Quoting: mrdeathjrIf appear before cited behaviour, kill steamwebhelper process with higher cpu usage (another process dont need kill it) and on /bin/cef/cef.win7/ see if have debug file and follow to delete it and delete chrome_elf and libcef.dll

chrome_elf? Something to do with Shadowrun?

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: EikeI've got a question: I avoided sales lately and bought full price. Is there a chart for Steam developers where they can actually see the money per OS instead of units sold?

I would assume so, I would assume they see every last stat possible and where every dollar comes from. So buying full price is always a good idea.

. . . If you have money, anyway.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: torbido

Quoting: hardpenguinMeanwhile I am here with a couple of niche games using D3D8 that are currently crashing in Wine :S:

You can use Dgvoodoo2 for DX8 games, and Dgvoodoo2 WIP57 for DX9 games. It translate DirectX calls from any version to DX10 or DX11, then DXVK will translate them to Vulkan.

http://www.dege.freeweb.hu/ [External Link]

As far as I know it is not open source, so it doesn't sound like an interesting approach to me!

But you're still interested in playing closed source software (games), right?
Sounds weird to me.

It would be nice if there were a model workable at large scale for production of open source games, as there is for various other forms of software. Due to various things about the nature of computer games, there isn't. And there isn't likely to be unless we somehow end up with some sort of tax-funded pseudo-crowdfunding model for the production of various creative "goods", or something like that. So in shorthand, widespread open source games, not gonna happen. They're too ephemeral, too limited in breadth of use, require too much and too many kinds of non-coding assets.

However, open source is viable for technology platforms on which games run, whether it's OSes, graphics drivers, DXVK-type-things, or even game engines (or portals, like Itch). These things last longer and are used by many games (and often other things that aren't even games) and don't require art assets and music and voice actors and stuff.

So realistically, any Free Software fan, in the context of games, needs to push open source gaming infrastructure first, and the anticapitalist revolution that would allow actual open source games to dominate maybe second. :wink:

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: razing32

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: razing32Kind of sad GOG is taking a hit.
The gaming market is hitting the same issue as online streaming.

Movie streaming replaced TV but then so many streaming services showed up that it became just like TV.
These online games stores are going in the same direction.
We had Steam and GOG. And all games were easy to get on one of two platforms.
Now the stores are multiplying and exclusives are forcing people to choose or end up with a miriad of accounts.

Could be worse if you lived in the UK you have to pay the government to own a tv in your home every year and youtube counts as tv it didnt originally but it does now because it can be watched live. But yeah it is true the exclusive shows is the only way to get you stay and in some cases you end up paying nearly as much as cable/sky to make sure you dont miss anything.

LOL
we have a public broadcaster tax.
It's assumed if you have electricity you can watch public tv or listen to public radio. so 55 euros tax a year.

Ours is 150 pounds a year and failure to pay involves a prison scentence its ridicilous hardly anybody watches the BBC channels which is what its supposed to fund.

Well, this Canadian is grateful for your sacrifice. Love me some British murder mysteries, costume dramas etc.

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Quoting: PangaeaGOG is the only place I buy games these days (if quite sporadic), so it would be a big disappointment if they go under. The bar has been lowered since 5 or so years ago, but they're still the best in the business for gamers who value their privacy and independence.

What about Itch?

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Quoting: Linuxwarper

Quoting: TuxgamerDevelopers need to stop using DX all together and use Vulken.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/cyberpunk_2077_no_gameworks_vulkandx12 [External Link]

I think we need to make it clear to CDPR how important Vulkan is for us.

I don't think we need to make anything clear to CDPR; they won't listen anyway. I'd still rather have GOG than Epic. But let's face it: GOG and CDPR have no particular fondness for Linux. They will do more things for Linux when they feel there are enough people gaming on Linux that they will be leaving significant money on the table by failing to do so. Until then, it doesn't matter what we make clear to them.
And, we aren't there yet.

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Ever get the feeling the possible stories to tell have gotten a little . . . mined out?
Not that I'm objecting to this. That's one passionate fridge! Did you notice how he teased her before he put the meat in?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: TheRiddickRelease GOG Galaxy for Linux, allow people to plugin proton to it.

GOG games are quite easy to use with Wine. Instead of clients and etc. GOG could just bundle more games like they did with Flatout 2.

I was actually thinking, I suppose in the absence of Galaxy one sensible thing to do would be use Lutris, not just for Wine but for all games bought from GOG. Wouldn't get you all of what Galaxy does, but it would maybe help?

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Quoting: Klaas

The official version of Descent 1/2 is Dosbox based. The native versions are unofficial.

But Dosbox runs on Linux. I think I have, uh, three games from GOG. Two of them are Master of Orion I & II, both of which were offered by GOG as Linux games, both of which run in Dosbox. And that's just fine.
Wasn't part of the point being made precisely that GOG could easily package for Linux many games that run in Dosbox, but has not done so?

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: GuestCan somebody explain me why so many are like no Galaxy = No GOG Buys? Like do you all REALLY need a client for your games? Just go for the normal installer or when it's a Windows game just use innoextract. I for myself couldn't care less for Galaxy. I don't even use it on Windows sooo....

- Automatic updates. Or do you like going to every page of a game you own on GOG regularly to see if the shown version is bigger or the same as you have installed?
- Multiplayer. Chat. Use of libraries for that. Some Linux games are not on gog due to the lack of these libraries.
- Centralized solution for your purchases there, e.g. if you need disk space and aren't going to play a game from some time you can just uninstall it, knowing full well that you could reinstall it anytime you want with minimal fuss. That's something you can easily replicate if you like messing around with files and directories, though.

That's all nice and all but I for myself don't care that much about Updates. When it runs and I can finish the Game why bother? At least that's how I feel about that. And for Multiplayer and such I myself don't care. I was and will be a Singleplayer Guy. And for the rest like Automatic here and there I call lazyness. Before Steam there was no such thing either and everyone was okay with it.

You didn't ask why you should care about Galaxy, you asked why "so many" care. Patola's list seems like a solid answer. Doesn't mean you have to start caring for your particular use-case.

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