• @ulterno
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    255 months ago

    Good news. Unreal Engine 4 is usable on Linux and works pretty well too.
    Learn some C++, get some ppl and make good games.

    Also, GoG means old games don’t die. (well at least the non DRM ones)

    • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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      225 months ago

      GoG does DRM free, and not just old games. Not many new AAA because convincing a big company to sell their game DRM free is hard, but Baldur’s Gate 3 is on there.

      • @Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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        And of course the ones they (i.e. CD Projekt Red) make themselves. The Witcher series, including Gwent spinoffs, and Cyberpunk 2077

        • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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          55 months ago

          Yeah, and lots of new popular indie games. Some recent oneish I’ve got are DREDGE, Rimworld and Stardew Valley. OK not super recent but not all the games are 20 years old or more. Even Skyrim Anniversary is on there.

          • @ulterno
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            5 months ago

            Yeah, I recently bought X4, which is so badly implemented (at least on Linux) that it gives the same FPS (in the 30s) on Low settings as it does on Ultra.

            I even went ahead and bought a new GPU just for that and hardly see a difference, even being suspicious of there being a miner in it.

            Fun game nonetheless.

              • @ulterno
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                05 months ago

                Wait, so all I had to do was disable my underclock and I would have gotten the same marginal perf gains that I got by upgrading both my CPU and GPU?

                Will Egosoft hire me if I offer to refactor their code into something multithread friendly?

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                    I mean if you’re german you could try working for them lol

                    That seems to be the main barrier, yeah.


                    But I checked htop while running the game and it doesn’t seem to be doing all single core stuff as you said. Unless it is that the bottlenecking thread is not even using the available core to the full extent.
                    I checked it out with both linux and linux-zen kernels.

                    Usually, when a program is loading on a single thread, you tend to see a single core go to 100% for a few seconds, which then jumps around as the OS switches the core provided to the thread. That was not happening here.
                    Also, the new GPU is sometimes at ~60-70% while the FPS is dropping to 30. This part was weird.

      • @ulterno
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        15 months ago

        I’m waiting for BG3 to make a Linux thingy. Until then, it’'s on the “maybe” list.

        If it’s not native on Linux, it needs to be exceptionally good for me to buy it, considering GoG doesn’t have regional pricing.

        • @Dave@lemmy.nz
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          I’m playing BG3 on Linux on a laptop with integrated graphics, and I haven’t had any issues other than not being able to run it with graphics set to ultra (expected since there’s not graphics card).

          • @ulterno
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            5 months ago
            1. The license is for the content of the post. Here, I put a separator.
            2. Valve has regional pricing, making some games cost a tenth of the price in some regions. GoG does not, so you pay the US price.
            • e.g. I bought X4 for ~4x the price of Average AAA console games.
            • Though, in case of X4, it seems to have a similar price on Steam, most games tend to be cheaper with regional pricing.

            And now I forgot to put a license on this one.

            • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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              25 months ago

              Don’t use the dumb footer link. It doesn’t do anything other than make sure everyone else points and laughs. You’re better than that.

              • @ulterno
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                What’s the problem with some laughter.

                If there’s nothing to laugh at, people usually pick a loner, harass them until they are angry/miserable and then laugh at them.


                I’d rather, they laugh at this, which might also throw a wrench in the works of companies trying to get data without sifting through it properly.

                Anti Commercial-AI license


                Wouldn’t it be even more fun if the AI chatbot got trained on this and started spewing out Anti Commercial-AI license in their results?

                • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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                  15 months ago

                  which might also throw a wrench in the works of companies trying to get data without sifting through it properly.

                  Narrator: It has no effect at all.

          • @ulterno
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            15 months ago

            Well, KDE Clipboard seems to make it easy enough for me for now, but perhaps I will set a compose key for it if required.

            My main problem tends to be forgetting to add it because I got too emersed in typing the comment.

            And it’s kinda useless to add it after the fact, so most of the time, it works because I copy the license first.

            CC BY-NC-SA

      • Joe Cool
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        45 months ago

        Every game that I have seen that runs on UE5 either looks like a vaseline smeared blur or runs like crap.

        Do you know one that runs great AND looks great? And I don’t mean in the trailer.

          • Joe Cool
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            15 months ago

            Most engines can build on Linux. Even CryEngine. Maybe OP mentioned UE4 because it runs better than UE5.

        • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
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          15 months ago

          This is wildly not my experience. You can turn off motion blur in the vast majority of games… What’s your hardware?

        • @ulterno
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          15 months ago

          Do you know one that runs great AND looks great

          If you make one, then I’ll know one. ;)

      • @ulterno
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        15 months ago

        I haven’t tried UE5

        Also, they changed their licence midway, so a little unsure about it rn.

        • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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          55 months ago

          The change doesn’t apply to games

          The film industry previously was completely free, in versions 5.4 and above. It is now $1850 per seat for companies making over a million per year