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What about the horrible performance issues with Universal Windows Apps? http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-and-other-

by kefka 11y ago

What about the horrible performance issues with Universal Windows Apps? http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-and-other-pc-games-from-the-windows-store/ http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-you-shouldnt-buy-rise-of... In a nutshell... No SLI or CrossFire VSync is Always On Always Borderless Fullscreen Mode No Modding No .exe File (and No Steam Controller) No Overlays Mouse Macros Won’t Work No Clear Refund Policy Only for Windows 10 And that applies to anything running as a "Universal App". This seems very anti-customer, and a great reason to buy elsewhere (or, well, encourage piracy through bad policies/technical limitations). What is Microsoft doing to ameliorate these significant issues? Edit: Really now? Some of those issues were addressed during the video(still no transcript), yet many others still stand. So one takes a karma hit for asking tough questions?

cwyers 11y ago
They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support.
- kefka 11y ago
  > They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support. Unfortunately, I've been around the block and then some. I've heard the empty platitudes of promises for X and Y features, yet later on it's considered inconvenient to implement. But as of right now, SLI and VSync are broken. I did see the AoE2 mods. Having not played that game, I took those mods to not actually modify the base executable. In other words, it appears you can load in-game mods, but absolutely verboten to touch the 'executable'... because there is none in any usable form.
  - douche 11y ago
    I'm not sure I'd be comfortable running mods that binary-patched the exe, anyway. Outside of a few old, old, abandonware-type games that never had bugs fixed, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of game mods just swap out assets, data, and some scripted logic.
    - cwyers 11y ago
      Yes, for the majority of users, removing the ability to arbitrarily change an .exe is a massive feature of UWP over conventional Windows, as it closes off a lot of attack vectors for malicious software.

by kefka 11y ago

cwyers 11y ago

They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support.

kefka 11y ago
> They covered a lot of those -- SLI and VSync will get fixed in a May update, they showed off mods for Age of Empires II, they talked about overlay support. Unfortunately, I've been around the block and then some. I've heard the empty platitudes of promises for X and Y features, yet later on it's considered inconvenient to implement. But as of right now, SLI and VSync are broken. I did see the AoE2 mods. Having not played that game, I took those mods to not actually modify the base executable. In other words, it appears you can load in-game mods, but absolutely verboten to touch the 'executable'... because there is none in any usable form.
- douche 11y ago
  I'm not sure I'd be comfortable running mods that binary-patched the exe, anyway. Outside of a few old, old, abandonware-type games that never had bugs fixed, I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of game mods just swap out assets, data, and some scripted logic.
  - cwyers 11y ago
    Yes, for the majority of users, removing the ability to arbitrarily change an .exe is a massive feature of UWP over conventional Windows, as it closes off a lot of attack vectors for malicious software.