I'd love to try this out. Unfortunately, on both the "stable" and beta Steam client, there is an issue which has caused all downloads to slug along at between 10 and 65 kb/s. >.> By the time the download finished, the free weekend would be over.

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Quoting: BotonoskiI wonder if they'll use something like Bullet to replace the Havok physics engine. It'd be fascinating to see how that sort of change would impact the games, if at all.

Funny enough, it looks like Bullet can be tweaked to match Havok in older games. I wouldn't be surprised if they went that route, honestly.

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Quoting: ImnotarobotI wish that devs that do old school games would make sure that it works with old school hardware. Kind of feels dumb to have crappy graphics if there is no use for crappy graphics.

The polygon count may be lower, but that's only one part of the equation; newer retro-inspired games make use of physics, # of interacting objects, lighting, etc., that require relatively powerful contemporary systems -- and are way beyond the capabilities of retro machines.

Also worth mentioning is that despite the appearance of these games, computer hardware and drivers and their respective API's and such work in vastly different ways in present day to how they did back in the day. This is why most, if not all, source ports and reverse-engineered engine reimplementations have "beefier" system requirements. Typically, it's less about "more power" and more about compatibility with modern computer systems.

Realistically, if games are made to run on older computer systems, they run afoul of bugs, glitches, and all manner of issues on modern systems. It simply is not realistic to assume that it's either simple or feasible in any way at all to put the time and effort in for such a niche group's nostalgia.

Furthermore, most of the hardware of the era that Quake and Doom, etcetera debuted in are physically damaged in some way or another or are on their way out. There is no reason at all to support such computer systems.

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Manually updated Proton's DXVK and it works great.

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Quoting: sarmadIs this driver better than valve's own driver? Valve's driver doesn't work out of the box and you have to tinker with udev files to get it to actually behave like a normal controller (for games that has built in controller support).

I don't know about other distros, but for Ubuntu and derivatives, you can install `steam-devices`, and everything should work just fine.

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The narrator from the beginning of this trailer sounds an awful lot to me like Barnaby Dixon. Looks like an interesting story, to be sure.

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-Shadow of the Tomb Raider

-Any of the Arkham series Batman games.

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Quoting: Corben

QuoteFor Transform Feedback support from DXVK you need the 396.54.09 Vulkan Beta Driver on NVIDIA

Is there a benefit going with the 410 series drivers?

Currently, no. As of yet, the 4XX drivers do not support VK_EXT_Transform_Feedback, as far as I know.

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Quoting: Code Artisan

Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris

Quoting: Code Artisan

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Code ArtisanIf the server accepts corrupted entries from clients, there is something wrong there too.

it dont, that is why it was caught. (probably)

anyway, so... if those users are geting banned due to the netcode that means some of then were able to test the game at least offline?
i wonder if the game works already (at least offline)

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Code ArtisanIf the server accepts corrupted entries from clients, there is something wrong there too.

it dont, that is why it was caught. (probably)

anyway, so... if those users are geting banned due to the netcode that means some of then were able to test the game at least offline?
i wonder if the game works already (at least offline)

Nobody was getting banned. It was an authentication error caused by a bug in Proton.

Then how come it also affected Windows?

Because the server was attempting to process invalid and corrupted data. This data is tied to the user's account. The affected accounts were fine after the server decided to purge the corrupted data, usually in a day or two.

Bans typically don't just automatically fix themselves.

A temporary banishment does. Either the server temp bans the user for sending corrupted that (could be an anti-spam feature) or the server accepts the corrupted data which then glitch any future login from that user.

That is a valid point. That said, I did not get the impression that was the case from Valve's statement, and I could very well be wrong. It just seems to be a case of a nasty hitch, from what I can tell.

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Quoting: Code Artisan

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Code ArtisanIf the server accepts corrupted entries from clients, there is something wrong there too.

it dont, that is why it was caught. (probably)

anyway, so... if those users are geting banned due to the netcode that means some of then were able to test the game at least offline?
i wonder if the game works already (at least offline)

Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: Code ArtisanIf the server accepts corrupted entries from clients, there is something wrong there too.

it dont, that is why it was caught. (probably)

anyway, so... if those users are geting banned due to the netcode that means some of then were able to test the game at least offline?
i wonder if the game works already (at least offline)

Nobody was getting banned. It was an authentication error caused by a bug in Proton.

Then how come it also affected Windows?

Because the server was attempting to process invalid and corrupted data. This data is tied to the user's account. The affected accounts were fine after the server decided to purge the corrupted data, usually in a day or two.

Bans typically don't just automatically fix themselves.

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