Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: PatolaI love X: Rebirth but X4 is better in so many ways that I can't realistically get back to it today.

It is at least better at testing my rig. I optimistically thought I was fine to put everything up tot maximum. Wow, did that hurt in the starting station. :D

Other than that I'll have to start figuring it out. It doesn't really help you to even get started. One thing it does really well is to immediately make you feel tiny.

Not as well as the Total Perspective Vortex, I hope.

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It's funny . . . I don't actually have all that many games all told, but I have a bunch of those. I'd have said it's because I'm a Paradox fan, except half of them I bought when they were unrelated to Paradox. Paradox is systematically buying up games I like?!

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I know there are knowledgeable people here. What the heck is "Vulkan pipeline dumping"? It sounds like either a good thing or something oil companies do when something has gone very wrong.

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Quoting: riusmaThe french independent magazine Canard PC gives the game a good review (7/10) in its last issue (n° 393 that will be fully available next month)! :)

I've heard of "le canard enchaine"; how many French periodicals named after ducks are there?

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Guess I'm going to have to get Backbone when it comes out. Looks interesting, but above all, as a Vancouverite gotta explore dystopian Vancouver!

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So in this case you might call it Late Access.

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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: 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: 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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