FFW 37: Counter-Strike 2: Confirmed and More

FFW 37.1 – Counter-Strike 2 is For Real

I covered the likelihood that it would be coming soon about a month ago... Valve has confirmed and told us that it, along with a huge upgrade for Source 2 would drop by this summer. I suggest you look at the videos in the article below if you want more of a tease. I don’t play, but know that many do, and there will be lots of good stuff being improved and changed in the new game vs CS:GO. Here is a short list:
· responsive smoke
· sub-tick updates for more responsive gameplay
· overhauled maps
· Source 2 tooling for the community
· your whole inventory carries over from CS:GO
· higher resolution models for basically everything
· improved visual effects
· an upgraded UI
· And more

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/counter-strike-2-from-valve-releasing-summer-2023/

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FFW 37.2 – What Happened to AMD GPUs in DOTA2?

If you play DOTA2 and run it on a Linux box with an AMD GPU, you may have noticed reduced fluidity in the game of late. This is due to an updated Graphics Pipeline Library issue causing the driver, while in game to consume a ridiculous 3GB of RAM. Luckily, this bug has been squashed after it was demonstrated to developers working on the project, and it now takes a more reasonable 450MB RAM vs the 3 GB they were seeing. On the other hand, unless you are adventurous, you may not have seen it anyway. However, that feature will be enabled by default in the next version of the MESA stack, so getting that bug squashed now is excellent. Good on you, Devs.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/amd-radv-driver-will-soon-stop-eating-ram-with-some-games/

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FFW 37.3 – NVidia Graphics Driver News

We have a new full version of drivers from Dr. Huang and team Green. What’s new in this one?

· Indirect Branch Tracking support
· Better Xfce support
o New profile to prevent degradation when
§ OpenGL compositor backend is enabled along with G-SYNC
§ suspend and resume support when using GSP firmware
· ZSTD compression to shrink the installer and make it quicker
· Better flatpak support
· improved support for Wayland apps running on using the PRIME render offload feature on a system with an integrated AMD GPU
· And more...
As always, check the link if you want more information on this driver release.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-530-41-03-graphics-driver-brings-better-xfce-support-faster-installer

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