The Tower of Time giveaway doesn't seem to work right now. The link just goes back to the main store page.

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Me Me Me!!!!

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Quoting: PatolaDoes it being in maintenance mode means there will be no D3D12 support?

There is a separate project for D3D12 to Vulkan support and, unlike D9VK which was a fork of DXVK anyway, it's a wholly separate codebase.

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Quoting: BielFPs

Quoting: YoRHa-2BAnd Google, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not launch Stadia in any of the regions where the latter would actually matter.

This! Totally this!!

That's my main reason why I think this will be another flop. It's not viable in third world countries (where low spec pcs would been benefit) and only avaliable in first world ones (where people can afford high end hardware, therefore, will have a better experience playing local)

The idea of streaming games it's not bad in concept and I believe it'll probably be the future of all software (for better or worse), but like VR, it's a technology "too soon to succeed"

Isn't this technically a "Soft" or "Beta" launch, hence the subscription requirement for the Founder's Edition? I know the general version of the service doesn't launch till next year, so my guess is that this is to get actual users on the platform to get real-world performance data so they are less likely to run into issues on the true launch day

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My main question is whether this can be enforced for any games on Steam other than Valve's first party games. I mean, the license holder is usually the publisher or developer, so Steam could have serious issues if they are told to allow something that they may not legally have the right to do.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: EikeI came here to say that they won't release the games to Linux, but...

QuoteStadia Base requires you to buy all your games as normal

... this does sound like they might have to.
Do we know if we can buy them from Google (so there's no need for a public release)?

AFAIK you’re just buying streaming licenses from Google. Not actual software as you seem to be inferring.

Unfortunately, the way most software/gaming/media vendors see it today, you only buy licenses to use their product. So, unless you have physical media and an unconnected blu-ray player, your access to the license can be revoked at any time. Stadia doesn't change this at all.

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Quoting: Alm888Besides, it is STEAM EXCLUSIVE (like it is any better than Epic Store Exclusive!) and they are promised DRM-free version which is… well, can be found on… less than legal… stores with the apt epigraph: "Providing DRM-free release, because the developers couldn't be arsed to do so."

Ok:

• It's not a Steam Exclusive and does have a DRM free version: https://www.gog.com/game/cosmic_star_heroine


• Just because it's on Steam doesn't mean the Steam version is not DRM-free. If you don't have to have the client open to run the game, then it's DRM free.


• Valve IS far better than most game companies. They have contributed greatly to Open Source (and created a few new projects) in the last several years. Just don't expect them to open source the Steam client. That would take a lot more effort than it sounds like.

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QuoteWhen Valve identified issues with multi-threaded games as Proton development was being ramped up, CodeWeavers worked on developing the "esync" patchset to address it. It worked well but it came with multiple issues. As Valve said it needed a "special setup" and can cause "file descriptor exhaustion problems in event-hungry applications", they also think it "results in extraneous spinning in the kernel". So, they're working on what they're calling fsync and suggesting changes to accommodate it in the Linux Kernel.

That is awesome, though It's probably important to have everyone temper expectations for a stable version of fsync for a while. The kernel patches were submitted, but it will probably take some time to actually get those changes into the kernel, followed by even more time waiting for Desktop distros to update/patch their own kernels with the changes.

Still cool nonetheless

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: dubigrasuI think the future gaming will be predominantly like this, and local stored games will be a thing of the past.
I think we're dinosaurs and we don't know it yet.

Well, that's more or less my point. There doesn't seem to be a compelling use-case for game streaming, so the question remains, why would it succeed? Literally everyone goes "It will replace traditional gaming!", yet nobody could ever explain to me why people would even prefer it over locally installed games. It's pretty much like a few years back a lot of people went "VR will take over gaming!!!", which made me giggle in a similar way, because I failed to understand why it would become anything but the niche product it actually became.

The average gamer will enjoy the fact that the Chromecast Ultra is a much lower barrier to entry than a $200-$500 game system.... and theoretically they don't have to worry about starting over with games. Basically, from a general consumer standpoint, it tries to roll some of the best aspects of PC and Console gaming into one. The average gamer doesn't care about the FPS drop that the Hardcore gamers do. Custom built PCs aren't going anywhere for a while, but it will become a much smaller market if streaming ends up being successful (and doesn't get killed by the ISPs)

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This is awesome, but Pop!_OS has had this for a while and I've found that it's a better desktop distro than Ubuntu (it's also faster than Ubuntu and backports performance improvements to GNOME from the upstream GNOME project).

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