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A French court has ruled that Valve should allow people to re-sell their digital games
20 Sep 2019 at 12:07 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PikoloThis will be an interesting change. It really benefits DRM free stores like GOG - their users already could sell the game if they wanted(breaking the law in a hard to detect fashion), but usually didn't. Some publishers will definitely try to dodge the problems by going into microtransations, where the game is free, but the money is in small items tied to the account, although if this ruling stands, in game item trading might be next.
Reselling a GOG is probably the most unmoral thing you can do if you care about GOG.

I really doubt that this benefits GOG in anyway as they, as Steam, will be forced to create a community market where users are allowed to resell their copies and the business model of GOG will get definitely hit if people starts abusing of the system (and abusing of GOG model is far more easier than abusing of Steam model).

The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)
19 Sep 2019 at 1:36 pm UTC

Quoting: torbidoIt only works with Steam games, right?
Works with anything that runs on radv (i.e. any vulkan application)

The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)
19 Sep 2019 at 11:48 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: sr_ls_boyIs it turned on by default?
Nope

Quoting: phoronixThe ACO back-end with RADV isn't enabled by default at this time but requires setting the RADV_PERFTEST=aco environment variable to activate. Having this mainline is great news for encouraging more testing and feedback. We'll be running some fresh ACO benchmarks shortly for providing the latest Radeon Vulkan performance numbers for Linux gaming.
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The Valve-funded shader compiler 'ACO' is being queued up for inclusion in Mesa directly (updated: merged)
19 Sep 2019 at 11:39 am UTC Likes: 1

Yay! ACO really improves by a lot the frame time on Serious Sam for me (or to be more precise, frame times becomes constant). Good to see that we will have this improvement on 19.3

ScummVM 2.1.0 is now ready for testing with support for more major classics
17 Sep 2019 at 11:57 am UTC

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääBlade Runner! Finally! Now if there was a way to get it on Steam for purchase and launching through ScummVM.
You mean like this?

Beautiful open-world action adventure Pine is releasing next month
13 Sep 2019 at 12:13 pm UTC

Looks like a mix between Fable and Overlord aesthetics. Wishlisting!

Rockfish confirm EVERSPACE 2 will not go exclusive to the Epic Store, Steam is the "best platform" for indies
10 Sep 2019 at 3:04 pm UTC

Quoting: sub
Quoting: x_wing
Quoting: sub1/2 Offtopic.

Is anyone using a MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro 2?
Does it (still) work under Linux?
I have the first version (gameport), unfortunately the ff doesn't work but I read in many places that it should (I read the driver and the support seems to be implemented, I probably did something wrong). Either case, even without ff is a terrific joystick.
Sure, without FF a FF joystick is not even stabilized. :)
It gets stabilized if you connect PSU of the joystick.

Rockfish confirm EVERSPACE 2 will not go exclusive to the Epic Store, Steam is the "best platform" for indies
10 Sep 2019 at 11:12 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: sub1/2 Offtopic.

Is anyone using a MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro 2?
Does it (still) work under Linux?
I have the first version (gameport), unfortunately the ff doesn't work but I read in many places that it should (I read the driver and the support seems to be implemented, I probably did something wrong). Either case, even without ff is a terrific joystick.

openblack is a FOSS game engine for Black & White currently under development
3 Sep 2019 at 2:05 pm UTC

You will have a hard time finding the game, Liam. It completely vanished from earth unfortunately.

Fortunately I still have my copy somewhere (Spanish version), if I have the time I'll test this during the weekend :D