Quoting: razing32Dominions 4 always got stuck for me when the AI did its turn.
I poke a bit at Dominions 3 since it works and seems to have more nations to play.

That's likely a deadlock in the multithreaded AI. One can disable that feature with a command lime switch.

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Well, I'm seeing the issue that it sometimes takes multiple attempts to start the game. No big thing, but slightly annoying. I've got no idea yet, what could be the reason.

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I'll play the game called "installing Unreal Engine on Gentoo Linux and get it to work properly". Let's see if I manage. ;-)

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Quoting: STiATA dream comes true. I hate that all laptops with decent graphics capabilities came with nvidia. I was looking for a model with intel + amd or amd + amd for quite some time, but nothing suited me.

If they make this true, I'll have to get myself a new laptop. Finally.

Not that Raven Ridge APUs wouldn't have been a viable alternative as well.

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Quoting: MalLet's hope somebody makes a spyware linux distribution so that the chinese can use it for gaming whilst the government safely spies on them.

Ubuntu Kylin?
Red Star OS?

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Quoting: GuestAlso my first "Visual Novel" - I doubt any others could compare. Maybe I am wrong. If anyone else is reading this who finished the game, are there any others?

While I haven't yet played this game yet, there are some other pretty well made visual novels. Have a look at Pyre [External Link] (it's marketed as an RPG, but it's pretty much a visual novel with RPG and action elements), or at Loren, the Amazon Princess [External Link] (again a visual novel with RPG elements marketed as an RPG - beware, this has lots of fan-service, especially if you enable the "suggestive content" option, and also the story is rather bad at the beginning, but quickly gets better once the "just throw dozens of new characters at the player" phase is over).

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Quoting: soulsourceThis does not solve any issues, just creates more. Using a Flatpak or Snap package is basically the same thing as the Steam Runtime (which by itself was a bad idea already...).
The ABI incompatibility with Mesa is a prime example of issues caused by such an approach, as it was actually an error on the side of the Steam Runtime, and if one would make the same mistake within a Flatpak/Snap package, one would see exactly the same issue.
If people would just rtfm [External Link]... It is clearly stated, that "The reverse (backwards compatibility) is not true. It is not possible to take program binaries linked with the latest version of a library binary in a release series (with additional symbols added), substitute in the initial release of the library binary, and remain link compatible."

It solves the issues specifically because it does away with the current problem we have of **mixed** runtimes, and instead provides a single consistent runtime with full ABI consistency, without being affected or influenced by host libraries. At that point Steam would be running in an environment specifically created to run Steam and the Steam games.

You're also looking at it from the wrong angle, we're not trying to put the older ones in, we're putting the **newer** ones in and ensuring they remain consistent. We then also have fine grained control over what can and cannot be vendored by games via LSI, and disable use of the binary runtime provided by Steam themselves.

Wait a second, you are saying, you ship a complete runtime inside the Snap, without a single dependency on the outside system? That then indeed solves the linking inconsistency, at the cost of size and possible security issues.

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This does not solve any issues, just creates more. Using a Flatpak or Snap package is basically the same thing as the Steam Runtime (which by itself was a bad idea already...).
The ABI incompatibility with Mesa is a prime example of issues caused by such an approach, as it was actually an error on the side of the Steam Runtime, and if one would make the same mistake within a Flatpak/Snap package, one would see exactly the same issue.
If people would just rtfm [External Link]... It is clearly stated, that "The reverse (backwards compatibility) is not true. It is not possible to take program binaries linked with the latest version of a library binary in a release series (with additional symbols added), substitute in the initial release of the library binary, and remain link compatible."

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Quoting: ArdjeI fear I only play ARK, which looks beautiful again since somebody found out how to fix the missing water asset.

I am waiting for the new fortresscraft release which should have an automation item I need to continue my game.

Funny: fortresscraft evolved and ark survival have always been my main time consumers. In both I play a world that I started in 2015.
In the mean time I did play saints row, but these 2 games demand creativity... building effort. I like that.

Would you be so nice as to elaborate? I haven't bought ARK (yet), as the ugly water was kind of a show stopper to me. Is the water fixed by a developer's patch, or does one have to fix stuff manually?

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Recently I've been playing Dominions 4 (after reading through the non-table part of the manual...) a lot, it's an awesome strategy game.
Of course I'm still playing Kerbal Space Program regularly, but as I'm now playing the Realistic Progression Zero mod, progress is a lot slower than with stock, and that lowers my motivation a bit.
This weekend I mostly played Tyranny. It was on my pile of shame for far too long. Now that I've finally started playing this game, I regret not doing so sooner. It's an interesting experience playing a character caught in the game's setting. Finally one of those games where one has to consider every dialogue option, and where it's often better not to ask certain questions, however tempting they may seem.

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