I reckon this game is too cute to be called "distopian" :D

Absolutely beautiful graphics though. I'm not sure a point-n-click is my thing anymore, but I'm still tempted to pick this up!

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Have a great holiday everyone - Merry Christmas! Here's to EAC working in 2021 - a Christmas miracle? :grin:

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So many games. In date order:

Native
Iris and the Giant
Wildermyth
Fort Triumph
Nimbatus: The Space Drone Constructor
Space Grunts 2
Burning Knight
ΔV: Rings of Saturn
Half Life: Alyx
Blasphemous (technically 2019, but only released for Linux this year)
Children of Morta
Superliminal
Carrion
art of rally
Hellpoint
Wasteland 3

Proton
Risk of Rain 2
Neoverse
Gunfire Reborn
Outer Wilds
Lightmatter
Noita

There's also a bunch of games I played for the first time this year (but not launched this year):
Mr Shifty
The Forest (proton)
Mindustry
Manaspark
Dark Souls III (proton)
Control (proton, yesterday!)

There's others, but these stand out as the ones I really enjoyed. I've played much, much more this year than previous years, probably because I had extra cash from not having to travel, not eating in restaurants and not going to the pub! Also, my VR experiences have been fun, so from a technology/gaming perspective, it's been a fun year to offset all the realities and politics happening in the "real" world.

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Quoting: drlambIt's about the long term here. Stadia has helped Linux game development 10X what Valve has been able to do thus far in terms of AAA studios developing for/on Linux. While you may never benefit directly from this, its benefits are there.

Uh... what?? Do you mean "Stadia has helped Linux game availability 10X what Valve has been able to do thus far"? Because the points being made above are that Stadia has only very indirect impact on actual Linux game development.

And the benefits aren't there. They probably won't be for years, and even that's assuming that all the other AAA studios don't do what CDPR did, which was to pass the buck on Vulkan entirely to another company to deal with. Which bypasses the one benefit we thought we might get from Stadia - greater engagement with Vulkan.

To be completely clear - I'll never use a streaming games service, so I'm talking here as a Linux gamer, who is wondering whether Stadia can have any useful/positive impact on my future gaming experience.

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Quoting: LinuxwarperAnd Google is somehow much better? The problem isn't that they shutdown projects, they are the problem. I've seen many sites and services respect GDPR. But Google? They have already opted you into everything when you use their services. And when you click to opt out they add in a extra layer of barrier that is a prompt asking you if you are sure. Making the process of protecting yourself from their data collecting cumbersome and tiring.

Curious what country you live in that allows Google to use opt-out policies.

Here in the UK, everything Google does is opt-in. Everything.

Location. Contacts. Imprint. Assistant. It's CONSTANTLY popping up permissions when you first start using their services. Hell, you can't even search without accepting the privacy policy.

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Oh thank god. Well, thank Wimpy, I suppose, but you know what I mean. Been wanting to try this for a while now, but never could be bothered building it myself. Great news!

Now if someone could do gamescope too, that would be just dandy. :grin:

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PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 gamemoderun %command% --launcher-skip

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Cyberpunk 2077\bin\x64
1.Rename Cyberpunk2077.exe to Cyberpunk2077.exe.bak
2. Use a hex editor on the Cyberpunk2077.exe.
3. Replace "75 30 33 C9 B8 01 00 00 00 0F A2 8B C8 C1 F9 08" with "EB 30 33 C9 B8 01 00 00 00 0F A2 8B C8 C1 F9 08".
4. Replace "55 48 81 ec a0 00 00 00 0f 29 70 e8" with "c3 48 81 ec a0 00 00 00 0f 29 70 e8".

This turns the bad AVX call into a return and increase perfomance for AMD processors.
DISCLAIMER: May be breaking things under the hood, but seems stable.

Just to be clear - item #3 in that list is to enable hyperthreading in AMD processors. CDPR appears to have used an intel-biased compiler which forces AMD chips to only use a single thread of each core. It can remove your CPU bottleneck pretty significantly.

But since you're patching the primary executable, it'll be undone by any minor changes that CDPR make via Steam updates or GOG Galaxy. Pretty temporary upgrade! But by all accounts worth - reports between 15% and 30% increase in framerate on CPU-bound AMD systems which have beefy GPUs.

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Quoting: DerBrockenikiruto because it have nothing to do with the overlay
the overlay works fine

It's rare, but sometimes the Steam overlay can work, but still cause issues. It's a good shout to try disabling if you're seeing issues. Probably not the case here though - more likely just the demands of the game itself.

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Just stopping by to say 10/10 for the title of this article.

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Quoting: poiuzOf course, isn't it the definition of outsourcing: Paying someone else to do the work (in contrast to hire or train someone to do the work "in-house"). There is no difference to CDPR paying QLOC to do the port (though I think that Google paid CDPR that they're "allowed to pay" QLOC).

Not really. Outsourcing is when you devolve responsibility for something you're already doing in house, to a contractor or third party. Valve weren't doing any of this (DXVK, Wine, etc) in house. They're not outsourcing here, they're sponsoring. And in some of those cases, after the sponsorship, they've offered the jobs in house.

I'd love Valve to have a bit more transparently over their plans for Linux. I couldn't even tell you how many of their staff are dedicated to Linux. From a quick google, I could only find a handful (4 or 5) announcements of staff joining for Linux-specific roles.

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