The worst kind of an Internet-herpaderp. Internet-urpo pahimmasta päästä.
So… I’m completely outsider to this game (and series), and… is there actually much lore/story to these characters - or better yet, lore/story that anyone cares for or matters for the game?
I get that the date is a bit unfortunate all things considered, but… why do the character need to have a stated birthday anyway? Are there in-game birthday parties or what?
zstd is generally stupidly fast and quite efficient.
probably not exactly how steam does it, or even close, but as a quick & dirty comparison: compressed and decompressed a random CD.iso (~375 MB) I had laying about, using zstd and lzma, using 1MB dictitionary:
test system: Arch linux (btw, as is customary) laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U cpu.
used commands & results:
Zstd:
# compress (--maxdict 1048576 - sets the used compression dictionary to 1MB) :
% time zstd --maxdict 1048576 < DISC.ISO > DISC.zstd
zstd --maxdict 1048576 < DISC.ISO > DISC.zstd 1,83s user 0,42s system 120% cpu 1,873 total
# decompress:
% time zstd -d < DISC.zstd > /dev/null
zstd -d < DISC.zstd > /dev/null 0,36s user 0,08s system 121% cpu 0,362 total
So, pretty quick all around.
Lzma:
# compress (the -1e argument implies setting preset which uses 1MB dictionary size):
% time lzma -1e < DISC.ISO > DISC.lzma
lzma -1e < DISC.ISO > DISC.lzma 172,65s user 0,91s system 98% cpu 2:56,16 total
#decompress:
% time lzma -d < DISC.lzma > /dev/null
lzma -d < DISC.lzma > /dev/null 4,37s user 0,08s system 98% cpu 4,493 total
This one felt like forever to compress.
So, my takeaway here is that the time cost to compress is enough to waste a bit of disk space for sake of speed.
and lastly, just because I was curious, ran zstd on max compression settings too:
% time zstd --maxdict 1048576 -9 < DISC.ISO > DISC.2.zstd
zstd --maxdict 1048576 -9 < DISC.ISO > DISC.2.zstd 10,98s user 0,40s system 102% cpu 11,129 total
% time zstd -d < DISC.2.zstd > /dev/null
zstd -d < DISC.2.zstd > /dev/null 0,47s user 0,07s system 111% cpu 0,488 total
~11s compression time, ~0.5s decompression, archive size was ~211 MB.
deemed it wasn’t nescessary to spend time to compress the archive with lzma’s max settings.
Now I’ll be taking notes when people start correcting me & explaining why these “benchmarks” are wrong :P
edit:
goofed a bit with the max compression settings, added the same dictionary size.
edit 2: one of the reasons for the change might be syncing files between their servers. IIRC zstd can be compressed to be “rsync compatible”, allowing partial file syncs instead of syncing entire file, saving in bandwidth. Not sure if lzma does the same.
I’ll preface this with the fact that I don’t know the game, but looking at the system requirements on steam, both of those systems are below minimum spec.
Also, it would probably help if the macbook actually was on fedora 41, it reads 40 in the screenshot - so maybe try upgrading that one, since the game runs on the system with actual fedora 41?
names of games I didn’t expect to hear to day. Only had Major Stryker shareware as a kid, played it a lot, along with Duke Nukum and some other old SW games.
But those games on massive tv? Pixels the size of cats.
Were you using any crt shaders or such?
doesn’t seem like it was all that popular game to begin with, so all things considered the number of affected users is likely to be like, 10 at best? And some of those are likely affiliated with the dev/publisher anyway.
But it sucks that these things still can get through the sieve to begin with :/
eyyyy, World Class Leaderboard, one of the first games I ever had on PC. Got fond memories of that - but rose tinted glasses didn’t survive revisit in dosbox x)
This game looks neat tho. Might pick it up!
I just couldn’t stop buying the bg3 season passes, fomo-exclusive character skins and consumable magic item bundles to feed the one companion whose name escapes me atm.
/S
got the first game/shareware on some random “bajillion games collection!” cd when I was a kid. Even if it wasn’t a full game, the amount of game the shareware episode had was staggering. Years later I came across the second part which was released as freeware. There was much rejoicement.
The game sure has it’s BS moments - like nearly impossible dragons/whatever enemies which occasionally just murder you, but dangit I like it. :3
Just got to figure out a way to “double the pixel size” so that all those crusty graphics don’t get too small on my screen, dosbox + win3.1 is nice but… could be better! :P
awww. I somehow thought it was coming in 6.13 (which is in testing -repos for arch atm), oh well.
Either way, seems like good stuff for gaming and - hopefully - productivity apps.
Wine is kinda magical. I really like this old 16bit Windows 3.x game “Castle of The Winds” (topdown, turn based, roguelike) which doesn’t run on any 64bit windows as is (though, you CAN, with https://github.com/otya128/winevdm, but iirc it was a bit finicky).
Wine runs CoTW fine, seemingly.
tbh, that’s quite a bit more than what I would have expected - especially for a game what I thought was more or less a counter-strike variant where the whole point is the pvp experience.