Plus these creator packs which can be purchased individually or free as part of the Ultimate Edition:

<pedantic>That's not "free as part of", that is "included in the price of".</pedantic>

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Have been getting a bit peeved at heroic lately - having no option to keep it offline and not being able to disable playtime tracking creeps me out. That's on top of the annoyance of having a shop inside the launcher.

I am an un-fan of the slow but steady stacking of such features that one can't disable.

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Good timing, bricktales and the hero of the kingdom series happened to be both on sale on gog ^_^

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Oh, that's an interesting option, thank you. I was somewhat aware underclocking was an option, I just didn't know the ratio was this good.

The Big Trick™ with underclocking is that you can combine it with undervolting.

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I find it interesting there's just a $50 gap between the two. Which means .... why does the regular 9070 even exist?

Likely to be chips that didn't make the cut for the xt.

Yields are said (by amd) to be excellent this gen, so the xt is the primary product, with the non-xt's msrp at release a bit higher than they really expect to sell it at, just in case some people get em at that price.

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I get what makes it different, but i still don't understand WHY would anyone use it, to me it's like bottles/lutris/heroic with less features?

It could be the grandpa in me talking

Funny: when I am in grandpa-mode I complain about heroic getting a bit too bloated for its own good, with features one can't disable.

Integrated shop, library refresh at startup, creepy playtime tracking, etc.

Think I'll be taking a peek to see whether mini-galaxy is closed to my liking.

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There's going to be so many issues with this. People using AI not declaring it, or using it for other aspects. Say, translation. What if I write a game in french and use the help of ChatGPT to translate it?

Not sure of the definitions, but I always understood translations not to be generative. As long as you use a dedicated translator ai tool (deepl, google translate) and are open about its use, you would be in the clear.

If it were to become an issue: quite a few indies rely on community translations.

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Here, have this game with mandatory raytracing and most settings only affecting VRAM usage. But offer enough upscaling solutions? Nah.

Amusingly, it seems to run quite well on linux systems with cards known to lack rt hardware (via software layer), such as the vega64 and rx5700.

Such a farce...

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Evans continued noting "We acquired Reflexive Entertainment (a small PC game store) and tried to scale it. It went nowhere"

Reflexive was an indie dev and publisher, and amazon proceeded to annoy its customers by de-listing its steam titles, disabling reflexive's website, and forcing the direct customers to move to amazon (particularly egregious because of reflexive's drm).

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With that graph's vertical axis not being labelled properly and such a ludicrously small range in the horizontal axis, it tells precisely nothing interesting about the number of cheaters, let alone correlation. Don't even mention causation.

There's simply not enough data points to claim anything beyond a natural variability in numbers, which one doesn't need a graph for to know that it is there.

Even assuming it did tell anything relevant and there was a causal relation: we're seeing the numbers well on the way to creeping right back up to the old level as cheaters (and the providers of their tools) would seem to be adapting to the new windows-only environment.

Then there's the big elephant in the room: given the processing power of mid-range, soon also low-end, phones, cheating methods are going to be moving off-pc entirely (aim phone's camera to monitor, connect phone to special controller), making kernel-level anti-cheat methods look about as relevant as the Maginot line.

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