Quoting: dubigrasuThe PoolSize is a proven tweak for UE3 titles, but why would I set
MaxSmoothedFrameRate to 400?

Good question! The original source suggests "leaving" this at 400, but I found my setting was actually 62. I bumped it up to 400 because I have no experience to argue against an obviously knowledgeable UE3 tester, but since that advice came from 2013, it may well be flawed. 400 does seem a bit on the high side and potentially risks running your card hot generating frames that your screen can't draw and your eyes are incapable of discerning.

Of course, if this was CS:GO, you'd have some folk argue that 400 isn't really high enough... :)

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Quoting: TuxeeWTF? Changed XComEngine.ini to bigger pool size and ThreadedShaderCompileThreshold to 2. chown'ed the file to root:root and gave it a 0755. Guess what? It got both reowned by the "me" and chmod'ed to 0770 again. How can that be? Any suggestions?
Anyway, contrary to the article my settings were not reverted - pool size is still 512 and the compile threshold still 2.

The only way that should be possible is if you're running Steam as root, which would (obviously) be a terrible idea. Beyond that possibility, you have a serious flaw on your box if you're seeing root-owned files being chowned by non-root processes...

Did the game improve for you though? That's the most important thing. :D

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Quoting: Xpanderand done.. completed
5.5 hours (minus the food and drink breaks)

Snap! 5.2hrs here. Loved this. Fantastic game.

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Quoting: nattydreadI really wish they could fix the scaling for high resolution displays.
I have a 4k TV and can hardly see the words! I have to use a magnifying tool to use steam
(when not in big picture mode).

Not a perfect solution, but have you tried the Compiz "Enhanced Zoom" function? I made a 30s video about it a few years ago.

View video on youtube.com

But yeah, c'mon Valve. That said, they've only been aware of this bug for 18 months, so realistically we've got a few years yet for any hope of a fix going by their current shameless bug fixing record.

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Quoting: FeistThere has been a bit of negativity during the "ea" period for the game, I think the gist of it, is that the development has made the game more challenging/frustrating for players with a bit too much "grinding". Obviously, I don´t know how I´ll feel about that yet but everything I´ve seen from it makes me fairly certain that this game will be a lot of fun to play until the frustration (hypothetically) kicks in.

Sooo...still pretty hyped! :)

For the negativity, I think this review sums it up perfectly. Early Access might have great value for the developer, but it's still often hugely misunderstood by the "playtesters" themselves and in this case, it's caused a massive backlash in the form of negative reviews. Annoyingly, this causes so much noise, it's impossible to know if a negative review holds value or not. I wish they'd clear reviews after the EA period is complete. A game should be judged on the end result, not the journey it took to get there.

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Quoting: Renzatic GearIt up on GOG, so the DRM-free promise looks to already be covered.

http://www.gog.com/game/darkest_dungeon

Great catch. In addition to the tweets and forums searches, I also visited their webpage where "Purchase" takes you directly to Steam and finally a Google search for "Darkest Dungeon DRM-free" which highlighted a wishlist item on GoG, but not the title!

I even searched Humble and found the title, but on Humble, it's just a link to a Steam key.

Very odd. Thanks for pointing that out though. The article's been updated to remove the DRM reference.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceLoving what I see of the game so far. Supposed to have a DRM free version of the LInux copy available from what I can see which will check all of my boxes. February is shapiong up to be a good month for games. Firewatch and this have me very happy.

Yeah, highjacking a little here, but Firewatch looks AMAZING. Can't wait for that. And of course, XCom2 this Friday. Superb.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceSad news. I've been putting off playing my copy hoping for a Linux version. You win some you lose some.

I'm glad you're up front that you've already bought it.

It really doesn't help that quite a few folk on Steam forums come out with "do a Linux port, then I'll buy it", when there's a pretty obvious icon next to their name that highlights the fact that they've already bought it. It happens in a lot of the "Please give us a Linux version" threads I'm subscribed to.

Some devs might do a Linux version out the kindness of their heart, but most studios will want to see some kind of return on effort. So a thread with 200 pleas to make a Linux version will lose a lot of credibility when 50%+ of those posts have already bought it.

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It's also pretty annoying that main store page shows me a bunch of Windows titles. I wish there was a way to "stop showing me irrelevant stuff". Obviously no-one like to live in a bubble, but I just don't care, at all, about what's coming/out/on-sale if it's Windows only.

It would be like shopping for a book on Amazon, but with no way to filter out the languages you don't speak. Can't understand Valve's thinking here.

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Quoting: tomtommeLucky you that you are not in it for the money. Lucky you that you do not have to rush out content. Others have to, to make a living. AS long as they also deliver quality content most of The time some mistakes in between are fine with me. On phoronix the oversight was instantly cought by a reader in the comments. Its easy to say that you knew the number is wrong, after you commented there too. I do not geht why you make a story out of this.

Interesting that after the reader pointed it out, in order to preserve the quality of the website, the article was deleted absolutely nothing happened. The article is still up, despite Michael himself commenting in the article's comment/forum thing with words to the effect of: "Steam must have changed the way they count by relevance, because I use a bookmark to count the titles".

But the article remains unchanged.

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