Quoting: fabertaweI've set my scaling to 1.1 (1440p monitor), just enough to make reading "discussions" legible for these old eyes. Desperately needed!

Similar here, i couldn't stand the original new scaling, but I'm all fine with 1.2. :-D

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Quoting: apocalyptechBah.

I know a lot of folks really like the new update, but for me it was the final straw which made me abandon the beta branch and try to avoid it for awhile. I know they've said they put a lot of work into making it fast/smooth/whatever, but it just *feels* dog-slow to me. Visible little flickers when a menu activates. Little rendering delays when a window closes so there's a black area visible on the main window until the client catches up. It's just so infuriating.

This!

Quoting: apocalyptechI hate how every app nowadays is just some Electron-or-whatever webapp, and optimizing that kind of thing properly is nearly impossible. I really miss native widgets.

This, too!

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDepends what you mean. In the sense that it's a bug rather than a feature, sure. Or, in the sense that it's not "intended", OK.
In the sense that a "feature of X" is something that inevitably goes with it . . . yeah, it's a feature of capitalism.

That's like saying that traffic accidents are a "feature" of automobiles.

They are. Introducing the automobile is introducing the traffic accident.

You apparently define the term "feature" so broadly that literally anything can be considered a feature.

According to my understanding, "feature" can be understood in two ways: as a property/trait of something, or in the dichotomy bug vs. feature, as an intended trait.

In all of our history, car traffic has come with accidents. Of course, this is not intended.

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Quoting: Belaptir

Quoting: elmapul, if your game makes the player confused you probably need to tweak it so the players dont get confused anymore instead of relying on then using an note taking overlay to keep track of their progress

There are some games that have a huge amount of content and it's useful to have some notes, for example for what do you want to do first. I do that a lot in games like FFXIV, where I want to keep a track of what I'm missing here and there. Other times, I might just want to remember to come back some place later because I don't want to forget something.

The point I'm trying to make is that not because you can take notes to help you with the game it means the game is confusing or badly designed.

Yes! Good luck playing Hadean Lands [External Link] without taking notes. I actually made Excel LibreOffice Calc tables for this one! And I'm sure this is part of the artistic vision of the developer.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: EikeHere's [External Link] a tip for scaling:

steam -forcedesktopscaling 2

Sorry, I have to take it "working flawlessly" back. The Steam Overlay is HUGE when in-game. More like 4x, rather than 2x. I also can't drag windows around by clicking the top part of the window and trying to move it OR with SUPER+Left-Click, so I can't see the entire window.

Sounds like two options kicking in the in-game overlay? Maybe you can remove the old one?

I tried toggling off "Scale text and icons to match monitor settings (requires restart)", but this didn't make a difference. I have no clue what might be affecting it. I've dug through all the likely settings, and all I can tell you is I have hardware acceleration/decoding/smooth scrolling on. Also, I have display scaling set to 200% on GNOME, but font scaling is 100%. There's nothing untoward in the .desktop file, and I can drag windows in normal Steam, just not the overlay. It's a mystery to me.

I'm totally speculating here, but maybe GNOME scaling works in overlay - and forcedesktopscaling too, so they get multiplied. You could give it a test by disabling GNOME scaling for a moment (if you still find your buttons then, that is ;) ).

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: EikeHere's [External Link] a tip for scaling:

steam -forcedesktopscaling 2

Sorry, I have to take it "working flawlessly" back. The Steam Overlay is HUGE when in-game. More like 4x, rather than 2x. I also can't drag windows around by clicking the top part of the window and trying to move it OR with SUPER+Left-Click, so I can't see the entire window.

Sounds like two options kicking in the in-game overlay? Maybe you can remove the old one?

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualThe hardware acceleration is nice and all, but the client is now tiny on my 4K screen (GNOME), and it takes 5 minutes for the "Processing Vulkan Shaders" prompt to appear when launching Halo: MCC, and even after explicitly skipping it, it says "Processing Vulkan Shaders (0%)" next to the Cancel button 5 minutes later. I assume it launches...at some point? I didn't bother waiting around after the first 10 minutes.

Here's [External Link] a tip for scaling:

steam -forcedesktopscaling 2

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Quoting: IvancilloI’m not rich, and had to save many months until I could purchase it second hand.
When you have a hobby or a passion is usual you invest more money than you should.

In many gaming sites one could see in the user profiles descriptions of gaming rigs worth various thousand of euros.

Sorry if I don’t feel guilty for sharing a pic of my camera.

I don't think any of the reactions was meant to make you feel bad.

Do have fun with your hobby!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIf other people start restaurants and use debt to help finance their operations, and then I take out debt to buy some of those restaurants (along with the debt the restaurants already had), that means I'm stacking new debt on top of the old debt, but not adding any new productive activity.

I think there's a third variant: Companies aiming for world domination, that are not even trying to make profits. Uber is (was?) expanding and expanding while making billions of loss. The restaurant boss in contrast wants to make profit from the beginning, it's just not something that happens from day one. And they probably wouldn't open another restaurant before the first one works well.

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Quoting: dpanter'Huge hit' is a substantial understatement, more than 50% of their market value was destroyed in one fell swoop. Consequences arrive quickly when you're hurting.

I understand "partnership that has been negotiated for seven months will not materialize" as there hasn't been (much) actual money lost?

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