What have you been playing recently?

I ended the 1 player campaign of Brutal Doom 64.

I found an old game running again: Battleforge https://forum.skylords.eu/
Discarded by EA and brought back to live as a fan project.
But i could not get the installation work under Linux. Maybe someone could write a Lutris installer out of this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/4210-open-stress-test-all-you-need-to-know/ and this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/6012-new-development-on-skylords-reborn-mac-via-wine/&tab=comments#comment-81184 That would be great :)

All this Corona noise got me back into [EVE Online](https://www.eveonline.com/), while the Linux client was deprecated a long time ago, and the Linux launcher script hasn't been updated in years, there are a few Lutris scripts, and the DXVK + esync option works great.

I started/ended Minit.

It is a pity because I just searched one thing on the internet.
It was not a big spoiler, just at what screen should I find that clue.
But I could have solved everything without external sources.

Quoting: xaviI started/ended Minit.

It is a pity because I just searched one thing on the internet.
It was not a big spoiler, just at what screen should I find that clue.
But I could have solved everything without external sources.

I know and hate the feeling.

Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: grigiFor me it;s OpenMW 0.46 + a few mods.
I haven't played Morrowind in... a decade?
And I have to say, it's way more fun than Skyrim. The music in particular aged exquisitely.
Just the peoples faces/some clothes... Yech!

Yeah, KOTOR looks like LA Noire in comparison, and it's very nearly as old. :) A good character model replacement mod would be a godsend.

Indeed. better bodies introduces bizarre bugs (and changes the looks too much), and the other "good" character replacement mod (forgot the name) got removed for using copyrighted assets. So I just live with it.
Strange how some faces/bodies looks decent, and some just... ugh.

Quoting: 2fastHunterI found an old game running again: Battleforge https://forum.skylords.eu/
Discarded by EA and brought back to live as a fan project.
But i could not get the installation work under Linux. Maybe someone could write a Lutris installer out of this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/4210-open-stress-test-all-you-need-to-know/ and this https://forum.skylords.eu/index.php?/topic/6012-new-development-on-skylords-reborn-mac-via-wine/&tab=comments#comment-81184 That would be great :)

Oooh, someone else knows about Battleforge :smile:

I tried the game somewhere around last summer (on Windows), but it was quite buggy (stutters and crashes).
I haven't tried it since I switched to Linux though.

Thanks to Steam play / Proton I'm playing Mass effect Andromeda, Dragon Age Inquisition and Outward the soroboreans .... thanks Steam! :wub:

Quoting: DuncDo you still need a Gold account to play online? I didn't mind when it was my main gaming machine because I'd probably have had one anyway, but £40 p.a. (or whatever it costs these days) seems a bit steep for the occasional nostalgia trip.

Sadly, yes. Compared to free online play through Steam, Xbox gold is not really worth the price. However, for me personally it has been OK for a few months, just to play with my distant friend! I don't play multiplayer games other than a few co-ops.

Ion Fury, it works perfectly in Steam play, still life in the old Build engine yet, Amid Evil, but RTX doesn't work. Also been playing the native Quake 2 RTX . Demons Tilt also runs well in Steam Play.

Quoting: Csokis[Grim Dawn](https://www.gog.com/game/grim_dawn) and [Summer in Mara](https://store.steampowered.com/app/962580/Summer_in_Mara/). Summer in Mara works only with [Proton-5.9-GE-2-MF](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.9-GE-2-MF).

Has anyone tested Summer in Mara with a vanilla 5.0-9 prefix and using the mf-install scripts? Or is there something else in the Glorious Eggroll custom compile the game needs? ProtonDB shows the game as platinum, which I find frustrating because custom compiled wine prefixes should list the game as Bronze, or Silver at best. At least both entries show they used the GE prefix so that can be used as a guide to getting it running.

Other than getting it up and running, how do you like Summer in Mara? It's been on my wishlist for a while and I'm curious how it plays. I like casual sim/builders like Farm Together and My Time at Portia.

Last edited by randyl on 22 Jun 2020 at 5:01 pm UTC

Started with Quantum Break recently. So far it is really enjoyable ...

Quoting: KohriasStarted with Quantum Break recently. So far it is really enjoyable ...

Out of the box?

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: KohriasStarted with Quantum Break recently. So far it is really enjoyable ...

Out of the box?

Click and play with Proton 5.09. Good performance as well ;-) If I remember correctly one of the last wine/Proton releases included a performance tweak ;-)

I should go back and finish the Saboteur (Wine).

I didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISPC can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

(Edit: I mixed up the letters in ISPC, and fixed that now - originally I had written ISCP...)

Last edited by soulsource on 23 Jun 2020 at 2:45 pm UTC

Quoting: soulsourceI didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISCP can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

If you're wondering the same as me:

https://ispc.github.io/

Last edited by Eike on 23 Jun 2020 at 4:51 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceI didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISCP can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

If you're wondering the save as me:

https://ispc.github.io/

Whoa, sorry. I can't seem to type the abbreviation without mixing up letters. I'll edit my orignal post.

Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceI didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISCP can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

If you're wondering the save as me:

https://ispc.github.io/

Whoa, sorry. I can't seem to type the abbreviation without mixing up letters. I'll edit my orignal post.

I wouldn't have known "ISPC" either... :D