Steam was the *only* online store I ever bought a movie from. And I bought a few dozen movies. Several reasons, but mostly fair prices and worldwide availability (there were some regional restrictions esp. on some series, but not that many).

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I picked up Cosmic Express, completed it and loved it.

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Quoting: GrabbyNote that the Nvidia driver already downclocks on its own : if you are not gaming or doing any intensive stuff, the card hovers at a low power mode until it's needed.

Yeah, but the card jumps from 6W / 139 MHz right to 28W / 1404 MHz just because I switch a window or open a new tab in the browser, and soon after that the fan starts speeding up. I don't think it's necessary for simple web browsing and I was wondering if it was possible to keep the card underperform most of the time (pretending to be a humble intel gpu ;-) and switch the profile only when I want to do some serious gaming. The thing is, I don't know much about hardware and I don't want to brick my laptop, so I'm yet to convince myself to try it...

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I have a laptop with 1060 gpu set at discrete, I wonder if I could downpower the card with this tool to avoid the fan noise during normal usage (non-gaming). Does it make the changes in real time or does it require reboot?

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Quoting: EhvisBasically the numbers say that Slay the Spire only attracted 0.3% of the Linux people on Steam. Which, considering the high quality of this game, seems like a rather low number indeed. This is roughly confirmed by the lower than average ownership in my Steam friends list.

So it seems that this game doesn't appeal to Linux users as much as others do. I can't quite put my finger on the "why" though.

The game looks good, but there is no way I'm paying $25 for it. Also, computer card games might be a niche that just happens to be sparsely populated by Linux players due to the fact that we don't have many of these available natively.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThis is a UE4 based tool?

Seems to be Unity: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlowScape/comments/am8f6h/loading_can_be_fun/efkhxsw/ [External Link]

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That falcon looks totally owlish, but I guess it's normal on Eagle Island.

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Quoting: Apparition_B5Actually, I read on multiple sites yesterday that the boxed editions will come with an Epic Games Store key, not Steam.

From the FAQ:

#3 - FAQ FOR PHYSICAL EDITION CUSTOMERS
I have pre-ordered a physical copy of Metro Exodus for PC. How will this news affect me?
This will not affect you at all. You will receive your packaged game with a key allowing you to play.

Heh, sneaky wording but I guess you're right.

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Quoting: Apparition_B5

Quoting: pbWhat makes me wonder is:
- the boxed editions will come with a Steam key, so...
- we might see an unprecedented interest in the boxed edition over the digital one, and...
- the game will probably weigh about 100GB, and...
- Valve will need to pay for all that bandwidth without getting anything in return, since the keys can be generated for free.

Actually, I read on multiple sites yesterday that the boxed editions will come with an Epic Games Store key, not Steam.

Well I read that: https://twitter.com/MetroVideoGame/status/1088438412422627328 [External Link] but maybe it's not true any more...

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What makes me wonder is:
- the boxed editions will come with a Steam key, so...
- we might see an unprecedented interest in the boxed edition over the digital one, and...
- the game will probably weigh about 100GB, and...
- Valve will need to pay for all that bandwidth without getting anything in return, since the keys can be generated for free.

And so I wonder if they will actually put up with that just for the promise that the game will come to Steam 12 months from now and Valve will get some percentage of the future sales? This might be the turning point not for the store wars but for the rules of key generation and off-store sales...

BTW the games was pulled not only from Steam but also from all the stores like humble, gmg, razer...

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