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Valve makes auto-update adjustments to help with managing Steam's bandwidth use
30 Mar 2020 at 10:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

If I remember well, the update of games was the reason why Steam was created.

The GOG Spring Sale is on - giving away the 'Witcher Goodies Collection' for 48 hours
22 Mar 2020 at 12:22 am UTC

Quoting: adamhmI decided to test the few Feral-ported games I have in my Steam library:

  • XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Binaries will try to launch Steam if SteamGameId and SteamAppId environment variables are not set. After setting those it subsequently quits after SteamAPI_Init() fails. I was able to get this working using the Goldberg emulator with the default setup I use for that (set it to offline mode & generate steam_interfaces.txt).

  • Total War: Medieval II: The start script performs a crude check to see if it has been started from Steam and will try to start the game through Steam if it has not. This can be bypassed by either setting SteamAppId or editing the check out but the game quits after SteamAPI_Init() fails. As with XCOM, using the Goldberg emulator with it was successful.

  • Tomb Raider: Same as above.

  • F1 2015: Same as above.

  • DiRT Rally: This quits with SteamAPI_Init() failing even with the Goldberg emulator library.

  • Total War: Shogun 2: Same as above, but it also attempts to start Steam.


So from this it looks like Feral's newer games are likely to be more strongly DRM'ed than their older games...
Can I install my steam games OFFLINE from backups using this Goldberg Emulator?

Steam Game Festival live with demos and the Interactive Recommender is up for all
19 Mar 2020 at 5:51 pm UTC

And Resident Evil 3 DEMO [External Link] is available...

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
19 Mar 2020 at 2:30 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickI have a Quest now but I will wait until Vulkan and Linux updates appear before jumping on this one.
Plus the AUD is crashing through the floor atm so that means minimal buying stuff for some time (allot of stores are operating on USD to AUD conversion systems which is NASTY).

Welcome to Argentina.

The Division 2 live on Stadia, DOOM Eternal this week and more
18 Mar 2020 at 3:10 pm UTC

The problem with this is that an hyper ultra super fast internet connection is needed.... And that kind of internet service is not available worldwide.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-4 is up fixing Origin, GTA V, Denuvo and more
12 Mar 2020 at 1:57 am UTC

I confirm that, via PROTON 5.0-4, Borderlands: The Pre-sequel with UHD textures pack installed doesn't crash anymore, but only if you use a dxvk.conf file with this line d3d9.evictManagedOnUnlock = True