Is it me, or is this just a ploy to get people to install Origin. Like EA finally realized it was a failure, but so they went back to allowing games to be sold on Steam again... but still require origin so they have a reason to say the software still lives?

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Nice that one of my favorite genres has been getting some love lately! I remember nit too long ago when there were only a tiny handful of Cyberpunk games. Reminds me, I still need to win all of the Deus Ex games...

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: slaapliedjeI've had an MSI motherboard die. I refuse to buy anything but Gigabyte and Asus boards now.

Still random though. I've had a Gigabyte and an Asus motherboard die. But never an MSI and AS Rock.

I've just overall had more issues with motherboards when I've gone non-Asus.

Case in point, the MSI one I had would randomly lose USB. It'd just die. Not during a reboot or anything, it'd just stop working. The only way I could get it to come back was to pull the CMOS battery and reset it... really an odd issue.

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Quoting: BielFPs"It's a good thing when can configure something, it's a bad thing when you need to"

I just wanted to quote this again. Too true.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyYes, the Steam version still starts Origin, which then starts the Mass Effect LE launcher, which then starts the individual games. It's a bit annoying

Launcher Inception!

I actually tried the game on Proton on Saturday, couldn't get it to work... and Windows was being a pain so the gamepad didn't work (finally sorted that though) but now I can play it on Linux!

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: jarhead_h

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: jarhead_hCheapest it's ever been? Great. So just as soon as I can buy a 5900X & 6800XT to replace the 2600 & GTX1060 currently plugged into my X570, and then the Valve Index, I'll buy it. Oh, and that's AFTER I can afford to replace my Android phone with a Librem 5.

And all of than is after I have an income again. 2021 sucks.

This is actually incorrect, the cheapest it's ever been is 'Free!' as I got it for free with the purchase of my Index :) Basically if you bought an Index through Steam, they gave it to you :)

Also, if you're still running a 2600 from 1977 as your main gaming rig, kudos to you!

Nah, it's a Ryzen 2600. And the Asrock X570 mobo it was plugged into died. Luckily I had a B450 laying around waiting for the 2600 when the 5900X arrived. Now I don't have to build my old windows games box because it already is. Oh, wait the B450 is also an Asrock. Crap.

Wow, I've never seen a motherboard die. GPUs, Disks, RAM, PSU, yes, but never a motherboard or a CPU.

So did you get a librem one and a 6800XT? Component prices are soo inflated these days, I couldn't dream of affording a new GPU, and mine is dying.

I've had an MSI motherboard die. I refuse to buy anything but Gigabyte and Asus boards now.

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Quoting: elmapulwe could be donating to one of those open source projects that exist and struggle to make money like make human and gimp...

I'd never heard of MakeHuman. Awesome! They also announced MakeTherapist. Which in this day and age, I think we could all use, Ha!

Actually that reminds me of the old Eliza program...

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Quoting: WorMzyWorks fine on AMD here (>77 hours and counting), although I use the OpenGL version since the vulkan one is stuttery (or was, I haven't tested it in a while, also haven't tested amdvlk, just mesa/radv).

I use
 
mesa_glthread=true %command%
as the launch options, which was recommended by a GoL user.

Ha, realized something last night while I was playing.
We have a mod... the name of which escapes me at the moment, that lets you build chests for a single item that is stackable up to 10,000. If I load the game up with Vulkan, they look fine. If I load them up with OpenGL, the numbers become black boxes, and they look semi-transparent.

Also, weirdly if I'm running it on Vulkan from a fresh boot, the frame rate stays pretty close to 144fps (I have a 144hz monitor). But if I play with OpenGL, and even if I go back to Vulkan afterward, the frame rate takes a huge dip.

Running on a RTX 3080.

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Quoting: BielFPsYes Valve would be better, but I can't see a reason for them to invest in this right now, they're prety much comfortable with steam link.

Steam Link has been discontinued, it's now just an app.

Quoting: BielFPsSteam machines failed because they didn't "fix linux gaming" before launching it to the customers, but since the main reason was to send a message to Microsoft, in the end they achieved their objective.

Even the Windows based ones that would boot straight to Steam BPM failed to sell well. I tend to think the failure was purely marketing. No one knew about them, there were too many manufacturers of it, and too many levels of the specs. Imagine if the Atari 2600 had released with three versions, one that could only play 2600 games, one that could also play 5200 ones, and one that also could play 7800 games. But Atari didn't manufacture any of them themselves, and just let random companies build them? Pretty sure the Video Game industry would never have really been born, and we'd all be spending our gaming days in the Arcades... (mind you Atari would probably still be a giant in that industry, as it seems that's where they were raking in the most cash!)

Quoting: BielFPsAnd that's the main problem, common users don't want to pay more for something that you have to configure some things yourself, even if the result is better in the end. That's why consoles and notebooks are a thing, because it's pretty much "just use it". Also "exclusives".

Ha, Exclusives are one thing that make ZERO sense on a computer platform. I agree with GabeN on this. Console players are always about the 'exclusives' as it is the reasoning behind why they 'Just have to' buy all the consoles. Imagine if exclusives didn't exist. One could purchase a single console based on either specs, controller style, machine capabilities, etc. Instead of 'OMG, I need the newest Halo, so must get Xbox!' Then again, also think of how crap it is when a game does come out for every platform, and they code it for lowest common denominator (like the Xbox, most games target that and don't utilize any of the cool controller developments that Playstation or Switch have. Like no Gyro, etc).

Quoting: BielFPsIndeed, nowadays there's much more software resources to make something like this succeed, they also could use some flatpak-based distro to make sure the games are more akin to run without problems, so again, Canonical may be losing a opportunity to invest in this and push their snap packages (which I'm not a fan)

Ha, Canonical needs to get over themselves. Snap is terrible. They need to just stop being a 'me too' and 'not invented here' distribution and be successful based on distributing a good product. Seems to me they haven't even cared that much for the Desktop as much as they care about their server products, and Openstack, etc. Look at who funds most of the desktop oriented stuff. It's mostly RH, which is funny as years ago they basically said Desktop Linux was dead and they weren't going to bother with it. Yet most of the Gnome stuff is funded by them, as well as Pulse, Pipewire, systemd, etc. I stopped using Ubuntu years ago, as they had decided to diverge from standard Gnome and use Unity (which seemed to have worse performance, and looked terrible to me).

Quoting: BielFPsI personally didn't want anything from Nintendo since the Gameboy Advanced, so I don't know how it is...

I hear ya, I've never been a Nintendo fan (Atari and then Sega for me). The Switch is the only Nintendo console I've ever bought / owned. And it was mostly the concept of being able to start playing on one TV, pick up a game play on a road trip, and then dock again at another TV that was appealing. Then of course how many times have I traveled since getting one? Zero...

Quoting: BielFPsSupport for Bluetooth mouse + keyboard and an adapter for bigger screens could partially solve this (again the main problem is hardware costs), but most small screen friendly games usually are played with controllers.

Sadly, for gaming bluetooth and wireless in general kind of sucks. I have a Logitech wireless keyboard/mouse thing for remote loading up / logging in for my living room computer, and I swear if I move in the wrong direction it doesn't work right. Also they tend to have really aggressive sleep states, so unless you're constantly moving, it disables it frequently to conserve battery. Though the one I have isn't bluetooth if I recall, it uses Logitech's own dongle. Also, would be terrible for gaming, as it's very much like a Laptop keyboard. I tend to game on a mechanical keyboard, which would be terrible to fit on your lap on a couch :P

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Minecraft is such a mess...

We fired it up in an attempt to give us something to play while Valheim is waiting for the content patch. It pretty much looks the way it did the last time I tried playing it, which was.. close to a decade ago.

Then you have the texture packs... They're either just in complete, people have been working on the same ones for years, and have given up. Or they have the full versions behind pay walls.

Shaders for adding Ray Tracing to the Java version are BRUTAL to the system. Like my system goes from 700-800 fps down to like 45.

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