I was about to write the same about SteamDB.

Your sale page is useful, I used to check it regularly, but I currently don't have much time to play new games, I already have a lot of good ones in my library, in part thank to you :)

A bit off topic, but :
I was wondering... Do you use a cron job or something like this to regularly pull updates for these websites? I am in the process of writing something similar (jobs that have to be scheduled at arbitrary times in php).

Thanks :)

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Quoting: DissCentFinally I can start Steam without the "-no-dwrite" option (which I always forget to add to my command line :P).

So true...

@Liam, I noticed that page 2 is rendering somewhat incorrectly on mobile phones, with items being too large for the page. Maybe an issue related tho the video in the comments ?

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Thanks everyone for this information. I have one more question : since DX12 is very similar to Mantle [External Link], we can expect it to be very similar to vulkan, right ? Will it make a difference in the porting effort to vulkan ? Or is it something we don't know for sure yet?

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Hype, hype, hype !
I've never been that much into paradox games (admittedly I didn't have much time to look into them), but if they come to the space sim genre, that might change.

(Newton's laws will probably be violated once more, though. I might also buy Star Ruler 2, for that matter.)

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I am terribly excited about vulkan. I hope the support will be backed in mesa day one !

About nVidia's debugger, though, IMO they should have worked to improve a cross-vendor solution; that would have meant less work and good tools for everyone... But you know, when you can sell 10x more cards to developers than AMD, logic and ethics don't stand a chance against financials :/

I hope mesa devs will come up with a cross-vendor multi gpu solution for vulkan, though, unless it is exposed directly by the api ?

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Quoting: liamdaweUPDATE: 970 tests have been re-done showing the proper results. It seems my last Nvidia driver update wiped my config and forced Vsync on, apologies, blame Nvidia or something.

I will re-do the 560ti results tonight too.

Thanks liam. Ineed, these figures are much better. Too bad you can't compare with an amd graphics card :P

It seems strange that the previous setting had you have sub-60 fps, though.

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Quoting: mboucharI stream my games from my desktop PC to my laptop while I'm on my sofa (with Steam streaming). So, not sure if it counts as Desktop, Laptop or Sofa PC...

I guess that in this case, "Sofa" is the right answer.
Kidding aside, I am planning to do the same... If only the streaming client could be ported to more devices... I already started to look at reverse-engineering the protocol, but it looks quite complex now. I would be interested to start from the first beta, but it's hard to find an outdated client.

Edit : other than that, I am terribly excited about vulkan :-)

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Agreed. Or they could have been a little more original with the story : given that they use the source engine, and many of valve's games' assets, a zombie shooter in the half-life universe would have been kind of cool... You know, a bit like opposing force, fighting zombies as a MP member.

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Looks like my cup of tea (although I am currently on GPRS, so I can't say for sure).

I've been waiting for a game like this one to come to Linux for a long time. I spent many hours with Sins of a solar empire back then :-)

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Quoting: RTheren8 players on ONE SCREEN!? MY goddness :O

Actually, I am a bit disappointed; steam machines support up to 16 controllers :-P

Just kidding. But it would be nice to have things such as bomberman with support for a lot of controllers.

This one looks interesting; the visuals remind me Minecraft a lot, but prettier (not for mobs, though. They look ugly. Is there any reason for this?)

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