HW News - Microsoft Keeps Ruining Windows, Valve Lawsuit, '4090' in the 4070 Ti Super
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Date: 2024-07-08
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MacCosmic
This whole thing about steam It pisses me off.
Look Steam does need to be kept in check but so does every other company and to my understanding Steam is doing a very good job on their own.
They very well could act like other companies and MAX their profit but I believe their vision was never about being that kind of company. Been gaming since the first commador64, so seen the game industry evolve (poke Microsoft, Ubisoft and other offenders) and steam has a strong understanding between the GAME player and developer.
So I hope steam sees all this attention as how jealous the competitors are because they can't win by doing the hard work steam has done and keeps doing but they need to slide to the scum attacks.
I also hope that some Steam manager doesn't raise prices to offset the loss of dealing with these scumbag practices or that they mistake steam support by the gamers as a check in the supply/demand model to raise prices either.
Leave steam alone unless they truly are letting greed rule the direction the company is going. There are million of other companies to make your scum money from who are just as scummy.
Rage rant over and people wonder why we can't have nice things.
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This whole thing about steam It pisses me off.
Look Steam does need to be kept in check but so does every other company and to my understanding Steam is doing a very good job on their own.
They very well could act like other companies and MAX their profit but I believe their vision was never about being that kind of company. Been gaming since the first commador64, so seen the game industry evolve (poke Microsoft, Ubisoft and other offenders) and steam has a strong understanding between the GAME player and developer.
So I hope steam sees all this attention as how jealous the competitors are because they can't win by doing the hard work steam has done and keeps doing but they need to slide to the scum attacks.
I also hope that some Steam manager doesn't raise prices to offset the loss of dealing with these scumbag practices or that they mistake steam support by the gamers as a check in the supply/demand model to raise prices either.
Leave steam alone unless they truly are letting greed rule the direction the company is going. There are million of other companies to make your scum money from who are just as scummy.
Rage rant over and people wonder why we can't have nice things.
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silencer51
The current state of Windows is particularly sad because, the truth is that, at it's core, if one leaves aside for a moment all of the ad/telemetry/subscription/bloatware crap it comes bundled with, as an o/s it has undoutedly never been better: in my 30 years of experience of working on various Windows versions since 3.1, it's currently more stable than it has ever been and it boggles the mind how many things actually work relatively painlesly, where you'd expect them to crash and burn in the 'good old' days (case in point, I recently attempted to migrate an insanely old program and accompanying database from an elderly user's almost 30y/o laptop that was STILL running Windows 98 to a new laptop, running Windows 11, and it just... worked. A 30 year old application! I was floored. Win32 compatibility ain't no joke!)
It's like Microsoft knows they have something good in their hands, but instead of focusing on that, they do everything in their power to leave a sour taste in end users' mouths, all in pursuit of changes for change's sake and an extra buck.
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The current state of Windows is particularly sad because, the truth is that, at it's core, if one leaves aside for a moment all of the ad/telemetry/subscription/bloatware crap it comes bundled with, as an o/s it has undoutedly never been better: in my 30 years of experience of working on various Windows versions since 3.1, it's currently more stable than it has ever been and it boggles the mind how many things actually work relatively painlesly, where you'd expect them to crash and burn in the 'good old' days (case in point, I recently attempted to migrate an insanely old program and accompanying database from an elderly user's almost 30y/o laptop that was STILL running Windows 98 to a new laptop, running Windows 11, and it just... worked. A 30 year old application! I was floored. Win32 compatibility ain't no joke!)
It's like Microsoft knows they have something good in their hands, but instead of focusing on that, they do everything in their power to leave a sour taste in end users' mouths, all in pursuit of changes for change's sake and an extra buck.
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gamersnexus
While I think Valve is a bit of a shit company these days, personal opinion based on how lazy they have become and overly comfortable, when you have a game like Half Life Alyx that proves what they are capable of but not actually doing work to release products consumers want rather sitting doing nothing other than developer hardware projects hooked to exploiting more from their store so they get more comfortable I think their success leads to them being lazy on the released game side and them making ultimately poor decisions that have affected the consumers in negative ways. Keep in mind I am not just ignoring the great things they have done, Steam Deck, Steam Controller, SteamOS, Index and such are massive wins for gamers, and the software back code for all those hardware devices have led to the industry moving forward in positive ways and for the better for the industry, they have as a company just become such a disappointment on the game side.
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While I think Valve is a bit of a shit company these days, personal opinion based on how lazy they have become and overly comfortable, when you have a game like Half Life Alyx that proves what they are capable of but not actually doing work to release products consumers want rather sitting doing nothing other than developer hardware projects hooked to exploiting more from their store so they get more comfortable I think their success leads to them being lazy on the released game side and them making ultimately poor decisions that have affected the consumers in negative ways. Keep in mind I am not just ignoring the great things they have done, Steam Deck, Steam Controller, SteamOS, Index and such are massive wins for gamers, and the software back code for all those hardware devices have led to the industry moving forward in positive ways and for the better for the industry, they have as a company just become such a disappointment on the game side.
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redmoogle
I just updated to Win11 and it's definitely a mess. I tried out Ubuntu beforehand and unfortunately wiped my main drive, the installer is designed with some really bad defaults and you almost have to only have 1 drive in there, honestly Arch is easier and more sensible to install in comparison. Obviously that would tick anyone off, I tried data recovery and it's just lost data, some of that will be troublesome in the future. Anyway I tried Win11 after, it took about half a day to change its intrusive and strange settings to get it working at a level I'd be okay with. The One Drive integration is insane, they are clearly trying to force everything online and then probably make Windows a subscription only model. If you don't pay them you won't have access to anything. It should be illegal for home desktop use, it's clearly designed to work like a phone but even more aggressively.
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I just updated to Win11 and it's definitely a mess. I tried out Ubuntu beforehand and unfortunately wiped my main drive, the installer is designed with some really bad defaults and you almost have to only have 1 drive in there, honestly Arch is easier and more sensible to install in comparison. Obviously that would tick anyone off, I tried data recovery and it's just lost data, some of that will be troublesome in the future. Anyway I tried Win11 after, it took about half a day to change its intrusive and strange settings to get it working at a level I'd be okay with. The One Drive integration is insane, they are clearly trying to force everything online and then probably make Windows a subscription only model. If you don't pay them you won't have access to anything. It should be illegal for home desktop use, it's clearly designed to work like a phone but even more aggressively.
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devalapar7878
i love the new features on windows 11, but I hate the fact that windows constantly tries to sell me their products, constantly wants me to change settings, ... I can't even customize the start menu or the widgets! I don't want to see bing news! I should be able to select what I exactly want. They need to change that. They need to allow people to customize windows as they want.
If microsoft focused on useful features instead of forcing upon us bing and bing features, I would love windows!
I am changing registry, files, all kind of stuff, to turn off those features. It takes me hours to do that, it is so annoying. Otherwise windows is a great product. It is fast and reliable. It has great administrative features. Anyone who has ever used linux knows what I mean. The linux xwindow is pretty slow.
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i love the new features on windows 11, but I hate the fact that windows constantly tries to sell me their products, constantly wants me to change settings, ... I can't even customize the start menu or the widgets! I don't want to see bing news! I should be able to select what I exactly want. They need to change that. They need to allow people to customize windows as they want.
If microsoft focused on useful features instead of forcing upon us bing and bing features, I would love windows!
I am changing registry, files, all kind of stuff, to turn off those features. It takes me hours to do that, it is so annoying. Otherwise windows is a great product. It is fast and reliable. It has great administrative features. Anyone who has ever used linux knows what I mean. The linux xwindow is pretty slow.
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ai-spacedestructor
i think the steam lawsuit isnt entirely wrong, every product released on steam uses varying ammounts of the platform and some even nothing besides the store and distribution services but nothing else.
Steam could theoretically make a system like for example where for every service used they add a certain % that they think using it is worth to the total cut they will take. so that like 10% for example as the baseline for the services of selling and distribution and then some percentages of everything else until you end up with a maximum arround 25% to 30%.
So that a game which doesnt actually use most of the platform doesnt have to pay equal to a game which is using most if not all of it like for example multiplayer and steam workshop which are both very expensive things to maintain.
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i think the steam lawsuit isnt entirely wrong, every product released on steam uses varying ammounts of the platform and some even nothing besides the store and distribution services but nothing else.
Steam could theoretically make a system like for example where for every service used they add a certain % that they think using it is worth to the total cut they will take. so that like 10% for example as the baseline for the services of selling and distribution and then some percentages of everything else until you end up with a maximum arround 25% to 30%.
So that a game which doesnt actually use most of the platform doesnt have to pay equal to a game which is using most if not all of it like for example multiplayer and steam workshop which are both very expensive things to maintain.
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Gametherapist
9:20 Looking at this from an IT perspective. 2015ish We want more security for our enterprise - Encrypt all drives with Bitlocker (on by default on most laptops)
Cut to people complaining they lost access to their files, because they never knew their Bitlocker key and noone told them the feature was activated
Microsoft now storing all the user-perceived important files in the cloud. Nonono we have your files. Everything is fine (quietly: Yes, WE have your files. They're ours now to do with as we please)
Going from one workaround to another without fixing the core issue, because let's face it. Microsoft fired all its capable programmers, replaced them with Design Idiots and is now trying to fight with Apple about who has the dumbest users.
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9:20 Looking at this from an IT perspective. 2015ish We want more security for our enterprise - Encrypt all drives with Bitlocker (on by default on most laptops)
Cut to people complaining they lost access to their files, because they never knew their Bitlocker key and noone told them the feature was activated
Microsoft now storing all the user-perceived important files in the cloud. Nonono we have your files. Everything is fine (quietly: Yes, WE have your files. They're ours now to do with as we please)
Going from one workaround to another without fixing the core issue, because let's face it. Microsoft fired all its capable programmers, replaced them with Design Idiots and is now trying to fight with Apple about who has the dumbest users.
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Omizuke
Like the Steam game recording. Dropping pin when you take screenshot is a great idea. But they really should add Intel GPU support. On my previous build. I had it set so it would use Intel's QuickSync for the recordings on OBS instead my Nvidia GPU. It gave me better results. I also used QS in many other programs. Current build is AMD so no QS. And a 3060 ti can handle recordings fine. But still, it'll be nice to have QS for the people that still use an Intel device.
As for the game stuff... I have games I haven't play a single hour. Want them, bought them on sale, at their lowers or close, to add to my ever growing backlog.
I appreciate the value been coorelated to a an nvidia employee. It makes it so much understandable.
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Like the Steam game recording. Dropping pin when you take screenshot is a great idea. But they really should add Intel GPU support. On my previous build. I had it set so it would use Intel's QuickSync for the recordings on OBS instead my Nvidia GPU. It gave me better results. I also used QS in many other programs. Current build is AMD so no QS. And a 3060 ti can handle recordings fine. But still, it'll be nice to have QS for the people that still use an Intel device.
As for the game stuff... I have games I haven't play a single hour. Want them, bought them on sale, at their lowers or close, to add to my ever growing backlog.
I appreciate the value been coorelated to a an nvidia employee. It makes it so much understandable.
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BaseNAND
If you want to use OneDrive it's usually best to manually configure the location so you have control over it. By default the Documents folder is part of it, and especially if you're playing a lot of different games that folder will be cluttered with tons of files you do not need. Sure save files are part of it, but for Steam games those will already be backed up by Steam anyway. And for the rest you can manually add those game folders to the list of OneDrive folders. This saves you a ton of space on OneDrive. The space is limited and if it's cluttered by large junk files chances are the important stuff won't be backed up or having sync issues when saving new files.
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If you want to use OneDrive it's usually best to manually configure the location so you have control over it. By default the Documents folder is part of it, and especially if you're playing a lot of different games that folder will be cluttered with tons of files you do not need. Sure save files are part of it, but for Steam games those will already be backed up by Steam anyway. And for the rest you can manually add those game folders to the list of OneDrive folders. This saves you a ton of space on OneDrive. The space is limited and if it's cluttered by large junk files chances are the important stuff won't be backed up or having sync issues when saving new files.
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Macabre215
8:26 Hey Steve, you cannot use the OOBE\BYPASSNRO command once the device updates during the OOBE process or connects to Microsoft's servers. They have become very dubious by blocking this command once you do. You HAVE to run the command as soon as the Windows set up boots. Usually this starts at the region select screen. I would run the command immediately then so it has no way to block the bypass command. Don't wait until the account creation screen as the newest OOBE version will no longer allow the bypass command to work. I have a feeling this option is going to be going away in future versions of the Windows 11 ISO, unfortunately...
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8:26 Hey Steve, you cannot use the OOBE\BYPASSNRO command once the device updates during the OOBE process or connects to Microsoft's servers. They have become very dubious by blocking this command once you do. You HAVE to run the command as soon as the Windows set up boots. Usually this starts at the region select screen. I would run the command immediately then so it has no way to block the bypass command. Don't wait until the account creation screen as the newest OOBE version will no longer allow the bypass command to work. I have a feeling this option is going to be going away in future versions of the Windows 11 ISO, unfortunately...
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ELCrisler
I get why tech enthusiasts might not want to turn on One Drive access for Windows. However that feature is really there mostly for typical daily home users. People just do not backup files and this gives a none techy typical home user a level of backup protection. My brother had my build a new machine for him this year. I setup his old machine using One Drive and account synchronization on Windows. Putting the old machine together all we had to was log into his Live account and within a few minutes all his browser settings, favorites and files where on the new machine without him looking for a backup or even remembering to make one.
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I get why tech enthusiasts might not want to turn on One Drive access for Windows. However that feature is really there mostly for typical daily home users. People just do not backup files and this gives a none techy typical home user a level of backup protection. My brother had my build a new machine for him this year. I setup his old machine using One Drive and account synchronization on Windows. Putting the old machine together all we had to was log into his Live account and within a few minutes all his browser settings, favorites and files where on the new machine without him looking for a backup or even remembering to make one.
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Lolatyou332
Windows is becoming TRASH..
They are trying to cater to people who know nothing technical and appifying everything. That would be fine if it didn't make it more difficult to use for technical people..
I was literally a windows server admin for years and I can't even get the xbox app to work anymore and my computer won't recognize USB harddrives anymore..
You have to run special commands just to open settings that used to be navigated by default to.. the problem is there is functionality missing in windows 11 UI and it requires opening the old programs to even be able to do things.
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Windows is becoming TRASH..
They are trying to cater to people who know nothing technical and appifying everything. That would be fine if it didn't make it more difficult to use for technical people..
I was literally a windows server admin for years and I can't even get the xbox app to work anymore and my computer won't recognize USB harddrives anymore..
You have to run special commands just to open settings that used to be navigated by default to.. the problem is there is functionality missing in windows 11 UI and it requires opening the old programs to even be able to do things.
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Albatrox
Never use One drive if you ever have some file uploaded that try to do a backup that you never asked for and force stop the upload, because the next time you gonna like use 365 in the futur on any computer it will do automatically sync back thoses files that you never wanted in the first place on that computer by deleting everythings on it... happen to me once, when that happen I was for sure thinking I was being hacked all my desktop was getting wipe but everythings was sent to the recycle in one drive so I was able to restore everything back but was very very annoying and unecessary.
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Never use One drive if you ever have some file uploaded that try to do a backup that you never asked for and force stop the upload, because the next time you gonna like use 365 in the futur on any computer it will do automatically sync back thoses files that you never wanted in the first place on that computer by deleting everythings on it... happen to me once, when that happen I was for sure thinking I was being hacked all my desktop was getting wipe but everythings was sent to the recycle in one drive so I was able to restore everything back but was very very annoying and unecessary.
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VsUK
Vicki Shotbolt has been criticised here in the UK for this fictitious lawsuit simply to try & milk money from a successful company. If you want to sell your games on Steam, you have to agree to it's terms & conditions, it's a choice each games developer makes & isn't forced to do so. This has nothing to do with the company & more about money. She's the CEO & Founder of Parent Zone that's made numerous attempts to sue other publishers & failed because she has no evidence & the companies broke no laws or rules. It's always about money with her.
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Vicki Shotbolt has been criticised here in the UK for this fictitious lawsuit simply to try & milk money from a successful company. If you want to sell your games on Steam, you have to agree to it's terms & conditions, it's a choice each games developer makes & isn't forced to do so. This has nothing to do with the company & more about money. She's the CEO & Founder of Parent Zone that's made numerous attempts to sue other publishers & failed because she has no evidence & the companies broke no laws or rules. It's always about money with her.
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MiniorDebry
I have a funny story about One Drive;
One day windows decided to change my downloads folder to be One Drive after fully reinstalling windows with a fresh start. I didnt notice for a good bit until I went to reinstall FF14, where for some reason it installed it into the One Drive. This made the game crash before ever booting and force me spend hours to learn what was wrong.
I dont trust Microsoft to not pull this shit on W11, its so user unfriendly that i dont know how something like this could get published.
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I have a funny story about One Drive;
One day windows decided to change my downloads folder to be One Drive after fully reinstalling windows with a fresh start. I didnt notice for a good bit until I went to reinstall FF14, where for some reason it installed it into the One Drive. This made the game crash before ever booting and force me spend hours to learn what was wrong.
I dont trust Microsoft to not pull this shit on W11, its so user unfriendly that i dont know how something like this could get published.
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May-cj1rx
Love how country want to sue probably the only company that care for it's customer, like yeah steam has the monopoly and that's a good thing for once, they literaly keep making updates to make the consumer's life better
Meanwhile we had : Epic games launcher who is still so badly design with barely any features, Ubisoft is basic and a buggy mess, Blizzard who is also a buggy mess for downloading stuff, etc
The only other good gaming plateform is gog since on it everything you buy, you actually own it
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Love how country want to sue probably the only company that care for it's customer, like yeah steam has the monopoly and that's a good thing for once, they literaly keep making updates to make the consumer's life better
Meanwhile we had : Epic games launcher who is still so badly design with barely any features, Ubisoft is basic and a buggy mess, Blizzard who is also a buggy mess for downloading stuff, etc
The only other good gaming plateform is gog since on it everything you buy, you actually own it
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Amarilliya
Regarding the unplayed games on steam, I will sometimes buy a game on steam and never play it, if I have watched someone else play it, and I know in my heart I loved the playthrough, I have both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, never even installed them, then there's also ofc the summer sales, and sometimes I buy a game, realize it's boring, and I just forget to refund it within the 2 week window, so it sits there with 0 achievements (no evidence of having been played)
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Regarding the unplayed games on steam, I will sometimes buy a game on steam and never play it, if I have watched someone else play it, and I know in my heart I loved the playthrough, I have both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, never even installed them, then there's also ofc the summer sales, and sometimes I buy a game, realize it's boring, and I just forget to refund it within the 2 week window, so it sits there with 0 achievements (no evidence of having been played)
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survivor8872
I have a justification for un played games in my steam library. I bought them to support the developers i like. And those games were available on pirated cds only, in my country before we got a decent internet connection. So out of guilt I bought those games again to support real developers. And i already have played them. Also note that i was not aware that the copy i was buying from the store was a pirated copy. Also as a teen i didn't understand English well..
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I have a justification for un played games in my steam library. I bought them to support the developers i like. And those games were available on pirated cds only, in my country before we got a decent internet connection. So out of guilt I bought those games again to support real developers. And i already have played them. Also note that i was not aware that the copy i was buying from the store was a pirated copy. Also as a teen i didn't understand English well..
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skaleee1207
Storing local files in their cloud without asking is plain insane. A friend of my wanted to run a program, which did not work somehow. Turns out he does not even have a local desktop folder! Every desktop file is stored in the cloud that no one asked for. If his internet-connection somehow shuts down he has nothing left. If his account is hakked, it will all be gone. This is unacceptable!
Can't wait for MS to be caught to train their AsI with our stolen data.
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Storing local files in their cloud without asking is plain insane. A friend of my wanted to run a program, which did not work somehow. Turns out he does not even have a local desktop folder! Every desktop file is stored in the cloud that no one asked for. If his internet-connection somehow shuts down he has nothing left. If his account is hakked, it will all be gone. This is unacceptable!
Can't wait for MS to be caught to train their AsI with our stolen data.
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YammoYammamoto
I've got a bunch of games I've gotten for free(like endless legends) that I haven't tried yet - but that I picked up because FREE.
I've got a TON of games that I bought at 90-95% off, because I knew it was a game I WANTED to play... at some point... but haven't tried yet. All these games serve as buffer for me to play when there's a month or two when nothing but DEI titles are released.... something I will NEVER put a single dime towards.
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I've got a bunch of games I've gotten for free(like endless legends) that I haven't tried yet - but that I picked up because FREE.
I've got a TON of games that I bought at 90-95% off, because I knew it was a game I WANTED to play... at some point... but haven't tried yet. All these games serve as buffer for me to play when there's a month or two when nothing but DEI titles are released.... something I will NEVER put a single dime towards.
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