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Re: Steam Summer Sale on June 22? |
May 14, 2017, 20:45 |
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Cutter wrote on May 14, 2017, 16:53:
When's the last time anyone was excited for a Steam sale? Several years at any rate.
My thoughts are basically the same. I've had better luck going to cheapassgamer and slickdeals,setting alerts for any good buys at various 3rd party sites, and occasionally grey market places like cdkeys.com |
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| News Comments > Batman: Arkham Knight Interim Patch |
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Re: Batman: Arkham Knight Interim Patch |
Sep 4, 2015, 14:19 |
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Huge boost in performance for my Geforce 960 with 4 GB of of vRAM with this patch. Roughly 40-80% fps improvements depending on the area, the least gain with the Batmobile stuff.
This comment was edited on Sep 4, 2015, 21:54. |
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Blood CM |
Aug 29, 2015, 09:40 |
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The Blood CM is a Blood total conversion (TC) of Monolith's 1997 shooter on the eduke32 port of the Duke Nukem 3D source code. While it is true that there are DOSbox playable Blood games out there, they still inherit all the limitations of s 25-30 year old OS that it's designed to run on. The game is not really designed to play past 800 by 600 without either getting extreme slow down and/or graphical artifacts. Blood CM supports more modern conveniences like in-game key remapping (mouse, KB, and joystick controller) and high resolutions.
It is not based on the Blood source code as the IP is in open source hell despite Jason Hall wanting it released to the public. A bankrupt Atari holds the rights to it and refuses to relinquish it without a disproportionate amount of money for it (million(?s) according to Devolver Digital). For this reason the monster AI and game behavior is not perfect to the original game, but it comes quite close to it that you won't notice it unless you're a humongous Blood fan. As Blood itself is based on a modified version of Duke 3d's source code, this TC is a lot of fun and faithful if not a carbon copy of the original game.
This comment was edited on Aug 29, 2015, 09:59. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Nov 16, 2014, 21:29 |
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HL2 was/is great, imo.
I do a play-through every 2-4 years. Even though I have the PC version from the 2004 ATI bundle coupon (remember that?!), I am currently playing it on Xbox 360 for the silly gamerscore achievements. The only games I ever do this with are Doom/Doom 2, Final fantasy 6, and 8 bit/16 bit era Zelda games. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Half-Life 2 |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Half-Life 2 |
Nov 16, 2014, 19:47 |
Wookiestick |
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Dear past-self:
Team Fortress 2 finally came out in 2008, with the addition of custom party hats for your characters. There have been two expansions to Half-Life 2, but Valve software can't count to 3 so don't hold your breath on a third one. John Carmack briefly dabbled in rockets before leaving id software to focus on virtual reality headsets. Duke Nukem Forever finally came out in 2011 after 3d realms battled with feature creep, management issues, and eventual selling of the ip to Gearbox. It was bland even if you don't count the years and money dumped on it.
Also, the economy took a shit. Seriously rethink your racking up of student debt because you wanted to better your money-making opportunities. Also, stay away from Jean. She will rip your heart out, breath fire on it, and scatter the ashes like one blows on a white dandelion flower.
-Sincerely, your 2014 self.
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| News Comments > AMD Calls Out NVIDIA; Former NVIDIA Dev Calls BS |
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Re: AMD Calls Out NVIDIA; Former NVIDIA Dev Calls BS |
May 27, 2014, 16:21 |
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Well, let's just agree to disagree. I'm not going to fact check for hours on end on a debate that was 10 years ago. 30 minutes of research and forum crawling on 2004 era topics generally brings me to the same conclusion that I began with. Valve could have made compromises with some code changes with minimal loss in quality, but didn't.
I fact checked, and I can't support the other conclusion.
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| News Comments > AMD Calls Out NVIDIA; Former NVIDIA Dev Calls BS |
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Re: AMD Calls Out NVIDIA; Former NVIDIA Dev Calls BS |
May 27, 2014, 13:42 |
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"...Valve coded Half-Life 2's DirectX 9.0 path to use 24-bit floating-point shaders all of the time, when it is really not needed all of the time. "
"...possible to force 16-bit floating-point shaders and see no massive difference in image quality."
Not denying that the FX card was inferior to the R300 chipset, but Valve didn't have to force DX 8.0 on the FX.
Source.
Edit: fixed url. |
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