System76 has a woody, Artifact gets a release date, Shroud of the Avatar goes free to play and NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti cards spontaneously nope.
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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
- Big if true
- I bet you a nickle they don’t meet the release date
- Core fonts all up in your face.
- Plus a fix for Soul Calibur.
- Oh, we all have ADM cards now.
- Corefonts by default makes a lot of games with launchers actually behave properly.
- And I like that making all cards present as AMD is the better alternative to stuff attempting to load shady NVidia dlls.
- Also the fact that AMD being the thing that works the best is pretty funny, to someone who came to loathe ATI/AMD GPUs on Linux a long time ago.
- Five years is a lot of time. Also Vulkan
- Apparently the windows nvapi gameworks stuff doesn’t perform all too well with DXVK is doing.
- Probably simpler in the long run too, avoids trying to reverse engineer all of Nvidia’s DirectX garbage
- The ReeeEEeee from people demanding the site be open source and bitching about it making use of Google Analytics need a damn reality check.
- We’re talking about something that is used for DRM riddled Steam.
- BTW they also threw up a datbit report.
- What kind of stupid jerks run their project out of a Google doc?
- Apparently this little project is being run at the free tier of several services,
- The new url makes it very easy to google protondb <game>
- One tidbit the article brings up is that getting old games running on windows 10 isn’t the simplest thing in the world. I wonder if anyone can comment on that vs proton
- Needs more people reporting the smaller windows only games, as well.
Steam: Game Updates
- Writing this on Tuesday, willing to be it will be back up come Saturday?
- Looks like the revamped review system is doing its jerb.
- #member
- Dick move!
- By God, they’ve done it!
- Now I can experience the true bliss that is half life crossed over with Spyro the Dragon
- Wait…wat
- It launches.
- I’m actually a little excited about this. I know Pedro and Sandy were both playing a bunch of the early access version and I wanna see what its like now that it hopefully has some content
- WOW this thing runs like poo.
- Apparently it can defeat a 1080Ti.
- It runs worse now than it did in Early Access, mostly due to the amount of player houses in the settlements.
- The FerPS drop to single digits if you get too close to some of them.
- I like the combat system in that it’s different in execution but the end result is a bit of a let down, as it turns into just another MMO macro spam where you need to peck and hunt for the skill you want to use.
- It’s almost impossible to kill the more powerful enemies alone and getting a party going here is harder than a wall of osmium.
- This is exactly what I wished would happen and I’m super looking forward to it.
- Mostly because I’ve reached a part of the game where the sound just cuts out the moment I load a save game.
Steam: New Games
- Apparently this game gives Frog Fractions a run for its money.
- From the makers of pony islands.
- So it’s sure to be fuxxored
News:
- Bwahahahahahahaha
- Seems to mostly be affecting founders edition models
- Is this going to be like the early r1700s where this well be fixed in a later revision or like the 970, a fundamental problem with the cards design?
- #BumpGate2
- I used to see a lot of that artifacting with the two 4200Ti cards I had.
- It was caused by the cards frying themselves.
- You can use the utility without enabling coolbits, but you’ll experience reduced functionality as a result
- Cool new skin
- It works but the font is itsy bitsy @ UHD.
- I’m old and set in mah ways, still using the nvidia control panel.
- I like having a GUI for all those hidden NVidia options they don’t have in the control panel
- Being able to granularly control the HUD options is also very welcome.
- Pricing starts at $1099.99
- Looks like a diseased ATARI but hipsters will gobble that shite up.
- Yeah, I’m not entirely sold on the wood trimming.
- Threadripper system with Linux pre-installed is a welcome sight!
- They got the Tux, if you got the bucks.
- I guess it’s nice that someone is putting out Linux workstations for consumers
- Running OpenGL on top of Vulkan makes a lot more sense than you’d first assume.
- Being able to shed the old API and run entirely on Vulkan is going to streamline a lot of software.
- I look forward to the new and interesting ways a 100% Vulkan system will crash and burn!
- This is some future proofing stuff. Eventually (in like 100 years) they’re gonna drop HW support for OpenGL, especially on mobile
- OpenGL drivers are pretty complex and do a bunch of “optimization” stuff behind the scenes. You’re not gonna squeeze some additional performance out of this
- Heeeey! Rear camera, at last!
- https://gitlab.com/SuperTuxParty/SuperTuxParty
- They are still looking for artists.
- The godot mascot is now playable
- Also a kernel compiling mini game? *shudders*
- Remembering options is a very good thing to have.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Daemon_9
Webzone: Daemon_9
Devel: Curio Productions
Engine: Chromium Embedded Framework
Price: £7.19 / US$ 9.99 / CA$11.49
Wazzat: Morgan Shane has disappeared, leaving a bloody trail of mayhem in her wake. But is she a monster or a victim of something far more sinister than the authorities are imagining? And the biggest question of all: Can you unravel the mystery before the same dark force that targeted Morgan finds you?
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent keys
Venn:
Does It Launch
- It launches, on the wrong monitor.
- If left on the non-primary display it locks HARD when attempting to launch the game tips page.
- Has a habit of not closing and only recorded my playtime from the first launch.
Performance @ 1080
- Works.
Graphics
- Ever seen T.V. show DesktopOS? That.
Control
- Click click click… wait.
- Can’t right-click to copy pasta?
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Yerpo. It’s chrome
- Don’t shut down properly though
Performance @ 1080
- It’s a bunch of gifs and videos. In chrome
Graphics
- Very much a napkin drawing of “a desktop”
- The websites are kinda all over the place
- The FMV segments remind me of old streamed quicktime videos
Control
- Clickety clack, tippity tap
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- It has a nasty habit of leaving a “daemon” of sorts running in the background
- I don’t care about your ARG elements, you leave zombie processes doing who knows what running on my system, you’re going to lose a chair.
Performance @ 1080
- It certainly performs like you’d expect a haunted desktop to perform
Graphics
- Those are some pixely ass overlays you get
- Fullscreen on the UHD made the game render only the top left quarter
Control
- There’s some mouse clicking and, if you’re really advanced, some typing
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Fun?:
- Venn:
- 7, 7 is the number of external websites this glorified art project requires to function.
- Your game is made using Chromium FFS.
- When (and there is and always will be a when) these sites go dark your game is busted.
- Bad design choice, Brad.
- That said, good choice shooting everything on a Canon VIXIA.
- Planning on picking up one myself.
- Daemon_9 it’s not a movie.. it’s not a game.. it’s something that belongs in portfolio of a year two film student, not the Steam Store.
- Ya see, kids, the only way you can pull off a FMV in 2018 is to be over the top camp.
- Mock why the genera was bad, not try and reproduce it.
- Honestly during the first 5 minutes of the game I was not sure if serious.
- Unfortunately it quickly became obvious Curio Productions chose the latter.
- Ladies and gentlemen if the CHAIRAQSITION, I tried… I really really tried but the only thing here is a collect the clues adventure game that occasionally fuc*s with your display and forces you to dig around external websites (you really should mention the game requires online connectivity) and copypasta.
- It’s not lazy, it’s not shovelware, it’s simply not fun.
- I’ve seen Windows ME Desktops more frightening than Daemon_9.
- Jordan
- This desktop looks a lot like really old Nautilus
- It trips me up. My keyboard shortcuts don’t work and I mad
- They give you a bunch of tools, some clues, and you gotta crawl through all of them, draw conclusions and poke at the game and corresponding websites
- I used to be pretty in to ARGs, but I was never really good at them
- This is kinda of a single player, limited scope ARG where you gotta solve the mystery about the thingy haunting your computer
- Because apparently there is a link between binary code and the paranormal, because we live in shadowrun
- I keep feeling I need to go full Charlie
- Pedro
- I don’t like detective games on the best of days.
- I don’t like ARGs on the best of days.
- I play video games for the experience they provide and, while the atmosphere here is certainly well done, I had to force myself to go through the links the game opened on my actual Chrome window.
- When Her Story came out, I was actually curious.
- Not curious enough to play it but certainly to watch a decent playthrough on Youtube.
- But the difference between Daemon_9 and Her Story go far beyond the poorly pixelated tit shots.
- Her Story was a self contained experience where everything you needed was in game.
- Here, the moment the dev stops paying for those URLs, the game becomes infeasible.
- If you’re playing outside the US, the spooky phone calls don’t work unless you sign up for an online US phone number.
- As much as I like the horror elements here, these games take a special kind of person to enjoy… and I’m not that kind of guy!
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