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Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

Some may know me from over a decade worth of modding broken, under-performing or otherwise inconvenient aspects of PC ports. Dedicated users of Special K also know that I have spent as much time battling problems caused by Steam as I have defects in the games themselves.

My experience with PC gaming goes back a further two decades, to the days of shareware, dialing into a BBS to get game patches / user generated content and tedious DRM fetch-quests involving physical game manuals. I was irritated when Half-Life 2 shipped on PC and required a dedicated piece of software to satisfy DRM and patch the game, but at the time these were minor inconveniences. Valve tried to quell concerns of software preservation with the first of a long series of lies wherein they claimed to have a contingency plan for the DRM scheme reaching end-of-life.

   Steam's DRM scheme has reached end-of-life multiple times without the promised parachute.

In 2002, the cl

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#pragma once

#ifdef SK_HDR_PNG_RESHADE
#include "reshade_api.hpp"
#include <com_ptr.hpp>
using display = reshade::api::display*;
#else
#include <atlbase.h>
using com_ptr = CComPtr;
using display = void*;

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#define __SK_SUBSYSTEM__ L"Sekiro Fix"

#include <WinSock2.h>
#include <ws2tcpip.h>
#include <SpecialK/hooks.h>
#include <SpecialK/utility.h>
#include <SpecialK/parameter.h>

sk::ParameterFactory factory;

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float
SK_Sched_ThreadContext::most_recent_wait_s::getRate (void)
{
  if (sequence > 0)
  {
    float ms =
      SK_DeltaPerfMS (
        SK_CurrentPerf ().QuadPart - (last_wait.QuadPart - start.QuadPart), 1
      );

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//
// Copyright 2018 Andon "Kaldaien" Coleman
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
// deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
// rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
// sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
// 

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[Display.Output]
ForceFullscreen=false
ForceWindowed=false

[Render.FrameRate]
TargetFPS=-60.0
LimiterTolerance=1.666
SleeplessRenderThread=false
SleeplessWindowThread=false
EnableMMCSS=true

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[DrawState.Vertex]
017eba67=Disable,
5603a466=Disable,
6338b7fe=Disable,
6b0960df=Disable,
9b2e1e28=Disable,
a6026b20=Disable,
aabb63ea=Disable,

[DrawState.Pixel]

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[Compatibility.General]
IgnoreRaptr=false
DisableRaptr=false
DisableBloatWare_NVIDIA=false
RehookLoadLibrary=false

[SpecialK.System]
ShowEULA=false
InitDelay=250
Silent=false

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;
; (Press Ctrl + Shift + Tab (keybinding not customizable yet) to open command console)
;
;	The command console will pause any Steam Overlay aware game until you close it by pressing
;	  the command console binding a second time.
;
;	You can cycle through previous (successful) commands / variables by pressing Up/Down
;
; 	Many of these variables have a corresponding entry in various config files, changing
;	  them through the command console will permanently change them in the config file.

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03/26/2017 18:47:36.140: [   DXGI   ]  SwapChain: (1600x1024 @ 60.0 Hz - Scaling: Stretched) - {Windowed} [3 Buffers] :: Flags=0x0000, SwapEffect: Discard
03/26/2017 18:47:36.140: [   DXGI   ]  >> Scaling Override (Requested: DXGI_MODE_SCALING_STRETCHED, Using: DXGI_MODE_SCALING_UNSPECIFIED)
03/26/2017 18:47:36.140: [ DXGI 1.2 ] >> Using Traditional Presentation Model  [Waitable: No - 0 ms]
03/26/2017 18:47:36.158: [   DXGI   ] [@]  Return: S_OK  -  < CreateSwapChain_Original (This, pDevice, pDesc, ppSwapChain) >
03/26/2017 18:47:36.177: Bloom Tex
03/26/2017 18:47:36.177: Bloom Tex
...
03/26/2017 18:47:37.138: [   DXGI   ] [!] IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState (0, 0000000000000000h) -- [ NieRAutomata.exe, tid=0x42a8 ]
03/26/2017 18:47:37.138: [   DXGI   ] [@]  Return: S_OK  -  < SetFullscreenState_Original (This, Fullscreen, pTarget) >
03/26/2017 18:47:37.138: [   DXGI   ] [!] IDXGIFactory4::CreateSwapChain (0000000005946040h, 000000000014FB90h, 000000000F997E50h) -- [ NieRAutomata.exe, tid=0x42a8 ]