Tux Machines

Games: Steam Deck, Godot, Tin Hearts, and CS: GO

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 14, 2022

Videos: Pop!_OS, ONLYOFFICE, and Arch Linux

Open Hardware/Modding: Home Assistant, Arduino, and Linux-Capable RISC-V System

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Steam Deck’s Huge Booth at the Tokyo Games Show 2022: First Look and Line-Up Announced - Boiling Steam

↺ Steam Deck’s Huge Booth at the Tokyo Games Show 2022: First Look and Line-Up Announced - Boiling Steam

> The Tokyo Games Show 2022 is just a few days away (starting this Thursday) and there’s already some leaks of what some of the booths will look like. As I mentioned in my previous post, Valve is putting a lot of effort along with Komodo to advertise the Steam Deck, and there’s what the booth is starting to look like, using a huge reproduction of the Steam Deck. Now you understand the meaning of the “Huge Presence”!

Godot Engine - Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

↺ Godot Engine - Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 17

> We're getting prepared for the imminent release of Godot 4.0 beta 1, and to do so we're having a (last?) alpha 17 release to ensure that things work as best as we can reasonably expect before the beta phase.

> [...]

> Be aware that during the alpha stage the engine is still not feature-complete or stable. There will likely be breaking changes between this release and the first beta release. Only the beta will mark the so-called "feature freeze".

> As such, we do not recommend porting existing projects to this and other upcoming alpha releases unless you are prepared to do it again to fix future incompatibilities. However, if you can port some existing projects and demos to the new version, that may provide a lot of useful information about critical issues still left to fix.

> Most importantly: Make backups before opening any existing project in Godot 4.0 alpha builds. There is no easy way back once a project has been (partially) converted.

Tin Hearts: A Modern Day Lemmings with a Soothing Story - Boiling Steam

↺ Tin Hearts: A Modern Day Lemmings with a Soothing Story - Boiling Steam

> Have you heard of lemmings? They are cute little rodents which got a bad and undeserved reputation of “suicidal herd mentality animal” due to the White Wilderness documentary in 1958, which staged them jumping from cliffs to their death in a collective unstoppable frenzy. This unfortunate myth, however, gave rise to one of the most memorable puzzle videogames of the 90’s, appropriately named after the rodents, which you do not as much guide as give orders to change the environment and make the little guys reach the exit.

mesa: speed up glTexImage(GL_DEPTH_STENCIL)

↺ mesa: speed up glTexImage(GL_DEPTH_STENCIL)

> The 2 patches achieve the same thing: they massively reduce "CS: GO" startup time on my machine from 150s to 10s (maybe there's something wrong on my setup because the initial value is very high).

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