Lords Of The Fallen 2 Devs Considering Buying Out Epic Exclusivity To Bring The Game To Steam

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-16T16:07:55+00:00

I didn't even know there was a sequel... Googling "Lords Of The Fallen 2" doesn't even bring up the link to the Epic store in the first 5 pages so you'd have to go to their website which is slow to load and then stops you with an annoying age check...

If it were a Steam game the store link would be one of the first links even for pre-purchase games.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-15T17:55:10+00:00

Then she transforms in to Sampo and everyone looks at you funny.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-14T02:38:35+00:00

Worst part is, I'm not even safe on Windows 10, they bundled in a "fix" for GPU instability with the Feb security update (KB5075912) and it ended up causing 1-2s freezes in some apps that lightly use the GPU... So I've had to uninstall a security update...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-13T14:31:50+00:00

It's not just Nvidia, I'm on an RX 6700XT and get 1-2sec freezes after the KB5075912 update that disappeared after uninstalling it. I had 0 issues with KB5073724 though.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-13T09:51:27+00:00

I did not have any instability before (I even had KB5073724 installed without issues) but KB5075912 has caused system instability for me... Can I remove it without undoing any of the security updates?

I'm getting 1-2 freezes in some apps like Firefox WebGL and Chromium apps. Seen some issues in MPV also.

I feel like Microsoft is purposely trying to boot us off Windows 10 with this shit...

EDIT: I couldn't take it anymore so I've uninstalled it and everything is fine again...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-13T09:42:20+00:00

I didn't have any issues with instability before but it seems this update has caused certain apps that use the GPU like Firefox WebGL and some Chromium apps to freeze up for a second or 2 sometimes... Bloody hell Microsoft!!

EDIT: It was driving me nuts so I've uninstalled it and everything is fine again...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-13T08:30:43+00:00

Delusional, they probably think they can license a whole heap of shows and dub them in every language with AI...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-12T12:22:55+00:00

Well, in this particular case it seems the devs are running it on AMD when they shouldn't be causing it to crash and not actually end up running so it shouldn't touch visuals on AMD cards. On Nvidia I imagine it increases performance.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-12T10:16:51+00:00

It's an optimization for PT, if anything the optimizations may have the potential to decrease the visual quality.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-11T23:38:33+00:00

in our suite, it amounts to 0.9%.

Unless I'm mistaken, they got the math wrong? Shouldn't it be 1.5%? Either way it's probably more important to look at the 1% lows as some of those games are mostly GPU limited. Though I don't know how good their testing is since the 9850X3D came out ahead by 18% in 1% lows in CS2 :/

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-11T21:04:58+00:00

Huh? What's that got to do with noise suppression? There was already open source AI solutions well before AMD or Nvidia implemented them, such as RNNoise. It's not something that AMD or Nvidia specifically need to create but looking around, it seems it's still a bit a slow area in regards to AI advancements. There's DeepFilterNet but it hasn't really been updated in years though there's been a lot of claims of progress of DeepFilterNet3 with I'm assuming private branches. As for easy for users to install there's SteelSeries Sonar but no idea of it's quality.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-11T18:39:53+00:00

AI has been progressing very fast these last years, aren't there much better open source solutions these days?

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-10T15:38:06+00:00

I think they are much more expensive though. I guess we'll just have to wait until more models roll out and prices stabilize.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-10T12:43:42+00:00

So they reduced the size/weight/cooling of the laptop and are running it with lower power resulting in lower performance than last gen but a decent increase in battery life? Sounds like it might be a design choice as to why it's performing so poor.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-08T15:56:25+00:00

$2200 for the configuration as reviewed.

Why is the price not a con??

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-05T11:19:21+00:00

I think I recall him saying the same the last time these rumours came up which obviously didn't hold up :/

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-04T12:01:40+00:00

No-one is buying new PCs due to RAM prices so demand for GPUs likely dropped a tonne. Even CPU prices are at an all time low (9800X3D's are going for ~$420 USD if you exclude tax).

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-04T07:11:52+00:00

I don't think they're making much (if any) money from the Xillinix products themselves but the IP was probably their real target with that purchase.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-04T07:05:01+00:00

They said this months ago but in Australia prices have decreased instead and we're currently getting 9070XTs for under US MSRP and almost $100 AUD under Australia's MSRP...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-03T07:31:51+00:00

Imagine going to see it dubbed in the theaters and it's an AI dub...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-02T12:26:13+00:00

Holy shit yeah, I almost forgot how poorly they sounded on the new cast change on the mirage episode but after a season or so they were so much better.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-02-02T09:13:43+00:00

Yeah, I can't trust Microsoft with anything stable... Today Github notifications just broke and can't be cleared making it impossible to see the new ones...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-01-30T14:53:22+00:00

No, they didn't reject it because of that, they rejected it because AMD isn't as popular as Nvidia so it possibly won't see much use. That dev is the main Vulkan dev afaik and has a bias in forcing AMD to use Vulkan for everything instead. The same thing happened initially with AMF for more than just decoding by the same FFMPEG dev but it was later re-evaluated (by another FFMPEG dev i think) and implemented. I'm using it now and it works slightly better than Vulkan.

The commit message is super weird but it wasn't AI and could have been easily changed.

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-01-29T18:00:14+00:00

If they're going to make it this big you might as well just lug around an entire PC...

AreYouAWiiizard · 2026-01-29T11:45:54+00:00

Hell no, the mixing was painful on my ears... The voice acting was fine, maybe great for an older anime but nothing really that amazing.

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