Quoting: M@GOidThe results in Phoronix are totally encouraging on the Linux side. Vega performance compared to Nvidia is better than on Windows. I'm probably getting one Vega 56 in a couple of months, once the third party coolers are available. It will be THE card to get considering price, power consumption and performance on Linux.

I'll be waiting for Sapphire Nitro version.

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Quoting: operaTDP of 345 Watts is just insane.

Yeah, that's why I'll probably get Vega 56. I don't need some crazy resolutions so far.

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Quoting: wolfyrionThe biggest surprise that I had with GOG is when I discovered that is a Cypriot based company :D ...

I could have sworn they are from Poland.

They are. Their headquarters are in Warsaw. I bet the whole Cyprus registration is for some legal / financial reasons. It's basically a formality, but not sure what for.

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I started Tyranny recently.

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What about DRM-free releases? I'm mostly interested in their potential World of Darkness / Vampire The Masquerade games (since Paradox bought White Wolf). I don't really care about clients and cloud saves.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Doesnt matter if does or does not its not going anywhere.

DRM highlights the conflict of their interest for power vs money. No DRM means more profit, but having DRM means they have a feeling of control and ability to dictate others what to do (even if it's fake). Some simply run after power, no matter the cost. Some are more rational.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Exactly which is why is it's never going away as much as it may get some more customers in personally I have sold out to valve ages ago i own some games through gog but have just pretty much accepted Steams dominance.

DRM only drives customers away, not the other way around.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI can't seem to find it now, but at one point in time I had seen that there was supposedly a law that Microsoft lobbied for that stated a computer could not be sold without an operating system installed. Some companies got around that by installing FreeDOS on the computers they sold.

Can anyone confirm that, it may have just been something I read that was anti-MS at the time, sounded like something they would do, like jacking up the OEM price if companies tried to sell computers with BeOS.

Not a law, but they blackmailed OEMs, that they'll charge more for Windows, if they'll sell computers without an OS. Though I don't think it should have prevented them from selling computers with Linux, though who knows what other shady deals MS could make in secret. That's just one that became public.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20150714080353/http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm#iiie [External Link]

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Quoting: KelsThe bike combat scenes were always terrible, almost legendarily so. No surprise they're still frustrating.

I found them funny, even if quirky.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Then you don't know much about large businesses. They see a problem in piracy the board of says we have to do everything we can to protect out IP and profit. Probably more than one board member says invest heavily in DRM so we make it more and more difficult because on even the legit purchases,what are the geeks going to do not buy our game yeah right.

I am of course paraphrasing but conversations like that do happen in most companies that sell pretty much anything, it is all about maximizing profit while spending the least amount to do so. However when it comes to protecting IP they will spend spend spend.

That's not news, I know that DRM proponents use completely invalid reasons for pushing DRM. In fact they usually have nothing to do with piracy.

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