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

• resulting archive was 229 MB, ~61% of original.
• ~1.9s to compress
• ~0.4s to decompress

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

• ~179 MB archive, ~48% of original-
• ~3min to compress
• ~4.5s to decompress

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.

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 :/

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I’ve played quite a bit of the browser version, but that steam version has stuff in screenshots I don’t think I’ve seen in the browser one… huh.

Might need to check this one out, thanks!

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

if/when you get stuck / progress feels horrendously slow/stalled, the wiki is pretty up to date and offers great info https://spaceidle.game-vault.net/wiki/Main_Page - but imo, only check it when progress stalls hard, otherwise there be spoilers, a lot of spoilers.

Welcome to space :)

Unnamed Space Idle? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2471100/Unnamed_Space_Idle/

It is pretty similar to Melvor, you have a space ship instead of a character. Ship automatically shoots baddies and goes forward. You upgrade the ship, it’s parts, etc. Proceed to idle, harveste materials, craft stuff, collect bonuses, unlock new tiers of stuff… etc. It looks a bit amateurish, but it’s pretty cool as far as idlers go.

It has offline progress, cloud saves & works on linux too. And apparently you can share your progress with android version too - but I dunno for sure, haven’t tried.

There are mtx available, but even the game tells you they’re not really needed, they’re there for giving support to the dev - and I can confirm, the game isn’t coin operated at all, you gain everything you’d realistically need through gameplay at reasonable pace.

Imagine paying hundreds for beta-invite, to scalpers, and then get banned because account trading is pretty much always against TOS.

but then the whole contents of the news would be in the headline, you wouldn’t need to click then, and then they wouldn’t get to show you ads!

I get that they need ads to stay in business, but man the clickbait titles are still annoying :/

using a 3090, switched dlss to use the new transformer -model and it’s GREAT. Basically all smeared surfaces while moving are gone, wet pavement stays crisp while waking the rainy streets…

Kinda feels like the image quality which previously was “DLSS Quality” can be achieved with “DLSS Performance” now, just with higher framerate.

For laughs I tried the dlss -files with other games (The Ascent, PGA TOUR 2K23), and overall the visuals appear more detailed with less artifacting when using DLSS. Apparently the results could be even better if I tinkered a bit with nvinspector and enforced the “J” profile for dlss for the games, too.

Radiotower as a Service.

As a 3090 owner: ok, but largely meh & IDGAF.

Admittedly, I’ve only tried the FSR on a single game (Cyberpunk 2077), and while it looks cool & smooth, the input lag it generates feels horrid. While the DLSS FG might offer a bit lower input lag, it’s still more than it would be without FG, so… meh?

I didn’t like motion smoothing on TV’s, and (so far) I sure don’t enjoy it on my pc. Old man yells at cloud, etc.

Ask for a lot, try to appear less shit when ONLY asking a bit less

Or you know, business as usual

aww, that’s a bummer, I’ve been eyeing that game for quite a while and it does seem interesting.

If there are other human players in the match, leaving sucks for them, so in that regards I get it.

If all the other players are bots… who cares? Penalizing for hurting bot-feelings is silly.

this. I was so interested in the game, then my friend got it early on and streamed it to the rest of us and… gotta say, visuals and audio are nice, the game just oozes mood… but it’s not a good game, imo. The combat is jank and deadly. I would have rather had a walking sim, tbh

Yup, reasonable points.

But, it is 3 clicks for now, but it might not even be an option later on. Yea yea, doomer and tinfoilhats. :)

the ads in a paid os shouldn’t be a thing to begin with.

and you’re absolutely sure the files are av1? if you try to open the video files with ffmpeg, eg: ffmpeg -i videofile.mkv, what does it say the codec is?

at least my av1 videos say: Stream #0:0[0x1](und): Video: av1 (libdav1d) (Main) (av01 / 0x31307661), yuv420p(tv, progressive), 854x854, 464 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 1:1, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 16k tbn (default)