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Quoting: liloventWhy aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

These already paid a license. They want the store to pay a license as well.

Well, Microsoft also has several stores, one in Windows and another one on XBox where it sells other games not developed or published by them. And that without talking about GamePass or their cloud services where again you can play games from other companies.

We can also talk about Sony, Nintendo, Apple or Google and their own game stores. I doubt any of them license the songs that all the games sold through their store use.

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So not only do games need their music licenses, but Valve as a store is supposed to have a license too.

I don't think they are. And Valve doesn't think they are, either. Obviously we'll see what the courts say. Licensing agencies like to do a shakedown on the off-chance.

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Quoting: liloventWhy aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

Also, why isn't Epic Games and GOG sued over it, as well as all of the key vendors? Are they next in line to be sued, when Valve gives in?

This is copyrights owner right to select, who they will sue. I think MS is trying to destroy Valve/Steam. Did you remember court battle with Novel against rights to Unix?

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Copyright shit. If I have license shop with boxed games, I can sell these boxes, right?

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UK and everything is clear :D Great law :D

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In 2007, PRS for Music took a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees were allegedly "listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'".

From the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music#Legal_cases

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This is so stupid it makes my brain hurt. I tend to keep writing that phrase around here lately, yikes. So many things going on with legal stuff and politics that warrant that response.

In this case:

Great video games rely on great soundtracks, and the songwriters and creators behind them deserve to have their contribution recognised and fairly valued.

did this caveman Dan Gopal just invalidate his entire legal proceeding with that sentence?!?!?!?!? 🤣 Yes Dan, great games do rely on great soundtracks, yes Dan, they do. Yes Dan, you should absolutely have the game developers pay licenses for that music, yes Dan. You know what I didn't see anywhere in your statement Dan? Anything about a storefront Dan. Oops you forgot something Dan.

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My dream for a steam update one day (I am a simple person):

• it actually exits properly when I press "steam -> exit" and doesn't just sit there forever with a screen that says "steam is shutting down" or whatever, which makes me go to the task manager and force stop the mofo.


• a "download all" button for updates on the download screen

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Quoting: liloventWhy aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

These already paid a license. They want the store to pay a license as well.

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Quoting: wytrabbitI suppose they also want DVD/Blu-ray retailers to pay them for music used in the movies and TV shows they sell?

Italy is introducing tax payments for cloud storage for that.
https://kpmg.com/us/en/taxnewsflash/news/2025/01/tnf-italy-direct-and-indirect-tax-measures-in-2025-budget-law.html

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From the PRS press release, Dan Gopal, Chief Commercial Officer, PRS for Music said:

I had read Don Copal (Manny Calavera's boss) and for a moment I thought; Ha, of course this guy is evil!

"Our members create music that enhances experiences and PRS exists to protect the value of their work with integrity, transparency, and fairness. Legal proceedings are not a step we take lightly, but when a business’s actions undermine those principles, we have a duty to act. Great video games rely on great soundtracks, and the songwriters and creators behind them deserve to have their contribution recognised and fairly valued."

"Yet we allow the likes of Spotify to barely pay artists because in reality we only care about PRS as an organization, not about the works of anyone."

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Why aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

Also, why isn't Epic Games and GOG sued over it, as well as all of the key vendors? Are they next in line to be sued, when Valve gives in?

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I suppose they also want DVD/Blu-ray retailers to pay them for music used in the movies and TV shows they sell?

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Article updated with more info now I have the official PRS Press Release.

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double-dip? 🤔

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It's extortion. Plain and simple.

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Quoting: Technopeasant

Improved maps throughout the game

Oh here we go again...

They're not wrong, Sin needed polish rather badly in places, I just don't trust them to make the improvements to the design of the game if they're saying it's just some map changes. Anyone who's played the game all the way through knows that Sin gets rough and quite sloppy.

I do like Sin, though.

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Quoting: VerglasHow come I never heard of this game? 1998 was my heydey and bought every gaming magazine there was in the 90s.
I must have been too busy with Baldur's Gate, Fallout 2 and Might & Magic 6 🤔

It was also released at the same time as Half-Life and Shogo. All great games. The competition was fierce.

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Another title ruined by a greedy and lazy company like Nightdive. After they abandoned games like Turok 1 and Forsaken Remastered on GOG, they lost everything from me. Will not buy anything else touched by them.

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Sine Episodes 2 when though? Who else played Emergence and are still waiting for the follow up?

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Adding an easy way to install Winboat is a great idea. I use it and it works very well, aside from some papercuts. Sadly, one usecase which I have does not work (proprietary VPN client).

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How come I never heard of this game? 1998 was my heydey and bought every gaming magazine there was in the 90s.
I must have been too busy with Baldur's Gate, Fallout 2 and Might & Magic 6 🤔

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is about the only tower defence game I've actually played.

Same. The original Defense Grid was one of the first games I got on Steam (since it was part of the ARG around Portal 2 releasing), and I just…never really felt the need to play more TD games after playing these two. 😄

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nice, I loved the original

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i have the game on Playstation / XBox / Switch / Steam put about 100-ish hours into each platform. i love this genre but apart from this and the first game i've yet to play a better tower defence game. if anyone knows of better or just as good tower defence games i'd love to play them.

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Oh, people played this game for Elexis 😆

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Played the original on release, it will be great to play this again

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: mrdeathjrOpen <path-to-game>\rlmfc.dll in a hex editor.
Go to offset 0x256ED.
Replace 83 E0 0F with 90 90 90.​

Replace with NOPs? It is so funny when it works imo

yeah in some texts talk about this issue affects ryzen because game dont detect mmx instruction (rare?)

in other related news d7vk update readme file with this (maybe next release stay closer) :

D7VK

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine. It uses DXVK's D3D9 backend as well as Wine's DDraw implementation (or the windows native DDraw) and acts as a proxy between the two, providing a minimal D3D7/6/5/3-on-D3D9 implementation.

Note that D3D retained-mode applications are not supported, since the project only aims to implement immediate-mode.

FAQ

Will D7VK work with every game out there?

Sadly, no. DDraw and older D3D is a land of highly cursed API interoperability, and applications that for one reason or another mix and match D3D7/6/5/3 with DDraw and/or with GDI are not expected to work properly in all cases. If games provide alternative renderers, based on Glide or OpenGL, I strongly recommend you use those, together with nGlide where applicable.

If you're wondering about the current state of a certain game, a good starting point would be checking the issue tracker.

Wait, what? There's D3D6/5/3 support in my D7VK! How did it get there?
After looking over the D3D6/5 SDK documentation, they turned out to be somewhat approachable, so I have implemented both. Thanks to CkNoSFeRaTU we also support D3D3, along with execute buffer driven rendering, and thus have achieved full D3D (immediate-mode) coverage of the DDraw world.

Mind you, support for D3D7 still remains the main goal of the project. From a features and general compatibility standpoint, expect D3D6/5/3 to fare somewhat worse than D3D7, because, as I've said before: the further we stray from D3D8/9, the further we stray from the divine.

Why not spin off a D6VK, a D5VK and a D3VK, or rename the project?
All APIs prior to D3D8 fall under the cursed umbrella of DDraw, so it makes absolutely no sense to split things up. As for any renaming, that won't happen, since the project's main focus remains unchanged.

What happened to D3D1, D3D2 and D3D4?

D3D1 never existed, because the first release of DirectX didn't include a 3D component. Direct3D was added in DirectX 2 and was left mostly unchanged in DirectX 3, so D3D3 and D3D2 are interchangable terms, with a mostly historical distinction. DirectX 4 was never released, and the prototyped D3D4 implementation was restructured into what ultimately became D3D5.

DLL dependencies

Listed below are the DLL requirements for using DXVK with any single API.

d3d7: ddraw.dll
d3d6: ddraw.dll
d3d5: ddraw.dll
d3d3: ddraw.dll

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I hope this will be a good remaster not a lazy upscaleing of textures in a better engine for compability reasons.
Sin is a classic! Sucks that Sins Emergence(Episode sequel) flopped hard or rather imploded.

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Improved maps throughout the game

Oh here we go again...

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