ramoisdead
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And speaking of Visceral Games, fuck you EA for not putting out one of their games, Dante's Inferno, on the PC platform. Fucking EA...
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Decompression uses CPU and takes time. Could cause issues with some games.
Decompression time is of course offset by reading smaller files will taking less time.
Most games won't use 100% of CPU anyways, so there's some to spare.
Of course this all depends on how exactly game read files, so only way is to test it.
uncredited male
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People actually though Dead Space was not already dead. Sucks for everyone that got the boot.
Medved-Taiga is out and it looks gorgeous!
These shots are from my first 3 hours today. It's quite hard for me to follow the main story, even though its well narrated. Basically sidetracked after the first random animal call and it went wild from there.
Its also hard to keep an eye on the sneaky animals while constantly trying to inhale the breathtaking scenery. Can't even stay mad that some achievements aren't working again because I feel relaxed to the max. gg
These shots are from my first 3 hours today. It's quite hard for me to follow the main story, even though its well narrated. Basically sidetracked after the first random animal call and it went wild from there.
Its also hard to keep an eye on the sneaky animals while constantly trying to inhale the breathtaking scenery. Can't even stay mad that some achievements aren't working again because I feel relaxed to the max. gg
UcchedavÄda
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The CPU usage might not matter so much since games tend to make limited use of multithreading for computation, so you're likely have idle cores on a modern system.
You know, it's sometimes just easier to use uncompressed datafiles, especially in a multi-platform game.
Consoles/portables don't have CPU cycles to spare for runtime data decompression. Our CPUs are running most of the time on idle, so yea, there's loads of cycles to spare.
(Of course, the tool won't help much with games that use compression for assets)
Nabs
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I don't even have an appropriate gif for this level of bullshit.
Coreda
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I can already visualize the thread in gaming and the dozen pages of people defending it
Lovely
Baron von Loathsome
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"Activision needs to make money somehow!"
I feel like I've been using the word disgusting a lot lately.
LurkerPrime
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Are Steam's servers still jacked? I can't get my pitiful max download speed from any of the servers I've tried, no matter how local or isolated they are.
Edit: Oh god now there's a Steam client update that keeps wanting to be applied. pls somebody save me
Someone in another thread coined this perfectly: microtransaction-based matchmaking.
This darkest timeline just ain't letting up.
Edit: Oh god now there's a Steam client update that keeps wanting to be applied. pls somebody save me
Someone in another thread coined this perfectly: microtransaction-based matchmaking.
This darkest timeline just ain't letting up.
I'm looking forward to the day when the market is oversaturated with games as service. There should be a peak in a year or two.
And then they notice that people only have so much time and money to spend on endless grinding, microtransactions and lootboxes. And then the whole thing comes crashing down
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wholesome slice of life visual novel is like the grossest string of words i've ever seen
i do kind of appreciate that the storepage for that game is full of warnings
that kind of makes me think there's something to that game it's not letting on
Battlechili
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I just wanted to live a happy life with Natsuki ._.
NeoRaider
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I thought that WB will release Injustice 2 on PC before this year ends, and especially after Amazon/Gamemania leak but it looks like it's not happening. I am honestly not sure what are they waiting for, the more they wait ppl will be less interested in it. But i guess they just don't care since apperantly it's doing great on consoles.
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stan423321
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Transparent filesystem compression is extremely old but has (had?) bad reputation because it tended to amplify instability in early versions of Windows, and reduces compatibility with weirder stuff. The sensible thing to do for the game's developers in case of game assets (and not, say, source code, which was subject to the very same instability problems) was to compress game assets themselves instead of relying on the filesystem to do it.
probably after final fighters DLC
NeoRaider
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And when is that?
illusionary
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I'm impressed with Humble's support this evening - I manged to make an unintended duplicate purchase of the new bundle and despite reporting a likely wait time of three days, it took them all of two minutes to arrange a refund. Perhaps there's some automation there, but that's still an impressive turnaround.
Madventure
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EA a horrible company? What? my heavens!
If someone pays more money for the same game, shouldn't they get more enjoyment out of it?
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ramoisdead
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It's a free anime-looking visual novel game about a literature club with cute girls as members.
It really didn't need all those written warnings when one is staring right at you.
pantsattack
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Satellite Reign good, yes? How much micro is there? I don't remember ever controlling a four-member party in realtime with no pause before.
AHA-Lambda
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pantsattack
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Seriously though, if you're going pay to win and not cosmetic only this makes a lot of sense. Of course you'd want to feel like a badass with your new shotgun. They provide that. Not last month the "devs reveal" twitter thread talked about all the hidden details in games like first time Gears players getting big hidden buffs to keep them playing multi. It's genuinely smart, slimy when it's for money but smart.
(Their games don't apply to me at ALL.)
CarbonatedFalcon
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Visceral closing and that Activision patent....
we truly live in the darkest timeline. (Well, at least one of the darker ones.)
we truly live in the darkest timeline. (Well, at least one of the darker ones.)
The Dear Leader
Banned
Hmm, that's a interesting way to go about it, the examples they gave depend on the communication and interaction of the marquee player, they would have to build a multiplayer game around those requirements for that to even work as far as I can think.
How have I never heard of this game? Looks gorgeous
arts&crafts
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Can anyone help me with this issue. I installed Elex, I press play and I get a crash that says "Application was terminally aborted". Yesterday I also tried to play The Surge (which I have before on this computer) and it also crashes at startup. What is going on?
Kiru
Member
Do you use Afterburner/RTSS ? If so, update RTSS. If not, then I don't know.
Nyteshade517
Member
Have you updated to the new Windows 10 Fall Update? (if you wave W10 at all)
If so it could be why...if not then no idea
Rockin' Ranger
Member
At least I can be hopeful that with all the bullshit modern practices this has still been an absolutely incredible year for games and even if the industry completely goes to shit in the future I have a backlog of older games that should last my lifetime.
arts&crafts
Member
Thank you this must have been it. I closed both applications and it runs now. I will try to redownload later.
Nyteshade517
Member
there's supposed to be 9 DLC fighters in their Season Pass or whatever and I think they've only released 4 of them fully...so may be a while
I still can't get the creators update from April to install. Shit keeps failing :/
I finished the first route without knowing what I got myself into. This game certainly is .. something.
Rockin' Ranger
Member
Just got a free copy of RiME off of GeForce Experience, I didn't know they gave away games through that.
ussjtrunks
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Hows the south park port guys anyone try it yet?
Checked and nothing for me. Where did you see it?