Cool, I hope they confirm the obvious in their event next week. Being able to free up space on my desk and still play with my buddies on XBL would be nice.
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Steam | 02.2016 - Orangeade
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Cool, I hope they confirm the obvious in their event next week. Being able to free up space on my desk and still play with my buddies on XBL would be nice.
Jawmuncher
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Microsoft selling stuff on their own store, under their own infrastructure and DRMed and locked down to buggery was always bound to happen (do they even employ anyone in their Xbox division who understands what the general PC gamer wants?). I can kinda ignore a few titles that have restrictions I'm not fond of in the slightest. Sure you might miss out on some great titles for a principled position but I'll live, you can't play every game under the sun and I've got more than enough already to keep me going long after I've dropped of this planet. But if they start pulling that shit again where they try and snag up third party titles as Win 10 exclusives then I'm really going to let my feelings be known.
hooijdonk17
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Eh.. Does GFWL even stop you from playing the games you already have? I know for a fact that I can still play Fallout 3 from the Disc. What's your point here?
Yes, games purchased on GFWL no longer work, I can't redownload Fable 3 and other games/dlcs I bought. Not only me, of course, but all users.
If you bought directly from GFWL, you can't download anymore. MS has been fixing this for last 3 months.
The Dear Leader
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We Xbox now.
Tizoc
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Yo Jase, do you know of any method to get the Steam 007 PC games?
Umm that's kinda how I feel too
But I need all your powers combined to stop me from getting RARE replayif it ever gets released on W10 Store.
Umm that's kinda how I feel too
But I need all your powers combined to stop me from getting RARE replayif it ever gets released on W10 Store.
Hero Prinny
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are you serious? its plot is worse than FO3 and i say that as someone who liked FO3's story but fully understands that the plot is just straight up dumb.
Believe you me, if those MS games do come to pc, it'll be damn hard to resist. But, knowing they're exclusive to the Win store makes me put away my wallet.Yo Jase, do you know of any method to get the Steam 007 PC games?
Umm that's kinda how I feel too
But I need all your powers combined to stop me from getting RARE replayif it ever gets released on W10 Store.
Tizoc
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Windows 10 Store: "Why do you throw your life away so recklessly?"
Steam: "That's a question you should ask yourself"
TheLetdown
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Umm that's kinda how I feel too
But I need all your powers combined to stop me from getting RARE replayif it ever gets released on W10 Store.
Nah, dude. If that comes to W10, let's both buy it.
XBox ONE is Optimus PRIME confirmed.
freshVeggie
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It's great to be finally be able to play Xbox exclusives on PC. Yes, it's far from an optimal solution and Win10 apps have really big restrictions but buying the game on the appstore but playing it hacked should solve the restrictions hopefully.
Nah, last I checked, FF6 looked more like this:
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Completing the game did automatically repopulate every enemy respawn area, but there's still a cooldown period, which at a guess seems to be around 15 minutes. I've noticed that The Lost City in particular repopulates every time you fast travel back to it, which I assume is unintentional as it's the only area in the game that does so (and this was most definitely wasn't the case prior to completing the campaign), but the "deathless ones" drop neither salvage nor tech parts despite being more than happy to give up modern ammo, so the bug isn't helpful in the slightest.
lashman
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Jawmuncher
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It's probably still Sniper Elite 4. Unless they're doing a new Aliens Vs Predator game.
Some people like to be spit on and treated like crap.
Good news.
But it also saddens me that they will probably be Win 10 only so I can't mod it and do my thing.
Kurt Russell
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I find it crazy that people forget what MS did to pc gamers the last time. And when they fuck this up again, and they will, the people crying will be something to see.
People will cry for a while, then they will be ready for the next big thing. As usually, pretty much (ie I remember that AC Unity thread with people who "never mored" Ubi and the same people pre-ordered Rogue and Syndacate, so...just an example, don't get angry at me AC lovers!).
UcchedavÄda
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Does that actually allow you to use Steam overlays (I'm guessing that it doesn't), or does it just allow you to launch the app through Steam?
shortsFortallPeople
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Ucchedavāda;195340466 said:
This is just for launching the game through steam. Like i said earlier, i add my non-steam games to steam so i dont forget that they exist and adding the $.20 worth of win10 store games i own to steam was part of that process. I also haven't really tested it much so maybe some stuff works according to Htown? ::shrugs::
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FINALLY got a second sniper in Enemy Within, only she's a story character that the game keeps heavily hinting that i should throw into the Psi Labs to see if she's gifted. So now i lost my only other sniper for 10 days. Sigh.
Also, it really feels like Firaxis accelerated the campaign quite a bit. I'm already at the stage where we've capture the alien's communication beacon and i just need to build a hyperspace thing already. I'm either misremembering how Enemy Unknown played out but this feels like fairly late game stuff. Maybe there's a bunch of new stuff after this? I guess we'll see.
There is a long history of Microsoft fucking up on PC. There are threads about it, you can find out if you want.
I was expecting to have more information regarding Win10 store in those threads, like probable release dates of games, MS legacy games (Freelancer, Black & White, maybe longshot MGS1), discussion of DRM / sandboxing, etc. etc.
Instead all I read are whinery, there goes the reason to buy an Xbox, and more importantly, the crucifixion of Durante. LOL.
Instead all I read are whinery, there goes the reason to buy an Xbox, and more importantly, the crucifixion of Durante. LOL.
Your bait game is weak, go back to school to learn how to be a master baiter
Kurt Russell
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Interesting, if that overlay works there must be a way to get others working.
Still, it's pretty crappy that people have to go through all that when normal apps are so much easier to deal with.
Starwolf_UK
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Bluestacks isn't the only android emulator. There is always something like droid4x though the newest versions have the MMC set to China (it's a Chinese program) but you can change that. Sometimes on bootup it shows some Chinese f2p game.
That said though I prefer native over emulation anytime.
I suppose that will mean steam keys for anyone that got it in a humble bundle?
The console will be a windows PC plugged into a TV and suddenly the "Xbox running on Windows" jokes from 2001 have come full circle.
lashman
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Maybe it's because of optimism (they will do better this time) or maybe because of disinterest (who cares what they did before, it doesn't concern me).
I do hope the Win Store won't end like GFWL for all those that are gonna use it for the coming X1 to PC games, though I don't really have any interest in using it any time soon.
freshVeggie
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I'm having a PC issue ever since getting a new PC. Already posted in the Tech Support Thread but I know there a plenty smart folks here as well, so cross-posting.
Hi folks. I'm having the following issue ever since I got a new PC. It was the exact same on Win8.1 and is the same now that I did a clean Win10 install.
The issue is that when I start my PC, CPU usage and GPU utilization are not functioning properly. Even at idle, one core is always maxed out while all other cores are working as they should (only under load).
GPU is the other way. It just doesn't get utilized as well as it should. I get much worse performance thus.
The only solution which always solves this, is to restart after a PC start. I don't even have to restart in Windows. Going in BIOS when starting the first time and exiting(restarting) from there solves the issue.
After restarting/"double starting" the PC, CPU usage is again normal and GPU gets utilizied much more which leads to expectable performance in games.
Here screenshots showing the problem.
CPU usage after a single PC start (left) and after doing a restart (right)
Gaming performance after a single PC start (left) and after doing a restart (right)
(I had gaming instances where GPU usage was ~10% after a single PC start and ~90% after restarting the PC!)
Since the issue is the same under Win8.1 & Win10 and it gets solved when restarting/double starting from BIOS, I assume it has something to do with my motherboard maybe? I have no clue really why BIOS is the newest available firmware. But I want to solve this issue and not every single time double start my PC for it to work properly.
Please help!
My PC specs are following:
CPU: Intel i5-4690
GPU: MSI 970 Gaming 4G
MOBO: MSI Z97 PC Mate
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
ignore what I said, I misunderstood the conversation
Kurt Russell
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I just read about the new release times for SFV. Sadly it seems that the preload is only 50% of the game, so there go my hopes of a late night session of SFV.
My keyboard also hasn't been "RMA'd" yet. so I'll either have to play on a cheap but indestructible generic cherry rubber dome keyboard (my fingers are crying) or my DS4 and considering how bad I'm with a pad at these games I don't know whats worse.
I should have bought that Venom Stick and modded it with Sanwa parts when there was still time to do so :/
My keyboard also hasn't been "RMA'd" yet. so I'll either have to play on a cheap but indestructible generic cherry rubber dome keyboard (my fingers are crying) or my DS4 and considering how bad I'm with a pad at these games I don't know whats worse.
I should have bought that Venom Stick and modded it with Sanwa parts when there was still time to do so :/
Leafhopper
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Fighting games on PC still aren't going to sell as much as you think they are, especially after what WB and Tecmo do lately, yes I know it's Capcom and Street Fighter but, I assume people are a little cautious. That and not as many people play fighting games on PC as much as consoles obviously sadly, despite PC allowing you to use any controller you want damn near easier.
corrosivefrost
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My thoughts exactly.
shortsFortallPeople
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yup. Fighting games have struggled as they've either come late to the platform - a huge nono as people who are serious about fighting games need to pick them up day one so that they can keep up with the meta game- or come broken and abandoned to the platform.
I've yet to see a fighting game truly take off on PC the way they do on the consoles though hopefully that changes soon. Launching a good AAA fighting game day one without the port and netcode being total garbage is a good start
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