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

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Quoting: joni909Cities skylines 2

Loved the first one, was put off buying 2 when it came out. How's it playing these days?

I'm playing The Planet Crafter again, since the new Toxicity DLC came out.

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"Intermediaries" could mean platforms or publishers. Did they specify?

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Get out your straws... it's time to slurp up the slop!

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Quoting: doragasuAnother verified game that shouldn't...

Have you tested it with this update?

I loaded my friends copy from family share visuals are muddy by default but now seem to have lumen lighting enable unlike before so the game looks how it should. You can change the upscale used to choose your preferred look. Still stuck at 30 fps that's weird since it says not locked at 30 anymore in patch notes. Maybe because I have Bazzite on my deck? Maybe later enemies drop fps more my PC save is only after you meet up with lune.

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Ah, 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

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I switched to popos when Beta dropped. Very similar to Gnome. Cosmic is very light weight, at least for now. The fan on my MiniPC hasn't needed to spin up since I switched. I'm never going back to Gnome if System76 keeps this up. The only thing I am missing is digitizer support. I'm not an artist, but I do use a digitizer for white boarding (dark dark blue boarding???) with Lorien. They have Cosmic support for a bunch of distros out there. Definitely worth a go.

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Thank you for your response.

Quoting: HamishI'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.

The installer that I used patched the game up to just before they added in support for PenguinPlay, so that sidestepped that particular issue for me.

What version of Candy Cruncher did you play?

Quoting: HamishI have never been that invested in competing for the highest possible score myself, but for those who are so inclined, I can definitely see it adding an appreciated extra dimension to the game.

I have never been a fan of multiplayer games, and I very rarely play them. I don't like competing with other users, and I have never been very good at it. However, this game was an exception because I was interested in checking a high score table with PenguinPlay. It made Candy Cruncher more addictive for me.

It's an interesting idea for LGP to add the multiplayer mode, which was available only for the Linux version of Candy Cruncher.

It's a shame that LGP never made PenguinPlay accessible for the Linux versions of commercial games that weren't published by LGP. However, it would be impossible to make money out of it and keep it online.

Madblox! with the PenguinPlay support would be great for me.

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Quoting: GerarderloperSo is COSMIC desktop decently different compared to GNOME? because when I see people trying it out I just keep thinking I'm looking at GNOME.

It's super different. Old cosmic was just a heavily modified gnome, but this new cosmic is completely custom built in rust from the ground up.

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