From few videos of their offices I saw there is not enough room for them to do that XD
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From few videos of their offices I saw there is not enough room for them to do that XD
Teslagrad and Badland?? thats really good
freshVeggie
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Happy birthday.
No 60 at 1080p for a 970. Shockingly crappy. idtech5 in general bad on Nvidia?
I found it to be faster when searching via the menu options than the standby fight request thing.
shortsFortallPeople
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Well, WolfTNO kinda had higher than usual requirements that pushed my 770 at the time. I had to force triple buffering through Overrider because the stupid thing mostly held 60 fps but would start tearing like a mofo if it went under 60.
The Evil Within had unusually high specs needed for 1080/60 but got patched shortly after launch so that it wasn't quite as demanding. Haven't played through it myself but i hear it's okay now.
So yeah, at least when the engine is used by people other than id it tends to have some performance issues.
freshVeggie
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Bummer. Don't think I played a idtech5 game yet. It's not even looking that great either to justify the bad performance neither.
What is that Overrider you talk of?
Now that is weird Kurt. Time will tell. Maybe it's only a little patch shy of much improved results. Who knows for sure before release.
Kurt Russell
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Doom is using idtech 6 though. Weird thing is, idtech 5 worked better on Nvidia cards.
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Baron_Calamity
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Taking an educated guess:
Several people within Valve suggest several new initiatives. After a short time, people are drawn to the most interesting one and work begins. For many months things are going well and the project is making progress. Then, someone else starts a new, more interesting initiative and the first project starts slowly losing people. The project either slowly becomes a death march to completion or its abandoned. Repeat every 6 to 12 months.
Isn't like a L4D3 release on source 2 a given at this point?
They've been working on it for years and I wouldn't be surpised if we get the announcement this year.
freshVeggie
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Triple Buffering: Why We Love It Read this just now. Sounds like the best solution now that VRAM is so high that ~25MB extra is menial. Good stuff, I'll try using this from now.
ashecitism
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A given as in "we knew they've been working on it for years" is one thing, it actually shipping soon or shipping altogether is another. Valve is known for not being scared of axing WIP projects. Even those wich had lot of works put into it. Or they just take their time with them. It's totally possible the playtests didn't give good results, so they're redoing it. Or as the VR project got more and more popular, more devs started to flock to it leaving the L4D3 group with not many people.
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Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
They were working on it feverishly when I visited Valve in early 2014, almost 2 years ago. They had it running on Source 2, even back then.
So I'd say Baron_Calamity or ashecitism are correct, it probably continues to undergo significant changes or it got scrapped altogether when Valve realized there was more money to be had selling CS:GO weapons or DOTO items.
shortsFortallPeople
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well, most modern games these days already feature triple buffering in their settings. The problem with WolfTNO is that its Vsync solution IIRC was adaptive, meaning that there was no tearing at 60 or above but that it would tear if it went under 60. It's a garbage vysnc solution really.
I've had to use it with some asscreed games, too, like ACIV for example, as they only support double buffering which will make your frames per second cry in agony. Hopefully, we'll soon be in a world where every game offers triple buffering because cmon now, double buffering is junk.
TheLetdown
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Fi-nal-ly.
I pre-ordered the game through their site forever ago. It specified a Steam key being delivered.
2 things from this..
a) uh.. is the game hard capped at 60fp?
b) i am guessing nvidia hasn't paid off ID yet to optimize the game on their hardware.
That's a bleak outlook
Well can't say I've been particulary happy about valves direction for the last couple years and I don't think I'm alone in that.
VR is cool but nothing I'm going to use in any way for many years as I won't have money for it and at the moment I don't see the huge appeal.
Their hardware thing crashed and burned and the only good thing that came out of it was steam controller which I don't really have any reason to switch to as a desktop PCgamer.
And all their software work seems to have been put into new patches for dota 2 and csgo and/or other projects we don't see that may or may not have been reworked/scrapped.
How exactly is D3DOverrider doing anything to an OGL game? it doesn't work with 64bit games either.
If you want triple buffering just use borderless windowed mode.
id tech 5 was hard capped at 60 fps, so it's very likely. At least it isn't capped at 30 fps, so there's that.
ashecitism
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I mean people like to point towards the Jira leak as an absolute proof that L4D3 and HL3 will be things eventually. But since then we know several people of those groups have either left the company or moved on to other groups, especially the VR group. Who's to say they were the only people? Last year Chet tweeted how the VR group is growing day after day...
freshVeggie
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Mh, that's bothersome.
I did that with RotTR but wow, performance got a lot worse.
The Red Wizard
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PC gaming is expensive. If you can afford £3000 every six months to run the newest games, surely you can afford games at £55 each.Was just in GAME, got some Steam credit. Then saw they had the PC version of SFV for £55 XD
shortsFortallPeople
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hmm, i recall using something to force triple buffering, maybe it was just going into the control panel on my card. Maybe im mixing it with the asscreed games, it's been a while since i messed with TNO
regardless, that the game didn't have triple buffering built in as an option is stupid
PandaPedinte
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There is a character inspired by Jawmuncher in the KoF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UtzuUWN9zg
I was wondering why the site wouldn't let me log in yesterday and the password reset wasn't working. Today I was forced to reset and then I managed to grab a bundle. This explains it.
To be honest i don't care about L4D3. But i am really interested to know what almost 300 people there do. They are not Steam Support for sure, i don;t think that 100 people works on Steam Controller or VR now that is almost ready for shipping. SteamOS is almost abandoned like TF2 so what they are all working on Dota 2 and CSGO?
BTW
WWE 2K16 announced for PC. March 11, free DLC.
freshVeggie
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If it actually works as well as this in games that would be a game changer.
Not sure how I feel about Terry turning his cap backwards
And Kyo's Japanese voice sounds like 10 years older
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
That's a bleak outlook
Well can't say I've been particulary happy about valves direction for the last couple years and I don't think I'm alone in that.
VR is cool but nothing I'm going to use in any way for many years as I won't have money for it and at the moment I don't see the huge appeal.
Their hardware thing crashed and burned and the only good thing that came out of it was steam controller which I don't really have any reason to switch to as a desktop PCgamer.
And all their software work seems to have been put into new patches for dota 2 and csgo and/or other projects we don't see that may or may not have been reworked/scrapped.
It's pretty sad that, from a customer perspective at least, it really seems like Valve is falling short of targeting the things that most people care about. There have been some great things that have come out of Valve in the last few years (such as refunds and the Steam controller) but people are really starting to lose faith in Valve as a company that actually makes games.
There are a few phrases that come to mind here: "Too many cooks in the kitchen" and "Too many chiefs, not enough Indians" would be the two that come to my mind when I think of Valve.
Tizoc
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Actually Terry turns his cap backwards during a few moves in a few of the game's he's been in
My main hombre going back to the roots
NEVER
NEVER
in my life did I think me and Jaw would agree on something together.
ashecitism
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Obviously not GO as that game hasn't seen a proper update in months
TF2 is getting MM, so that's a thing. Dota is given. Valve has been contributing to Vulkan too. Source 2. Steam HW post-launch support. Vive post-launch support, R&D for next iteration, demos to see how VR game and tech design works and such. L4D3 in some shape and form, HL3 lol etcmorningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Ricochet 2 is going to be the killer VR app.
New Momodora game on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4..._medium=SteamDB&utm_campaign=SteamDB App Page
Ohh man, and it's coming so soon. Wishlisted!
Tizoc
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It will, recall there was a tweet from SteamSpy stating that China Steam users are increasing on Steam and SNK has done well on Steam so we're guaranteed to get it in due time.
Also
https://giant.gfycat.com/SmoggyKindheartedHackee.webm
Baron_Calamity
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Jawmuncher
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Actually Terry turns his cap backwards during a few moves in a few of the game's he's been in
My main hombre going back to the roots
NEVER
NEVER
in my life did I think me and Jaw would agree on something together.
It has Dinosaur Representation. It has to come to PC now.
Also the graphics seem to get a little bit better every time. Nothing mind blowing but they'll do.
780 and 780 SLI have the exact same score... why not just put a note that says SLI doesn't work.
780 SLI gets around the performance of a 980Ti generally, so this wouldn't be too bad if they get SLI working, but it's still a beast.
Obviously not GO as that game hasn't seen a proper update in months
In short they are working on everything except games these days
Valve needs better communication with outside world (we saw that from few departures they they didn't bother to mention at all and Winter Sale cache issue) and they really need some organization inside. But they get 30% from every sold game on Steam so in reality they just don't care anymore and they do whatever they want.crazyrabbits
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New Momodora game on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/4..._medium=SteamDB&utm_campaign=SteamDB App Page
Momodora III was pretty good.
Still not buying it until it's on sale.
Tizoc
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I can't get enough of dat Justice Hurricane animation.
Dino Justice Hurricane in 2016
What a time to be alive.
Actually Terry turns his cap backwards during a few moves in a few of the game's he's been in
Oh wait does he do it during burning knuckle it's been awhile
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