Quoting: toojaysIt's a great game. Highly recommended. If you've any doubt, there's a free demo

I actually already own the game, just gotta be motivated to play it. I also have witcher 3 which I was going to mod to hell and back and start a new play through.

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I haven't been playing much. I have been messing with Fallout4 under Linux with ModOrganizer2 a bit, still some bugs to figure out.

I've been thinking about playing Shadow Tactics game which has a Linux port, might be good.

As a off-topic question if anyone knows, I have a B350 mobo atm and a B550 upgrade coming soon, does anyone know of any issues just swapping mobo out? is there any Linux B550 chipset issues or work arounds I need to know about?

PS. I really want to be able to play the Quest VR headset under Linux.. maybe one day.

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Allot of games now days have extra features like Multiplayer and such that you can't get without a legit purchase, inc quick access to patches(often critical), even for many GOG games.
In the early days (1990-2005) games really didn't do much of that so piracy had absolutely little trade-off.

The statistics would be different depending on when they were taken, and you could only really rely on more recent NON bias data (ones not backed by pubs/devs)

The idea that piracy in present times pushes developers towards things like denuvo is idiotic, its actually the opposite. These aggressive DRM systems are pushing people back to piracy or other games that don't use them.

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People who don't have money won't buy games. So yes they will always pirate... the sky is blue also.

I frequently pirate games (sue me) to try them out to see if their actually any good.
Now I could go through the annoying buy and refund process, but its just a major hassle(and it has conditions), especially when I suspect a title is a piece of shit, for example MechWarrior5 and PhoenixPoint, what absolute garbage quality those two titles were, maybe worth $10 in the bargain bin one day!

I can't tell you how many times I've pirated a game, played it for an hour and said "holy shit this is absolute crap", and felt like I really dodged a bullet. (yes they get deleted off my storagedrive)

If I can't try something out easily beforehand, most the time I just don't bother about it. If it wasn't for the option of pirating a game to try it out, I'd definitely be buying a shit load less of them! (again I'm not interested in going through a week long process to get a refund)

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Cheating under Windows is quite popular because it has a HUGE amount of tools to facilitate it and make cheating extremely easy to achieve.

Under Linux there is basically nothing worth noting when it comes to facilitating cheating so I'd be amazingly surprised if hackers/cheaters shift to Linux.

It might not actually be a bad thing either as it will give the OS more attention and EAC/BE are unlikely to outright block Linux (they already support Linux via native apps) but will work on resolving the security issues under Linux instead.

While cheaters/hackers in games are terrible, they still represent a motivated revenue stream for developers/publishers so cutting out an entire platform would be a rather dumb founded move!

Its the same deal with pirates, whom are MORE LIKELY to buy more games then a regular joe, simply because they get exposed to more games and are likely to buy stuff they enjoy. A regular joe doesn't know what he is missing, basically, thus spends less.

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This is also something that is probably required to get RTX features available under Proton/Wine

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I always manage to loose my previous game save files, and to top it off completely forget what the hell I did in that playthrough. DA Inquisition had a way of solving this by letting you pick the backstory and import it in the new games to keep continuity.

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Quoting: ShmerlSo it doesn't increase quality,

I don't think you understand whats going on one bit. But 'when' everyone is doing similar things as to what DLSS does, I'll watch you eat your own hat! :)

Also as someone pointed out, native everything would be great, but lets face it, unless a magical fairy comes down from the silicon heavens and unleashes a compute power revolution, then we aren't going to see CPU's or GPU's for the consumer handle future graphics very well without some way to 'optimize' performance at higher resolutions or fps.

In saying that DLSS2.0 has shown that in areas a 1440p image can look better then 2160p, its not universal but it CAN look decently better in areas.

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Quoting: ShmerlTo put it differently, DLSS is just another marketing gimmick, not a technology that can actually improve games quality.

Have you even tried DLSS 2.0? (and 3.0 down the pipe will be better)

Your comments strongly suggest you've only ever read about it or seen a very early version of it. Its NOT a gimmick and like I said, many industries are moving towards using lower resolution images to enhance to higher resolution with impressive results.

And it does improve quality, again, you're clearly someone who has not been keeping up to date with DLSS and other similar machine deep learning image enhancing tech's (basically same as DLSS but without NVIDIA drm).

Quoting: ShmerlInstead of over-hyped gimmicks(not), GPU makers should work on improving compute power .

Why not do both? MEME

Why waste compute power? games don't need loads of GPU compute power, ray tracing uses some of the compute potential, still room under the hood, use it.

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RTX finally coming to Proton hopefully, maybe dream of playing CP2077 under linux with all the bells and whistles will happen. (if you have NVIDIA card).

I'm still hopeful NAVI 2x cards will have great value, we will see. If they get 16GB VRAM then it may be enough to convince me to diverge. I'm quite excited about the future of DLSS because lots of other industries are noticing the huge benefits to such technology (VR or mobile phones for example). AMD has been basically MIA when it comes to DLSS akin tech (don't you dare say CAS sharpening filter!)

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