Quoting: Patola

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GuestI just hope old gpu prices goes down, but it never happens.

They'd really prefer to price gouge you at all points in time, not just at release.

All that needs to be done is:

a) passing laws that force companies (...).

How about the complete opposite? Throw away all laws that currently pose an obstacle to competitors, don't force companies to anything. New players on the market will appear trying hard to get their niche, boom, prices drop. This is actually happening with VR sets right now.

Creating more laws against businesses does not make things better for the consumers. It onerates the entire production chain and makes it harder for everyone to get that. And it keeps competitors away for the big players. That's exactly what you don't want to happen.

A big problem is that all the players in a market tend to end up being bought out by the larger players. That's basically just part of capitalism. (...)

And that happens because of the State -- specially laws and regulations --, not in spite of it. Big businesses do constantly skew the perception of the public to make it look like there is lack of regulations, and they win double by more and more obstacles which they are able to work with but not their smaller competitors. A freer market with no rules and thus no barrier against newcomers would be the best deterrent against monopolies. Sure, I understand there is a complex production chain, but these very same suppliers would benefit from more customers too, so it's not this chain that prevents competition. Conversely, it's hopeless to try and use the State against the big guys, they are best buddies and will use this whole perception to their profit.

This is a huge fantasy. No system of capitalism in the history of the world has functioned that way. The problem with all systems is that humans are flawed and prone to corruption and greed. The best system is a combination of things. Regulations are necessary because unregulated companies will abuse workers, pollute, poison people and every other horrible thing that would make them a quick buck. To much regulation does hurt productivity and can stifle an economy. Capitalism is basically a free for all law of nature. In that system the strong destroy the weak, there is slavery, torture and all kinds of horrors. Socialism doesn't contain enough incentive for progress but has too much incentive for government corruption as it is the primary path to accumulate more power than a person can get on their own. That amount of power leads to similar types of horrors in many cases. A mixture of democracy,capitalism and socialism provides some checks and balances of each of the different parts. The big problem the US has right now is that our democracy has been hijacked by the rich. Money has been equated to speech by the supreme court and obviously politicians will listen more closely to whoever gives them the most money. The poor and working class have no real voice in government, only given lip service. The government is owned by the mega rich/corporate world, in this way it is almost pure capitalism. Whoever can pay the government the most, gets what they want. The rest of the system is just a show.

None of this really relates to the new NVidia cards. I personally am all in AMD, even with amdgpu's horrible ootb monitor support. I am in full agreement that GPU prices are way out of control, 300 to 400 dollars as far as I'm concerned is the most a cpu or gpu should cost. I paid a little over $300 for my AMD 5700 and it's been awesome for me once I got my dual monitor setup working correctly.

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Unfortunately it doesn't appear to work with my ASRock B550 board. Custom compiled the Fedora 31 kernel with the OpenRGB patch (PITA) and it doesn't detect the SMBbus rgb header... Hopefully they will add support

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I got Halo MCC working with EAC using this method. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/938 [External Link]

wget https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/files/4839724/easyanticheat_wine_x64.tar.gz [External Link]

extract the files to the game pfx under users/steamuser/application data/EasyAntiCheat/*/*
Make users/steamuser/Temp read only
Mark the extracted files executable and read only.

Using Proton-5.9-GE-3-ST

I was able to get in game and browse servers without EAC errors. I didn't actually play any online games though. I have been able to get achievements with this method playing Halo in Linux under Proton

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Hopefully there will be a Proton GE release soon with all this enabled. I'd like to play Halo MCC and get the achievements.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: PatolaAre there any actual statistics showing that pirates buy more (or less) games? If there are, I don't know. Care to tell the source?

Oh, there's plenty of stats that shows the correlation between availability of cracks and drop in sales. Plenty.

I remember an interview with a developer back when there were still gaming magazines, must have been early 2000, and he said that on PC they had a very tiny window to cover a vast majority of their investments, and that was from release day until the first cracked version popped up on torrent sites. From that day on the sales plummeted, died out completely. Anything not earned from then on was lost.
One could also see on the overall PC games sales when a new version of a widely used DRM system was cracked. It caused *waves* on the sales charts.

It became so bad that at one point, before DRM became better, there were hardly any money left in PC gaming. Plenty of developers - especially the mid sized ones with large projects but not strong enough backs to carry too heavy losses - left the PC game market and focused on console exclusive releases.

But really, do we need numbers to believe this? Isn't it enough to use our own heads, our logic and rational reasoning?
Would the industry have invested such a massive amount of resources and efforts on intricate DRM systems, online verification etc, if piracy lead to more sales?
Like, seriously - are we really questioning this?!

"A developer said" is not a study or empirical data. Also it could just be that sales die off drastically after a game has been released for a while no matter what and that time period happens to coincide with the amount of time it generally takes for a crack to come out. In my experience if someone wants to buy a game they will buy it and if they want to pirate it, they aren't going to buy it regardless of whether there is a crack. Some people would pirate a game they would otherwise buy because the DRM is to intrusive and restrictive. I've had games that only allowed you to activate once, on one PC. Get a new PC and you can't reactivate it. You might as well fund the crackers yourself. I've literally pirated games I bought for that reason, it was easier to deal with the pirated version than the one I paid for.

Console's aren't without piracy. I don't know about the newest generations but some consoles had extensive piracy. The Wii, the Playstation and the PSP were pirates wet dreams, they were also extremely successful.

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Has anyone played GTA IV in a 64 bit prefix? I thought GTA IV would only launch 32 bit and proton was only 64 bit?

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Quoting: GuestFor me somehow d9vk does not work. I try to play Grand Theft Auto IV and it runs with DXVK. Is there a way to force use of d9vk? Something like Proton 4.11 has PROTON_USE_D9VK=1

It's because the game is defaulting to another direct X version (10 or 11). You must make the game use directX 9. I believe many games will honor the launch option -dx9

Grand Theft Auto IV support only DirectX 9. When I turn on HUD I see running DXVK 1.3.2 with D3D9 mode. I could not manage to force it to use D9VK. Performance is very bad with DXVK on this game. I wonder why it does not switch to D9VK.

Anyway it's not that of a big issue as I can play with Proton 4.11-3 and PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 works well :)

I was under the impression DXVK ONLY supported DX10 and DX11... and it cannot do DX9.. and that D9VK was basically an add on (expansion) of DXVK... Are you sure it isn't some regression in that version of Proton and D9VK that makes it perform badly?

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Quoting: GuestFor me somehow d9vk does not work. I try to play Grand Theft Auto IV and it runs with DXVK. Is there a way to force use of d9vk? Something like Proton 4.11 has PROTON_USE_D9VK=1

It's because the game is defaulting to another direct X version (10 or 11). You must make the game use directX 9. I believe many games will honor the launch option -dx9

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Quoting: m2mg2I can't run any games through boxtron in Fedora 29. They all just crash immediately

Dreamer helped identify and resolve this issue. It had to do with me starting Steam with a setting to prefer native libraries instead of the steam bundled libraries. I implemented this a year or more ago to address an issue with Feral launchers not working properly. Removing the option and starting Steam normally fixed the issue.

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I can't run any games through boxtron in Fedora 29. They all just crash immediately

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