It is the crux of the lawsuit, I don’t think I suggested anything. The original post is asking what they are on about. I replied with what they are on about.

It’s the crux of the law suit? They are claiming that valve are applying it to non-steam key games. I think this is their website https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/faqs/

These price parity clauses apply to all games listed on Steam, not only those distributed via Steam Keys. As a result, other platforms cannot offer better deals, limiting consumer choice and keeping prices higher across the board. This harms competition in the market and stops other platforms from improving their services.

Though I do think the last part is nonsense.

It also says it in the article, though I suppose it is less clear:

The lawsuit - filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London - alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.

The suggestion is that they are enforcing this on somewhere like gog, where they don’t give you a steam key?

I did too but when I had a quick search around that’s what I found. I think it’d be reasonable to apply steam keys, valve is providing the full service there.

Valve forces price parity with all platforms. So if they have lower charges, that saving cannot be passed on to the customer and so stops price competition.

My body is ready

Epic Store exclusive 😞

The exception code you are getting appears to indicate some code is trying to execute something very low level (e.g. direct device access) when it isn’t allowed.

This isn’t a widespread issue, so it seems reasonable to assume that it is specific to your machine.

My guesses are:

• Corrupt game files, try deleting the user data for the game. Not sure where that lives.

• Corrupt install but I think you’ve addressed that.

• Corrupt windows, a scan disk check might repair something.

• Corrupt drivers:

• Fresh install of GPU drivers, using amd’s tool or ddu.

• Update chipset drivers if there are any.

• Disable or uninstall anything that controls additional devices. E.g. led or fan controllers like Armoury crate or MSI afterburner.

• Any other app that injects itself into the process. Game overlay, antivirus. Amd adrenaline does this, as can steam and gamebar.

How else can you judge what direction they might go in? If you like the projects they worked on in the past does it not make it more likely that you’ll like their next project? Effectively we are getting a merger of two of the better publishers that are going independent from more corporate overlords? Maybe I’m being overly optimistic…

It says it needs 16GB of vram

It was the photo mode and filters setting in the overlay. You can switch it off.

Interesting, I don’t remember it being talked about for any other game before it was used as an attack on this one. My read from the industry is that it’s a meat grinder, so I would have assumed that most people working on any project are at least new to the company. Plus the big hiring drive that everyone went on during COVID must have brought in lots of inexperienced game Devs to all games?

Is that unusual?

How many adaptations came out this year? Maybe they had to have a list of 6…

You missed the end of the quote, “Dragon Age: The Veilguard is this year’s Alan Wake 2, squeaking onto the Golden Joysticks’ GOTY shortlist at the last minute, joining fellow award outliers Tekken 8 and Helldivers 2.”

The similarity with Alan Wake is that it launched so close to the cut off for the shortlist.

I think the author is saying it doesn’t belong on the list, along with Tekken and Helldivers.

It does though doesn’t it, it has a fall back execution route on non-intel GPUs that isn’t as good?

There was a really good interview with nixxies where they went into a lot of detail about what they did, but it was basically as you said.

Didn’t digital foundry report that pc was slightly faster at loading h:fw?