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The graphics of the original Oblivion was incomparable to the graphics of original Deus Ex... I don't hear this level of criticism for Tomb Raider Remastered which was also handled by Aspyr.

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Quoting: ShmerlEven GCN 1.0 cards support Vulkan 1.3 (that's from 2012 which is quite old by now) which is basically as old as it gets for Vulkan on AMD at least.

You're right, even the GPUs I mentioned in my earlier post support Vulkan 1.3 according to [vulkan.gpuinfo.org](https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/). My info was outdated. So this is a non-issue for desktop (and laptop) gaming.

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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.

If developers find it easier to stick to latest Vulkan - it's their choice, no one forces you to use that. I wouldn't call it stupid, quite the opposite actually - trying to lower Vulkan requirements for the sake of old hardware which leads to avoiding some Vulkan features is a bad idea.

Besides, how old is that old anyway? Even GCN 1.0 cards support Vulkan 1.3 (that's from 2012 which is quite old by now) which is basically as old as it gets for Vulkan on AMD at least.

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Gotta retrain those AI LLM GFX models I guess....

The issue is look at oblivion remastered, and look at this attempt. It just was not really any better then FREE DEUS EX HD MODS! and had some weird choices.

Basically it feels like yet another company trying to CASH IN on a cheap upscale remaster attempt.

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Probably hasn't fixed 144hz VRR mode on LG OLED HDMI2.1 displays. It corrupts the image pretty bad and can even crash the display. It's not a problem that can be replicated under Windows11 thought I think it WAS a issue at one point with older windows11 drivers.

Thinking these fixes just trickle out to Linux drivers, takes a while.

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Increlution as a semi idle game.

Silksong but not as frantically.

Dispatch, which is really pretty but requires more attention than I can sometimes give it.

Wildfire is a semi idle tower defense from Itch.

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I'm still more into OSRS
in comparison, I've got around 2500h in Path of Exile over around four years, I played 1700h in OSRS over approx one year.
But beside that: A little bit Melvor Idle, some Zachtronics Solitaire Collection, not much else.

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Quoting: Brokatt

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.

Good point! It's underwhelming (for me) because I have a 7900xtx, so not much a performance jump.

I get that. Isn't 7900XTX still better for raw performance? :)

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Quoting: M@GOidThere is two excuses for the price. One, it is a licensed game. They had to pay royalties for the owners the Terminator franchise. Two, they also licensed the "Bad To The Bone" song, which obviously had to pay royalties. [...]

That was my first thought as well. The license for Arnold is missing, but it turns out they already spoke briefly about the licensing in general:

Quoting: Reef EntertainmentArnold Schwarzenegger isn't in the game it’s just a T800. We didn't have his license, unfortunately. But for the rest, you have to ask each actor individually to use his portrait.

What we have is the right to use the characters. So like Sarah, John, T1000, T800, and then certain actors will also provide image rights to Studio Canal, which is included in the agreement. For example; Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor, which is why you can see Linda at the beginning of the trailer. Whereas our right to use the Terminator itself, it doesn't include Arnold. When you see the character artwork for that, you'll see it's like the Terminator itself rather than Arnold. It's basically the endoskeleton that we have the right to use.

Michael Edwards played the future war version of John in the opening of T2. You see him, he lowers his binoculars, he's looking over the battlefield. Someone like that, we reached out separately to him to include his likeness. There's a definite difference between signing the T2 license and having the agreement to use the characters compared to the actor's likeness, which is separate.

- from [an IGN article](https://sea.ign.com/terminator-2d-no-fate/229314/news/maker-of-new-terminator-2-video-game-tracked-down-actor-who-played-future-war-john-connor-back-in-19))

So, by my count, it's:

• The Terminator logo, story, characters, etc. from Studio Canal
• The likeness of Robert Patrick (if not included in the T2 license)
• The likeness of Edward Furlong (if not included in the T2 license)
• The likeness of Joe Morton (if not included in the T2 license)
• The likeness of Michael Edwards (that probably didn't break the bank, but still)
• The "Bad To The Bone" song by George Thorogood, like you mentioned
• The "Guitars, Cadillacs" song by Dwight Yoakam (within the bar)
• Several themes from the T2 score by Brad Fiedel

They probably paid a fair bit more than Ocean Software did back in the day as well.

All in all, I do think it's bit overpriced, but for something done this well and with day one Linux support, I had to give in and purchase it.

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Quoting: tuubiDX12 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.

It has nothing to do with this case. DX7 could be implemented even on Vulkan 1.0. It's just that the dev of D7VK based his work on the latest DXVK, not the one that required Vulkan 1.1. This leads to a stupid situation where retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware. Even newer than required for DX9/DX11/DX12 games when you use Proton-Sarek.

Thanks for the correction. But that doesn't really mean "retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware", unless they don't work at all with plain old WineD3D.

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Quoting: tuubiDX12 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.

It has nothing to do with this case. DX7 could be implemented even on Vulkan 1.0. It's just that the dev of D7VK based his work on the latest DXVK, not the one that required Vulkan 1.1. This leads to a stupid situation where retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware. Even newer than required for DX9/DX11/DX12 games when you use Proton-Sarek.

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Quoting: Brokatt

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.

Good point! It's underwhelming (for me) because I have a 7900xtx, so not much a performance jump.

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There is two excuses for the price. One, it is a licensed game. They had to pay royalties for the owners the Terminator franchise. Two, they also licensed the "Bad To The Bone" song, which obviously had to pay royalties.

Lets not forget the original SNES/Genesis game launched for double the price, over 30 years ago, a bad game that don't even compare to this in any metric.

I'm not saying this is a cheap game, just that a equivalent indie game don't have to pay royalties for life to anybody. This one does.

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Surprisingly good announcements this year at least for my taste in games. ONTOS and No Law are the ones I'm most looking forward to.

It will be interesting to see how the Tomb Raider games turn out. Considering that Amazon is the publisher I anticipate the worst, but maybe this will be a return to form for the franchise.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeAh, 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

What problems are you facing on wayland?

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Last week, I briefly went through Miasmata (wine), Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor GOTY (native), Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: Le Chuck's Revenge (wine), Monster Truck Madness (wine now crashes), and Moonlighter (native).

I am going thru all the games I own (now at letter 'M' as first letter of title) to re-visit and meticulously record the progress and any hints that can help me get back to the game after a long gap.

Learned my lesson with one game I tried to get back to after several years only to find that I couldn't even progress successfully without having to start from scratch to go back through the tutorials and re-learn the techniques to gather resources so I can defeat a boss which I am stuck at.

Monster Truck Madness used to work a few years ago last time I played, but now crashes in wine 10.x, or even wine 6.x which I keep around for some games. I have no inclination to build much older wine with 16-bit code (I don't think that's even possible with latest Linux distro) so I'll have to give up on this game. I still have license for Windows 95 and kept the laptop part that goes with it, but I highly doubt I will allocate a disk image on my file system for that and waste time maintaining it.

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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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It seemed fine enough to me..

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:knj5sw5al3sukl6vhkpi7637/post/3lzmkcsdulc2y

The levels, robots, and weapons all look decent. Some of the faces need to be redone. Am I missing something?

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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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I have started playing fallout 4 with mods .
but unfortunately of the 113 mods only 89 working and only via the original launcher(f4se always crashes when i load the first save mission).Happy Christmas to everyone.

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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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