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Latest Comments by Gerarderloper
Dead Cells price hike in Argentina & Turkey due to cross-region purchases
20 Aug 2022 at 12:09 am UTC

Not surprised. I know plenty of people who have Argentina steam accounts in order to get stuff dirt cheap.

I don't do it myself because I have a feeling eventually steam will put a IP lock in place..

I mean that is the only real way to solve the problem, but it does mean if you move outside of Argentina or disable your Argentina VPN then you loose access to your steam account.

It would suck. Which is why I've avoided it so far... I already had this problem in past when Russian copies of games would get removed from my account because it was detected I wasn't in Russia.

Quoting: GroganThere's also another side to this. Any Aussies here? I'll bet they have an opinion on regional pricing, they pay considerably more for digitally distributed games than North Americans and Europeans.
PS. I'm South Australia.. who pays $100A for a game? I guess that's 70USD, I might pay that for Bulder's Gate 3 like quality game!

We have stuff like G2A and such, pick up odd cheap game from there. Prices aren't always that bad for us on Steam. Wanted to get The Forest the other night, but $28AUD.. I think its like $1 in ARG or whatever.

YouTube thought my Steam Deck video was 'harmful and dangerous'
20 Aug 2022 at 12:03 am UTC

Dangerous and Harmful to Windows... can't have that!

I use odysee.com myself on occasion. It seems fine but you will find allot more right wing nuts on the platform, but such is life..

Peertube looks to be a library of content that has no categories unless you build it yourself. Easy to miss 90% of the content you may like on it.

Valve dev understandably not happy about glibc breaking Easy Anti-Cheat on Linux
18 Aug 2022 at 4:38 am UTC

All multiplayer games have anti-cheat software. So really, do we want linux to be the single player only game platform?

Easy Anti-Cheat not working on Linux? Seems a glibc update broke it
16 Aug 2022 at 4:23 am UTC Likes: 2

I can't really find the reason for why they removed this function from glibc (other then, its old and boring)

Developers just got bored and wanted to break something?

PS. Manjaro is basically ARCH with more safety wheels... (or restrictions/booby-traps if you like!)

Windows compatibility layer Wine version 7.15 out now
15 Aug 2022 at 4:39 am UTC

I hope one day Frosty's Mod Manager can be made to work... one day!

W4 Games formed to help developers using Godot Engine
11 Aug 2022 at 5:11 am UTC

So this will be Godot but closed source for proprietary needs?

And yes SDK's shouldn't be closed at all. There are open-source licenses to protect such things from competitors stealing code.

And if everyone is open-source SDK it actually makes stealing each others code harder because well, you can see when its done rather then waiting for a whistle blower to sound the alarms from the inside...

GE-Proton 7-27 has the Halo Infinite campaign and videos working on Steam Deck & Linux
29 Jul 2022 at 5:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: itscalledreality
Quoting: TheRiddickThey should add a option to SteamOS for Steam-Deck or handhelds where you can in compatibility section also choose OPTIMAL settings for specific fps, say options for 30/40/50 and 60fps which automatically apply specific optimized config files to the games with optimal presets. That be quite nice.
Why only SteamOS or Steam Deck? This seems useful on desktop too.
Mainly because desktop hardware can vary wildly so a preset that is designed for 120 or 144fps may only be viable on specific hardware configurations.

But these handhelds are all using 6800U chips or what not so its pretty predictable what hardware bracket their in.

Even steam-deck-2 will be 7600U-7800U like APU chip and will still target 60fps (hopefully 1080p)

VRChat adds Easy Anti-Cheat, community not happy but Linux and Steam Deck work fine
29 Jul 2022 at 2:34 am UTC Likes: 1

I hear the uproar is mostly focused around not being able to use custom mods anymore (there were allot).

I don't know how VRCHAT works but I thought you can connect to a private server but apparently not? it all goes through a central hub which has blocked mods due to EAC.

To be fair there were people making bad mods that ruined other peoples experiences (we talking a handful of people, overall community is not being toxic with bad mods).

Whats a bad mod? well you can make mods that crash peoples computers! lmao

Cancelled space sim Limit Theory opens up the source code
29 Jul 2022 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 2

Had allot of promise, I was a backer I believe and followed the development.

Basically the developer lead himself into a mental breakdown of sorts, was quite unfortunate, I honestly think he just needed to get some help with the project EARLY on instead of trying to do it all himself!

GE-Proton 7-27 has the Halo Infinite campaign and videos working on Steam Deck & Linux
29 Jul 2022 at 1:49 am UTC Likes: 2

They should add a option to SteamOS for Steam-Deck or handhelds where you can in compatibility section also choose OPTIMAL settings for specific fps, say options for 30/40/50 and 60fps which automatically apply specific optimized config files to the games with optimal presets. That be quite nice.