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Quoting: tuubiDX12 and Vulkan are contemporary standards with the same fundamental approach (both basically built on top of the design of AMD's Mantle), while DX7 was designed for old, fixed function hardware.

It has nothing to do with this case. DX7 could be implemented even on Vulkan 1.0. It's just that the dev of D7VK based his work on the latest DXVK, not the one that required Vulkan 1.1. This leads to a stupid situation where retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware. Even newer than required for DX9/DX11/DX12 games when you use Proton-Sarek.

Thanks for the correction. But that doesn't really mean "retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware", unless they don't work at all with plain old WineD3D.

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Quoting: tuubiDX12 and Vulkan are contemporary standards with the same fundamental approach (both basically built on top of the design of AMD's Mantle), while DX7 was designed for old, fixed function hardware.

It has nothing to do with this case. DX7 could be implemented even on Vulkan 1.0. It's just that the dev of D7VK based his work on the latest DXVK, not the one that required Vulkan 1.1. This leads to a stupid situation where retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware. Even newer than required for DX9/DX11/DX12 games when you use Proton-Sarek.

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Quoting: scaineHard to get excited about this when not only is our O/S not supported, but the features are largely locked to the underwhelming 9000 series of cards.

It promises a nice direction of travel, but there's just nothing really tangible yet.

While I do agree with you on the first part, I don't find the 9000 series to be underwhelming at all. On the contrary I have been very happy with the performance of my 9070 XT which I picked up for a decent price on Black Week. It was a good jump in performance compared to my 5 year old RX 6800 and has been working great under CachyOS.

But I guess it largely depends on you expectations and what you compare them to.

Good point! It's underwhelming (for me) because I have a 7900xtx, so not much a performance jump.

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There is two excuses for the price. One, it is a licensed game. They had to pay royalties for the owners the Terminator franchise. Two, they also licensed the "Bad To The Bone" song, which obviously had to pay royalties.

Lets not forget the original SNES/Genesis game launched for double the price, over 30 years ago, a bad game that don't even compare to this in any metric.

I'm not saying this is a cheap game, just that a equivalent indie game don't have to pay royalties for life to anybody. This one does.

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Surprisingly good announcements this year at least for my taste in games. ONTOS and No Law are the ones I'm most looking forward to.

It will be interesting to see how the Tomb Raider games turn out. Considering that Amazon is the publisher I anticipate the worst, but maybe this will be a return to form for the franchise.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeAh, I guess it is yet again time to update, log into wayland, be disappointed, log back into X11, and hope next month brings undocumented but welcome improvements :D

What problems are you facing on wayland?

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Last week, I briefly went through Miasmata (wine), Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY (native), Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: Le Chuck's Revenge (wine), Monster Truck Madness (wine now crashes), and Moonlighter (native).

I am going thru all the games I own (now at letter 'M' as first letter of title) to re-visit and meticulously record the progress and any hints that can help me get back to the game after a long gap.

Learned my lesson with one game I tried to get back to after several years only to find that I couldn't even progress successfully without having to start from scratch to go back through the tutorials and re-learn the techniques to gather resources so I can defeat a boss which I am stuck at.

Monster Truck Madness used to work a few years ago last time I played, but now crashes in wine 10.x, or even wine 6.x which I keep around for some games. I have no inclination to build much older wine with 16-bit code (I don't think that's even possible with latest Linux distro) so I'll have to give up on this game. I still have license for Windows 95 and kept the laptop part that goes with it, but I highly doubt I will allocate a disk image on my file system for that and waste time maintaining it.

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Quoting: Beta VersionDX7->Vulkan translation layer requires Vulkan 1.3, while you can play DX12 games on Vulkan 1.1 hardware. It's just so stupid.

DX12 and Vulkan are contemporary standards with the same fundamental approach (both basically built on top of the design of AMD's Mantle), while DX7 was designed for old, fixed function hardware. In fact, DirectX 8 was the first major transition towards programmable pipelines. Makes sense that some extensions might be required to facilitate a reasonable mapping of that old tech on top of a modern graphics API.

I'm not saying it doesn't suck if you're still on older hardware like RDNA1/Polaris or the GTX 1000 series, but at least the requirement does make sense in this case. I'm sure it would be possible to implement less efficient "shims" in the translation layer for the required functionality, but I doubt it's high on their agenda.

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I played it on console. It was ugly smeary mess. There was like weird clear layer around the hair, I think it is called a "halo artifact". It looked terrible. The game was good and I'll probably play it again, but I hope PC settings and FSR4 can get rid of it.

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It seemed fine enough to me..

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637/post/3lzmkcsdulc2y

The levels, robots, and weapons all look decent. Some of the faces need to be redone. Am I missing something?

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DX7->Vulkan translation layer requires Vulkan 1.3, while you can play DX12 games on Vulkan 1.1 hardware. It's just so stupid.

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Quoting: Tethys84I really wish all remasters would be given to Nightdive. No one comes anywhere close to their quality. Aspyr, of all developers, doing remasters is nuts. They were exclusively known for porting games to Mac all the way back to the 1990s. I don't know when they started doing projects like this.

Blade Runner: "Enhanced" Edition would have a word with you. That one is a proper disaster. MVG damaged Nightdive's (and his own) reputation singlehandedly there. This is basically THE reason I'm not going in blind with Nightdive. The most recent Blood: Refreshed Supply apparently does Blood's already sloppy prior remaster history justice.

Overall, they seem to be the most competent remaster house around, sure, but they've had their share of sloppy work out. Speculation on my part, but it looks like it largely depends on who's looking over their shoulders. Microsoft/Bethesda? You're getting solid work and proper fixes, and community communication, and probably a free upgrade to boot. Atari? Abandon all hope. Disney? Mostly fine, but you'll be paying a premium no matter what happens there.

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I have started playing fallout 4 with mods .
but unfortunately of the 113 mods only 89 working and only via the original launcher(f4se always crashes when i load the first save mission).Happy Christmas to everyone.

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Quoting: scaineHard to get excited about this when not only is our O/S not supported, but the features are largely locked to the underwhelming 9000 series of cards.

It promises a nice direction of travel, but there's just nothing really tangible yet.

While I do agree with you on the first part, I don't find the 9000 series to be underwhelming at all. On the contrary I have been very happy with the performance of my 9070 XT which I picked up for a decent price on Black Week. It was a good jump in performance compared to my 5 year old RX 6800 and has been working great under CachyOS.

But I guess it largely depends on you expectations and what you compare them to.

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I don't know when they started doing projects like this.

It's been a decade of it:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/312840/Fahrenheit_Indigo_Prophecy_Remastered/

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Quoting: GerarderloperHow does FEX work in this instance? is this going to allow you to install Android APK packages and run them like a normal app?

Not exactly - FEX is for running x86 binaries on ARM hardware. For running Android apps Valve is working on Lepton.

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Quoting: gbudnyWhat version of Candy Cruncher did you play?

You can see it in the titlebar of the screenshot. Version 1.51.03 of the game.
[Changlog](https://ia902902.us.archive.org/19/items/lgp-patches/candycruncher/candycruncher-1.55-1.56-x86.run.txt)

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I don't want to simply say that I liked or didn't like a game, because I don't feel that is truly helpful.

It *is*. In reality, comments like "great game" and "it sucked" don't get shown as top reviews, but the 👍 or 👎 you give counts, as well as the fact that people have actually voted.

If you see a game with 50000 reviews at 98% 👍, that's a well made game. If people didn't review because they don't have something comprehensive to write, that same game would get 30 reviews, and the 👍 rate would give you no statistically significant information.

So please, leave a simple review just to give the valuable positive/negative binary feedback.

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Judging by the numbers, any review, short or long is helpful for a small dev

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Quoting: plain_textOk, great game , but its a bit overpriced??

And the game is not "that" great it seems...

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Thanks, Highball. I might give it a whirl one day.

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Yeah, the game looks amazing, but the price seems pretty hefty... I really do want to encourage day 1 Linux support though... big dilemma.

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That's the best xmas video I've seen all season.

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It's really sad. I've come across some really great games over the years that seemingly no one noticed or played. Not going to lie, I wish we could go back to something resembling the Steam Greenlight days, where games had to voted on to be able to be on the store. It would just need some tweaking to make sure it wasn't exploitable by shady developers. I feel it would really help cut down on the thousands of legitimately bad, low-effort-made games that flood the store daily. It frustrates me that so many good games get overlooked by most because it's not an established property. It's the same issue I have with Hollywood. The majority of stuff that doesn't have a known franchise attached to it gets ignored. Sure there are always exceptions, but those feel rare in comparison.

I don't review games or anything else generally. I'm not good at articulating my thoughts and feelings about something in a way that I believe would be helpful to anyone, and I don't want to simply say that I liked or didn't like a game, because I don't feel that is truly helpful.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearWeird question, but can you get rid of those borders around the active window?

Yes, just reduce the Active Window Hint size to 0.

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I really wish all remasters would be given to Nightdive. No one comes anywhere close to their quality. Aspyr, of all developers, doing remasters is nuts. They were exclusively known for porting games to Mac all the way back to the 1990s. I don't know when they started doing projects like this.

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Quoting: LinasThe style was fine. Also, you can just play the original, if you prefer that. Some people just need to complain about everything.

It works out though sometimes. Like with the hideous Sonic the Hedgehog from the original trailer for the first movie. If people hadn't created a stink they wouldn't have fixed it. In this case I'm with the people who didn't like how it looked.

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: notinuseI've been playing Legend of Grimrock 2. I like old-type dungeon crawls similar to Dungeon Master, and Grimrock 2 adds outdoor areas that work better than I expected. Having a lot of fun crawling around the sewers. :smile:

This is high on my list! You think it'd be good on the Deck? Or is a mouse keyboard better?

I'm not sure. I've never played it on a console or using a controller. Only played it using a keyboard and mouse, the game works well that way.

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Well, without looking closely, as someone tangentially familiar with Factorio (having played the demo for maybe an hour), my first thought on seeing that video thumbnail was: "Huh. They're really ripping off closely copying the Factorio look, aren't they?"

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I'm a little disappointed in the Star Wars racing game going from the cool and unique visuals of podracers (jet-engine-driven chariots!) to…the same boring, rigid-body speeders/ships that are everywhere else in Star Wars with a slightly different design. But eh. Might keep an eye on that and the Fate of the Old Republic.

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