I can see the possibility of an unintended consequence of this situation with memory and storage. I could see this impacting the sales of new AAA games hard, since the business model of AAA game development has always included pushing up the hardware requirements with each new release. Very few PC owners are going to be upgrading while the prices are high, so odds are they won't be buying these new AAA games either. The AAA developers are not likely to change their development targets, so I foresee sales plummeting and possibly a few big development houses going under.

Of course, if I'm wrong about their flexibility, the upside is that we might see more efficient coding, less bloat and lower system requirements. That would be a very positive outcome of this situation!

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Quoting: princecThe latest drivers from Nvidia completely ruined my XFCE experience unfortunately, entirely breaking the compositor, which had to be turned off. Attempting to drop back down to the (known working) 570 drivers left me in "broken computer hell", booting to a black screen, which took a couple of days to fix. Grr. I am loathe to try the new 580 drivers as it's probably still the case that XFCE is broken.

I will probably have to accept that Mint really wants me to use Cinnamon instead, which I suppose is no great hardship.

I am running Linux Mint 22 XFCE with the 580 series driver. I haven't experienced the problems you've described. I'm on an older GPU, however. I also run at a resolution of no more than 1920x1080 (usually 1440x810 in game). Perhaps that accounts for the difference.

Maybe try @clatterfordslim's suggestion? Might work with the 580 series driver as well.

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

Wasn't that the whole point of the dystopian futures depicted in the cyberpunk genre in novels? The huge megacorporations dominating society. I'm thinking of William Gibson (whom I've sadly never read), Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc. And then there are all the films too. A lot of these authors had the imagination to foresee what seems to be coming about now.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely: to"Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the use of propaganda and police state tactics, heavy censorship of information or denial of free thought, worship of an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity."

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Quoting: Nostalgia_RealmCould anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

Let's see: on version 0.5.18, I had to basically employ a workaround to install a game using UMU.

1) Under Add Games to Lutris, I would select Add locally installed game;

2) manually enter the game's name and select the WINE runner in the Game Info tab;

3) enter/select the location of the WINE prefix in the Game Options tab;

4) then make sure to select a WINE version that was either Proton or Proton-GE in the Runner Options tab;

5) I would save the configuration then run the installer using the menu option to Run EXE inside Wine prefix;

6) This would start up UMU, which would configure the prefix and install the game;

7) I may have had to enter the game's launch executable after the install was completed. I don't recall.

As far as I recall, UMU would not initiate if you assigned a Proton runner as the default runner in version 0.5.18.

In Heroic Games Launcher, you enter the game's name, confirm the prefix location and provide the installer. UMU is run automatically and everything is configured for you. As a result, I stopped using Lutris to install Windows games.

With Proton-GE being launched via UMU as the default, this should simplify the process and, at least, put Lutris back on par with Heroic again.

Whether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

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Quoting: JesTech

Quoting: VerglasSo is that the reason they completely pulled the other BSG game from Steam a few months ago?

Either way, as a huge BSG nerd I will definitely check this one out. So say we all.

Pretty sure the other one had a 10 year license expire and that's what got it pulled from the store. I may have the amount of years wrong, but it didn't seem to be anything due to any kind of upcoming game.

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock 😊

Figured it might have been something like that...

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indie team Siege Wizard Interactive

Not my kind of game but I like the dev's cool choice for their name.

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Liam Daweit's open again

Huh, I had no idea.

Nor did I... I was like, wait, what?

I wonder if all the old content is back, too? I have some old support questions that the GOL Community kindly answered in the past, and whenever I need them, I need to pull them out of the Wayback Machine.

Jan06/26 - Welcome back to the GamingOnLinux Forum

Answers all your questions...

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Quoting: Jarmer^ agree. Absolutely loved them as a studio. Was a sad day when the closure announcement came along 😫

😲

This is the first I've heard of the closure. Apparently it happened quietly in June 2024. However, according to Wikipedia, two indie developers have spun out of the closure, founded by former employees of Piranha Bytes.

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Piranha Bytes games are in a league of their own. IMO, you have to play them with their unique UI and controls or you're not experiencing the games fully.

I started out playing open world RPGs with Morrowind. I toyed a little with Gothic 2 when it first released but found the UI and controls just too perplexing. What can I say? I was used to the Morrowind approach, even if the third-person view was clunky at best.

I finally played through Gothic 1 a few years ago. It was an amazing experience and I didn't find the UI or controls to be all that difficult to adapt to after all.

The experience also helped me to realize that when it came to RPG feature development, including animations and such, Piranha Bytes was way ahead of the game compared to Bethesda. In fact, from what I can see, Bethesda stole most of those ideas from the Piranha Bytes games.

Oblivion's Radiant AI (daily NPC schedules)? Gothic 1 was doing that before Morrowind. Same with better combat animations. Gothic also had better animations for jumping, climbing and just walking up stairs.

Yes, the controls are a bit clunky but that is part of the experience of the game. IMO, Germans liked their RPGs on the challenging side and the nature of the controls adds to the challenge.

The remake is unlikely to run on my hardware. I watched the demo playthrough. It felt more like an interactive movie and less like the classic video game it is based on.

Liam, don't lose the premium experience you will get from playing the original. It won't work on a handheld PC though. You need a physical keyboard.

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Quoting: GustyGhostHonestly, they should just mainline LMDE and drop the Ubuntu derived version. Mint team spend way too much time correcting for Ubuntu's interesting choices.

Just to be the contrary one here, personally I am quite happy with the Ubuntu base. I get access to LaunchPad PPAs and numerous Ubuntu repositories. Mint smoothes out everything I dislike about Ubuntu and just makes it better.

LMDE is okay (I look at it from time to time) but I'd have to learn how to navigate in a whole new ecosystem and I'd lose the advantages I feel I get from the Ubuntu ecosystem. For now, Ubuntu is still the commercial baseline for most developers (although, SteamOS and Bazzite seem likely to change that in the future).

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