Oh for the good old days of community-ran servers with local admins and kick-votes.
Sure, there were still dodgy players and servers out there, but you'd just flag them as such in your server browser software (<3 All-Seeing Eye.)
Over time, you'd build up a list of trusted community servers with great and reactive local admins.

This is what we've sacrificed by allowing publishers to take the server executables out of our hands, all for "convenience", "persistence", "leaderboards" and "achievements."

I'll stop yelling at clouds now.

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Somewhat ominously, RPS hasn't seen an update for 23 hours now, in the middle of a working week. Not boding well.

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@lejimster, just to report back.
That command line option did allow the game to see all of my GPU's RAM.
While that allowed me to stick everything up to Ultra, interestingly, performance was pretty much the same (regular frame dips).
I was watching the Digital Foundry breakdown of the game last night, and it appears that despite what the menu options tell you, the whole game is heavily CPU limited even on Windows, and that there's still texture streaming going on after you've loaded the game.

Looks like they've got their work cut out for them if they want to fix the game.

PS: Switching to Proton Hotfix didn't remove the audio crackle.
I could look into latency settings, although I'm using Pipewire instead of Pulse, because that got rid of the audio crackles I was having in Guild Wars 2 and has been rock-solid for all other titles.

But to be honest, playing it alongside the RE4 remake has just reminded me what I thought of the game when I initially played it on PS3.
While it may have world-class acting and story-telling for a game, the moment-to-moment gameplay is pretty average.

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Thanks lejimster, I'll check those things next time I fire it up.

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Ye olde trusty Streets of Rogue.
I 100%ed the achievements AGES ago, but I've set myself the challenge of going through all of the classes completing their Big Quests, with no mutators to make life easier.
I've been stuck trying to complete a Blahd gangster run for yonks now, but I never tire of the game. The emergent situations still make me giggle, and just this week, despite hundreds of hours of play, I still discovered something new, in that EMP grenades can remove slave helmets.

I was also playing Patch Quest, which is a fantastic little rogue-lite. Don't be put off by the kid-friendly presentation; this is a highly-polished, deceptively deep game.
But even that couldn't keep me away from Streets of Rogue for long.

Not even Sifu can do that, which actually plays really well on the Deck now it's available through Steam.
Of course, I've lost all my skills since last playing it on Epic, but it's still a fantastic game.

Needless to say, I am really looking forward to Streets of Rogue 2.

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I got it with my RX 7900XTX, and, um, yeah.
While reasonably playable (pop!_OS 22.04 LTS, i7 8700K, 32GB RAM), there's some odd stuff going on.
For one, the game only sees 8GB of the card's 24GB.
There's intermittent audio crackle and as reported by many other users, initial shader compilation after launching the game takes ages. Probably 30 mins on my system.

I also had to knock it down from ultra at 2560x1440 to high, as there were regular, drastic frame dips.
There's blurry textures all over the place that take ages to pop in to high res, making the game look like some of those 15-year old Unreal Engine games.

I mean, I know my CPU and motherboard are a little long in the tooth now, and probably bottle-necking the card, but I still expected a little better than this.

On the bright side, no crashes so far.

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