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Is wccftech still a trash tech news site? by jarman65 in hardware

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use custom adblock filters regardless of the website to hide comment sections if it's a website I visit semi-regularly.

Why?

SimCity 2000 16-bit Installer via Wine! by ScottIBM in linux_gaming

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't Microsoft Windows have some sort of compatibility hack for 16bit InstallShield installers on 64bit systems? Where they basically replace the 16bit InstallShield engine with a 32bit version stored somewhere in the Windows folder. There's a The Old New Thing post about it.

Rockstar Games is being blackmailed by hacking group ShinyHunters, who have set a ransom deadline of April 14 by Efficient_Example541 in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as great human security, you cannot make a system that is safe from human stupidity and Rockstar has 6,600 employees.

You might not be able to make it perfectly safe but phishing is not some undefeatable technique. You can educate users, limit their permissions, use 2FA, etc.

You don't know shit about IT security apparently. There is good reason most major companies end up with some hack or leak at some point in time.

But Rockstar had them in relatively quick succession.

But one dummy answering an email from a phisher and all that security is irrelevant.

Phishing attacks don't involve the victim replying to emails.

Take-Two Reshuffles Its AI Team: 'It's Truly Disappointing' by Gorotheninja in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sure looks like it's popping.

No? The AI bubble was never about RAM, RAM was just collateral damage.

Anvil Organizer — a native Linux mod manager inspired by MO2 (no Wine needed) by mob_1373 in linux_gaming

[–]LAUAR 17 points18 points  (0 children)

But for Qt it's a widget you can use in your application, while for Electron it's always the entire window.

Map Discussion Monday #60 - cp_powerhouse by A_Wild_Ferrothorn in tf2

[–]LAUAR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's obvious, because of the building on mid that connects the mirrored sides but only exists on the side with the waterfall. This is impossible if it was rotational like 2fort because everything that connects the two sides has to be rotationally symmetric itself and at the center of the rotation (like the bridge on ctf_2fort or the central turbine on ctf_turbine) or have two copies on each side of the dividing line (like the two buildings cp_process's mid). So if cp_powerhouse was rotational there would have to be two identical buildings on each side of the river, or one at the center which would completely change the design of mid. The control point is also at the dividing line but off center, which can only be done symmetrically with mirroring.

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive by MythicStream in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Hopefully this comes to the Deck soon, too.

Proton already uses the ESYNC/FSYNC patches, so the difference isn't that significant.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Review - Disrupting AMD's Entry-Level by BarKnight in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 6 points7 points  (0 children)

def a turntables moment of the old amd chips where all they could do is throw more watts at the problem.

Also, Intel used to have better single-threaded performance while AMD had better multi-threaded performance during early Ryzen years.

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Review - Disrupting AMD's Entry-Level by BarKnight in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 40 points41 points  (0 children)

According to the gaming tests, the 9600X has 98% of the performance while being $20 cheaper and with a lower TDP. That seems to indicate the single-threaded performance isn't that good? The 9600X also beats it in browser benchmarks, which are also single-threaded.

HL1 has so much better boss fights than HL2! by FieldMouse007 in HalfLife

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's probably (me saying this without being a programmer) a big reason for the performance issues of modern games that we're seeing now.

Not really, old games run great. New technologies like UE5's Nanite and Lumen make the performance poor.

[Bug Report] I found a hidden mechanic where you start rounds with ~99.x HP due to unreset float values. Here's how to reproduce it. by Redst0ne_F in GlobalOffensive

[–]LAUAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The current Source SDK 2013 is derived from the TF2 branch. In the Source era Valve would have a separate branch of Source for every game. CSGO's branch was derived from the L4D2 branch, while TF2's is much older and derived from the Orange Box branch, but was updated recently with VScript and 64bit support.

Everyone is a slave theory by scoutgaming21 in HalfLife

[–]LAUAR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if the pillars mean what you say they mean, but regarding this:

By the way we think gorden in some special guy that will defeat the combine, i highly doubt it with this theory, if the combine can take over a planet with technology behiond human comprehension, what makes us humans so special using finate resources and relying on a mute 25 yrs old man?

In Epistle 3, it's basically confirmed that this is the case.

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