Quoting: DesumWait... Didn't FF7-9 use basically the same engine?

That would be great had it been the case FF8 wouldn't have been the one game that kept being skipped when re releasing the other Final Fantasy games ...

So no although there are some bits of code that has been reused from Final Fantasy 7 there are loooot of stuff that's essentially unique to Final Fantasy 8 .

Hence why Square announcing a "remastered" edition of Final Fantasy 8 made so many fans beyond happy because of lot of the original code was lost . The original CGI cutscenes assets were lost too (hence why they are so blurry in the "remastered edition" it's essentialy the PC version ones with the resolution of that time then upscaled to fit the screen"

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Quoting: EikeSurprise, surprise! ;-)

It's all fine that they want to reach another solution some day. Just not this day.

BTW, what would have been the problem with Ubuntu Studio?

Quite a lot of applications to make music aren't 64 bit just yet ( especially LV2 software instruments ) So most Ubuntu Studio users who uses it for music making would be fucked deeply by them dropping 32 bit libs .

Got a friend that made the rounds of all his software instruments barely 13 % of them have a 64 bit binary ...

Sooo that would be a severe set back music making wise.

EDIT : I saw that somebody answered a bit about Ubuntu Studio but yeah professional VST's are mostly windows only or MAC + Windows , and the open source instruments even they are mostly 32 bits like I just said.

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Quoting: GuestIs it really because of the decision to drop 32bit OS support? Nobody, literally nobody, especially not Valve's target audience, is still using a 32 bit OS unless they just don't know any better. I think it's more because they already have steamOS and ubuntu is falling out of fashion anyways.

Again they are not just dropping the 32 bit flavor , they are freezing the 32 bit multilib in terms of update (essentially deprecating it ) sooo as a result a lot of your games on steam won't work out of the box on newer versions of Ubuntu but more importantly even after trying to get the 32 bit libs it might still not work all that well because they're not updating them anymore either .

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Quoting: Shmerl

What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions.

That's not a good thing either. Given how fast mesa, dxvk and the rest are progressing. It totally should not be frozen.

I mean will those things changing really break much of anything in how those libraries are functionning ?

That's not a troll but a real honest question here . Them freezing up those libraires in their current state would really break shit ?

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Quoting: liamdaweI am obviously, very impure.

Dunno about Impure but at least you can update the article the game is up on steam too now :wink:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1044490/The_Expression_Amrilato/ [External Link]

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I'm just on a binge gaming mood of various Visual Novels lately so i just keep this one up . Especially since itch seems to handle that genre way better than Valve already , and the quality of what goes up there just keeps on improving .

Also I'll be discovering Artifact tonight on stream probably .

@liamdawe The Expression Amrilato just went up on steam ... with no changes to the GOG version apparently ...

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Quoting: liamdaweTo journalists from other websites reading: This does not mean the end of Linux support, Ubuntu is just one distribution.

Isn't it saaad that you FEEL you HAVE to precise that at the bottom of your article ?
Like for real this is the epidemy of "Hey you'll want to pull some shenanigans you can't use my ass for this shit fuck off find another pigeon for this"

Personnaly I hope they will go Pop!_OS even if they recently stated that they grow tired of the whole debian echo system and build system . Sorry not sorry but I never had great experiences with any non debian based distros on the desktop side of things .
So I really really hope they stick with a debian based system and Pop!_OS is the best solution really . Hell they are already better than Ubuntu on some various things .

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As someone who needs to wear glasses once again I'll wait to hear from somebody who just like just can't take of their glasses and tries that thing with the glasses on to know if I should give a VR headset another try ...

Sorry not sorry but tried all three PSVR Occulus and Vive and so far if you wear glasses they all fail to be comfy for somebody who needs glasses ...

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Glad to see that just when they are being shamelessly plagiarized they keep tweaking and refining the game and adding to it , rather than yell at the other studio ...

Also glad to see the continued support on Linux.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: MohandevirValve could up their game and offer a Steamos-Desktop Edition. It's already Debian based and includes a Gnome DE... Both hands on the steering wheel.

Or they can just open source their UI and add it to Debian proper ;)

Isn't it already mostly in Debian proper? Besides maybe the plymouth theme / wallpapers.

I'm a huge supporter of Debian as a desktop / server, whatever.
It really goes like this, use stable with backports (namely kernel / nvidia driver, if you have such hardware, etc.) with the debian-multimedia repo, and you're pretty much set. Then you can wait about a year into stable, then switch to testing, since their release cycles seem to be about every 2 years. Just note that testing gets a bit unstable right after a release, and switch to stable at that point so the couple months of all the new crap coming from experimental and unstable don't break your system.

Coming from someone who has used it since the late 90s :)

Thing is the desktop sessionn is separate from the BPM session that automatically launches . (the BPM mode uses it's own compositor , and the X server is slightly differently configured ) .

So yeah it is mostly Debian based but thing is they customized it a looot .

As far as I am concerned I guess I'll stick with 18.04 for a while once I upgrade to it (and that already brings some problems Devil Daggers being one of them )

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