Incredible and amazing story based on the book Heart Of Darkness just like Apocalypse Now (and the game feels like that movie moved over to Iraq). The single downside is that the helicopter chase part is botched on the highest difficulty, it is simply not possible to get past that section.

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Quoting: GuestWhile I find great to have such statement, I wonder where an user is supposed to look for official support statements :)

Game requirements still state just Windows 10(64-bit OS required) and I honestly wonder why.

Isn't damn time to have Steam Deck listed as an option alongside Linux,Mac and Windows in the requirements?

Who is to blame? Maybe Valve for not offering the possibility to devs?

Does anyone really get any type of usable support from anything other than single dev indie games? All I see when looking through EA, Ubisoft et al forums are basically "install the latest nVidia driver".

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You had to download and WINEDLLOVERRIDES xaudio2.9 so perhaps that is what they have fixed. Also remember that the initial release of MGS3 had issues with screens > 60Hz

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Quoting: satorideponI watched the presentation and didn't really understood the point of it. Apparently, the only reason this gets picked over fsync is because a few methods that are not commonly used by Windows applications, especially the modern ones, cannot be emulated with fsync/esync. But if they're not commonly used, why not just leave them working through this old RPC mechanism?

Quoting: sonic2kkTo this point, most custom kernels (i.e. Tkg, Zen) already have fsync too!

Fsync was merged into upstream kernel a few years ago.

The reason you cannot have both is that you don't know at creation time if the object will later be used by those two api:s or not (one reason why the Wine dev thinks this whole Windows API stinks) so the wineserver must have control of all of the object in case any of them is every user for the WaitAll functionality and thus the whole fsync/esync route is no longer possible since that would lead to a split brain situation.

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Note that the improvements in the table is vs using the wineserver only so this is not compared with fsync or esync. Looks like the performance is similar to fsync/esync according to the presentation, just that some edge cases like Pulse Events and WaitOnAll now works while they are broken on fsync/esync.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOne problem with working for the Sovereign Tech Fund is that insistence on paying in Sovereigns. Bags of coins in this day and age . . .

Considering that 1 Sovereign coin is worth aprox £400 I think they would be quite happy :)

Much better that kind of Sovereign than the Mass Effect's one :grin:

Yeah one of those is one too many!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOne problem with working for the Sovereign Tech Fund is that insistence on paying in Sovereigns. Bags of coins in this day and age . . .

Considering that 1 Sovereign coin is worth aprox £400 I think they would be quite happy :)

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Quoting: LachuBad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

You don't need admin/root for this attack to work and even on Windows any regular it department would remove admin rights from end users machines.

I know, there is no admin rights, but on Linux, after downloading malicious software, I must point system, this is a software, and I try to open/execute software. On Windows, some one could compile program with nice photography as icon, told me, this is photography from trip and I would open it! That's all...

Yes Windows have this idiotic tendency to use the file extension to determine what icon to view while using the actual meta data of the file when opening it leading to the user believing that they are clicking on a PDF while actually executing a EXE.

The popup for executing scripts/binaries that you talk about I think is more a Gnome (I also assume that KDE does it) thing than a Linux thing, but that might be semantics. So here I definitely agree that the Linux desktop environment handles this a million times better than Windows.

One caveat though is that attacks like these just as easily could use exploits in the browser/pdf-viewer/image-viewer etc to execute code rather than executing a binary and then we no longer have this protection (but here instead the fragmented Linux distro environment makes us safer in that the attacker doesn't know which browser or viewer that we are using or what version).

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Quoting: LachuBad Windows. People are using Windows and get sad. On normal systems, secretary/accountant do not has sufficient rights, but on Windows (with unskilled, cheap admin?). Additionally, Windows is not resist to malware, there was many bad design decision during Windows creating, like opening programs downloaded from internet by double-click, etc.

You don't need admin/root for this attack to work and even on Windows any regular it department would remove admin rights from end users machines.

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Quoting: EikeWhen the world moves on to Wayland (in the next decade ;) ), will this be the death of all those little DEs that won't implement a Wayland compositor?

You can run a complete Xorg environment on XWayland so technically you could run those X11-only DE:s on say Gamescope.

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