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if steam deck, and steam machines werent a thing that would be exciting news for me, but now i just want then instead.
i just hope that at least some ps5 owners convert then to 'steam machines" but i doubt it.

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my favorite color is aways black, because it reflect less light from the television allowing me to focus, but im glad we have options!

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the licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

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That's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

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When are they going to release the source code for GlaDOS?

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Quoting: PhlebiacI think at some point, Valve is going to need to shift the SteamOS Verified requirements a bit: "if you want the verified flag, you have to commit to supporting Proton, instead of just relying on Valve to fix things after you break them in production builds."

Or maybe have a higher tier: "Verified+" or something, which means the developer is actively supporting it.

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I think at some point, Valve is going to need to shift the SteamOS Verified requirements a bit: "if you want the verified flag, you have to commit to supporting Proton, instead of just relying on Valve to fix things after you break them in production builds."

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Quoting: williamjcm

Quoting: STiATPocket money for an AI company.

"Pocket money" that they pretty much can't afford to spend because they're not profitable in the slightest.

I find myself thinking that somewhere in the guts of the company someone said "You know, it's all gonna be over soon. But right now, we're still swimming in borrowed cash. What the heck, might as well send a little dribble of it over to Blender before the end."

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There are actually remakes of the first three SaGa games (or was it just 2+3?). They were released for NDS in Japan only, but there are fan-translations out there. I haven't yet tried them, but at first glance the remakes look pretty descent. I wish square would've released those on Steam instead of the COLLECTION of SaGa.

SaGa 2 (as FF Legend 2) was actually my very first contact with JRPGs, the name Final Fantasy and Uematsus Work. It will forever have a special place in my heart.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite?

I unfortunately have an Nvidia graphics card, which means that my KDE taskbar has a chance to break if you interact with it more than once. Also, sometimes the lock screen freezes upon waking from sleep (but you could still type in your password and the system will unlock fine), which is somehow an improvement compared to when it only showed a black screen and the only solution was a restart.

I'm aware that this is a KDE issues not a Bazzite one, but it still sucks.

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I put a skin on my Steam Deck once, never again. It never held properly and was always peeling off. On the peel-off, it collected dirt, grime and hair. It was so disgusting that I removed it a few months after

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Unfortunately there's a growing probability of Denuvo moving to kernel level DRM. And if that happens, it's game over for Linux users. Not a problem specifically for me, I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, but for the platform itself, it might be a big hit.

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If I would own a handheld, Bazzite would be the way to go. But my desktop? Never ever. The immutable goes to much into my way. I realized it when I tried to introduce a friend in "how to use CLI" (to protect him from his own blind copy-from-internet actions). Even basic things become a nightmare. It is just not the right distro for me, but I recommend it to some potential new Linux users.

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Quoting: PaldinoXThat'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.

I got Midnight Suns for free and thought it wasn't good enough to finish (put in 23 hours). There are only a handful of mission types (kill everything, destroy thing, protect thing, etc) that you do over and over. Then the whole "social" aspect was boring to me. It felt like a cozy mini-game, that you are forced to do to get upgrades, in a tactical game.

I think the bones of the combat was good though as I like card and spatial turn-based combat. I think they could have had a much better game if they stripped the social movie bullcrap and focused more on the action. While I'm not anti-cozy, I think this game was like oil/water pulling in two different directions.

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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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Quoting: Johnologue

Quoting: mattaraxiaIf you're them, having something like Blender, that collects no licenses, crush something like Unity, that does, is great.

Because then the money shops were spending on Unity . . . goes to agents instead. See they weirdly want all royalty free development platforms too, just . . . maybe not for good reasons . . .

They may also just be burning cash at an absurd rate and want their logo out there, it's just marketing. They think it will create goodwill with people who will become customers.

Unity isn't a 3D modeling application, it's a game engine. That would be if they were funding Godot.

I don't know much about the commercial/licensed 3D modeling programs though, so I can't say I'd make a better comparison.

Anthropic supporting open projects when their whole thing is "AI can't be open because then crazy idiot hackers will end the world with magic computers" is hypocritical. If you look up "Anthropic open source" on DuckDuckGo, they have a program to let open source developers use their AI...the AI itself in that case is all gratis, no libre. They want to be in control.

"I don't know much about the commercial/licensed 3D modeling programs though, so I can't say I'd make a better comparison."

Right. Unity is huge, it absolutely contains 3D modeling software, you sort of answer your own question there.

Blender used to be a game engine and a 3d modeling suite, but has gotten away from the game engine part. Unity used to be a game engine and has gotten more and more into being an all in one suite that includes 3d modeling.

I couldn't tell you how many Unity developers actually use it for their modeling, but absolutely Unity the company wants them to, funding Blender (and Godot) both would absolutely be seen as undermining them.

The tool is called ProBuilder and is absolutely part of Unity:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.html

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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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