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ZKenir

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Had a power outage and now all my steam games icons on the desktop are blank and no amount of tinkering/reinstalling/whatever you can find on the internet is helping

I fucking hate when this happens since in my experience Steam is unable to fix this shit on its own
 

fantomena

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So far I really enjoy Humankind and it feels different from Civ, which is good imo.

Also reached 50k ccu on Steam!






I could not bother downloading these, but I will try them with xCloud.
Will game pass version have VR?
 
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Had a power outage and now all my steam games icons on the desktop are blank and no amount of tinkering/reinstalling/whatever you can find on the internet is helping

I fucking hate when this happens since in my experience Steam is unable to fix this shit on its own
I love these icon cache problems have literally been around since Vista (when Windows allowed you to have bigger icons than 32x32) and Microsoft still hasn't fixed this. It's almost impressive how little this company cares about was used to be its core product ( and arguably still is to some extent).
 
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ZKenir

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I love these icon cache problems have literally been around since Vista (when Windows allowed you to have bigger icons than 32x32) and Microsoft still hasn't fixed this. It's almost impressive how little this company cares about was used to be its core product ( and arguably still is to some extent).
feels more like it's steam rather than microsoft since origin, bnet and uplay aren't being affected

usually I have to tinker with steam until it unfucks itself tbh

plus I remember steam mindfucking itself on ubuntu (or was it kubuntu?) as well years ago when I had to mess around with it again
 
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gabbo

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And yes we are doomed

Somehow it seems less impressive that they do it perfectly. I'd rather see them slip and catch themselves without eating it or how they respond to real-time changes to the course/interference from outside sources while running it to be impressed. It's 2021 and i'm knocking robots doing obstacle courses, something is amiss about this.
 

yuraya

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And yes we are doomed


The backflips in the end were amazing.

The business for these things will blow up really big over the next decades.

All these tech giants will be selling them for the price of a car and that I, Robot movie with Will Smith will be a reality. Or something damn near close to it.
 
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Dinjoralo

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Yeah, living on your own is just the best...
This might be a stupid question... But why? Is it just to reduce the resource overhead from running the main Steam client?

I mean the Steam client itself has supported streaming from one computer to another for years and years now.
For me, it's being able to more conveniently stream non-Steam games. You can do that through Steam, but on the client system it won't have any info on the game so it doesn't get lumped with recently played stuff.
Overhead is also a concern since my laptop's fairly weak and can struggle with Big Picture, though BP does seem to have been optimized a lot since I last tried to use it on there.
Remote play through the Steam client can also be finicky since the game starts on the host before the client hooks in, meaning no Big Picture overlay on the host. That and the Steam client being weird and not showing some games as being streamable for whatever reason, like it's doing right now with the FF Pixel Remaster.
I mean, not to be a stickler here, but technically there was a "Steam Link app" on Windows even before Steam Link existed.
You can download it right here: Steam, The Ultimate Online Game Platform
Yeah, I know. I was there when Remote Play first dropped.
 
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Parsnip

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So are they actually working out how to traverse that in real time?
Or is it pre-programmed?
It's pre-programmed.

For now. :rip:


edit: Well, not pre-programmed in that everything is completely predetermined.
I think it's probably a programmed path and pre-programmed "poses" and movement (maybe motion matching, sort of), and then it chooses the right ones real time, and probably corrects footing and such in real time.

edit2: There's an actual companion video. They call it a choreographed routine, which is a pretty good description indeed.
 
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Mivey

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feels more like it's steam rather than microsoft since origin, bnet and uplay aren't being affected

usually I have to tinker with steam until it unfucks itself tbh

plus I remember steam mindfucking itself on ubuntu (or was it kubuntu?) as well years ago when I had to mess around with it again
I think this is due to Windows. Steam uses some kind of URL, and probably sets the icon during the creation. The icon cache goes haywire (basically when you look at the desktop the wrong way) and Windows doesn't know what to do, whereas with link to an executable it tries to look up the icon from there .
 

ZKenir

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It’s not windows i have seen it happening on ubuntu too, it’s steam fucking around unlike the other launchers
 

Mivey

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It’s not windows i have seen it happening on ubuntu too, it’s steam fucking around unlike the other launchers
That's interesting, the way icons are shown on Ubuntu is pretty distinct, using .desktop files. If you get the same issues on both, than yeah, that's pretty sus.
Of course, I keep tons of Steam icons on my desktop, and I can't really remember them all being broken at once like this. Maybe your PCs are just cursed :witchblob:
 
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ZKenir

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Tbh maybe whatever caused it back then on ubuntu (or kubuntu) had a different cause? I dunno.

I'm gonna uncork a bottle of wine from the fridge and read something, I'll think about what to do later, maybe I'll just live with it although I admit that for some reason however minor this thing may be it sends me into a frothing rage
 

Knurek

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It’s not windows i have seen it happening on ubuntu too, it’s steam fucking around unlike the other launchers
Just replace the desktop shortcuts with actual shortcuts to the game exe.
Will not work if you move the game to another drive, but provided you don't do that, the icons should stick.
 

r3n4ud

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Had a power outage and now all my steam games icons on the desktop are blank and no amount of tinkering/reinstalling/whatever you can find on the internet is helping

I fucking hate when this happens since in my experience Steam is unable to fix this shit on its own
Had same problem a couple of times and Rebuild Shell Icon Cache always did the trick for me

Download Rebuild Shell Icon Cache 1.2.0.0

You can also try Thumbnail & Icon Cache Rebuilder

Download Thumbnail & Icon Cache Rebuilder 2
 

Digoman

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More Assassin's Creed things than all previous 3 games combined

Watch Dogs key features: PLAY AS ANYONE*
* = except on the major DLCs because we realized that the gimmick got old really fast.

And all this does is remind me that the obvious original plan was to eventually have a modern-era based game before that "WTF" ending of Assassin's Creed 3.
 

AHA-Lambda

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now that's a fucking good month
Watch Dogs key features: PLAY AS ANYONE*
* = except on the major DLCs because we realized that the gimmick got old really fast.

And all this does is remind me that the obvious original plan was to eventually have a modern-era based game before that "WTF" ending of Assassin's Creed 3.
God I miss the days when the AC series had potential....
 

NarohDethan

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Annapurna hiked up the prices of Due Process and Outer Wilds in Argentina, India, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey. They will probably do the same for 12 Minutes tomorrow.

Humankind also got a price increase at least in Argentina after it launched earlier today.
Annapurna more like Annaputmetosleep amirite
 
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