Episode 17: Deals with the devil
Valve hired compatibility testers for the steam deck, Baldur's Gate 3 drops a major update and runs great on Proton, Fedora is still awesome, and Nvidia is still Nvidia.
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Show Notes
Welcome to Crowbar Kernel Panic,
the Podcast at the intersection of Linux and Gaming
News
- Valve hiring compatibility testers
- Valve hired compatibility testers
- Introducing Steam Deck Verified
- Steam removing NFT
Wanderings
Baldur’s Gate 3
- Larian Studio - Divinity
- Early Access - 59.99
- DnD 5e
- WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”cchromaeditorlibrary64=” %command%
- Proton Experimental
WarTile
- Playwood Project
- Deck13 and WhisperGames
Nvidia Wayland 470.74
- Not out of the box on fedora 34 or 35
- How to enable Wayland + Nvidia
- Edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and comment out the line WaylandEnable=false
- Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules and comment out the lines that disable wayland for nvidia. Note that this file gets overwritten by updates.
- kms-modifiers must be enabled through gsettings: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features '["kms-modifiers"]'
- Reboot
- Will work with some tweaks to gnome
- Gaming performance is promising but not there yet
- Next step is to try out the 495 drivers
- Nvidia Optimus support coming
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Music from this episode
"Bit Quest" and "Basic Implosion" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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