Quoting: Guest

Quoting: MichaelDNThere exists a word for this SHAREWARE

Those of us older folks know the shareware CDs included with PC magazines.

Yes, and nowadays they are called demo versions, isn't it?

Strictly speaking, those are different things. A demo is a separate build, that cannot be upgraded to the full version (typically because it doesn't include all assets). A shareware version is a build of the full version and includes all content, but requires a license to access content beyond the demo part. (Not that the difference would matter in the age of fast internet.)

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I'm going to give the game another chance.
One of the recent updates (the one that reduced pop count) kind of ruined it for me, with the rebalancing of the economy. It felt a bit too easy to manage resources with the unification of alloy and consumer product production...
(Insert rant about how I would have prefered a dumbed down pop system over the economy changes.)

The Situations feature sounds promising. If those can happen without being directly caused by the player, they might make the economy in this game interesting again.

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Quoting: TheRiddickAre these using 6nm or some other process which makes them easier to make over the original 7nm cards? Are these the relaunch of RDNA2 that has been rumoured?

They use the same chips [External Link], but overclocked so you get worse performance/watt in addition to the anyhow worse performace/euro.

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I wonder how the native Linux port worked on Ubuntu, but not on the Deck. The Steam Runtime should prevent almost all distribution specific differences...
I somehow suspect the graphics drivers. They might have tested nVidia drivers on Ubuntu, which seem to have hacks in place to work around issues of Unity's HLSL->GLSL transpiler.

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We can hope, but do they have a real incentive to make one, given the game is running perfectly fine with Steam Play?

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: gradyvuckovicwithout at least testing it

Probably because they don't know how to install linux (ot that they can install linux to a PC running Win) and don't have access to a deck.

From my experience it's usually not a knowledge issue, but rather a time (aka money) problem. If the publisher doesn't pay for it, it's not going to be planned for, and if it's not planned, there's no time to do it.
(Edit: Of course game studios can still do such work as self-investment.)

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Quoting: soulsourceI cannot imagine that Portal would have performance problems on the SteamDeck when using OpenGL. Is using Vulkan just a battery usage optimization?

AFAIK, before it was updated to use Vulkan, it was using ToGL; Direct3D to OpenGL layer.
I don't think it stuttered as much with ToGL, but performance and battery life should be improved with Vulkan as long as the shader cache is built. Basically a necessary evil, and now that the shaders can be built before the game is launched, it's just a big win win.

Oh, I wasn't aware that the OpenGL rendering didn't have a dedicated backend in the engine.

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I cannot imagine that Portal would have performance problems on the SteamDeck when using OpenGL. Is using Vulkan just a battery usage optimization?

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Is RADV on the Steam Deck even using dedicated RT hardware?
I mean, Quake 2 RTX is nearly playable on my Rx 480 (which is ancient and obviously does not have hardware raytracing) if I enable "RADV_PERFTEST=rt" and use a low-enough resolution...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: BogomipsMaybe trimester would have been easier to understand?

I'm confused that it needs to be explained but English is not my native language so…

Unfortunately it would have been incorrect. A year has three trimesters (hence "tri"), but four quarters.

I had to look it up (see above), and it's actually 3 months. The "mester" seems to come from "mensis", month.

My university operates on a trimester system; we have three of them in a year.

Universities usually have several months wihtout teaching activies. I can only guess, but it doesn't sound too far fetched that historically it was 3*3 months teaching, and 3 months not.
(Where I studied we had no teaching activities in February, July, August and September, so a third of the rest would be less than 3 months...)

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