Games: The Last of Us Part, War Thunder, FF7 Rebirth
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GamingOnLinux ☛ The Last of Us Part I added AMD FSR3.1 Frame Generation and Super Resolution
For those interested in maximising game performance on Linux / Steam Deck, The Last of Us Part I just got another major tech upgrade. v1.1.4 released January 24th, further enhancing the graphical options available.
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GamingOnLinux ☛ War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux
War Thunder from Gaijin Entertainment announced back in December 2024 that they would be changing the anti-cheat, which continues to be rolled out in stages. They're moving from Easy Anti-Cheat to BattlEye, both of which support Linux platforms and War Thunder did already support Linux.
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Boiling Steam ☛ FF7 Rebirth: Valve Messes Up with The Verified Rating Again
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is out on PC for a few days now (I am kind of surprised it’s out so soon, I expected the port would take longer to pop up), and it received a Verified rating from Valve for the Steam Deck. I was very impressed. A 2025 AAA game, running great on the Steam Deck out of the box?! Of course, that would mean the game runs at the lowest settings, but still! Don’t get your hopes up. It’s actually a disaster, and Valve is completely to blame for the rating that’s basically false advertising at this stage. The default settings (that should be the basis for the rating) barely get you to 30 FPS, and you get massive frame rate drops the whole time, and blurry cinematics galore. There’s already enough videos about this, here’s one that goes into the details of the awful performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Tuc2z34Bo This is sad that Valve keeps destroying their credibility over and over again. You’d think they would learn - after the disaster that was the Verified rating for the Last of Us Remake when it came out, suffering from a very similar set of problems: hardly able to stay at 30 FPS without degrading completely the graphics settings. Not sure if the port has improved significantly since then, but the rating should be set on their current status, not on a promise of future performance fix.