As someone who games at 4k on a video card from 2017, I can confirm that VRR is a must-have feature for gaming at lower frame rates.

VRR means that falling off your set frame rate doesn’t matter. 56 FPS is just as smooth as 60 FPS. If something explodes and the game drops to 40 for a second, you don’t really notice.

Google? Unstable commitment to a project? That’s crazy talk!

Valve have said they aren’t planning on a new Steam Deck until there’s substantial technology improvements, so I wouldn’t expect to see one for at least a couple of years yet.

Intel’s Linux support has always been pretty good. IIRC they even do open source video drivers, it’s just that nobody cared about drivers for their IGPs and they didn’t have real video cards until recently.

I’m running the Battle.net client on Linux with Wine instead of Deck and Proton, but I haven’t had any problems recently.

It last updated around two weeks ago and the previous update was two weeks before that. I’m running version 2.22.0.14235 and there’s no updates available.

There was an issue with some versions of Wine making Battle.net fail with a “This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform” message. Is that what you’re hitting, or something else?

Federation is glitchy right now, there’s fixes coming in Lemmy 0.18.1

Why don’t titles sponsored by one company also do extra work for free to support a different company’s competing proprietary technology?

Gee, I wonder.

Article doesn’t say a single word about NVIDIA titles that don’t support FSR, either.

Me too.

I originally intended to do a pcie passthrough setup with a second video card and use a Windows VM for gaming, but then DXVK hit and it just wasn’t necessary. The Windows games I cared about worked under Linux so I never got around to it.

Your comment made me put down my phone and laugh out loud until someone came and checked that I was alright.