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Currently playing Lushfoil Photography Sim on #Steam. It's a photo-realistic walking sim with a heap of different locations and photographic challenges to work on as you walk around the beautiful areas.

Highly recommended, if you like walking sims and/or photography. 👍

#gaming #Steam #WalkingSim #photography

youtu.be/pi6a7UjLy10?si=ZL2nzz

"Damages Wine on the Mac": Open source tool Whisky stops further development

Whisky makes it easy to run Wine on macOS in order to play Windows games. The developer fears that this will damage the runtime environment and stops.

heise.de/en/news/Damages-Wine-

heise online · "Damages Wine on the Mac": Open source tool Whisky stops further development
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#Apple#Spiele#IT

"Schadet Wine auf dem Mac": Open-Source-Tool Whisky stoppt Weiterentwicklung

Whisky macht es einfach, Wine auf macOS zu bringen, um Windows-Games zu zocken. Das schadet der Laufzeitumgebung, fürchtet der Entwickler und hört auf.

heise.de/news/Schadet-Wine-auf

heise online · "Schadet Wine auf dem Mac": Open-Source-Tool Whisky stoppt Weiterentwicklung
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#Apple#Spiele#IT

Ya está disponible en #Steam el juego #Drive Rally, un juego de rallyes del cual ya probamos su demo el año pasado por Steam Fest y del cual hablamos en nuestra web: jugandoenlinux.com/posts/Drive

Además, tiene versión nativa y está verificado para la Steam Deck, por lo que podrás jugarlo donde quieras, y además ahora mismo tiene un descuento del 30% hasta el 30 de abril

store.steampowered.com/app/249

Juego recomendado si te gustan los juegos de carreras

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 42 years ago today, preserved NSWGR #steam locomotive 3102 on an ARHS ACT steam tour at Canberra railway station, Kingston, ACT, April 16 1983.

3102 was one of the 145-strong fleet of NSWGR C30 class steam locomotives. Built by Beyer Peacock & Co in Manchester, UK and in Sydney by the NSWGR between 1903 and 1917, they were versatile and long-lived locos that survived well into the diesel age. The last of them ran in regular service in 1973.

Hey lovelies 🩷

Just in case this helps any Steam users, we found a solution to the mouse offset issue that occurs where:

  • You're streaming through Steam using Steam Link (app or device) or Remote Play.
  • Your host PC is Windows-based.
  • The application being streamed is running on a monitor with scaling >100%.

This issue can commonly affect users streaming to tablets or Steam Decks :SteamIconLogo:

We've already written about this previously here, here, here, and here, but we wanted to compile the key info in one place to help others. We have also written up a post on the Steam Community forums with all the details here, in the hopes that Steam devs will pick up on this and improve the Steam client for Windows.

Basically, it seems that the issue is caused by the Steam client for Windows being DPI unaware. DPI awareness was introduced in Windows 10 Version 1607 (aka Anniversary Update). You can read the technical details about these below:

The below website was what caused us to realise that Steam is DPI unaware and how to force DPI awareness for Steam and any applications running through it:

In short, you can force the Steam client and any relevant DPI-unaware applications to run as DPI aware by setting the default DPI awareness for a process.

e.g.,:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\steam.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\streaming_client.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

You can do the same for any application you're streaming through Steam: just use the name of the exe.

e.g.,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\rs2client.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\RuneScape.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

Hope this helps some folks 🩷

The Cult of ShivSleepyCatten (@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf)Bit of a random question, but if anyone knows the answer to this, it'll probably be someone (or some folks) on fedi :FediverseSymbol: The problem involves using the Steam Link android app to stream a game from a Windows 11 host :SteamIconLogo: :Windows_11_Logo: The problem is that if the game is loaded on any monitor with scaling >100%, the mouse co-ordinates are offset 🫤 The issue can be worked around by reducing the scaling on any such monitor to 100%, but it's not a viable option for me sadly for accessibility and productivity reasons. We believe the issue could be resolved if Steam Link were to call the [SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext function](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setthreaddpiawarenesscontext), which we've reported to Valve, but we're not expecting an acknowledgement or answer any time soon. Anyone been able to resolve the issue without reducing scaling to 100%? Pretty sure the issue can also occur with folks playing mouse-requiring games via Remote Play on a Steam Deck on a host with scaling set to >100%. #Steam #SteamLink #RemotePlay #Windows11 #AskFedi #SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext