Tux Machines

Games: Emulators, WINE, and Steam Deck

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 21, 2023

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New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board

=> ↺ New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board

The most important addition to the Box64 version 0.2.4 is that Dynarec now works on RISC-V. This facilitates faster operations of x86_64 Linux software on RISC-V 64-bit system and makes simplistic games, such as Stardew Valley, playable on Vision Five 2-based devices. Additionally, the new version introduces several fixes for Steam, enhanced multi-threading capabilities, and broader improvements for emulation across various CPU architectures.

I Managed to Make Fallout 4 Work in openSUSE Leap.

=> ↺ I Managed to Make Fallout 4 Work in openSUSE Leap.

After a while, I found that it works better on KDE on X11. In fact, KWin in general feels faster and more responsive under X11.

So, possibly XWayland issues? Older versions of stuff than Fedora had? Who cares, I just want my game to work.

Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

=> ↺ Wine 8.14 is out now and here's what's new

The open source compatibility layer Wine has a brand new development release available. Here's what's new and changed in Wine 8.14. We're over half-way through the year now, so in around another ~5 months we're likely to see the stable Wine 9.0 release.

Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

=> ↺ Steam Deck recently had two Beta releases, here's what's changed

Valve has rolled out two updates for the Beta Branch of the Steam Deck within two days, August 17th and August 19th. The August 17th update addresses General, Library, and Desktop mode issues. While the August 19th update addresses Desktop Mode and Steam Input issues. Full list of changes will be added below, separated by day with links to each list.

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