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.

Immersion, yes, but also haptics provide feedback.

Lots of games use it to tell you things, like when your health is low, when to time something, when you took damage vs blocked successfully, when you’re close to a secret…

Used right, it’s another sensory input channel in addition to sound and visuals.

One of the biggest genres that I use a controller for, because I consider KBM to be unplayable for it, is racing games. And there haptics are used to tell you TONS about what is happening in the game.

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I’ve seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.

Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we’re gonna need players :D

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I’ve seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.

Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we’re gonna need players :D

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”.

Put it in 2280 mode and it’s the best “Modern WipEout” homage there is, too.

It’s literally the “get yourself a girl that does both” of WipEout games.

Oh I have to try that.

god I wish omega was on PC

Or games where you don’t want to take your finger off the left stick to hit a direction bound to some action on the D-Pad.

Some games have button layouts that make certain actions a pain. Two examples.

Horizon Zero Dawn - Healing is by default done by hitting dpad up. You generally want to press this button whenever you take damage to essentially trigger health regen, but doing so requires taking your thumb off the left stick, which means you can’t simultaneously avoid even more damage. Bind to back button, problem solved.

BallisticNG - Weapons are bound to X, discard weapons is bound to B, and accelerate is on A. So when you pick up a weapon, to discard/use it you either have to drop thrust (bad, never do that) or awkwardly shimmy your thumb to either hit X or B without letting go of A. Bind X and B to back buttons, problems solved.

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.

80 and 443 are the standard ports for webpages (http and https respectively). Lot of selfhosted software with web-based frontends will therefore try to use them.

You can change the ports for the bitwarden container to whatever you like, but the “proper” way to set up multiple services with web-based interfaces like this, is to use a reverse proxy to make them all accessible via these two standard ports. (Caddy is popular for this)

You can then access them using their respective subdomains or subpaths.

Will it though?

It would require the exact same investment into a new system, which is already possible, and isn’t happening.

It won’t be like proton where valve can put in the work to make it work from their side.

Developers of your “favorite competitive games” would still have to opt in, something they could but don’t do with the Steam OS version that already exists.

WRC is a rally racing game.

And even if it weren’t, this is a shit take.

Tech like nanite rendering does bring a potential of maybe solving that variability. But even before that, LODs, detail render distance limits etc. already allow frame rates to be leveled out, if utilized.

And I would consider 30 and 45 within that “similar” range. I’m not asking the framerate to stay within even 10% of an average at all times. But games are getting a lot worse than that.

A recent game even my desktop has been struggling with is Forbidden West, which I tuned the settings on to achieve 80-100 fps, yet in some locations (larger settlements) it will chug down to 20-30.

Some newer games aren’t just losing 33% fps at worst vs best. But more like 70%. At that point you end up having to target 200fps just to never drop below 60, and that’s tricky even on high end desktops.