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Do you know if these are workarounds for bugs in games or in the wine implementation of the windows APIs?

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Quoting: TheRealSpesch@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

I also get this on Bazzite. From what I've read, it's not unique to Bazzite, though. On Reddit, I saw another report it on CachyOS.

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I'm curious what they're gonna do with this. The obvious would be a simple update to keep it running fine on modern systems, but I doubt this would lead to incompatible saves…

Square is one of these company that do some stuff good, some stuff bad. I really hope this one is the former.

And, although very unlikely, if this was a remaster, I'd be se happy.

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[quote=eggrole][quote=Pyrate]

Quoting: MinoscerebMy use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: MinoscerebI like lutris for the setup scripts for old gamss

I have almost completely switched to Heroic for no good reason other than "I like it", and I too find old setups that have fallen off of the back of the truck from time to time. You can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

I'm referring more to the community scripts on lutris

Take something like Quake for example, that might only include the windows version, lutris will give options to install linux source ports, or automatically apply fixes to old games. Heroic doesn't have such feature AFAIK.

Another reason I like to keep both around is because they both seem to handle controller inputs differently. I've had some games where controller doesn't register on heroic, but registers on lutris

Granted I could just add it as a nonsteam game and enable steam input, but that kind of defeats the purpose for me having drm free games not reliant on a closed platform

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Quoting: TheRealSpesch@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

Nope, never seen that here.

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Sounds like good news. Xfce is one of the most relevant DE's out there in my opinion. We need a solid option for lightweight hardware. Seeing this DE fall away because they can't run Wayland sessions well would suck.

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@Liam On Bazzite, after about 2 minutes the error message “Problem detected” appears and you can just close the app. However, if you start a game session quickly enough, you can dismiss the message with CTRL+G and the stream continues to run normally. Do you also get this error message on Fedora?

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Interesting news! I'm looking forward to seeing what the new build of the game has over the current. If I remember correctly the switch port includes some features the current PC port lacks like analog movement, and turbo speed. Hopefully we get those sorts of features in the new release. I'm also wondering about the save file differences. I hope someone takes a look into the possibility of editing an old save to work in the new game.

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Hope we'll see it on GOG as the previous!

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Dat timing...

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe basic question is whether the 30% cut generates windfall profits. If it does, then lawsuits that successfully reduce that cut will leave Valve in place but reduce costs for the consumer.

It most definitely will not. It's not a "tax" that gets added on top of the game price like Tim Sweeney would want you to think.

Really? What is it then? Monopoly money?

Profit?

Good, old-fashioned profit.

By which you agree that yes, it is a tax.

But anyway. How much profit? There are levels of profit that are not OK. This is one reason that monopolies were traditionally held to be a bad thing--competition on price was supposed to cause companies to keep their prices low, limiting their profits. That's what market efficiency supposedly is. Where it is agreed that there is no such competition, regulated utilities used to be given like 6%; in this age of regulatory capture it's probably a bit higher.

Now. If it costs a platform 10% of sales to offer their service, and they are collecting 30%, that means they are making three times their costs . . . So, 200% profit? I think that might be a wee bit on the windfall side. We don't know just where Valve's expenses fall between the lowest bound anyone usually suggests of 10% and what they actually charge, 30%. But I really don't think it's unreasonable to want to find out, and to hope maybe the courts might have a shot at doing so.

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so, about the new version... what exactly is gonna be new about it, other than being new and incompatible with the old one?

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In my youth as a tabletop gamer I of course consumed vast quantities of ham-and-pineapple pizza. So much that I grew to hate the sight of it, and wholeheartedly joined the anti-pineapple faction. But decades have passed and I have mellowed, come to an accommodation with the sins of my youth, and now I don't mind a bit of pineapple-and-bacon pizza now and then.

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Their script just sets up their Flatpak and their repository for it. You don't have to be given a flatpak file for it to be installed via a Flatpak.

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Interesting interview! M. Gospodnetich sounds like a level-headed person and actually got me interested in their project. Respect for the humility when considering Bazzit as a "distribution" and massive kudos for the answer about anti-cheats, clear and so true.

Pineapple on pizza absolutely rules.

Honey, get the botnet out, GoL is going down! 😡

(that's a joke, please don't ban, I will never seek to harm someone, no matter how heretically wrong their statements are)

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The original Huntdown really nails the 80's era Cannon action movie look and feel, and it's a solid run n' gun. This should be awesome.

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But wen i go to downaod page is offer just GeForceNOWSetup.bin and not flatpak. Idont understand

https://international.download.nvidia.com/GFNLinux/GeForceNOWSetup.bin

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... and the current version being delisted, as usual. A bit of burying the lede there.

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Why can't they have a decent numbering scheme?

There is one Final Fantasy VIII but about 10 Final Fantasy VII for fucks sake!
https://ff7.info/every-ff7.htm

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: drenAgain this is misleading. Once you download your game from GOG, you can completely remove them from the scenario of installation at all. You have the files, you can install it on as many computers as you want and you don't have to login to play the game. You absolutely cannot do that with Steam.

You absolutely can. There are lots of DRM-free games on steam and downloading the files is the only thing you need to do in order to run them. Obviously you can't do that with games relying on Steam DRM (at least not without using workarounds), but that's something the developer put in there, and not valve. Valve does not require any kind of DRM for games sold on Steam.

@Caldathras is absolutely correct. GOG provides standalone executable installers, steam has no such feature. Games being DRM-free on steam isn't normal. Devs can and sometimes do add Steamworks DRM after initial releases, etc. The permanence of the Steam install being DRM-free isn't there. Also the Steam installation doesn't include other necessary dependencies, such as DirectX or C++ redistributables, that are included as part of an actual installer. Steam also doesn't advertise or tell you which games are DRM-free. On GOG EVERY game is DRM-free with all dependencies included as part of the installer (both Windows and Linux). In a lot of cases, these DRM-free directories still need the Steam client to act as a wrapper or handle activation. With GOG, you don't even need to use Galaxy, you can just download the installer from the website and install it where you want. This is why Heroic is able to provide direct access to your GOG library and is able to install everything you need for a game. It just feels like you are trying to make an equivalency argument that isn't actually equivalent.

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The community will love it when their saves don't work with the new version!

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I seriously thought about backing this. I went as far as going through the pledge process on kickstarter. I ended up cancelling though before the end of the day.

It costs just about $400 to have this shipped to the US if you get 8GB of memory, 128GB eMMC, the MX95 and all three of the IO devices added on.This is basically maxed out.

For $450 you can get a maxed out AYN Thor that has two screens, 16GB of memory, and a 1TB NVME SSD. Don't get me wrong, this is not a 1:1 comparison at all. The Thor has pretty limited linux support, but there is some out there. It's definitely going to be better for a handheld gaming device though especially for emulation. It normally runs android though, not linux.

But when you compare it spec for spec, it's really hard to want to drop so much on a device that will probably feel dated the day you get it. 8GB of ram just isn't much anymore. A super tiny screen isn't great. It's going to be a meh blackberry, an ok gameboy emulator, or an oddball tinkering device. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy it but the price doesn't feel right to me.

A version 2 in a few years once memory prices calm down and another generation of better processors is available might make more sense, and i'll get to see how they do with the kickstarter launch. I've never had a kickstarter ship on time before so I don't expect them to.

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I feel like this should be a broader thing than gaming, especially with some of the... interesting decisions some of these projects have made over the years to "improve" gaming.
This channels into the "Ooh there are too many distros" conversation. We need a much larger push for interoperability of dependencies than just a handful of "gaming" distros pushing tweaks they like upstream.

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Quoting: robvvI'm wary of Netflix these days as Trump has bought around $1m in bonds in Netflix.

Netflix has been beholden to the likes of Obama and the Clintons for decades, but it's only now that you're worried? 😆

At any rate, as long as Blender development stays independent then I'm fine with Netflix throwing their dirty money at it.

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"We've inflated the computer hardware prices to be unattainable... so now no one can buy pc hardware and you'll have to rent a cloud computer... mwahahaaa * mustache twirling intensifies * " -- nvidia probably

At least they've preemptively put time limits on the cheaper accounts too.

Go (back) to hell nvidia.

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Quoting: eggroleYou can install them fine with Heroic. It is as simple as Add Game -> Select Executable (or installer) and go.

I simply haven't been as lucky, or maybe I should give it a try again. To me it feels like Lutris is more reliable when installing games. Or it could be the Proton version I'm using being the culprit... Which one do you use to install games on Heroic ?

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The best time to release a game is when it's done. The second best time is when it's mostly done and just needs some more content (like Assetto Corsa Rally).

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Quoting: Tethys84I'm probably one of the very few people on the planet who not only loves FF8, but that consider it to be their favorite of the series. I actually played this before 7 which I didn't get around to until much later. So much nostalgia with it and I still enjoy it to the present which is rare for things I have nostalgia for.

FFVIII was my first Final Fantasy, I like it a lot, but my favourite is (and, considering the direction Squeenix has taken, will always be) VI.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: drenAgain this is misleading. Once you download your game from GOG, you can completely remove them from the scenario of installation at all. You have the files, you can install it on as many computers as you want and you don't have to login to play the game. You absolutely cannot do that with Steam.

You absolutely can. There are lots of DRM-free games on steam and downloading the files is the only thing you need to do in order to run them. Obviously you can't do that with games relying on Steam DRM (at least not without using workarounds), but that's something the developer put in there, and not valve. Valve does not require any kind of DRM for games sold on Steam.

Have you read the link you provided? Steamcmd is nothing like a GOG offline installer. You are not downloading the game installer through Steamcmd, you are installing the game! It is just an incredibly convoluted command line version of the Steam client (for which, the client is likely the GUI). Yes, you can run some of the games without the client but that does NOT make it the equivalent of an offline installer. There is one fundamental difference: if you lose Internet access or Valve's servers go down, you cannot install the game!

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I'm quite happy to wait as long as it takes. Concerned Ape has long since earned my trust on this.

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