Quoting: 1xokI still use MultiMC. I think Prism is derived from it. What makes it better?

I haven't dealt with it much. In fact, most of the time I just use the Minecraft default launcher from Mojang. But in MultiMC the management of mods is easier.

The developer of MultiMC has a…colourful history on open source and their thoughts on it. Repeatedly shutting down talk on packaging, and just generally being quite an arse.

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Yes Steam pulled it, noted right at the top of the article.

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Quoting: play0adWe totally agree that the person had the right to upload it to steam due to the license. The concern here is Wildfire Games' identity theft, the lack of certainty about the source code (Verified, not verified), the mistakes in the title, and especially the potential load on our servers if the person didn't change the multiplayer lobby, and bonus, the positive or negative reputation of the game's presence on Steam in an alpha version for Wildfire Games and 0 A.D. Empires Ascendant since the person is pretending to be us. As an additional cost, moderation might have been problematic.

Regarding the legal part, there is no CLA on 0 A.D., so if it had to be re-licensed to link to the Steam SDK, I have potentially 500 contributors who disagree with taking this into account. Some of them are part of a fork, and some of them are dead.

You have to be the copyright owner to post on Steam, but I'm not sure.
In fact, if the person had contacted us beforehand, we could have considered something, but the fact they totally ignored us and or our messages made it a matter of urgency.

We're actually really interested in what it would take to go on Steam properly, and whether we can at all so please get in touch if you know what's required.

We'd like to thank all the people that reported the game on Steam, and we're sorry it had to go to such extents.

Thanks for coming here to give your thoughts directly. A quick idea: could you not set up a page and company on Steam, and leave it as Coming Soon? Plenty of other developers have done that. Gives you a way to ensure you're ready for an eventual release and protect the game too.

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Valve has now taken it down.

Quoting: slembckeWorth pointing out that their licensing basically allowed this: https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/LICENSE.txt [External Link]
The source is GPL which specifically allows commercial redistribution, and the art is CC-by-sa3 which also specifically allows commercial redistribution. I can understand how the dev maybe missed that the GPL allows it since it's a wall of text, but the CC license is like 2 lines of text and half of it is devoted to saying this was fine. :-\ They could have just used a different CC variation that didn't allow redistribution.

I've been asked many times if I'm worried that someone could do this to my open source stuff, and I always tell them no. Like I didn't pick the licenses I do because it allows this, but I also... don't really care. Like sure, you can totally get a sucker to pay for something that's free, but reselling pirated stuff totally happens too. (shrug)

Open source users often have a certain attitude about how great it is that people make free stuff that they just give away from the warmth of their heart. Sometimes that's true, but it's usually much more nuanced than that. Sometimes you've got people that just want to give back and share what they learned, and sometimes you've got folks that openness as a moral imperative separate from the monetary aspects. Sometimes devs get caught up in the feelings too and forget what the legalese actually says. :(

edit: My point being: Open source is great, but make sure you know what you are getting yourself into!

Code and art are different to using the name of the game and the name of the developer.

Plus the licensing issue already pointed out, which they clearly did not have approval from the team on.

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Quoting: Liam DaweNo, it's unhiding it and allowing the special NVIDIA API to work. It's only for this game, you're not setting a launch option for the whole of Steam, that's not how launch options work.

Um, PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 == PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=false, so by default it is PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=true, that's why we need to specify to not hide it in the first place. I know how Steam game launch options work, lol. I was wondering if Nvidia gpu is hidden for this specific game or is it default behavior, and turns out it is default behavior.
Anyway, CatKiller answered my question.

Looks like I just misread what you said 🤷‍♂️. Point is the same, this unhides NVIDIA API and allows it to run.

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Quoting: kuhpunktLiam, did you get any errors like they are showing on RPS?

https://youtu.be/6yhyC8kcCh0?t=223 [External Link]

I didn't spot any myself, it could be a mixture of things between the settings they used and frame-rate locking which I didn't use either. If they didn't restart the game after changing some big settings, that could easily fuck up some physics. So many variables when it comes to PC gaming :)

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Quoting: DefaultX-od

PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0

So now by default Nvidia gpu is hidden? Is that correct? Or is this specific to this game only?

No, it's unhiding it and allowing the special NVIDIA API to work. It's only for this game, you're not setting a launch option for the whole of Steam, that's not how launch options work.

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Quoting: nobody_importantas EmuDeck does and doesn't even include an uninstaller

It does include an uninstall option right in the app. 2:43 in the video when in the tools menu you can see it.

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My original comment was not as diplomatic as it could have been, edited to be clear why the comments are closed.

First of all, please stop focusing on the CoC removal, that's not the actual issue - the attitude of the developer is and how they've acted is not something anyone should be comfortable with.

Time and time again, we've seen articles that in any way mention LGBT+ bring a lot of toxic attitudes and people that only want to cause trouble. Comments closed.

Also, a CoC is just a basic set of rules, everywhere has them. Plus, if you argue against a CoC, I think that speaks volumes about you and I really don't think GOL is the place for you.

I have also now clarified in the text that malware at the time was not an issue.

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Quoting: buckysrevengeJust to clarify, the Steam Deck uses the Windows version by default [External Link], but there is a Linux version. I also noticed that the Linux version uses OpenGL, which causes some texture issues for me on my other systems, forcing the game to use Vulkan fixes that.

An update went out today that mentions z-fighting issues are fixed. Looks fine on my desktop with the Native build.

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