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I think these mega group amalgamations are set up for failure. I understand the allure of stability from a small studio's perspective, but I feel like those smaller projects (<50MM) could do better with a crowdfunding approach. Even if you can't raise the full amount, raising a big chunk would be a perfect way to convince private equity to invest in an individual project. And there have been a bunch of games that did just that - Larian has done it a few times.

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What you people do not understand? nVidia versioning is so easy. Example:

* 570.673.56.01 stable
* 570.577.66.02 beta
* 570.773.661.1 gamma

Off course the newest version in this example is "570.577.66.02", because the third of second number is written in capital letters.

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Let's see if it stands the test of time. ;-)

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A few years ago they even closed studios, because they wanted great numbers for their shareholders "now". They even closed profitable studios they could have continued to pay, that just did not bring the numbers right now (because too far away from release). That was a knife cutting half of the known studios in my country. Just spoke with a developer few days ago that was in one of these studios at the time under THQ Nordics banner.

Many of those just joined THQ Nordic to have a stable income without to look for new contracts with every new game. They tried to avoid the situation where they want to produce their next game without finding a publisher spending money, which would be the end of their studio. But this situation leaded to the end of many studios after Corona when Life was going to become normal again. What a sad irony.

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Just waiting for @mrdeathrj to show up in the comments ☺️

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Also fixed fullscreen switching
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8966

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Quoting: PhlebiacPerhaps unpopular, but I have to agree; laptops are worse in every way, other than portability. And the Steam Deck covers that use case.

What is important about laptops is that they save space under your desk!

... which you totally need for your 27 feet!

(I do get that laptops have the advantage of carrying around. I do not get the advantage of these mini PCs on the desk - because they take the space where I need it, and leave it free where I don't need it.)

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Really damned fun game

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Quoting: SakuretsuReally great!
Now I just need a version that doesn't require compiling.

Just follow instruction, its literally 1 github command + 3 lines of commands + 3 minutes or less of compilation time.

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Quoting: dpanterTeam composition and weapon variety makes it fun to replay, I keep coming back to this one. I might also be partial to zombie slaughter, who knows!

It is a good game. Did not play it in a whilte though.

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Team composition and weapon variety makes it fun to replay, I keep coming back to this one. I might also be partial to zombie slaughter, who knows!

Go solo with a specific build, go for an elite duo with explosive weapons, a cryo specialist throuple or all bullets full team mayhem? With tons of items to tweak your team as well, you can become crazy OP. The amount of content they've added since first EA is staggering honestly, the game runs at high fps perfectly smooth today at even full chaos with hundreds of enemies on screen and I remember when it would choke down to sub-30 stuttertown fps... and we are still looking forward to more content!

You'd do well to give YAZS a shot if you have any interest in this kind of game. :)

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Quoting: scaineThe sheer catalogue of shit-codery listed in that description makes me think that junior devs leaned heavily on genAI to get this game out of the door. Either that, or they are deliberately screwing up the game's code to make life hard for Linux.

FH4 & 5 had similar problems when they came out, so I'd say this isn't AI-related.

Quoting: scaineWhich is a horrible thought: I'm basically accusing the devs of being either inept, or malicious. Not a nice place to be.

There is a third option: Ignorance.
They don't care. The game was originally made for XBox where they used every trick to get a few more FPS or a better experience or what have you. Then it was ported to Windows and they did the same thing. Given the task at hand and the fact that this is MS we are talking about, I am pretty sure nobody ever gave a thought what that would mean for Linux.

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Quoting: Stellathanks for the testing. I'm really interested but the 70€ price is steep😤

It'd be a no-brainer if this game had more changes to it apart from location vs. FH5. They barely changed the formula at all, but I guess FH5 was well-received enough for that to not be a risk for the dev? And Japan does have quite a pull.
I follow several automotive Youtubers who live there as well as visit regularly, so I'm kind of one of the people who are getting pulled towards the game :D It does look amazing graphically, but the streets are kind of desolate everywhere for it to feel realistically like Tokyo. Maybe the soundscape will compensate? Remains to be seen.

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I give this update 5 out of 7 stonks, a perfect score. ⭐

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

Good catch, I've updated it and let NVIDIA know.

R570 in the second list is also botched.

Sigh, I'll let NVIDIA know about that too...

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Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

Good catch, I've updated it and let NVIDIA know.

R570 in the second list is also botched.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

Good catch, I've updated it and let NVIDIA know.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyIf Arc Raiders stops working on Linux because of Denuvo and they get review bombed, then it's definitly the year of the Linux deaktop

Recent reviews are already pretty bad, so might be hard to tell.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyIf Arc Raiders stops working on Linux because of Denuvo and they get review bombed, then it's definitly the year of the Linux deaktop

Their other game (the finals) uses denuvo for months and hasn't broken cuz of that. However I noticed negative reviews from linux users are prominent on Marathon. 2nd top review on game's store page was "no linux support".

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI guess they don't want to get legal issues with Lego as some YouTubers for wrong labeling. 😅

They are quite particular about it being "LEGO®"; check the list and see:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=TT%20Games

Somebody messed up on "LEGO Batman Trilogy" (and some DLC) but all 3 games in the bundle are correct. :)

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If Arc Raiders stops working on Linux because of Denuvo and they get review bombed, then it's definitly the year of the Linux deaktop

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Salvatosgaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself.

Perhaps unpopular, but I have to agree; laptops are worse in every way, other than portability. And the Steam Deck covers that use case.

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Quoting: Stellathey could stop selling the already released PS games.

All that does is encourage piracy. If it exists but I can't buy it, it's abandonware, right? 😄

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Here is what I did to get rid of the stuttering.

First of all I'm on Bazzite with a 5800x3D, 32GB RAM and a 9070XT. My Bazzite is still Bazzite 43 so my Mesa Drivers are 24.0.6. I'm not on the latest mesa so far. There were no update for Bazzite yet (I made ujust update a on friday when the early access for the game was ready for me). I use the latest cachyos-proton11 (I guess its 20260605?). Then I added in launch options: VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv,single_queue gamemoderun mangohud %command%. gamemoderun and mangohud are optional. More important is the VKD3D enviroment variable.

Then in the game I set everything on Ultra exept the enviroment textures. Then environment textures set higher than 'Low' will cause stutters and physics slowdowns making the game unplayable. Setting them to 'Low' will fix this. <- found this tip on protondb.

Everything else can stay on Ultra or High. Depends on your system. Also I have a 144hz monitor so I set my fps cap with Mangohud to 72fps to get a stable and smooth experience.

È voila the game runs perfectly smooth with no stutters or physics slowdowns. Colossus with R-Cars 400km/h and more perfectly smooth.

Try it! Maybe this will help you also with your game. At least until we have a propper fix for the stuttering.

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Quoting: Savor592But in general they produced not a single thing that wasn't already possible before.

Neuronal networks actually can do useful things we could not do before. But most of them do not even require a data center to be trained or executed on: Little models doing one thing, but doing it better than everything else. The industry just chose the worst way possible to deal with and many normal people joining this destruction train.

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Played for about 4 hours. The game is running way better than expected (as long RT is turned on).
No black screen, no audio issues, no crashes or visual glitches son far. It just works.
It's far from perfect though. Some hickups here and there, and overall performance could be better.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: SalvatosI could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself.

Yes, hence "as far as I'm concerned".

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: SalvatosYou were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

Don't forget the couch without you probably don't want to play games on your TV and now PC is a smaller place in your room. ;-P

That's fair :) I've seen a fair number of people with TVs in their bedroom who would probably play from their bed too if it came down to that, but I feel like consoles naturally invite local multiplayer and that's something I would prefer to do in the living room.

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Quoting: neolithI cannot imagine that being a smart move financially. Most people I know who game on PC have bought at least on of the titles Sony brought over. Only one of them has a PS and most would never get one no matter which games they miss.

I don't know what Sony expected... That people start getting a PS after playing formerly exclusive games on PC? That everyone would start using PSN in one way or another?
They treated their PC customers less than stellar: forced PSN, Denuvo, intentionally breaking fetures on Linux, ports coming a year after their PS release at best... which is a shame, because some of those are technically quite good otherwise. I've always felt that bringing games to PC was a very good idea followed by a couple really bad ones.

After buying Bungie for way too much money, aiming to go full live service with about a dozen games, Concord arguably being the biggest finanical flop in gaming history and Marathon doing meh on Steam I thought they'd make some good decisions now that would make them some money. Seems like they don't want to do it on PC. Bummer. I'd have bought a PC version of Bloodborne in a heartbeat if it'd had been a proper port.

I don't know what'll happen to Sony if they keep making weird decisions, but seeing that they closed Bluepoint of all studios makes me think that a couple more will end up on the chopping block. I wonder who's next. My guess is that Horizon Hunters Gathering will be the end of Guerrilla. Well, we'll see...

So just to give Sony the smallest amount of credit here, apparently it's not actually their fault we've not seen a Bloodborne remake, much less a port to PC. Apparently it's all up to From Software, and they just don't seem to give a damn about it, which is...

I mean...

It's a choice.

Not one I'm happy with, but hey.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

As far as I'm concerned, Tolkien officially changed English so that's the pluralization now. 😁

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Christ, almost 20m playing on a mobile phone? Seriously? Talk about masochists! I can't imagine playing Terraria with any less than a keyboard and mouse, or at least a controller.

Great game, early native Linux supporter, well worth the full price way back when. Congratulations, and thanks, to the developers for supporting the game for this long.

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