kano

It's difficult/expensive to police, might not be competing with the actual product, and alienates fans who are giving free advertising to the works. It may be in a legal gray area if trademarks aren't used.

Using Nintendo as an example, they tend to go after emulators, unauthorized ports, and fan games. They aren't as likely to go after fan art. There was a recent DMCA request sent to SteamGridDB, but that was more like reworked box art, I assume used for emulator GUIs:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/nintendo-goes-after-fan-made-custom-steam-icons-with-dmca-takedowns/

Well, there are even people who sell tshirt prints of the thief games for their own profit without legal pursue. I think doing fanart without profit is fine, but selling them for their own pocket to be printed on clothes and posters by using the fame of games other people / companies made is not right.

Snap is complete garbage. Another useless me-too duplicate project by Canonical that nobody else will ever use and will hopefully go the same way as Mir once Canonical come to their senses and start using FlatPak like everybody else.

https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-flatpak-remix-a-new-flavor-of-ubuntu-for-flatpak-enthusiasts/

Canonical gonna be pissed... lol

Linux mint also banned Snap afaik.

But personally I'm not a fan of Flatpack either. Appimage is much nicer. You put the file on any drive and run it.

Although I'm running a rolling distro, so it's less needed.

To work around this issue, you could download Firefox first and then with Firefox, download Chrome..

Or install an addblocker on Edge before visiting the Chrome download site.

I seriously don't understand why this would make sense. Also the occasional update screen before you can use Windows. Where you must click carefully through 5 screens trying to avoid installing Office Demo or set Edge as your standard browser and all that shi...

@SeriousToni Regarding the screen that appears after updates, the guaranteed fix is as follows:

• Open Windows Settings -> System -> Notifications & actions
• Uncheck these items:
  • Show me the Windows welcome experience after updates and occasionally when I sign in to highlight what's new and suggested
  • Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows

As for the issue kano mentioned, I have a directory on separate drive that I keep all my installers is whenever it's time to install/reinstall Windows. Saves having to hunt down the individual installers and also avoids dealing with this sort of crap. I'm sure someone will mention Linux but I've evaluated it for many years and it's still not suitable for my purposes... yet.

MESA LLVMPipe 22.3? Remember to NOT add dxil.dll or explicit the llvmpipe path for gallium.

Otherwise it will use the D3D12 backend (so of course it runs well)

batch file with:

SET GALLIUM_DRIVER=llvmpipe

.\TheDarkModx64.exe

remember to disable the AF

Six core (no HT) i5 11600, normal detail, stencil, no soft shadows/no SSAO, no AF

1280x720

'cause there's no hot headed members.

Well not anymore at least..

Create a new thread called "Linux vs Windows."

There, now you've got the means of bringing out the hot-headed members.

Yes, I too like that The Dark Mod is not crappy, overpriced bug-ridden gruel.

Somewhat unrealated, but I told some woman about trying modding in TDM and then she sad that sounded what her doughter was doing in Minecraft. Ugh, this is when you remember not to talk to people about this outside the intrest-range.

That's the major advantage of FOSS of course: all the money in the world cannot take over the project (since it can just be forked for continued community development). Although for some reason FOSS games seem to be extremely rare apart from arcade stuff like Frozen Bubble.

Epic and entirely preventable blunder on their part. At least they've fixed the root issue they should have done years ago, for what it's worth I guess.

the signed certificates are built into the addons, just that firefox wasn't recognising thoses signed certificates.

or something at firefox end was,'t recognising things.

Stopped using firefox a while ago due to v60 breaking half my addons, now currently using waterfox.

Gotta love the good old Straisand Effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

thanks

I love the response from TurboTax!

I guess Java is a perfect way to port these old games, because they become cross-platform easily, and performance isn't important; it will run 100+fps on any even slightly decent machine.

Yes it was in a discussion where someone was saying how unhappy they are with the way game companies grant themselves permission to do whatever they like to your PC and personal info today. I pointed out that giving up games completely is an unnecessarily overkill solution when there are free games like TDM to play.

Honestly the mod/Indie genre is still really booming right now. And they aint got no reason to do shady invasive privacy bs.

What Epifire said. :-)

guess one of the optional upgrades allows a pilot to turn off the MCAS system.

Brilliant idea. Bet the executives that came up with the model received a well earned fat bonus for the scheme.

then you go to xda and download and flash a clean rom (as possible) on the phone.

and that topic, its a replacement phone. Maybe not factory resetted?

The answer is in the first reply of that thread. "I have a cheap ANS UL40 android phone "

Sooner or later I'll have to switch to an architecture that isn't mainstream X86. If I wanted a computer that was compromised by Hollywood, I would just buy a Sony CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Hollywood are so fucking stupid it's unbelievable. Their worthless DRM snake-oil has been failing for the last two decades or more, but the solution is always MOAR snake oil...

Too bad my older Chromebook doesn't support Android or Linux. But some ChromeOS users could be able to use that to play TDP/TMA.

for more info see: https://www.xda-developers.com/run-windows-apps-on-android-wine/

Currently the best option is to get BFG and use Robert Beckeban's RBDoom3 fork. Someone could backport TDM shadows to vanilla though.

Ryzen 3000 series is going to curbstomp everything with mainstream 12 and 16-core chips: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18055-2016-cpugpu-news/page-13#entry430695

Yeah looks like I made the right choice in picking sides for once. And for those wondering, the data set is my collection of Doom/Duke3d/Blood/other 2.5d game levels. There are more than I can ever play, about 4.3GB (uncompressed) of them. They fit into a 1.2GB squashfs image.

@Bikerdude, the performance metric that makes SSDs great is random I/O. It's unfortunate that sustained writes would drop off a cliff, but not the end of the world.

@Jaxa, yeah that was my primary reason for getting one. On the Sustained reads/writes - I had to reimaged my PC last night so coped my games folder (200gb) to my Crucial P1 1TB, and sure enough 75% of the way through the write speed dropped off a cliff, 400-500mb/a down to 95mbs (that speed I think is only slightly faster than my old WD mechanical HDD.

Can't knock the read speed though - got decent chipset and RAM, then you're always first in the game and get pick of the roles in Red Orchestra 2.

It's nice to push the on button and have windows boot up before you've had a chance to sit down and take a sip of tea.

The machine I gave her is an old AM3 system, so that bug will never be fixed. But thankfully it is triggered by a USB device that she doesn't need anymore anyway.

UEFI is a blight on the computer landscape, due to how inherently insecure it is - but we cant do much about it now. And regarding ASrock, I will only consider buying from them when they start offering 3yr warranties.

And lastly, rule of thumb, only have kb/mice plugged into any USB ports if you can help it.

I suppose it is the lighting, the hood, and the color that makes me think of Thief, though our man Garrett would never use something resembling a laptop.

Sort of. It's clearly a modern hoodie, though.

To me its a stock photo. Seen it on several online articles.

But, the level that preceded this one was quite fun.

noob

Could the player get them to fight each other? At least in the original Doom (1993) it was possible to lure baddies to fight each other, which was hilarious.

Tried this with tdm?

Yep, it seems to run faster on my old laptop with Radeon 6700 graphics. But I don't have stats of the performance before the upgrade to compare it to. Also, games like Gzdoom used to suffer from graphical glitches on that hardware, and they're gone.

I have never used WD el-cheapo & nasty nas boxes for various reasons, so this dosen't surprise.

Sworn off WD myself. Why? They started building the SATA-to USB bridge into the hard drive itself, so if it fails, you're screwed. Sometimes those bridges do fail, not the actual hard drive. And with a proper one, you can just rip the drive out and hook it straight to SATA. But they really want people to use their $3000 data extraction service.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/dont-buy-the-wd-my-passport-usb-drive.2366512/