Does installing the Proton BattlEye runtime do anything?

I don’t play many games that use it, but for Ark you have to install a separate BattlEye.

Totally optional features that come set up by default are not really optional unless they’re opt-in from the start. Most users are not savvy enough to figure out how to disable that kind of stuff.

Is your scaling set to something other than 100%? That seems to mess with gamescope and mouse location detection or something like that.

Steam Deck verification includes things like text being legible and buttons showing up correctly in prompts and mapping, etc. For example, Civilization VI has a Linux native version but is not verified because some game text is too small, and it might require some typing using the virtual keyboard which may not pop up automatically when required.

Unless I’m looking at it wrong, it’s not print in place, it needs to be glued together. It looks like a 2-piece set for either side. To be printed in one piece, it would require non-removable supports.

I would look for the next generation of GPU if you can find it. You should be able to find an RX 7600 for about the same price, and would get better performance and longer expected useful lifetime from it.

The one-PC-two-users thing is indeed more of a gimmick than an actually useful prospect. You can find videos of it being done, but it’s really not as nice as one would hope for.

I used the Arch wiki to get gamescope working on Pop OS. It’s a great resource regardless of your distro. In many cases the info on there is not even Arch-specific.

Is this really what’s considered a “great feature?”

Why do I need everyone to know I’m playing on my Steam Deck? I mean it’s not bad, but it seems more like a footnote than a feature.

You could tune in to any channel you wanted, but the ones you weren’t subscribed to would be scrambled. These boxes would unscramble the signal letting you watch paid content for free.

Moving from a 5600X to a 7900X3D, pretty big upgrade.

I don’t have anything important to back up, I would just like to avoid reinstalling everything, particularly my Steam library.

If I can save myself the trouble, that’s all I want. I know Windows doesn’t like that kind of upgrades and you end up with a ton of useless drivers sitting around for nothing, but I haven’t been on Windows in a couple years.

Does it also have the power-limiting features?

The -W and -H are the resolution you want to display at, so you want those to be your monitor’s native resolution. They default to 1280 x 720 if you don’t specify.

The -w and -h specify what resolution to render at, and are only really useful if using DLSS or FSR for scaling. Skip them if you’re not using that.

There are also arcade and Wii versions of Punch Out.

I ran it perfectly on a 33MHz 486 with 4mb RAM for a long time. Even Doom II with some of its heavier maps ran fine.

But the point was that the hardware requirements were low enough that it could be ported to just about any hardware. It ran on SNES which was like 4MHz

The reason Doom got a reputation that it can run on anything is that it did run on just about anything.

The original requirement was for a 386 CPU which ran between 12 and 40 MHz. The 386 was launched in 1985. That means that at the time the Doom was released, it could run on 8-year-old hardware.

That’s why they removed it. It’s a subscription service that they pay for when the game is popular, and when everybody moves on, there’s no reason to keep paying.

Regardless of one’s opinion on DRM and piracy, Denuvo is very effective at what it does. They don’t care about losing sales from people with principles, as long as nobody can play without paying.

All the Linux updates, not the game updates. I don’t know if they’re all flatpak, but I have tons of them waiting to update

Hades II just sneakily dropped into Early Access on Steam.

What was sneaky about it? They had a technical test recently, and announced Early Access would be coming soon as they were shutting down the test period.

If ever there was an industry worth destroying, that’s certainly it.