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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow Ubisoft game launcher opens in... Never? Wtf I paid money for this game and then I need to buy it again because they didn't actually give me the account and now the launcher is just dead and I can't even open it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Fuck that. I bought one of the assassins creed games legitimately, then had it refuse to launch after a few weeks because they updated their launcher and borked it. I then pirated that same game to bypass the launcher issue and pirated every other ubisoft game since then.

If I have to pirate games to get around a deliberate flaw you worked into your program, I'm not paying for that game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I find the video from LTT kinda hilarious with the 96 core threadripper. Breaking records in cinebench but Cities Skylines 2 still runs like shit (in a 1mio pop city).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Because chances are the 7800X3D will be faster due to the cache.

Real-world applications often can only be parallelized so and so much, before you start hitting diminishing returns for many reasons. A lot of it is about the actual technical design as much as it is the technical execution (you can't parallelize two operations if one depends on the result of the other).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Tested 5 clients on my PC 3 times each. Times were more or less consistent on each run, biggest variation seemed for Uplay.

Setup: You are already logged in, there are no pending updates, you terminate client after each run (did not see significant time difference between repeated runs and 1st run after you log in), your logged in Windows account has admin rights so time is not wasted entering password (EGS and Uplay require admin rights to launch), time stops once launcher is usable.

  • EGS - 8 - 10 seconds
  • Steam - 20 seconds
  • GOG - 11 seconds
  • Uplay - 20 - 24 seconds
  • Heroic - 5 seconds

System: Ryzen 2600 with Samsung 970 EVO (2400 MB/s R/W as per Samsung Magician benchmark)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Really exposing the Valve fanboyism in the room. Steam genuinely takes quite a long time to start. People pretend it's quick because they leave it running, while cold booting Epic/alternatives and complaining.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there any chance you can add a test for Heroic launcher as well? I advocate for using it over EGS, and I'd like to know how it stacks up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is heroic only on Linux? I've never looked into installing it on Windows. It's a fantastic front end for the EGS/GOG on my Linux machines though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It's on Windows as well :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's long because you have to copy and paste your password from the manager (and click "remember me") every time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Do people just bash epic to bash epic?

No one I talk to in real life has ever had one of these complaints about the launcher, it has its issues, but logging and startup isn’t them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I didn't realise you could bash it? Isn't it a GUI application? And one that needs to run inside wine at that?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why would I bash EGS? How can I even bash it when it doesn't support Linux?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Epic takes 2 or more minutes for me to launch. Also when Im in my library, the page keeps refreshing randomly which shoots you back to the top. Very fun UI.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Really? It takes ages to open for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

heroic games launcher is a foss epic and gog launcher, works very well and very fast for me on linux. it has a windows version, too.