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Quoting: mindedieIf perfect DRM existed,

There is. It's called a "offering a good product that's worth its money". People typically don't pirate if they don't think the pirates have the better product.

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I could not care less for Denuvo. Publisher that treat me without respect will not earn my money. That includes games shipped with Denuvo as well as with KLAC.

Quoting: sarmadMultiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring

Agree with "server-side", disagree with "AI based monitoring". I would probably one of the first people getting banned for not hacking, because I play games like games and not guided (as 98% of all players these days do). AI is discriminating based on their trainings data. It is common sense that it should not be used for surveillance and Monitoring to filter cheaters is nothing else.

Classic server-side anti-cheats are totally fine and good enough to create a nice gaming experience for everyone. It is just more expensive to create game specific anti-cheat solutions compared to allrounder tools (where legit players pay the price). The few people that will stay unrecognized by classic server-side anti-cheat will also exist with AI anti-cheat or with KLAC or any other anti-cheat method. How do you want to detect dobbing? The goal is not to reduce cheaters to zero, but to create a gaming experience for every legit player that doesn't feel like there is any cheater and there is no much difference in capability between all these methods. However, AI-anti-cheat also banns legit players and therefor it is even as bad as KLAC.

Anyway, anti-cheat is a different topic, DRM is to prevent piracy, nothing else.

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That includes the likes of GeForce 700 series, GeForce 900 series and GeForce 10 series for desktops along with various notebook chips like 800M, 900M and GeForce 10 Series (Notebooks)

And the MX150 through to MX350 chipsets too (all Pascal architecture).

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Frankly, as an offline gamer, I dislike online checks as much as, if not more than, Denuvo Anti-Tamper. I want nothing to do with games that employ either approach for DRM. Show me trust and you will get my money. Provide demos too. 😊

Quoting: sarmadSingle player games should have no anti-cheat protection.

As I understand it, Denuvo is not anti-cheat. Just looking at its full name, it is anti-tamper DRM -- it performs a completely different function.

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What about Q-Dos? Oh, it is Q-DOS, the original from not Microsoft.
Still wondering what was so special that Microsoft could basically patent the CP/M filesystem.

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Single player games should have no anti-cheat protection. You bought the game; you should be free to do whatever the hell you want with it.

Multiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring + community reporting to battle cheating. No anti-cheat tricks should be included in the game running on users machines.

This is how it should be done. Anything else is non-sense.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

After moving to Bazzite full time last year I have put it on 5 different PCs in my house from mini PCs to full gaming desktops and have had few issues, none of them unsolvable. Having tried everything from Arch to Ubuntu in the past this has been one of the least frustrating OSs and the one that has felt most seamless. Gaming mode and Desktop mode have both worked well and the ease of rebasing between them is great.

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Now then Valve, can we talk about Danger Zone CS2 yet? Where is it? Are we getting it? Come on! Give us what we want.

There is an unofficial port of it available: https://epidemic.gg/dangerzone

The issue is that it doesn't have a lot of players since it's hard to discover.

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Quoting: williamjcmPirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

Plenty of video comparing (near) last version with Denuvo (other DRM) and first version without it. Depending how hard dev/publisher gone DRM route. Sensible ones - basically no difference in performance, binaries slightly bigger, maybe hick-up at the start/first launch, similar starting/loading times... Extreme ones - binary multiple time bigger, half to near a gig, performance loss well over 10-30% on beefy PC with well over recommended spec machines, min spec unplayable, stutter, slowdowns etc... and multiple variations in between.

Denuvo and other publishers spreading plenty of FUD, likely more than any pirate. Pirates do not have much of marketing budgets.

If perfect DRM existed, had proper demo/test version, hones review, etc... dev/publisher won't get more sales. Paying one would pay, pirates would go do other things. In current world... DRM deliver less.

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Quoting: Salvatosnot made up ammunition for baseless prejudice

What's the 'baseless prejudice' regarding Denuvo?

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And Sony is going to release firmware that will disable this "unintended harmful functionality" in THREE, TWO, ONE!
Seen it all before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AJmAcpciBs&t=1s

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

I have Bazzite on my Ally, Nvidia 1660 gaming laptop, and all AMD Desktop since August last year and it's all super smooth. I count myself lucky though as the hardware always worked great under Linux. I previously used Ubuntu on everything, but the 25.10 upgrade was such a catastrophe and left my PC unusable that I dropped it in favor of Bazzite, and never looked back. I mostly do gaming, web browsing, and some light development stuff.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

Bazzite is an *excellent* daily driver, far better than anything else. I've had it for a year and a half, with zero issues! Meanwhile with Ubuntu something was always broken and I had to fix things constantly. Bazzite worked better from day one, it's absolutely amazing and it's unbreakable.

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Quoting: Talon1024The Blender Foundation is getting absolutely roasted for accepting this "donation", and rightfully so!

As an open source project, their ultimate goal should be to have a good feedback loop between their users and the developers. It even says, in enormous letters, on the front page of the Blender website:

It's about people.

Accepting this donation, from a company that represents everything wrong with the tech industry over the past 8 years, betrays that goal of having goodwill between the users and developers.

It would be wise for them to return the money, and deny any future donations from them, or any other company whose primary product is an AI or LLM.

the alternative is to let those "people" keep the money I'm more than happy with them taking it so long as they're not beholden to anything they say

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Upgraded yesterday as well with not a single issue. I am on workstation and all I can say is that it still runs great. I already noticed higher framerates on a hand full of games, even though my 9060 it was already running everything pretty darn well.

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lol. lmao, even. nice investment morons

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That's a shame 2K is using Midnight Suns as a testbed for this crap, nobody bought it despite being a genuinely great game and now even less people will bother with it because of this.

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Quoting: williamjcmPirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

Was looking for the Downvote button, then I realized this isn't Reddit.

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MIT license, for those who are wondering.

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Quoting: Serious_TableWe're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

Personally I’m here for truthful news, not made up ammunition for baseless prejudice. If I’m going to hate Denuvo, let it be for what it actually is, not exaggerations and false claims.

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Quoting: TangoBakerBecause there's a game that everyone's dying to get their hands on. C'mon guys, at this point, you should be paying people to play midnight suns.

Never heard of Disney Midnight Suns. Is 2K really so paranoid? Speaking of paranoid, Disney have been pulling a bunch of games from Steam so it probably won't be around for long anyway.

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I'm probably going to get under fire for saying this but - the problem with Denuvo is that people keep buying games released with it. If a game has DRM, I will simply not buy it regardless of how shiny and modern it is. Logging into my account to download a game I paid for is the only check there's needed.

As for 2K DRM - LOL, it will eventually be bypassed. If they managed to break the steel wall of Denuvo, they will find a way to break the wooden one from 2K too.

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Marvel's Midnight Suns

Because there's a game that everyone's dying to get their hands on. C'mon guys, at this point, you should be paying people to play midnight suns.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

Absolutely fantastic. I regret putting Ubuntu on anything else in my home. I'm heavily into containers, k8s, etc for work though so I'm already used to just doing everything in things like distrobox. There have been instances where something doesn't work, but you run update, restart and its all good again.

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Denuvo DRM reportedly fully cracked open

That's a very far stretch. Which should be clear when you follow the link to reddit:
`Hypervisor workaround by DenuvOwO`.

They just use some workaround with a hypervisor (which needs to deactivate important security features in windows *outch*), but they did not crack Denuvo.

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Quoting: Claude_Lib

We also have the new Remote Downloads Management feature, which allows you to control downloads on other systems like adjusting downloads on a Steam Deck or other handhelds from your PC. Quite a useful one if you have multiple systems in a household.

It only allows starting downloads that are already pending, not initiating new downloads on a remote device, for that I still have to open my community profile, go to Games, find the game and download it from there, I can't do it directly from the library, so that's kinda useless.
Also, a bunch of non-Steam shortcuts from my desktop popped up on my Deck with the "Stream" button instead of "Play". Maybe it's related to Remote Play, but I double checked and it's disabled everywhere. Anyone else having that issue?
Okay, for the non-Steam shortcuts issue, I had to switch the Remote Play toggle on and off several times on both devices, then it fixed itself.

You can install a game on another device directly from the Steam Library. Not the best flow, as it thinks you want to stream it, but it works.

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Denuvo bad, but also ya as Tom's said this Hypervisor bypass has you run a script to take basically all low-level security down and restart for it to work. The cracks (I've seen them through FitGirl Repacks) provide the scripts to take it down and bring it back up, but these are hackers writing it by definition, so I hope everyone takes appropriate precautions and that Windows users don't forget to bring their stuff back up...

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Quoting: williamjcmThe hypervisor bypass actually harms performance, by the way. I remember a post comparing performance in RE9 between the legit version and the actual crack, but the "legit" side of it was actually with the bypass applied, while the actual, unmodified game actually performed on par with the cracked version.

Pirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

We're not seriously going out of our way, on a Linux-specialized news site, to try and protect the honor of a DRM vendor that can lock you out of playing your game by changing your Proton version, are we? Because that's what it looks like.

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Denuvo was cracked so 2K is adding online checks... that won't affect pirates.

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Quoting: d3Xt3rNow do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.

What application would you want to replace it? Discover exists, but I feel its far more buggy when handling flatpaks compared to Bazaar.

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