Quoting: F.UltraNah winter is -30°C and 20h darkness for 3 months straight, you should try that sometime ;)

I'd really love to, actually: Arctic winter is very high on my list of things I want to see. That's pretty far north, right? Norway Or sweden, perhaps? Canada or Alaska maybe?

I can't even conceive of that kind of cold.

Quoting: F.UltraNow during the heatwave I've had about 32°C at my computer desk, now that was horrible.

I once rode my motorbike from Uluru to Alice Springs on a particularly warm day. I was wearing full bike leathers and the air temp guage on the bike was reading 49. That was a bit hotter than the actual air temp that day because I was getting more heat from the road - the official temp in Alice was "only" 46 that day.

THAT was warm.

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Quoting: tuubiI don't think you've earned the right to use the word. Let's call it summer lite or something.

Haha, nah that's totally winter. I was looking at my thermometer the other night at about 2am and it was down to 10 degrees! Ten! I think we can all agree that's just intolerable ;)

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Quoting: Liam DaweAC? Never heard of it. :whistle:

Be thankful for that, it comes with eyewatering power bills.

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Bloody whinging pommies - 27 degrees is "hot", Lol. That's winter temperatures mate! :tongue:

Coincidentally, I saw an interesting thing about this exact subject not long ago, how e.g the houses are designed differently to keep heat in, and AC basically isn't a thing over there, so on a day where it's 27 outside it can get quite warm indoors.

...doesn't change the fact that you're whingers, though... ;)

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Quoting: emphySingle player is the multi-player against bots.

To elaborate more: Single player is a tournament where you play against pre-specified bots on pre-specified levels, going up the ladder until you win the tournament.

It's good and fun, but it's not a single player campaign like the original unreal.

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Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant an installer for this new version. I'm pretty sure I still have the old one sitting around in my archive :)

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Quoting: scainethink about the end-game, which is perfect, seamless support for all Windows games, on Linux.

Firstly, that's not my end-game. I'm not particularly interested in running windows games on Linux. I'd rather have Linux games.

Secondly, the idea of having perfect, seamless support for all Windows games is a pipe dream that will never happen unless Microsoft opens up the relevant tech (directx, win32 api or whatever the modern equivalent is), which they will absolutely never do. Even if they did you're only going to get up tp ~95% compatibility. Without the specs (at least) for these techs being open it's always going to be a reverse-engineering effort where you're playing whack-a-mole with new versions of APIs. If you think that this is a reasonable goal you're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

You're not going to get perfect support for all windows games under wine. Not ever. This is the nature of emulation. 100% is not achievable, even with open specs and non-moving targets. Attempting it with windows is bold and commendable but ultimately futile and laughable. Wine can't even run the ~20 year old stuff that I want to run.

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Mine is just a regular CD, not a loki one, I had to download the Linux installer. It's been a few years since I tried it but I didn't have too hard a time getting it to work. IIRC the biggest issue I had was trying to get 1024x768 or whatever the maximum resolution was to work properly. I may have had to run it in a window.

But this is great news! 64 bit, higher resolution, support for modern machines - yay!

Does anyone know if there's an installer for people who own the CD? Or do I have to buy it again (which means waiting until it's available on a non-steam store)?

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Quoting: Ehvisa lazy dev is not likely to produce a port anyway, so it won't make much of a difference.

Well, for example, we got Papers, Please on Linux, but not Return Of Obra Dinn. I'd bet that proton is the reason why.

Quoting: EhvisAs for the refunds, we now have proof that you can get them for these special cases, even if time is exceeded by a large margin.

I'm not talking about these special cases where the dev has specifically told valve to allow refunds after 2 hours, I'm talking about buying a game to run it under proton. What happens if Doom 2016 crashes due to some wine bug at 2:01? What about a game that isn't on proton's "supported" list but which the dev has told me "just use proton. But it's not officially supported"?

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when "viable workarounds exist" with Wine being mentioned.

This is exactly what I predicted and why proton is not a good thing. It gives devs the option to just be lazy: "Just use proton. Oh it doesn't work? Well we don't actually support it, so tough. Oh, the problem occurred 2 hours and 1 minute into the game? I guess no refund for you."

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