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Speculation: porting studio Feral Interactive could be in some trouble (updated: they're fine)
26 February 2020 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 3

:O

Quoting: PatolaI do really really hope we don't lose Feral. Maybe buying more stuff from them would help, even though we're a tiny demographic.

Just bought the new Tomb Raider and LiS 2 full price from their store. :)

Feral leaving would be the day I'm installing Windows 10. Because there's no better suited system to start Exe files.

Valve make some needed improvements to the Steam Search
26 February 2020 at 10:57 am UTC

Search is (for ages) broken for me in the Steam app on mobile. When i e.g. enter "hidden", it shows three games with the word in the title as popup. But when I do not choose one of those but press "search" instead, it shows the search filter "hiddden" on top - but the game list does not change, the first one still is CS:GO for example.

Steam Play Proton is correctly tracking Linux sales, a statement from Valve
26 February 2020 at 9:07 am UTC

Quoting: dpanterIt really does seem like we have to play every purchase immediately to be "sure"... :|

That's what I do: Buy, install, start... stash away. :D

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
26 February 2020 at 8:03 am UTC

Quoting: furaxhornyxThis monitor is also 144/180Hz with Gsync, not sure if such information are of interest to be added to the survey though.

I'd also be interested in variable refresh rate/Gsync. A propos, I used to like the question of the month feature back then...

Swipe right for Socialism in Democratic Socialism Simulator now available on Linux
24 February 2020 at 10:40 am UTC

Quoting: chrOtherwise our politics would be defined by [...] the most motivated and perhaps mentally healthy people.

Very please.

People who are not motivated to go to the next voting place to vote for their own and their countries future, please stay at home and let the other people do it.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
24 February 2020 at 9:40 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBeen playing Civ VI, finally finished a couple of games. I dunno . . . I like it well enough, but I guess Civ just doesn't fascinate me like it used to?

Had this with Civ 5. I couldn't say anything was wrong with the game, but there was no fascination. Didn't even properly finish a single round. :(

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
23 February 2020 at 7:24 pm UTC

Quoting: RaabenPlayed through to the full ending of Later Alligator. The gameplay loop and puzzles weren't much to write home about but the animation and short story were amusing enough for me.

I didn't know it has a "full" ending. Wonder of that motivates me to play the rest of the stuff...

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
23 February 2020 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

I waited for this article this weekend. :D

I decided to fill my last free weekend for the next... months? with a playthrough of Life Is Strange 2. Tight time schedule, one part Friday evening, two on Saturday, two today. It does work out and yes, the game was absolutely worth my sparse time!

NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan
23 February 2020 at 10:33 am UTC

Quoting: ShmerlIt can't solve it adequately this way. I explained above why. Unless you are proposing to have a whole dedicated device alongside your GPU, cramming more and more compute units into ray tracing ASICs to make it actually useful will cost more and more general GPU performance.

To turn it downside up: Do you know another promising way to go to make graphics rendered in realtime "photorealistic"(*)?

(*) A term abused for decades...

NVIDIA talk up bringing DirectX Ray Tracing to Vulkan
23 February 2020 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EhvisNo, it's a solution the the rendering problems that rasterisers can't solve. It's just the first generation of hardware that attempts to use it in real time graphics. It's as much a gimmick as 3D rendering was with the first 3Dfx card.

I'd say it's as much a gimmick as 3D rendering was before the first 3Dfx card.

Man, Decent on a 3Dfx was so amazing...