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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you're right. I'm future proofing anyway by preferring DRM-free stores when possible.

Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Sure that's reasonable at the moment. And while it seems Gaben would never sell out, he is going to die at some point. What's going to happen to steam / valve after that?

GOG will let you bequeath your game library to someone else as long as you can prove you're actually dead in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

GOG enabled regional pricing several years ago.

I love diablo-likes, but they're also really annoying. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Personally I enjoy the complicated character building of Grim Dawn way more than the item hunting. This also means I will play a host of characters and eventually complete item sets and have the resources for crafting after half-completed character number 86. For me the grinding is mostly a test on the efficiency of my build.

Maybe look into Warhammer: Chaosbane. It has a point system that superficialy looks similar to Grim Dawns devotions or Path of Exile, but in reality it's super simple. And while you do collect items, they don't matter as much as in other ARPGs. The flip side is that it's kinda hard to fail because the game is so simple.

Anon watches an old concert video in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Pro Tip: A vacation + going to a concert there may be cheaper depending on the band.

SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Maybe it's just me but I think the Mumble UI is way better than the Discord UI

What is the worst experience you've had reading a book? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

It's not just that characters make stupid decisions, the same characters keep making the same mistakes and nobody ever learns from those mistakes or grows as a character. It's so extremely frustrating.

Now we have them on our phones in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are like 20 different calculator apps on F-Droid, ranging from basic to scientific. There's plenty of instances where the dystopia screws you, calculators ain't one of them.

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The point is that an email address that is not in use except once to create that epic account is worthless to whoever buys it.

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Well if they can turn [email protected] into money they honestly deserve the 50 cent they're getting for it.

IAMA former game developer, AMA. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How did you get started in the industry and would you recommend it as a job?

Occasional crashes in games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No, all performance-related GPU settings are at default (and I already tried a factory reset through the driver install). Temps seem stable at ~70 after an hour of Grim Dawn, but I'll keep the overlay with the metrics on for a while.

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Occasional crashes in games (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got a used PC from a friend, it works perfectly fine most of the time. But some games crash unregularly but reproducibly. When a crash occurs sometimes my screen just goes blank, other times I get a popup from the AMD driver saying "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occured on your system."

Here are the specs:
Graphics: MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT (driver version: 23.12.1, but I also tried several earlier versions)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core
Mainboard: Asus Prime X570-P
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX, 2x8GB
OS: Win10

Some games crash more than others, for example:
GrimDawn crashes after a few minutes. TitanQuest runs for at least an hour.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous (and Kingmaker) crashes after a few hours.
Turbo Overkill crashed once (9 hours playtime so far).
Neverwinter Nights 2 crashes almost immediatly if it isn't the first game I play after a reboot.
Stellaris minimizes and I get the usual driver popup but continues to run fine afterwards (solid coding I guess).
A lot of other games sometimes crash. But there are a also games that never crashed for me including: Deep Rock Galactic, Factorio, Redout and Tyranny.
Older games tend to crash less than newer games, other than that I didn't really find a pattern in what games crash and which games run fine.

My friend says he never noticed any crashed, and given how some games are fine and how long even affected games can run before crashing I believe him.

I suspect the graphics card has some kind of fault, but is there any way I can verify that before I get a replacement? I already tried several GPU benchmarks, all ran through without a crash.