Microsoft is trying to lock down Windows since Vista. They'll succeed sooner or later. Thankfully we have alternatives.

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I remember playing Dragon's Lair in the arcades as a child. It was not very friendly to casual players like me though... It required a lot of practice, time, and money. It was designed to suck your wallet dry, basically.

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If only I had a half decent line... I can barely watch streams at low quality lol
I can't even play games :'(

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Quoting: LeopardSome people say Blender is a very good editing program,which covered with rendering software id.

It is. The user interface is a bit unconventional but the program is fast, complete, and stable.
The only real BIG problem is that the final video rendering is singlethreaded, which can be an enormous waste of time.

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Quoting: soulsourceCiv 6 has a frame limiter, so you should be able to reduce system load also with proper multithreading.

Didn't notice the frame limiter. Thanks, problem solved i guess :)

Quoting: soulsourceAnyhow, if you consider your CPU fan noise disturbing, I'd recommend to buy a better cooler.

The CPU's fan is normally under 20db but if all 4+4 cores are used the noise could be annoying just because the airflow would be quite substantial.
The most annoying fan is the GF970 one. Right now the game is CPU limited and the GPU fan is not even spinning up, but at 60fps I'm sure it would kick in.

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Right now Civ6 uses 1 thread. I have a 4 cores cpu, this means that only 1 core is being used. This also means that fans are not spinning and I can play in complete silence!
Yes, it's a bit jerky at times, but in a game like this I value the lack of noise much more than 60fps.

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Quoting: KuJoSome possible reasons:

- You are working in an Microsoft Studio (-> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Studios [External Link] )
- The game studio you are working in is sponsored by MS.
- You know DirectX since the 1st version and have no interest to re-adjust your developmnet technics.
- You think (what is wrong) that Vulkan is too complex.
- Your studio focuses only on the Windows market and considers a new, alternative technology to be over-the-top.
- You work in a small studio and experiments are too risky for you.

I would add:
- Xbox One compatibility, which is a really big plus
- Access to a larger pool of experienced graphics programmers
- Better tools

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Quoting: fasterthanlimeThis thread is full of colorful words so I'll just add this disclaimer: we're a small team [External Link] building a company with no external funding.

Fair enough, just remember the less fortunate people out there suffering with their crappy 7mbit ADSL...
Also, good luck! :)

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The itch.io home page is ridiculous though. It's so chock-full of gifs that it saturates my bandwidth taking almost a minute to fully load. And after it's loaded it uses 100% of a CPU core doing nothing. This is piss poor web design. In comparison steampowered.com takes 3 secs to load and 0% CPU.

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Quoting: PerkeleenVittupEven MS themselves realize "something"; they joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member. Linux will be de facto platform for gaming in future. Why not just speed the inevitable up?

MS does not care at all about Linux gaming and certainly did not join the Linux Foundation because of games. They're barely interested in Windows gaming...

They joined the foundation because of the the server market. They need perfect integration for their Azure platform for example.

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