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The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

Deep Rock Galactic sold millions of copies last year, and I reckon its wholesome community is to blame
https://www.pcgamer.com/deep-rock-galactic-sold-millions-of-copies-last-year-and-i-reckon-its-wholesome-community-is-to-blame/
What can I say? The people have spoken and they love dwarves. A week and a bit after Bay 12 shared news of bumper Dwarf Fortress sales figures, Ghost Ship Games has come out and said that Deep Rock Galactic sold an impressive 2 million copies in 2022 alone. What is it with gamers, dwarves, and mining?

The Epic Store gives away three titles:

• First Class Trouble: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/first-class-trouble
• Gamedec - Definitive Edition: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/gamedec
• Divine Knockout (DKO) : https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/divine-knockout--standard

Next week, they'll be giving away Epistory - Typing Chronicles.

Steam has two new deals:

• Car Detailing Simulator is going to be 35% off until January 18: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433570/Car_Detailing_Simulator/
• And Lost in Play will have a 40% discount until the same 18th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328840/Lost_in_Play/

Fanatical has a new Star Deal and a new bundle:

• The new Star Deal is Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Obsidian Edition, 84% off during 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire-obsidian-edition
• And the Kalypso Greatest Hits Bundle features 18 games to get split into three tiers of 6, 11 and 18: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/kalypso-greatest-hits-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 23.1.1 (RX 7900)
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-23-1-1-rx-7900
Fixed Issues

• Intermittent driver timeout may occur when applying Auto Overclock performance tuning.
• While playing Valheim™ an app crash or driver timeout may occur using Vulkan® API.
• While playing The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt, an intermittent app crash or driver timeout may occur when Ray Tracing settings are enabled.
• Minor performance degradation may be observed after applying a factory reset of settings.

>> Note that this diver resolves troubles for the new 7900 cards. Skip it if you have any other AMD card.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This Fallout 76 Mod adds wind physics to lootable floras
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-fallout-76-mod-adds-wind-physics-to-lootable-floras/
Vivec7 has released a pretty cool mod for Fallout 76. As its title implies, FLORANIM adds wind physics to the game’s lootable floras. As such, PC gamers can get a more fluid – and less static – overall image quality.
Going into more details, and contrary to trees and grasses which are animated, the vanilla lootable floras are plain static in Fallout 76. By using this mod, though, you’ll also have animated floras with foliages moving in the wind.
The “Floranim” mod also fixes some floras models not being updated when looted. Not only that, but it adds lights and particles effects to irradiated floras.
>> There's an almost 4 minutes long video.

Here is the first Splinter Cell game with Ray Tracing (WIP)
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-is-the-first-splinter-cell-game-with-ray-tracing-wip/
Since the release of Portal RTX, modders have been trying to implement its Ray Tracing features in other older games. And a few hours ago, Reddit’s member ‘CartographerNo5079‘ was able to make Portal RTX work with the first Splinter Cell game.
Now before continuing, the following screenshots do not represent the quality of the game with RTX Remix. These Ray Tracing effects are based on Portal RTX, and can be only described as WIP. In other words, once NVIDIA releases RTX Remix, Splinter Cell with Ray Tracing will look significantly better.
With this out of the way, it’s pretty cool witnessing such WIP projects. After all, it can give us a glimpse at what’s about to come.
>> Now that's a game where good lightning and shadows can make a difference.

GAMING NEWS

Dark Souls 3 January 12th Update released, fixes technical/crash issues
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/dark-souls-3-january-12th-update-released-fixes-technical-crash-issues/
FromSoftware has released a new PC patch for Dark Souls 3. According to the team, the January 12th Update brings various technical fixes, and addresses some crash issues.