Quoting: MyeulCLooks good, but not really future proof, when everyone will be using "LinuxApps" or whatever docker-like desktop container.

How would you go about supporting a standard that doesn't exist yet? No installer or packaging scheme is future-proof in this sense.

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Quoting: GuestWhat good is an distribution-agnostic installer if you cannot get a refund if the game doesn't work?

Basically they require you to reproduce your problem on one of the supported distros if your problem is technical. Seems sane to me. After all, it's arguably not a technical problem in the game if it doesn't work on an unsupported and untested platform.

However distribution-agnostic the installers are and how many distributions the games actually run on, they are still only supported on Ubuntu and Mint. Just like Valve only officially supports running the Linux version of Steam on SteamOS or specific releases of Ubuntu the last I heard. How strict this policy is in practice, I cannot say. I've never asked for a refund from either company.

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Quoting: adolsonWelcome to 2007, everyone!

If the script does what it says on the tin and properly supports current freedesktop standards (hope so), who cares?

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Quoting: liamdaweThey would ban our server if we attempted to scrape them, and I don't feel like asking them to make an API just for us. As I can already guess the answer.

Ah. Forget it then. I guess the next best thing would be prominently displayed links to these steamdb pages on the GOL sales page. I doubt they'd see any problem with that approach.

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As minj said, you could scrape the steamdb listings for Steam sales in euros, dollars and pounds. A bit more fiddly to parse than a single clean feed but certainly doable. No request caps, but also no guarantees for "api" stability.

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What's with the healthy green glow and shorter trousers on the Uruk in the Windows benchmark? Most likely no real effect on the benchmark result but I guess if I was into Uruk legs or preferred them Hulk-coloured, I'd be a bit unhappy with the unequal treatment. Just look at the guys standing at the left and right edges in this grab from dubigrasu's video:



All kidding aside, I'd guess the clothing part is randomly picked from a couple of different models/textures, and the skin colour has to do with differences in shaders (lighting?). Maybe (a slight variation of) the smurf-effect Feral hinted at with older nvidia drivers?

EDIT: linked to larger image

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Quoting: cdnr1you should benchmark the game with this driver 355 its way better
https://launchpad.net/~mamarley/+archive/ubuntu/nvidia

According to the changelog and benchmarks floating around the web 355 should perform more or less equally to 352. No need to upgrade in a hurry if everything works.

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Regardless of the validity of Larabel's test results, you should never be suprised if a port does not perform quite as well as the original.

A porting company can hardly spare the resources to rewrite a game engine from scratch to fully exploit the strenghts of the target platform. There'll almost always be compromises and kludges involved. You've seen the same in ports from consoles to Windows. Arkham Knight being one glaring example.

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@OZSeaford: Don't upgrade your drivers. Save the smurfs!
From the comment thread of another article here:

Quoting: edddeduckferal

Quoting: silverphilIs it mandatory to install nvidia-352 or can i get away with nvidia-331 (preferably) or nvidia-346 without issues or performance problems?
I have a GT 650M.

If you don't run at least those drivers everyone will look like smurfs (all blue), stability should be ok but those drivers are pretty old so your performance stability will vary.

I'd highly recommend using the supported drivers or newer.

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Fan culture is weird. This is just like dissing a movie because it's not a literal and complete adaptation of whatever book it's based on. So what? Why treat entertainment like holy scripture? It's not heresy, it's just a different story.

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