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Quoting: slapinNobody is actually willing to hear the sad truth, the propaganda sounds more comfortable.

If this is the truth, then any russian is simply dump... and I don't think so.
Honstly I believe they fear to get arrested and vanish... another sign of a dictators power.

It's easy to think this way but unfortunately you don't have to be dumb to be fooled by propaganda, it works just as good on Einstein level geniuses as the local village idiot. And that is why it exists, had it only affected the dumb people then no one would have ever bothered with it since the value would be minimal.

As an example just go over to Phoronix right now, people who are normally sane and of average intelligence are now there spewing insane ideas of Putin liberating the Ukrainian population from Nazis and so forth.

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Quoting: FurysparkWhere were everyone's sanctions against China when they took over Hong Kong? Among probably at least a dozen other examples.

This is just a PR move, and I kinda hope it blows up in their faces.

There have been at least 20 sanctions against China since 1949, nothing as global as today's sanctions against Russia but I can promise you that if China decided to invade Taiwan they would be put under equal sanctions as Russia is today.

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The update seam to break for a lot of players including lots and lots of Windows users. For me it worked just as fine (or bad) as it have always done, still crashes for me at the fight in the granary near the end of The Following.

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Quoting: AnzaFor me it didn't get worse...though it didn't get better either.

My problem has been "Cannot initialize renderer" since I switched from nVIDIA to AMD. Apparently compiling Mesa without libglvnd migh help, but haven't gotten around doing that.

libglvnd shouldn't be the problem in a recent enough mesa. I don't remember exactly on which version it was fixed, I think it was on the 19.x branch but could be wrong.

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What a breath of fresh air it is to listen to Gabe, a CEO of a gaming company that not only knows and loves gaming but that also have intimate knowledge of the product that they create and distribute.

Regarding a v2, I don't expect that to happen until 2024 at the earliest. First AMD have to release a better enough APU and then they have to create one that they can produce in the numbers needed. Going by the sales numbers I would expect Steam to drop the middle SKU, if people mostly buy the most expensive version then the middle one sounds completely unnecessary.

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Anza

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me think . . . they make consoles to sell more games, they make games to sell more hardware. Does anyone ever make a thing just to sell that thing, any more? :wink:

IKEA? Or perhaps they have a stake in marriage counselling?

Bit offtopic, but isn't IKEA making furniture to be able to sell more meatballs? Or was it other way around? They might make more money from marriage counselling though...

If I would want to smooth jump back to the topic, rings are used to mark that people are married. Which would awkwardly lead me to Elden Ring...

The meatballs came much later, for the first 24 years they only sold furniture.

No company perfects their business plans right away :tongue:

True, but then Ingvar Kamprad was a very strange businessman, while having billions in his bank account he used to travel via public transport to business meetings since it was cheaper than riding limo.

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Quoting: Anza

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Purple Library GuyMakes me think . . . they make consoles to sell more games, they make games to sell more hardware. Does anyone ever make a thing just to sell that thing, any more? :wink:

IKEA? Or perhaps they have a stake in marriage counselling?

Bit offtopic, but isn't IKEA making furniture to be able to sell more meatballs? Or was it other way around? They might make more money from marriage counselling though...

If I would want to smooth jump back to the topic, rings are used to mark that people are married. Which would awkwardly lead me to Elden Ring...

The meatballs came much later, for the first 24 years they only sold furniture.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: KimmoKM

Quoting: JahimselfAre the performance any good? If yes what hardware do you have? There are thousands of posts on the forum of person with High End computer running very poorly.

Before refunding the game at 1h played because it didn't seem like I would end up liking it, I didn't have performance issues despite having below recommended minimum spec setup (RX580, which was listed as the minimum requirement, and CPU below the listed minimum). With medium settings (sans motion blur and other silliness) rendered at 1080p (upscaled to 1440p using FXR) I was getting 60fps indoors, 30-40fps once I entered the open world, no framerate-instability. I've also seen videos of Chinese journalists with review copies running the game smoothly on Steam Deck, which has an even lower spec (although I guess that was 720p and minimum settings).

For a game that doesn't look very impressive in terms of tech that's not very good performance, but unless the later areas are more demanding or something, that almost sounds like above-Windows performance, it certainly can't be much worse, because I keep hearing a lot of complaints (indeed, that's the prime reason for its mixed Steam rating, along with other technical deficiencies like capped framerates, lack of widescreen support, etc).

Whats the point of ever increasing hardware performance if devs just throw out millions of TFLOPS with poorly optimized games. Im hoping that the steam deck spawns even more PC handhelds and is of course a massive success so at least some developers can target the 1.8TFLOPS of the Steam Deck and not the 10TFLOPS of the highest end consoles.

To sell new hardware of course :)

Makes me think . . . they make consoles to sell more games, they make games to sell more hardware. Does anyone ever make a thing just to sell that thing, any more? :wink:

IKEA? Or perhaps they have a stake in marriage counselling?

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: KimmoKM

Quoting: JahimselfAre the performance any good? If yes what hardware do you have? There are thousands of posts on the forum of person with High End computer running very poorly.

Before refunding the game at 1h played because it didn't seem like I would end up liking it, I didn't have performance issues despite having below recommended minimum spec setup (RX580, which was listed as the minimum requirement, and CPU below the listed minimum). With medium settings (sans motion blur and other silliness) rendered at 1080p (upscaled to 1440p using FXR) I was getting 60fps indoors, 30-40fps once I entered the open world, no framerate-instability. I've also seen videos of Chinese journalists with review copies running the game smoothly on Steam Deck, which has an even lower spec (although I guess that was 720p and minimum settings).

For a game that doesn't look very impressive in terms of tech that's not very good performance, but unless the later areas are more demanding or something, that almost sounds like above-Windows performance, it certainly can't be much worse, because I keep hearing a lot of complaints (indeed, that's the prime reason for its mixed Steam rating, along with other technical deficiencies like capped framerates, lack of widescreen support, etc).

Whats the point of ever increasing hardware performance if devs just throw out millions of TFLOPS with poorly optimized games. Im hoping that the steam deck spawns even more PC handhelds and is of course a massive success so at least some developers can target the 1.8TFLOPS of the Steam Deck and not the 10TFLOPS of the highest end consoles.

To sell new hardware of course :)

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So the videos are starting to come in and so far they look quite good for the Deck despite the clickbaits.

LTT have made a very positive video despite the clickbaity thumbnail and title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXIOuUUZO2s [External Link]

I do have to disavow one of my previous predictions because it sounds like LTT is actually planning to do a Windows install review of the Deck sometime in the future.

Gamers Nexus similarly (which is somewhat unusual for them) also went the clickbait road today but with a very positive video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUh2qtjZu4E [External Link]

And Adam Savage have myth busted out a very indepth 1h review of the Deck (by way of Norman Chan):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRdZsYBv0gk [External Link]

Digital Foundry is ecstatic (PS4 console quality on a Handheld):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TRzEGPbfE [External Link]

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