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I have no personal need for this but I absolutely adore that it exists and can't praise it enough because it essentially fights e-waste and follows through on the premise of linux reviving old hardware beyond just making them web browsers, text doc editors, and media servers.

One thing I do wonder however is if this would have any performance gains with specific games even if you do have vulkan 1.3 compliant hardware.

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So, bioshock games have no launcher at all when getting them from gog? (did the gog versions ever have one?)

That sale looks tempting now...

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Oh, that's great! I will probably need to give Shogun 2 a go again :)

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Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do they bother when they know Nintendo is going to shut them down? 🙄

Not happened to a single decomp so far

Banjo Kazooie should come at some point hopefully since that's 100% decompiled now

Not sure why you disapprove so much over such old games being ported to pc lol

It certainly baffles me that Nintendo hasn't shut down these projects, when Rockstar/Take Two was able to shut down re3/reVC three years ago.

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Quoting: PikoloGOG shows Janosik 2 with only Windows support - odd

Not that unusual; apparently GOG makes it extra difficult to support Linux on their store.

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Just to add some of my favorites, all played from GOG on Steam Deck:
Colt Canyon - $3.49 - it's like a Westernized Risk of Rain? Quick fun "runs" with snappy combat and various heros to unlock. I like the rifles and the long pistols best.

FAR: Lone Sails - $2.69 - linear adventure game of about 2.5 hours in length with some fun new ideas. Power your little sand boat and manage some of its systems while navigating a wasteland. There's a sequel too, but it's on Steam only (?)

Loop Hero - $4.39 - Another roguelike looping game where you place card tiles to influence what sorts of monster spawns and rewards you get as your knight autobattles around in a circle. Lots of depth and amazing chiptunes.

Technobabylon - $8.49 - An adventure game set in the future where a digital bohemian and a grizzled cop have a murder to solve. Smartly written with very good characterizations, and a strong sense of place and time (maybe even reminiscent of Beneath a Steel Sky, that 1994 gem)

Hob - $4.39 - Doesn't play great on Deck, but it's serviceable. Runic's final game after Torchlight 2, it's a language-free action adventure sort of like Zelda, with more puzzles and more abilities. Fantastic art and visuals. It's a gem and sadly overlooked.

Other faves not on sale: Star Renegades (turn based action combat, like a blend of FTL meets XCom meets FF Tactics, much better than the 3.7 rating on GOG); Sable (combat-free exploration adventure game with BotW climbing? It had a touching story and captures that sense of invincibility and "the world is HUGE!" that we all had as teens); Perfect Tides (another teen drama set in year 2000, I really enjoyed it, it's better than it looks)

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I highly recommend Cyberpunk 2077 if you liked System Shock 2. Worth every penny.

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Stellaris upgrade bundle is 70% off ( https://www.gog.com/en/game/stellaris_upgrade_bundle )

CrossCode is 70% off ( https://www.gog.com/en/game/crosscode )

So much to look at.

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> NVIDIA support for Turing (GeForce GTX 1600/2000 series) and newer cards

So... Just NVK?

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Quoting: mindedie

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Doktor-Mandrake

Quoting: Mountain ManWhy do they bother when they know Nintendo is going to shut them down? 🙄

Not happened to a single decomp so far

Banjo Kazooie should come at some point hopefully since that's 100% decompiled now

Not sure why you disapprove so much over such old games being ported to pc lol

It's not that I disapprove. Rather, we know for a fact that Nintendo will slap this project with a "cease and desist", so those hobbyists are just wasting their time.

Years, decades later, because hobbyists today "wasting" time, people sailing high seas or random ex employee took something home, will be only preserved, archived, existing copies, samples of tech.
Indeed, waste of their time...

In the grand scheme of life, the universe, and everything, yeah, it is.

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There are only three ways to beat the Anti-Cheat problem:

1. Force the game developers to weaken their anti-cheat for your system (not going to happen with the current number of players)
2. Start cryptographically verifying kernels and bribe a bunch of game companies into supporting those particular kernels. This also does not seem likely to work long-term.
3. Cloud gaming...

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GOG shows Janosik 2 with only Windows support - odd

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: legluondunetIf only Steam had the courage to force Ubisoft and other video game publishers not to use their own launcher when selling their games on Steam, Steam being the launcher. I don't want a launcher in a launcher in a launcher...#inception It generates potential additional technical problems and it uses resources for nothing.

I'm really happy they don't.
I'm pretty sure that would be anti-competative and monopolistic behavior.
It costs resources, but it comes from a good place.

steam doesn't prevent other stores on the same system (not even on the steam deck)

meanwhile...

all consoles (except the steam deck) are completely locked to a single store and even forbid in-game purchases from being processed outside the console manufacturer's store system

apple store, google play (and afaik even microsoft store) forbid 3rd-party stores in their store

apple and google forbids in-app purchases in apps sold through their app store from working outside their store's framework... apps doing so are booted off their store

not sure what you think will be considered monopolistic in a world where the above practices aren't

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there may be Logo of developers like "ubisoft" splash under Steam for that games. İnstead of extra launchers just like Division series. once upon there was a bug which makes ubisoft connect totaly nonsense even overlay hadnt working. and need to change restart wine versions. To update or play or install a piece of software. These days are killing excitement of player just like me. But still i agree developers should make some ADS for their jobs.

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Quoting: hummer010I had somehow missed that EU-IV was on GOG! 90% off for the base game, and several selected expansions is a pretty good deal...

Only noticed it myself today, so figured it was a highlight.

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I had somehow missed that EU-IV was on GOG! 90% off for the base game, and several selected expansions is a pretty good deal...

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This is great for those of us that prefer to game on older hardware.

It's wonderful that the dev saw this obvious need and decided to do something about it! Thanks, pythonlover02!!

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finally 2K games work without this nonsense
eval $(echo "%command%" | sed "s/2KLauncher\/LauncherPatcher.exe'.*/mafiadefinitiveedition.exe'/")

now rockstar!!!! and ubisoft and ea

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They're going to put the PSN launcher as mandatory on Elden Ring, DS1, DS2, DS3, AC6, BB

Here we goooooooo

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Ufff... I really don't have time to play new games now. But this move should be rewarded with some purchase.

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Not only this project enhances the originals, it is also used for custom levels! So if you wanna play something like Sabatu's Tomb Raider 1, you'll need this.

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This is so cool! Happy to see that.

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Thank God! not needing launchers are one reason I buy games from GOG.

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It was such a pain getting Marvel Midnight Suns to launch when it first came out, so this is so needed. Aside from that launcher, it was my 2022 game of the year.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: legluondunetIf only Steam had the courage to force Ubisoft and other video game publishers not to use their own launcher when selling their games on Steam, Steam being the launcher. I don't want a launcher in a launcher in a launcher...#inception It generates potential additional technical problems and it uses resources for nothing.

I'm really happy they don't.
I'm pretty sure that would be anti-competative and monopolistic behavior.
It costs resources, but it comes from a good place.

Steam has already what a second launcher like Ubisoft or...gives:
- DRM protection
- discussions
- achievements
- Steam workshop
- tchat
...

When you sell a game on Steam, editors should use Steam tools.

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I really hope you can disable the flashbangs. Wow, my eyes hurt

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Quoting: legluondunetIf only Steam had the courage to force Ubisoft and other video game publishers not to use their own launcher when selling their games on Steam, Steam being the launcher. I don't want a launcher in a launcher in a launcher...#inception It generates potential additional technical problems and it uses resources for nothing.

I'm really happy they don't.
I'm pretty sure that would be anti-competative and monopolistic behavior.
It costs resources, but it comes from a good place.

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Valve/Steam should take a slightly smaller cut for games that don't use a launcher. Ie 29% instead of 30%.

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Ever since switching from the RPM to the Flatpak version of Steam on my setup exporting video clips has been failing due to this issue, I believe.

Hopefully this updates improves the situation!

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Quoting: PyrateStill waiting on how they're gonna tackle anti-cheat stuff.

Since they're into crypto and "web3", I'm also waiting for the inevitable rugpull.

I think they will fully lock the kernel down.
Blockchain fans often scream a lot about openness without practicing it.
Expect: secure boot, tpm, utilization of the TXT patch and proprietary drivers.
Probably also: hsm.

I would when placed in this position lock down the boot loader, but not the rest of the kernel and advertise and improve KASSLR(kernel address space layout randomization) and add ASSLR capabilities to Godot and/or a popular FOSS game installer.

I would lock down the bootloader, because although I think I've designed a KASSLR protocol that can proof to games that it's implemented with a non-compromised seed, I've yet to find a way to proof that the seed wasn't shared in a way that structurally compromises the the security of the system without locking down the bootloader(which is still an improvement to the full lockdown/Android solution, but not the best).
I see the most hope in assymetric cryptographic primitives for fixing this.

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Quoting: taosecurityI have a 4070 Ti Super. Recording in Windows and exporting worked fine. On Linux, recording worked fine but export was broken. I look forward to testing this fixed version. Thank you Valve.

I haven't tested Steam Game Recording.
You could also use OBS Studio for this.
I've enabled v4l2loopback for streaming and it works flawlessly without affecting performance.

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