Quoting: fagnerlnDiRT4 is SO GOOD... I'm really enjoying it, even on "simulator mode" isn't frustrating as Rally. I loved Dirt 2, but didn't like dirt 3. Dirt 4 is a proper sequel to 2.

I know right, I really don't get the problem people have with DiRT 4, thought it was great fun.

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Quoting: Pinguino

After multiple streaming services announced they were dropping their quality for a while, to help internet providers cope with so many more at home

What's the source on that?

I'm really surprised anyone hasn't heard about it. Practically all video streaming: disney, amazon, netflix and so on are reducing stream quality on Europe for a while. It's reported on basically any news site.

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Quoting: GuestArgh, went to try it but the lib requirements are a bit messed up. I suppose it really is intended for Ubuntu.

Used GameMaker by the looks of things. I've no experience with that, but I wonder if that's where the build particulars are coming from.

Seems to load fine here on Manjaro.

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Links updated to the correct places, also added full changelog in the spoiler.

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Quoting: ShmerlI wonder more not about the small overall number of stats survey entries, but about that it's gradually dropping. That doesn't correspond to the trend of overall number of visitors increasing. So something must be going on.

I've been over this before, most people who fill it out do so once and then don't ever update it so each month a bunch of people are removed even if some are added. Looking at it right now, while the cut-off is two years, just as an example there's 745 people who haven't even updated theirs in a single year. Plus 1,761 people filled out their details but choose not to be in the survey (for extra privacy it's opt-in whereas originally it was not).

There's nothing special going on.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PikoloIt's a bit sad only 2k people have filled out the statistics. I was expecting GoL readership to be much bigger!

Our readership is huge (we get half a mil traffic monthly), but like all news sites you cut that down dramatically for actually registered users and then down again for people that interact with something like this.

Am I right in guessing that the number of people filling out the survey dropped when you changed it to logged-in users only?

This survey has always been registered users only. The one before that, was a long time ago and was community-run. Even back then, it was often lower than what we have now so we're actually doing quite well on this system.

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Quoting: michaWhat I'm I missing here? I understand that the next version won't be based on a specific Debian version (Brewmaster) but I don't see statement saying it certainly won't be Debian based.

That said I remember Valve at some point was evaluating other distributions like Arch. Again, I did't see any definite statement yet.. :huh:

Did I overlook one?

It's all in the wording, how it was very specifically mentioned as "Debian-based Brewmaster".

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Quoting: Artur_Wroblewski...

We've not covered it, because that's quite a lot of hassle for users. We're mainly about keeping it simple here, and letting people know when the situation is good. Manually installing vulkan beta drivers is a pita, and can often break systems when not done correctly (there's a reason we all usually depend on distro packages for drivers), that step is especially troublesome that I don't feel GOL should highlight people to do right now.

We do have a dedicated forum for Steam Play/Wine people can post such guides in any time.

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Quoting: PikoloIt's a bit sad only 2k people have filled out the statistics. I was expecting GoL readership to be much bigger!

Our readership is huge (we get half a mil traffic monthly), but like all news sites you cut that down dramatically for actually registered users and then down again for people that interact with something like this.

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Quoting: LeopardBut i doubt implementing OGL over D3D is a good thing at all. Because what MS tries to achieve with it is forcing hw vendors to put all weight on D3D12 drivers but nothing else. So in the end ; OGL apps that relies on it can work but in a very poor state. So that might be another " See , other api's suck. While DX12 Ultimate shines all above them." because they're used to do such marketing.

They did on Vista days anyway which kinda sped up death of OGL usage on modern apps.

I get what you're saying, however, with it relying on Mesa unless Microsoft go entirely out of their way to break it by drastically changing DX12 (which they can't, as it would break anything shipping DX12) - it will keep on working. That's the point of this. It uses open source, which can continue to improve and Windows gets decent OpenGL support which does help cross-compatibility.

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