This almost feels like an April Fools’ Day joke that was six months late. Nouveau – that terrible open-source graphics driver for NVIDIA? That will soon get replaced with the new open-source NVK driver. This was written by Jason Ekstrand from Collabora, as well as Koral Herbst and Dave Airlie at Red Hat. Getting the driver to work, according to the blog post, was through the Turing class of GPUs, which contained a new unified firmware blob; NVIDIA’s open-source kernel driver; and obtaining the official headers for the 3D and compute hardware.

Remember that tutorial on how to replace the Deck’s bootloader animation? Well, all these guides that have been popping up caught Valve’s attention. Today’s new beta Deck client update makes this process even easier. Custom videos will now go in /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamui/overrides/movies/ (note that this directory will need to be made first). These videos will now be in a safer place, and they won’t get wiped with every update. Not only this, but these videos will be played in fullscreen automatically; no need to modify the library.

Europe is entrenched in World War II. Countless lives have been lost. Asya, a ten-year-old girl, is destined to become a faceless labor camp worker along with the millions of other Ostarbeiters. But this poor young girl can’t fight, and she doesn’t want to either. She just wants to go home. But because she isn’t home, she has to fight in a different sense. She has to endure the harsh winter weather of Germany and Poland, survive in a forest, and make her way through the ruins.

GE-Proton7-36 has imported the NVAPI enablements and media-converter changes from upstream Proton. In addition to updating DXVK, VKD3D-Proton, and Wine-Bleeding Edge, Protonfixes have been added to the following: Shatterline Halo Reach mod tools Ougon Musoukyoku But one feature in this update has been removed, at least for now: FSR. The reasoning, according to the patch notes, is as follows: The commit is important because it fixes some problems that were happening with winevulkan, but unfortunately it also patches in a lot of components that were already part of the FSR patch.

After a couple of dozen or so of releases, the Linux kernel version moves up to the next number. In this case kernel 5.19 has now moved on to kernel 6.0. This release doesn’t seem too exciting for us gamers, although there is the usual support for new hardware, such as Intel Meteor Lake processors and AMD’s RDNA3 graphics. Those of you who use hardware from Tuxedo Computers may also benefit here, as keyboard/touchpad fixes have been added when the device is suspended.

Spirits are trapped between worlds. They sow chaos and unnatural decay. This decay is known as corruption, and it spreads throughout an abandoned village. Kena, a young girl who is known as a Spirit Guide, sets out on a journey to unravel the mysteriousness of this community, unlocking the backstories of the people who once controlled the land, while at the same time clearing the corruption and the spirits who are causing it.

Steam Deck Kena: Bridge of Spirits is running fairly decent on my side, although apparently others are reporting framerate issues. Will have a review soon Metroid Prime Remastered on Steam Deck? Here’s a guide new Deck client beta fixes offline cloud sync bug while adding per-device controller configurations, when multiple types of the same gamepad are connected if you wanted to replace the bootloader screen, you can do that dbrand temporaily pulls sales of the Project Killswitch accessory due to issues with the Delta fan need to transfer files from PC to Deck and vice-versa?

New Proton Experimental update has landed today. The following titles are now playable: Pico Park: Classic Edition Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind Darkstar One Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb Crazy Machines 3 Fixes have been added for the following: Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) should now have audio Return to Monkey Island should now react to mouse clicks after recent game update See the patch notes on GitHub.

Whelp, I never thought this would see the light of day. But it did. As It’s FOSS brought out earlier today, Tuxedo Computers has finally made their tailor-made distro, Tuxedo OS, available outside of their own hardware. You can download their ISO and install it on any computer now. No need to use their WebFAI flash drive. Meaning that you can hopefully install it with a graphical interface, while being able to configure your partitions, and not have to use an Ethernet connection.

Reddit user Bar_Har spotted a Deck running Genshin Impact during the Tokyo Game Show. Apparently the game isn’t available on Steam, and playing it on Linux requires disabling the anti-cheat software that it uses. And even then, your account is at risk of getting banned. So who knows. Maybe that particular Deck was running Windows. Or, for all we know, that could just be a picture blown up in fullscreen. Or maybe Valve really is working with the developers of the game to get it to run nicely on the handheld.