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Yeah, everything is very exciting about the recent Valve announcement, but the emulation layer that runs one architecture on another really sounds like the biggest thing. We could do that before to some extent, but having this running not only in realtime, but with good enough performances that we can play on it, sounds like a boon for video game preservation.

Whatever happens in the future, there's a change that x86 gets replaced. If we have something that can take x86 and run it on something else, coupled with the most common API being available (so, FEX and wine/proton in this case), running older games on newer systems will benefit from that a lot.

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Even in the first two seconds the disgusting smearing of modern rendering was taking center stage. I'm tired of it. I'll find something in my backlog that doesn't annoy me in the first second.

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Quoting: rustynail

I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling

This is annoying and weird, but it seems it's impossible not to use upscaling now in one way or another because in modern games all of the old antialiasing methods have been removed and unless you enable something like FSR (even if you render at 100% resolution) you're going to get pixellated garbage on the screen, especially in complicated parts of the image like foliage and hair

MSAA is gone because it's very expensive (on desktop GPUs). FXAA is gone because it's just bad. They got replaced by TAA (maybe something even newer by now?). But TAA is complex, it could be the game you are thinking of had an incomplete implementation.

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I wasn't too fond on the Terraria collab, but in the end it wasn't too disruptive to the game (a single dungeon, easily ignored). I hope its going to be the same for this update, nice for the fans, easily ignored by everyone else.

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Quoting: rustynail

I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling

This is annoying and weird, but it seems it's impossible not to use upscaling now in one way or another because in modern games all of the old antialiasing methods have been removed and unless you enable something like FSR (even if you render at 100% resolution) you're going to get pixellated garbage on the screen, especially in complicated parts of the image like foliage and hair

At 100% resolution, i.e. no upscaling, that doesn't sound like a problem. Unless the traditional anti aliasing methods perform better or support more hardware.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPThe gameplay in GW1 is entirely different, I'm not even sure I'd call it an MMO to be honest.

The creators actually called it a CORPG, which is an apt description IMO. It got lumped into the MMO category because it was the closest thing people were used to.

Quoting: CaldathrasThe last and only online game that I enjoyed playing. Can't remember if it was GW1 or GW2, though.

And, of course, there are still no subscription fees.

A feature to be proud of, although I always wondered how they were able to fund the servers.

The instanced nature of the maps played a big part. I remember reading that the server backend was so trivial to keep going that it was never a financial burden. Remember that one of ArenaNet's founders was the creator of the original BattleNet for Diablo, Mike O'Brien. There is a GDC talk by David Brevik of Blizzard North where he talks about what a networking wizard Mike was, and the OG BattleNet ran on a tower PC standing on a chair at their office. That talk is well worth a watch, if nothing else for a super wholesome fan interaction at the end.

Side note: "Reforged"? That worked so well for Warcraft III
While I'm glad the game lives on, I hope the graphical enhancements are presented as options rather than mandatory, kinda sad to lose some more of gaming history otherwise.

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I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling

This is annoying and weird, but it seems it's impossible not to use upscaling now in one way or another because in modern games all of the old antialiasing methods have been removed and unless you enable something like FSR (even if you render at 100% resolution) you're going to get pixellated garbage on the screen, especially in complicated parts of the image like foliage and hair

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It might seem surprising to you, but I only have computer access to the Internet one or two evenings a week. No access at home. I have to prioritize my needs based on that. If it ain't broke, I don't fix it.

Sounds like a perfectly valid reason. Not that you need one. I was simply curious.

Hopefully you'll find time to do it before Mint 23 comes out in half a year or so.

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Realise this is a bit old now, but I've been playing with BF4 for a year or so and one thing is really annoying - no steam overlay. Which also means no steam recorder.

Do you or anyone have any experience with getting the steam overlay to work with this?

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Quoting: tuubiAll you need is someone motivated enough to implement (or copy) the Pressure Vessel and Steam Linux Runtime launcher bits for the purpose of running native games

I believe that Glorious Eggroll has stated that this is a long-term goal for the UMU project.

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Quoting: tuubiNow that Mint 22 has been out for a year and four months with 22.3 coming out in December, is there a reason you don't want to upgrade? I know 21.3 still gets security updates for a long time, but is there something specific holding you back?

Time & stability, I guess? Upgrading to Mint 22 requires Internet access. It might seem surprising to you, but I only have computer access to the Internet one or two evenings a week. No access at home. I have to prioritize my needs based on that. If it ain't broke, I don't fix it.

Presently, Mint 21.3 is configured exactly the way I like it on my gaming laptop. Time spent on reconfiguring Mint to my satisfaction after upgrading is time I cannot spend gaming.

Don't get me wrong. I want to upgrade to Mint 22 but I got burned on my first attempt. Mint 22.0 had too many issues that I wasn't happy with and I chose to roll back to Mint 21.3. I plan to try the upgrade process again, after I have completed transitioning my daily driver laptop to Mint 22. I figure that the experience of upgrading my daily driver, along with the improvements of two point releases, will help me work out most of the kinks that dissatisfied me during that first attempt.

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I don't know about you, but I hate redoing all my application preferences and configuration. I suggest setting up Borg backup. Or, at least in the case you were in, do a one-time rsync backup of your home folder "dot files" to another drive before resizing partitions.

But that situation stinks. I don't know how many times I've had to mess with filesystem management in Linux.

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Buying that.

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No changelog on what they did, no update to GOG version.

Another abandoned Nightdive release on GOG along with Turok and Forsaken Remastered.

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Quoting: ScottCarammellUnfortunately it *does* require the Steam Linux runtime to function it appears, working as sort of a pseudo-DRM, so it's not quite DRM-free as the Windows and Mac versions are. Still, better than nothing.

Hard to call it DRM when the Steam Linux runtimes are [open source](https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt), and all it takes is some developer effort to make the runtimes available in any Linux game launcher, completely legally. In fact, that's what [UMU](https://openwinecomponents.org/) already does.

All you need is someone motivated enough to implement (or copy) the Pressure Vessel and Steam Linux Runtime launcher bits for the purpose of running native games. (With a downloader and selector for the available runtime versions preferably, so that Steam isn't required at all.)

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Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

https://ebpf.io/

Yes they can. Or, they can roll their own kernel level support. It wouldn't stop the cheaters, just like it doesn't stop them on Windows. However, a one size fits all solution from Valve that doesn't hand over super user controls to each game dev, I'm sure would be more acceptable to security conscious Linux users. This is what Microsoft has been promising for decades, especially after the recent CrowdStrike blunder. I'm sure Windows users will never see it though.

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That's hilarious.

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I dunno, it's not very much . . . only A Handful of Missions. Be nice if there were A Few Missions More.

A bunch of references to the Dollars Trilogy there. One of the villains looks like Angel Eyes from The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

The boiler plate armor is a reference to the The Fistful of Dollars.

Music themes are also very Ennio Morricone style.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfDoes the native port work on a standard Linux system?

I've seen people say it doesn't work for them, but for me at least it does - and it runs MUCH better than through Proton. Still not great mind you (~40 FPS in most areas), but still better (Proton was like ~20 FPS most of the time).

Are these for steam deck? 40fps is pretty good for steamdeck for this type of game so If they can get the last BG city running at that, then its good. (BG being the most fps taxing part of the game)

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Quoting: AsciiWolfDoes the native port work on a standard Linux system?

I've seen people say it doesn't work for them, but for me at least it does - and it runs MUCH better than through Proton. Still not great mind you (~40 FPS in most areas), but still better (Proton was like ~20 FPS most of the time).

Unfortunately it *does* require the Steam Linux runtime to function it appears, working as sort of a pseudo-DRM, so it's not quite DRM-free as the Windows and Mac versions are. Still, better than nothing.

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI wish it was actually called the 'gabecube' lol, gamecube was the first thing I thought of when I saw the reveal

Edit: I use the "target acquired" portal 2 gun turrent movie intro for few years now, for when I'm on big picture mode :)

The thing I don't like about "GabeCube" is that having two "B" in the same name, where one of them is replacing an "M", makes it sound like you have a cold.

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Imagine a 60FPS@1080p LCD built into the device. Heck, at that size it can be 720p. I could take it with me on the train to play while traveling, powered by plugging it into the train's regular power outlet. It would be super portable without needing an external monitor. Not that I expect people to do that, but it would be cool.

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I wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

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There is an MR to fix this llvm flag: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38558

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I guess I spoke too soon. The OpenMW 0.49.0 generic installer works beautifully in Mint 21.3 but the OpenMW 0.50.0 installer throws a "version `GLIBC_2.38' not found" error and fails. So much for the OpenMW team's claim that they provide a universal/generic installer that works for any distro.

Now that Mint 22 has been out for a year and four months with 22.3 coming out in December, is there a reason you don't want to upgrade? I know 21.3 still gets security updates for a long time, but is there something specific holding you back?

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I hope they fix the path-finding issue with doom 1+2 at some point

Sometimes the demons get stuck

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Not for me. My mods are already installed. All I have to do is upgrade the game and update the config files with my mod list and game settings then I'm ready to go...!

I guess I spoke too soon. The OpenMW 0.49.0 generic installer works beautifully in Mint 21.3 but the OpenMW 0.50.0 installer throws a "version `GLIBC_2.38' not found" error and fails. So much for the OpenMW team's claim that they provide a universal/generic installer that works for any distro.

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And most games do exactly that. They ship their 32bit modules.(not all 32bit libraries, mind you, but still!)

And it's a shame more of them don't ship ALL of the needed libraries (32-bit or 64-bit). It's annoying to download a supposedly universal/generic installer only to have it fail on account of a missing version of a particular library. If they did, I'll bet we wouldn't have to worry as much about old native games failing in newer versions of Linux. (Missing libraries even happen with flatpaks & AppImages due to poor packaging jobs by devs.)

Looking at you, OpenMW 0.50.0!

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Quoting: StellaHopefully this won't cause problems for 32-bit games or 16-bit programs via Wine eventually, I'm assuming the prior version of Steam Linux Runtime will continue to be available for compatibility?

Yes. Steam Linux Runtime 2 is still available, and 3. And Steam Linux Runtime 1, although it is just symlinks to components from Runtime 2 as far as I can tell (apparrently no incompatible changes between 1 and 2.)

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If this was a single player survival/base building or story based game I would have bought it on launch. Unfortunately I have zero interest in MMOs at this point. It's a shame, because a lot of the visuals and some of the gameplay looks fun.

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