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Quoting: spacemonkeyIf Arc Raiders stops working on Linux because of Denuvo and they get review bombed, then it's definitly the year of the Linux deaktop

Their other game (the finals) uses denuvo for months and hasn't broken cuz of that. However I noticed negative reviews from linux users are prominent on Marathon. 2nd top review on game's store page was "no linux support".

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneI guess they don't want to get legal issues with Lego as some YouTubers for wrong labeling. 😅

They are quite particular about it being "LEGO®"; check the list and see:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=TT%20Games

Somebody messed up on "LEGO Batman Trilogy" (and some DLC) but all 3 games in the bundle are correct. :)

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If Arc Raiders stops working on Linux because of Denuvo and they get review bombed, then it's definitly the year of the Linux deaktop

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: Salvatosgaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself.

Perhaps unpopular, but I have to agree; laptops are worse in every way, other than portability. And the Steam Deck covers that use case.

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Quoting: Stellathey could stop selling the already released PS games.

All that does is encourage piracy. If it exists but I can't buy it, it's abandonware, right? 😄

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Here is what I did to get rid of the stuttering.

First of all I'm on Bazzite with a 5800x3D, 32GB RAM and a 9070XT. My Bazzite is still Bazzite 43 so my Mesa Drivers are 24.0.6. I'm not on the latest mesa so far. There were no update for Bazzite yet (I made ujust update a on friday when the early access for the game was ready for me). I use the latest cachyos-proton11 (I guess its 20260605?). Then I added in launch options: VKD3D_CONFIG=no_upload_hvv,single_queue gamemoderun mangohud %command%. gamemoderun and mangohud are optional. More important is the VKD3D enviroment variable.

Then in the game I set everything on Ultra exept the enviroment textures. Then environment textures set higher than 'Low' will cause stutters and physics slowdowns making the game unplayable. Setting them to 'Low' will fix this. <- found this tip on protondb.

Everything else can stay on Ultra or High. Depends on your system. Also I have a 144hz monitor so I set my fps cap with Mangohud to 72fps to get a stable and smooth experience.

È voila the game runs perfectly smooth with no stutters or physics slowdowns. Colossus with R-Cars 400km/h and more perfectly smooth.

Try it! Maybe this will help you also with your game. At least until we have a propper fix for the stuttering.

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Quoting: Savor592But in general they produced not a single thing that wasn't already possible before.

Neuronal networks actually can do useful things we could not do before. But most of them do not even require a data center to be trained or executed on: Little models doing one thing, but doing it better than everything else. The industry just chose the worst way possible to deal with and many normal people joining this destruction train.

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Played for about 4 hours. The game is running way better than expected (as long RT is turned on).
No black screen, no audio issues, no crashes or visual glitches son far. It just works.
It's far from perfect though. Some hickups here and there, and overall performance could be better.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: SalvatosI could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself.

Yes, hence "as far as I'm concerned".

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: SalvatosYou were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

Don't forget the couch without you probably don't want to play games on your TV and now PC is a smaller place in your room. ;-P

That's fair :) I've seen a fair number of people with TVs in their bedroom who would probably play from their bed too if it came down to that, but I feel like consoles naturally invite local multiplayer and that's something I would prefer to do in the living room.

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Quoting: neolithI cannot imagine that being a smart move financially. Most people I know who game on PC have bought at least on of the titles Sony brought over. Only one of them has a PS and most would never get one no matter which games they miss.

I don't know what Sony expected... That people start getting a PS after playing formerly exclusive games on PC? That everyone would start using PSN in one way or another?
They treated their PC customers less than stellar: forced PSN, Denuvo, intentionally breaking fetures on Linux, ports coming a year after their PS release at best... which is a shame, because some of those are technically quite good otherwise. I've always felt that bringing games to PC was a very good idea followed by a couple really bad ones.

After buying Bungie for way too much money, aiming to go full live service with about a dozen games, Concord arguably being the biggest finanical flop in gaming history and Marathon doing meh on Steam I thought they'd make some good decisions now that would make them some money. Seems like they don't want to do it on PC. Bummer. I'd have bought a PC version of Bloodborne in a heartbeat if it'd had been a proper port.

I don't know what'll happen to Sony if they keep making weird decisions, but seeing that they closed Bluepoint of all studios makes me think that a couple more will end up on the chopping block. I wonder who's next. My guess is that Horizon Hunters Gathering will be the end of Guerrilla. Well, we'll see...

So just to give Sony the smallest amount of credit here, apparently it's not actually their fault we've not seen a Bloodborne remake, much less a port to PC. Apparently it's all up to From Software, and they just don't seem to give a damn about it, which is...

I mean...

It's a choice.

Not one I'm happy with, but hey.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

As far as I'm concerned, Tolkien officially changed English so that's the pluralization now. 😁

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Christ, almost 20m playing on a mobile phone? Seriously? Talk about masochists! I can't imagine playing Terraria with any less than a keyboard and mouse, or at least a controller.

Great game, early native Linux supporter, well worth the full price way back when. Congratulations, and thanks, to the developers for supporting the game for this long.

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Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, Stellar Blade and Helldivers have been massive hits on PC.

Stellar Blade in particular was released a whole year later on PC and still had nearly 200k concurrent player on release.

I know they have had a few bombs lately, but I don't see this helping them.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: hell0In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

You are speaking about banking apps? 😂 Most of them blocking smartphones where people installed GrapheneOS as more private and secure OS and that is an "untrusted environment" to banks. Even worse when you run non Android Linux on phone, because most banks do not even offer an app for other systems than Android/iOS or any alternatives to their apps.

It's not exactly the same. Even if you hacked their apps and ran them somewhere else, you still wouldn't be able to freely edit your bank account. What banks are wary of, is providing customer support because it costs money.

Personally, I believe these bans are stupid and strongly doubt it would increase their costs in any significant way, but I am not a bank exec so what do I know.

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Ghost of Yotei 😭

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This was a triumph.... I'm making a note here.... huge success.....

//edit
Oh, lol. Now I watched the video and of course it had to be this song xD

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Quoting: hell0In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

You are speaking about banking apps? 😂 Most of them blocking smartphones where people installed GrapheneOS as more private and secure OS and that is an "untrusted environment" to banks. Even worse when you run non Android Linux on phone, because most banks do not even offer an app for other systems than Android/iOS or any alternatives to their apps.

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Quoting: LinasWait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

I'm pretty sure Nvidia just messed up their table for their press release. From the context of the rest of the table, I expect that 570.211.01 is the version that fixes the 570 branch.

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Quoting: SalvatosYou were talking about lack of space. Regardless of whether people already have a TV or need to buy one along the console, a wall-mounted flat panel plus a console uses up a lot less space than a desk, chair and full computer set.

Don't forget the couch without you probably don't want to play games on your TV and now PC is a smaller place in your room. ;-P

But facts: I do not own a TV and if I would, a console/laptop/computerOnTV could not replace my desktop. So I would have to buy these expensive panels in additional to what I already own and would not even benefit from it, because gaming or watching movies on 32" monitor is also fine from higher distances. In additional I also do not want to buy smart devices and try to get find a good(!) dump TV...

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Quoting: CaldathrasI didn't know there was such a thing as Denuvo Anti-Cheat, but I don't generally play the kind of games that require Anti-Cheat. So, they do both DRM and Anti-Cheat then. From the reactions here, both are a pain in the butt.

Their core business is anti-tamper, i.e. preventing modifications. It makes sense for them to use their technology for both DRM (ensure the DRM system is not disabled) and anti-cheat (ensure no alteration to the gameplay).

In my opinion, both are a fool's errand as the games ultimately run in untrusted environments. Imagine if you could edit your account's balance through e-banking and your bank's solution was to require the use of a "denuvo-secured" browser.

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We clearly still have a long way to go before people understand SteamOS is Linux, the Steam Deck runs Linux.

I hope they never clock that SteamOS is linux personally, because it means you can trojan horse asking for linux support by saying "SteamOS/Steam Deck/Steam Machine support please" and they won't have their higher reasoning skills shut down and go on the defensive. Even if this results in stuff being made "only for SteamOS" this is nothing SteamDeck=1 %command% doesn't usually fix.

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Don't believe their words, believe their actions.

In the past they've almost always ported the titles you really want to play to PC a couple of years after release. It'll probably continue on like that, and time will tell if not.

The hardware isn't profitable right now due to AI price surges on hardware, and their software isn't selling because so many people have gaming PCs that are more and more similarly priced to consoles. In order for consoles and their own % cut store to make sense, they need to keep things interesting on their platform. I don't know of any ps5 games I want to play, mine collects dust. Unicorn Overlord was the last really exciting one for me and that is not new.

Nintendo is doing just fine keeping the walled garden for their handful of franchises. There is a reason why they never release on PC and aggressively litigate anyone bringing the capability to PC (or even building competing titles on PC, looking at you palworld!) - they know their golden goose is laying golden eggs that players cannot help but smash that preorder button on and the scalpers are eating real good with each hardware and collector release.

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Wait, how should I interpret this? The driver branch is R570, but the fixed driver is 535? There is no fixed 570 driver?

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We've made a few tags plural to match other tags: Dogs, Foxes, Vampires, Elves, Dwarves, and Assassins

I see they've gone with Tolkien on the pluralization of "dwarf". 😁 (Which makes sense, given the games using that tag…)

Quoting: RavenWings@TheSHEEEP
They generaly removed tags that are IPs. Also, Warhammer games are already really upfront about what they are in the title ;)

Yeah, the release had this paragraph about it:

And lastly, there are a number of tags that apply to specific intellectual property, an attribute that community-sourced information like tags is not well suited for. These collections of intellectual property are typically already covered by the developers and publishers setting up franchise pages to collect together officially all the content shared by that IP.

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Quoting: PaldinoX

Quoting: GeamanduraWhy the original releases and not the Redux later editions? It seems like a waste of effort.

The Redux versions are already availble on GOG, and a lot of people consider the original release of 2033 to be superior to the Redux version. That original version hasn't been available to purchase on PC anywhere for years.

OK thanks for the tip, I honestly could not have imagined that a company put the effort to make a re-release (the Redux) that somehow ended up worse, so that the community would desire the original release. I mean aside from Blizzard with that Warcraft 3 re-release and Rockstar with the GTA 3 series re-release. But those are made by the orcs from Lord of the rings, so I assumed a company manned by humans such as the Metro makers would just not do that. Really sad to hear.

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Nvidia just released 580.159.04 today.

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I didn't know there was such a thing as Denuvo Anti-Cheat, but I don't generally play the kind of games that require Anti-Cheat. So, they do both DRM and Anti-Cheat then. From the reactions here, both are a pain in the butt.

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Using Denuvo is how you can make sure I'll never buy your game.

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Quoting: SalvatosI could see the argument working for laptops too, but gaming on a laptop is just sad as far as I'm concerned.

Clearly, you must be just speaking for yourself. I've been gaming on laptops for nearly 15 years now and I couldn't be happier. I also know a number of people that prefer to buy gaming laptops over desktops. Of course, with the advent of the handheld PC, their preference may change. Me? I find the screens too small on a handheld PC. I wouldn't mind a laptop with a 15in screen and the Steam Deck/Machine guts, however.

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Considering the amount of SC fixes lately, I'm glad that I stuck to my usual rule of waiting to buy hardware 1 year after release.

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