Quoting: gardotd426You can't use the non-Steam desktop Origin *or* EA App to run games you own on Steam. So please don't waste your time trying to install non-Steam desktop apps for EA games.

I can, and do. Origin knows I own them on Steam, as my Origin account is linked and it lets me download them.

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The worst of it is, with Steam, you have no choice when they push updates. I've rebought a lot of games on GoG because of that. Not an option with EA though, and my Mass Effect games are pretty important to me.

Last night, Steam downloaded a bunch of small updates for Mass Effect Legendary Edition, Mass Effect Andromeda and Deadspace 3 but so far none of the Origin clients had changed. Then another round of small updates, and now the EA app launched first (colourful splash dialog with a progress bar), updated itself and it hands over control to the Origin Thin Client like normal. (That's actually the reason I bought Origin games on Steam, because it's more seamless with the thin client). My guess is that the behaviour of the EA app doesn't satisfy the non-interactive requirements that the thin client does, so Steam must be using some sort of fall back. I use older Proton-GE's for those games (and even older for Deadspace 3 due to keyboard focus problems) and it seems at this time, everything still works. I'm not seeing that coloured EA App splash anymore on subsequent runs (only the Origin "connecting" splash) but that could just be because there's no EA app update and the gaudy dialog happens too fast when everything is in the pagecache.

I still have a grace period where I can just keep using my Lutris Origin client too, and I can install those games there if Steam breaks them. This is the warning I get:

"Later this year, the EA app for Windows will replace Origin as the destination for purchasing, downloading and playing EA games"

However, I don't think EA is going to be able to ditch the Origin client that soon. They said the same thing many times about their legacy Origin client :-)

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I resented Steam very much in the early days. I didn't get Half Life 2 because of it, but eventually I was forced to use Steam because I wanted to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with my friends. That was the first COD title that required Steam, I was livid (and also at the loss of our own dedicated servers and community made maps and mods etc.) In for a penny, in for a pound... I ended up buying more games on Steam and I realized it was a good service. Reliable downloads of your digital property and good user services (most of which I don't use, but I appreciate what they provide, including the way the Store works)

Currently I'm playing games on Steam that are easy to play with a controller (shoulder tendons... trying to keep my arm down). I'm on my second playthrough of Kona, which has me damned glad it's not winter yet lol. I've been playing Just Cause 4 a bit, Saints Row The Third, and my Mass Effect games.

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Quoting: mr-victoryFor DX 9/10/11 apparently not, because this release is not using DXVK git master (based on v1.10.1) but v1.10.3. This also means I still need Proton Experimental for graphics pipeline library.

Ahh if you take a look at dxvk master, he's not incremented the version. To get it to say "1.10.3" you'd have to check out a tag (and then you'd have an older commit)

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk [External Link]

"RELEASE [meta] Release 1.10.1 7 months ago" <--- master branch

I don't like that one bit, it seems unprofessional, but it doesn't matter. If you build master, it will be versioned as 1.10.1

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Quoting: morbius... and if you missed something, you couldn't progress until you find it.

Tell me about it, I got that game last night. Near the beginning, my pickup truck got stuck after a car veered into me and I had to find chains to get it unstuck, and warm up at a fire etc. The driver of the car fled on foot, and the game told me to search the car, but I didn't realize the trunk was interactive too. The health pack I needed to proceed was in the trunk of that car. I had to google it because I was stuck.

P.S. The Linux port of Kona did not work for me (unlike the Kona II Brume Linux demo which worked very nicely). Input device problems and display corruption. I had to convert Kona to Proton.

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"LeBrun 60" with a label very much like Labatts 50, in stubby bottles back then. Nice prop. It was much easier to carry a case of 24 in the old days, as you could kind of hook it on your hip while holding it vertically oriented with your arm around it, and hand on the cut out handle. It was a highly practiced technique, back then :-)

Graphics are a bit blurry (especially at some angles).

UI needs a bit of work too, the only thing the settings sliders respond to are the A and D keys. Mouse doesn't move them.

Other than that, it seems to play alright (I'm using the Linux demo). I haven't finished it, but I'll probably buy this when it comes out.

P.S. I have finished it. I was sorry it ended, I was enjoying it.

This demo is definitely worth a play, even if just to torment yourself with winter misery lol

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The screenshots look great, and it sounds like something I'd enjoy. Sometimes a relaxing exploration game is what I need.

I'll be watching for this one (I probably won't try the demo, those often end up turning me off more than on)

I'm looking at the first game, I may get that. I wasn't aware of this franchise.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaI dislike NVIDIA, and will never buy any of their GPUs.

Me too, not only did I hate the hassles (I always build latest kernels from kernel.org) and getting in over my head and having to go try to find third party patches, but every single Nvidia card I've ever bought died sooner than it should have. (even before the following I had an expensive GEForce 6600 GT die just out of warranty)

I remember thinking Charlie Demerjian (writing for The Inquirer at the time) was full of crap, until I started to see the trend for myself both on customer systems and personally. I believed Nvidia over anything that came out of the rectum of The Inquirer (sorry Charlie). It took longer on discrete GPUs with cooling fans etc. but the chipsets were all affected. To make a long story short, the GPUs were experiencing cracks between the connector "bumps" on the chips and the underlying substrate.

I had an expensive dual GPU Nvidia card that was nothing but trouble in games, and it died in less than a year (and BFG went out of business so I burned for it). So I put in another good Nvidia card that spent most of its life in the closet (I was unsatisfied and bought a new one a few months later). I decided it was time for a new build, so I sold it in that PC in good faith, and didn't it fail in about 3 months. The guy wasn't even a gamer. I was pissed off, but I bought him an entry level video card (Radeon 5450 or something like that... $60) out of my pocket and installed it for free. He didn't know the difference with his usage.

That soured me on Nvidia forever. I don't buy anything that has any of their hardware in it, for anyone.

I'm uglier than Linus, so I won't send you a pic of me flipping them the bird :-)

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Quoting: GuestSecond and this isn't really specific to this game. Every time I see something has a Native Linux build/client anymore I just think "for now." There have been so many games that promised or had that and yanked it. The yank the table cloth off the set table analogy just lingers over every game like a nasty fart.

Every time I see something recent that has a native Linux build, I go and look it up and sure enough, it's Unity. It probably won't be canceled, I think Unity makes it pretty easy to support both. That's one good thing about it (not the most "optimal" game engine).

I've only recently started buying Unity games with confidence again, after years of lockups (the hard boot kind... could ssh in and kill processes, but neither recover nor reboot). I recently bought The Signal From Tolva again, after refunding it 4 years ago.

I'd get this one, but I don't have a good track record with the "Survival" genre, I don't have the patience to craft and collect things to survive and progress. Games like "Subnautica" and "No Man's Sky" (I liked the original game better than what it's become) I have played in "Creative" mode, but I still don't enjoy going through the motions, I just like the exploration part of such games.

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Quoting: F.UltraJIT is in the producer line and not in the shop so to speak, unless you have some specific local brands of course (or if we speak about a farmers market).

Production is different here too. Here, if a farmer produces something they take it to a marketing board receiving center. Produce as much as you can, and there's a guaranteed sale of it. Livestock, foul, eggs, milk etc. There are also farmer's market type places as anywhere, but the supply chain side may be different too. We've got big grocery chain conglomerates that source things from wherever they can and they go to distribution centers to be distributed to stores. There are mom and pop places, but big grocery stores are all affiliated with some supply chain conglomerate even if they aren't under their name. Then there are Walmart stores in most localities and most are superstores with grocery.

We didn't really have much in the way of shortages. There are umpteen different brands of arsewipe for that example, so if one brand is scarce there are others. Shortages of manufactured commodities may have been more of a problem in the cities though.

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