PC Gaming

@LateToTheParty · 10 months ago

The State of Linux Gaming - 2023 in Review

With the Year of 2023 coming to a close, it is time to look at how much progress Linux gaming has made over the course of the previous 12 months. When I did a mid-year review , Linux had a modest 1.4...

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@LateToTheParty · 1 year ago

The State of Linux Gaming - Mid-2023 Edition

In my previous "State of Linux Gaming" post , I hypothesized that 2023 would be a "boring" year for Linux gaming. Thus far, my prediction has proven to be correct. The Steam Deck is now being sold in...

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@LateToTheParty · 1 year ago

The State of Linux Gaming - 1 Year After the Steam Deck

Co-published on Publish0x and Zirkels . Time sure flies as the Steam Deck is already over a year old. Sporting a custom Zen 2/RDNA2 APU in a small handheld form factor, the device can play thousan...

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@LateToTheParty · 1 year ago

The State of Linux Gaming - 2022 in Review

Co-published on Publish0x. Now that 2022 has come and gone, I think this is a good time to sit down and reflect on how Linux gaming has evolved over the past year. On February 25, 2022, Valve launche...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

NVIDIA's Suspicious Lovelace Lineup

Co-published on Publish0x. On September 20, 2022, NVIDIA announced its new Lovelace video cards: the RTX 4070 (<-- I'll get to this), 4080, and 4090. The Lovelace cards offer higher transistor densit...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

The Worrying Rumblings of Intel Canceling its Discrete GPUs

Co-published on Publish0x. The “Big 2” in the graphics card industry is Nvidia and AMD with their RTX and Radeon GPUs, respectively. Nvidia has been the undisputed leader, capturing the lion’s share...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

The State of Linux - Great Progress, but Where Do We Go from Here?

Co-published on Publish0x. In less than 2 weeks, the Steam Deck will have officially reached its half-year milestone. Back in May , I wrote about some of Linux gaming's most significant achievements...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

The State of Linux Gaming Post-Steam Deck

Co-published on Publish0x. In April 2021, I made a blog post on the state of Linux gaming . At that time, the Linux marketshare on Steam still hovered below 1%. While the compatibility layer, Proton...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

The "Death" of Native Resolution: How AMD's FSR 2.0 and Intel's XeSS Will Drive PC Gaming Forward

Co-published on Publish0x. It has taken several months, but we are finally seeing GPU prices falling down . While video cards are still sold above MSRP, the prices are not as ludicrous as they once...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

Valve's Steam Deck is the Real Deal and Has Room to Grow

Co-published on Publish0x. Intro: Valve's Steam Deck Launches to Good-ish Reviews It took a while, but Valve finally began shipping its PC handheld device, the Steam Deck, since February 25. When te...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

Exciting Times for the Steam Deck and Linux Gaming Ahead

Co-published on Publish0x. On Wednesday, January 26, Valve has announced (thumbnail origin) that the first batch of the Steam Deck will finally ship on February 28. A few months ago, Valve delayed...

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@LateToTheParty · 2 years ago

Linux Gaming Had A Pretty Good 2021

Co-published on Publish0x. All the way back in July 2021, Linux finally crossed 1% marketshare on Steam. It was a pretty big deal as it was a sort of validation for Valve and the open-source commun...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Why the Steam Deck's Delay is an Overall Benefit

Co-published on Publish0x. About 10 days ago , I wrote about how Linux gaming continued to gain momentum and expressed my enthusiasm for the impending Steam Deck launch. Well... almost immediately af...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Valve Has Been Hitting All the Right Notes with the Steam Deck, but It All Comes Down to Games

Co-published on Publish0x. On October 6, Valve uploaded a video on its YouTube channel where it finally showed (some of) the Steam Deck's internals. And I have to say, I came away way more impressed...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Linux Improves and Maintains Over 1% Steam Marketshare for Third Consecutive Month

Co-published on Publish0x. Back in July when Linux hit the 1% milestone, I hypothesized that there was genuine momentum due to the lukewarm reception towards Windows 11 and Linux's greater versatil...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Linux Gaming Gains Easy Anti-Cheat Support, Clears a Major Hurdle (Emphasis on "a")

Co-published on Publish0x. Introduction: Anti-Cheat Support Finally Arrives to Linux Over the last 3 years, Linux gaming has made a lot of progress thanks to Valve's Proton compatibility layer and t...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Linux Steam Marketshare Maintains Over 1%: Could 2022 Actually be the "Year of the Linux Desktop"?

This article is originally published on Publish0x. When Linux officially hit 1% marketshare on Steam's July 2021 hardware survey, I was pretty ecstatic. For three years since Valve dropped a bombshel...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

Can Intel's XeSS Kill Nvidia's DLSS?

Originally published on Publish0x. On August 19, Intel showcased its Architecture Day 2021 presentation. The approximately 2-hour long event featured the Alder Lake architecture on the CPU side and t...

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@visenkart · 3 years ago

The Friday the 13th Tragedy of the Infamous Jason

In all honesty, there was a point in time where the loathsomeness local area thought there was a game that may usurp Dead by Daylight. Where it would turn into a definitive 4+V1 unbalanced awfulness e...

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@LateToTheParty · 3 years ago

AMD Launches FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and It's Not Bad

Originally published on Publish0x. Introduction Today, AMD launches FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) for its own graphics cards as well as its competitor's. The overall mission of FSR is to boost p...

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@Librarian · 3 years ago

Marooned on Mars: Commander Keen

( Intelli Gaming : Game Series Review) Marooned on Mars is how it began. However, in the end, the Vorticons were just puppets being turned against humanity against their will. That sums up the sto...

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