I hope Valve shows us some OVERHEAD hit for all these, especially x86 via FEX

I want to know how badly these translation layers are going to EAT up CPU/GPU resources as they do their thing.

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Steam Next Fest - February 2026 Edition: February 23 - March 2

Guessing this will be when they decide to talk more about their upcoming steam hardware and maybe even announce some pricing.

I don't know how Valve will satisfy people with pricing however as memory modules are rocketing into the outer orbits of the solar system!

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if they can get the game so its UI and game upscale correctly to 1080p or 2160p or other higher resolutions then I'd be happen. (not FSR upscaling, I mean proper vector upscaling)

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Give people the OFFLINE server application so they can host their OWN servers and continue playing with small groups of friends. THAT IS THE WAY!

Of cause it makes some game modes a little tricky such as raids unless someone hosts a 64 player or more server.

We are dangerously heading towards a future where creative arts and entertainment go bye bye on a daily basis from human history. We're essentially in the age of erasure! Erasing history!

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Peter has also done some remakes such as Masters of Origin I think, however it really only got a passing grade.

Peter often gets passing grades with his latest games but not many EXCELLENCE rated games. (or on steam, overwhelmingly positive rating)

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Change the WINDOWS app to FOSS programming, THEN worry about porting it after that. THIS is the way.

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There is a lot they can do with gog galaxy; if they can make it more like playnite and then put in linux+proton/wine support on top, then they'd be quite set to sale.

However one of the big things steam has going is community features include fully fleshed out mod support!

Oh also VR support would no doubt help. Plus handheld support... Yeah Steam is a HARD nut to compete against, especially when your upper management only want to hoover off profit from selling games but don't want to put any effort into store functionality and compatibility (EGS and everyone else is a good example of this).

They continuously cry about Valve Steam monopoly but ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to ever even attempt to compete! There is more to selling games then just throwing them up on some horrible DRM store app!

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Quoting: StenPettI wonder what will be left once the AI bubble bursts. I sincerely hope this "we need to put AI into *everything*" trend is one of the things that goes away...

Well they are trying to make everything cloud based, right down to your toilet mate! What happens when the cloud has a bad day? or internet goes down? well often these devices just stop working. What happens when the company goes bust that is paying for this 'cloud' service? well they can send a KILL switch to all devices.

It is a DARK future indeed, one that humanity will likely be forced to reject outside of the billionaires running the world who can afford it all. WHY? because eventually we won't have any money to actually use or benefit from this crap, not with the way society functions now, so unless their going to give people $2000 UBI per week then I see a major cataclysm coming.

I wonder how Earth will look with a %98 poverty rate?

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ntsync does help many games BUT some benefit more by just using fsync. It is difficult to understand why and how but it is what it is.

The end results matter more then if it is CORRECT or not.

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Quoting: juxuanuOn the other side, as a solo game developer being able to generate some assets for your game can mean your project is now feasible.

Yeah its quite helpful, but I do suggest to put in %10 of hand touch-up effort to AI assets to clean them up and also correct artistic styling. I'm not a fan of DIRECT injection of AI assets because you end up with some very cringe and obvious mistakes all over the game.

One thing I'd like developers to use which has yet to catch on is training VOICE models and getting much more voice acting into games, something that smaller dev studios normally can't afford due to high cost of human VA. Fact is, VA need to just live with this consequence of AI impacting their jobs.

Your voice is NOT all that unique, many people share extremely similar voice patterns and voice actors have been replicating other peoples voices for a long time in comedy. Should someone be sued if they sound like a famous actor? it all comes down to the sourced training data and consent! not if a AI-Voice sounds similar to someone else!

ART on the other hand, that is very tricky as their pirating copyrighted content in order to train many of these LLM models up, its licensed to be viewed by the public BUT NOT commercially replicated for sale, which is what these AI graphics models often do. If they training it off genuine public works and resell-able free art then that is fine.

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