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Developers fixed it pretty quickly.

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Quoting: F.UltraNote that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

Out of curiosity, I did some digging and there are few things to add. It's bit more than just the name, "Wild Bill" Stealey joined the company unofficially to help out. Which maybe makes more sense as I think he was more the military simulator guy and Sid Meier is probably busy doing something for Firaxis anyway.

Also David has been buying all the IP that he has been able to buy. I can't list all the Microprose military simulations by name from memory, but there seems to be quite a few of them.

There's an [article from several years ago](https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-resurrection-of-microprose-and-return-of-wild-bill-stealey) that opens up the situation lot more.

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I confirm, it is a very good recommendation. Lots of fun, great audio, atmosphere. I like the destructible environment. Tried it both on steam deck and desktop keyboard+mouse. Both work great. I only wish there was more options to tune graphics to move it from 30ish fps to 60ish.

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Quoting: JahimselfThen if AAA can steal from anyone, anyone should be able to steal from Tim Sweeney and major company having the same philosophy.

The ultimate irony, companies who were shouting the loudest about software piracy are now the quickest to embrace blatant IP theft where it suits them.

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The speed gain ends up being negligible, and comes at the price of creativity, originality and doing work I actually enjoy instead of painstakingly fixing the mistakes of an algorithm.

The ultimate promise of AI is freeing us from the drudgery of work we enjoy so we can focus on tedious editing and error-checking at intern rates.

The assumption of AI replacing jobs was based on the premise that for the majority of population, a sloppy product is acceptable, which I think is unfortunately quite correct and the CEOs know that. Some will be willing to abandon the more demanding part of their clientele if the company ends up with a net gain from cutting down the costs of actual human input and QA of the AI-produced slop. Others will see an opportunity in entering the newly created niche. This will ultimately create a polarized market, not unlike the current distinction between mainstream and luxury goods. The question remains, how many companies will be successful in navigating the middle ground...

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Quoting: tohurYea it was a bug in the RC2 release because was several games I could not launch.. it motivated me to create my own package to go in my repos and block pulling it from sid archive but its the nature of tracking sid 1:1

It's better with 0.8.2 but there is still some on exit memory corruption with it. I reported a bug.

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Quoting: dpanterSiduction is Debian sid + extra goodness. Siduction has in repo stuff like mesa-git, day1 kernel builds with more desktop oriented options than stock sid, even rc kernels. When sid was slacking a while back, the crew rolled their own firmware packages from git. At various points in time we've had nice things in repos like Nvidia beta drivers and corectrl - note that times change and not many in the team use Nvidia these days (pro hint: use cuda repo) and of course corectrl is more or less dead now. Also lots of nice to have stuff for tinkerers, like the awesome chroot-helper tool included in the live iso and a comprehensive manual.

Siduction is imho the ultimate Debian distro (for gamers especially) and has a friendly community.

Note: you are expected to know your way around Linux and Debian, this is not a distro for rookies.

I will check it out on my secondary computer.

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Also worth mentioning, is that there are a lot of modern [Amiga games](https://itch.io/games/tag-amiga) on Itch.io as well!
I recommend taking a look at [RogueCraft](https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft) (humorous Lovecraftian turn-based dungeon crawler) and [Cecconoid](https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/cecconoid-amiga) (twin-stick-ish shooter) (which also has a [version with a different soundtrack on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/683310/Cecconoid/)).

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: tohurSid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

Yeah, I'll retest it with 0.8.2 proper to see if latest changes fixed that. Debian shouldn't have jumped the gun and packaged a pre-release version.

Yea it was a bug in the RC2 release because was several games I could not launch.. it motivated me to create my own package to go in my repos and block pulling it from sid archive but its the nature of tracking sid 1:1

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Updated dxvk, vkd3d-proton and Mesa, as well as built mangohud 0.8.2 proper. No crashes with Cyberpunk 2077 so far, so I guess it was some already fixed regression somewhere.

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Quoting: tohurSid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

Yeah, I'll retest it with 0.8.2 proper to see if latest changes fixed that. Debian shouldn't have jumped the gun and packaged a pre-release version.

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Sounds pretty extreme, but actually ...
if you design client-authoritative protocols today and then try to patch it by infesting the client with rootkits and Trojans, yeah, you shouldn't be on any store front.

Quoting: Super-GValve sabotages its own efforts by continuing on its noncommittal way of handing publishers. If they want their devices to succeed, it is long overdue that they demand of publishers that their titles will either run on the Steam Deck and Steam Machine or are kicked off the marketplace.

That would put an end to kernel-level anti-cheat in no time, which is bad anyway. The only reason why anti-cheat systems are needed at all, is because developers failed to build zero-trust into their client/server model in the first place. Take wall-hacks for example: Those are only possible because the client knows the opponents are there. But if they aren't visible, the server doesn't have to send that information to the client in the first place. Fly and speed hacks only work because the server fails at movement checking. If anti-cheat would be considered throughout development, client-side anti-cheat would simply be unnecessary. Everywhere else in IT it is considered a given that you can not trust a client. Only game developers try to protect their clients instead of securing the server endpoints.

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it wasn't mentioned in the patch notes but it also fixes Mangohud always reporting thermal throttling on RDNA3. Very nice update overall!

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Oh, it's not on Steam...

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Quoting: ShmerlThis version crashes Cyberpunk 2077 (at least Debian packaged one). Going back to 0.8.1 and will report it to them after some more testing.

Sid? If so last I seen was still release candidate 2 .. I have 0.8.2 built in .debs

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Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: tohur

Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: dpanterYou might be interested in Siduction then.

What would you (personally) say is a strength of going for Siduction over normal sid?

Af far as I know atm the only thing over normal sid is updated Nvidia Drivers as the drivers in normal sid are still quite old. as the rest of the packages they have in their extra and fixes repos are quite old tbh

Then you don't know.

Siduction is Debian sid + extra goodness. Siduction has in repo stuff like mesa-git, day1 kernel builds with more desktop oriented options than stock sid, even rc kernels. When sid was slacking a while back, the crew rolled their own firmware packages from git. At various points in time we've had nice things in repos like Nvidia beta drivers and corectrl - note that times change and not many in the team use Nvidia these days (pro hint: use cuda repo) and of course corectrl is more or less dead now. Also lots of nice to have stuff for tinkerers, like the awesome chroot-helper tool included in the live iso and a comprehensive manual.

Siduction is imho the ultimate Debian distro (for gamers especially) and has a friendly community.

Note: you are expected to know your way around Linux and Debian, this is not a distro for rookies.

Sid pretty much has latest mesa and who wants to run meas-git as if theres gona be breakage its in the git build. Also LACT is pretty much the replacement for Corectrl as far as GPUs go. Also I know they provide grub-btrfs but even having the snapshots the annoyances of the typical sid breakage gets annoying.

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: dpanterYou might be interested in Siduction then.

What would you (personally) say is a strength of going for Siduction over normal sid?

Af far as I know atm the only thing over normal sid is updated Nvidia Drivers as the drivers in normal sid are still quite old. as the rest of the packages they have in their extra and fixes repos are quite old tbh

Then you don't know.

Siduction is Debian sid + extra goodness. Siduction has in repo stuff like mesa-git, day1 kernel builds with more desktop oriented options than stock sid, even rc kernels. When sid was slacking a while back, the crew rolled their own firmware packages from git. At various points in time we've had nice things in repos like Nvidia beta drivers and corectrl - note that times change and not many in the team use Nvidia these days (pro hint: use cuda repo) and of course corectrl is more or less dead now. Also lots of nice to have stuff for tinkerers, like the awesome chroot-helper tool included in the live iso and a comprehensive manual.

Siduction is imho the ultimate Debian distro (for gamers especially) and has a friendly community.

Note: you are expected to know your way around Linux and Debian, this is not a distro for rookies.

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On CachyOS:

I was not able to get the Lutris method to work. The installer kept complaining about a file system error and the Battle.net installer would freeze. I attempted this installation many times (~10) and eventually managed to install it without a file system error appearing, but even then, Battle.net would give either the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep" error or the "An error occurred while loading game information" error. I tried changing the Runner configuration to many other options than the default, but they all resulted in Battle.net freezing immediately after launch. I didn't try Jiloup's suggestion of using Proton Plus, though, so look at that if you insist on Lutris.

I was able to get the Steam method to work. Use Steam to run the Battle.net setup exe, and then re-target it to the launcher exe that is installed. However, the suggested Compability setting of Proton 9.0-4 still lead to the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep". Once I switched it to proton-cachyos-10.0-20251120, that error went away, Battle.net started normally, and I was able to install games. I then tried Proton 10.0-3, which also worked.

TL;DR: I'd recommend the Steam method, and Proton 10.0+

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Quoting: JahimselfThen if AAA can steal from anyone, anyone should be able to steal from Tim Sweeney and major company having the same philosophy. Everyone should be able to use AI and hack every Tim Sweeney computer and engeneer hardware, to use it for different purpose with no label or prior consent.

If buying doesn't make you an owner pirating also doesn't make you a robber.

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Then if AAA can steal from anyone, anyone should be able to steal from Tim Sweeney and major company having the same philosophy. Everyone should be able to use AI and hack every Tim Sweeney computer and engeneer hardware, to use it for different purpose with no label or prior consent.

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It has been a wild few months for Hytale. I'm glad this game was able to come back from the ashes!

Quoting: 1xokWill it run on Linux?

It will be Windows exclusive on release, but Linux and MacOS will get builds afterwards, according to the latest info.

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SHUT UP

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Honestly, Nightdive should focus on remastering other classic games. Spending time and resources on a recently re-released title isn't wise and efficient. But maybe this odd decision is related to the recent Atari buyout, who knows...

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Will it run on Linux?

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Quoting: Cloversheen

Quoting: dpanterYou might be interested in Siduction then.

What would you (personally) say is a strength of going for Siduction over normal sid?

Af far as I know atm the only thing over normal sid is updated Nvidia Drivers as the drivers in normal sid are still quite old. as the rest of the packages they have in their extra and fixes repos are quite old tbh

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We should start embracing what cannot be stopped anyway

That’s good advice! We should apply it to more parts in our life. Let’s say, for the sake of an argument…
rape?

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This version crashes Cyberpunk 2077 (at least Debian packaged one). Going back to 0.8.1 and will report it to them after some more testing.

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Does anyone know how to limit VRAM reporting only to a single GPU? It reports both for discrete and APU info I think.

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proc_vram Display process' VRAM usage

Nice! I've been waiting for this one for a while.

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Quoting: F.UltraNote that this is not the old Microprose from Sid Meier fame. This is an Australian individual that bought the rights to the Microprose logo in 2018. The last original Micropose studios closed shop in 1999 and the brand/ip have travelled through Spectrum HoloByte, Hasbro Interactive, Infogrames, Atari Interactive, Cybergun Group, Tommo and then finally to David Lagettie from Australia who AFAIK only bought the name and not the IP.

Interesting! I didn't know that. Thanks.

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