Did you ever write about Steam Input? I came across this video [External Link] lately, by pure chance, and was very surprised what it can do.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: dos

Quoting: dziadulewiczHow can this be? Why is it this way all the way nowadays? The game runs better on the get go via assets and tech made for Windows rather than what is meant for Linux?

Incompetence. For me personally, making a game that runs well on Windows via WSLg would be easier than providing a native Windows build too. I learned how to deal with Windows anyway, while they obviously don't care enough.

what a load of bs.

I think you totally misunderstood dos' message. They wanted to say that personally, as a developer, they would find something else easier, but that they still could cope with the stuff not so easy to them. It's an example - not a recommendation to games developers to use WSL or the like.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606

Quoting: EikeI get tips for my favorite genre (point and click) from a Facebook group. Or looking at known publishers/developers.

That seems to be the only way for me also. Sign up for newsletter but if the company is massive then you get junk instead of what you want.

Retail gaming has been horrendous for me in the last 10 years in trying to just buy exactly what I want.

I think what really got better (though I seldomly actually make use of it) is that you can take a look on YouTube how the game really looks and "feels". No more pig in a poke.

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Quoting: Arcadius-8606This is nice but as a older person trying to game I feel really pushed out. I'm trying to find just fighting games and no matter the storefront I get everything in the sink that even has a fist or kick in the game.

I end just tapping out and not playing at thing at all or playing stuff I already own.

I get tips for my favorite genre (point and click) from a Facebook group. Or looking at known publishers/developers.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: randomgamerguy1997Time and time again people in the community say "ThAt A LiNuX BuIlD Is A ClIcK Of A BuTtON" but it's always proven to not be that simple time and time again.

When have the community ever said that? I know that a lot of Windows developers using Unity tends to have that idea when they launch their Kickstarter, but the Linux community(?)

I read that all the time in the Steam forums, back in the "No Tux, no bucks!" times. "Just press that fu**ing button!!!1!one!"

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Quoting: PixelDrop

Quoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.

I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.

Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.

I just wanted to write that! :) Modern TVs (should) have some "just display what I give you, freak!"-mode (they might have given it a slightly different name, though), which is not used by default - except if the TV is sure it's connected to a computer. So, VGA. You should be able to find it somewhere in the menus to enable it manually for other selected inputs.

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Quoting: parkerlreedJust tested and a simple
 
touch LauncherPatcher.exe
in the launcher folder along with the launch arguments from the main post is enough to get it working.

:grin:

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Quoting: PixelDropI and the people I know still have a lot of VGA monitors and TVs. I don't like polluting the world unnecessarily either, so until things stop working to the point I can't fix them or I actually have a truly good reason to move on I'll keep using them too.

That's a good thing of course.

Quoting: PixelDropThough VGA isn't even dead. A lot of even newer 1080p TVs and screens still have theme. Which there's quite a lot of people who don't like above 60hz or care about over 1080p, and generally most things that are 1080p and 60hz come with VGA ports.

My trouble with VGA is neither resolution nor frequency, but that it's analogue. I left analogue graphics transmission and display for computer signals 20 years ago for good.

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Quoting: EgonautA crowdfunded game doesn't get a promised Linux port? Wow, that's new! /s

I only backed games where either the devs had made a native Linux game before or had a running native Linux demo for the game to back. Until now, all delivered (although Kotar very late). It weren't very many games though.

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Quoting: RevenantDakI already deleted the game before reading this. Im not sure it's even worth the hassle to try playing it now, since I have a huge backlog. BS Infinite was towards the top of the list, was... but now it'll probably never be played. I wish I could get a refund.

I still absolutely recommend to play Bioshock Infinite.

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