#gaming
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Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts
Japanese publisher Capcom says attackers breached its CAPCOM ID service, exposing more than 11.7 million email addresses along with related account information.
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Epic's new Linux anti-cheat looks beatable with a $20 adapter
Matthew Garrett took apart the upcoming second version of Easy Anti-Cheat for Linux and showed that its TPM-and-attestation defences fall to a few simple tricks for anyone with hardware access.
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Steam's Linux Client Finally Goes 64-bit
Valve has released a Steam client beta for Linux in which the main client binary is now a 64-bit application and runs inside the Steam Runtime container.
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Steam Beta Now Runs Non-Steam Windows Binaries Through Proton by Default
Valve has shipped a new Steam client beta in which non-Steam Windows applications now default to running through Proton.
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ReactOS Pulls In Wine 10.0 DirectX Stack, Unlocking Hundreds of Games
The open-source ReactOS project has completed a major overhaul of its DirectX stack based on Wine 10.0 code. The effort took more than 230 hours and stripped out a pile of old hacks.
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AMDGPU Gets HDMI 2.1 by Default in Linux Kernel 7.4
After years of refusals from the HDMI Forum, an open implementation of HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU driver is finally ready: in Linux 7.4 it will be enabled by default, along with FreeSync, VRR and ALLM.
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Windows 11 to enable memory protection on more devices — at the cost of gaming performance
Microsoft will start turning on memory integrity on eligible devices as soon as next month. The protection works at the kernel level, but on older processors it can lower frame rates in games.
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Linux 7.3 Scheduler: a boost for games, hybrid CPUs and lower latency
The Linux 7.3 merge window took in a notable batch of scheduler updates — from speeding up games on old “potato” hardware to more precise load distribution on Intel's hybrid processors.
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Linux 7.3 to Get the First vRAM Management Improvements for Games
Natalya Fock of Valve's graphics team has landed patches in the Linux 7.3 kernel that make games noticeably more comfortable on graphics cards with limited vRAM. The work continues.