblem because its anime and allows you to date anime girls with big boobs.
PC gamers all have different machines, which must make optimization a nightmare.
DirectX, Vulkan and OpenGL do all of the talking to the hardware, those have been around for a very long time. The imaginary issue of ‘you have to target millions of configurations’ is simply not true.
can sometimess not even respect your gtk/qt theming
sandboxing/permission system can lead to you trying to figure out which directory you need to give access to when you want to save file if it wasn’t preconfigured
uses its own libraries and not system libraries, want to play the hit new AAA game with steam flatpak? get fucked it requires a mesa commit that was merged 8 hours a go and you’re stuck on 23.0.4 and can’t use the git release.
Flatpak probably has it’s specific uses like trying to use one piece of proprietary software that you don’t trust and don’t want to give it too much access to your system, or most GUI software clients having an easy way to install Discord on your Steam Deck (no terminal usage, Linux is easy yay), but native packages 99% of the time work better.
I got those two for $20. One for me and one for my son. Working on setting up the custom firmware and Nintendont to servers since the closure of the official ones.
This is not unexpected, Sony games are movie games and they prioritize cinematics over anything else and graphics for the most part have peaked without going full path tracing. Shame they have no good writers at any of their studios anymore.
Title. Turning off the fancy effects (which can be done with Alt+Shift+F12) improves performance slightly, but having to toggle them on and off every time I start a game is… Y’know. A thing....
Proton used to disable compositing back in version 5 or 6, then one (minor) update messed it up. iirc it was reported to the issue tracker but still hasn’t been fixed. proton-ge still keeps the compositor disabled.
Had to look up whatever ‘Legends online’ was and it turns out its a tacked on multiplayer mode for Ghost of Tsushima. Who the fuck plays garbage multiplayer like that and who in their right minds pays for PS plus to play that?
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Helldivers 2 - Sony no longer plans to enforce PSN account requirement for PC players (x.com)
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Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
Tesla drops Steam gaming support inside its vehicles (electrek.co)
The PC games market grew a lot more than the console games market last year, says research firm (www.pcgamer.com)
US Tariffs on Graphics Cards Imported From China Take Effect June 15 (www.pcmag.com)
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Deadlock leaked gameplay video, courtesy of Uncle Dane. (sh.itjust.works)
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I got those two for $20. One for me and one for my son. Working on setting up the custom firmware and Nintendont to servers since the closure of the official ones.
Sony announces two PlayStation CEOs to replace Jim Ryan (www.eurogamer.net)
PlayStation exec predicts focus will ‘shift from graphics to immersive narratives’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Sony and Lego are collaborating on a project based on Guerilla's Horizon franchise, leaker teases (www.eurogamer.net)
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)
SteamOS 3.6: How the Steam Deck atomic updates are improving (www.collabora.com)
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Helldivers 2 received over 14,000 negative reviews today due to an update that will require PSN accounts next week. (twitter.com)
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[Whatcookie] Why is PS3 emulation so fast: RPCS3 optimizations explained (www.youtube.com)
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