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Does anyone know if there is a good way to get this working full screen on Linux, i.e. Get past the Main Menu buttons with the mouse. I have used the hack below, which forces the game to play in a window, but don't actually want to play it in a window (as I'm on 4K screen and the window mode is pretty small).

Properties>Set Launch Options>"-screen-fullscreen 0"

I haven't messed around too much, but I expect there might be a way to jump to full-screen mode after getting past the main menu (where the problem occurs).

Asking this on 30 Nov 2017, quite some time after this GOL article was released.

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because I have issues with starting the game on manjaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQ-_3z0j-A

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Italian reviews I read says the game needed a lot of polishing. A reviewer suspected the game had a rushed release to avoid missing the Christmas sales window. I watched some videos showing severe FPS drops here and there, under Windows. That seems in line with what Liam tells in his review. Not owning the game, I can't judge about the story, but the atmosphere seems great. Let's hope developers address all the problems in future patches, meanwhile the game goes straight into my wishlist...

That said, I'm actually playing "Agatha Christie: The ABC murders" and I find it very enjoyable. It's a little bit too linear and slow paced, but all in all has a certain retrò atmosphere that's catchy. Bought for less than 4€ in the last Gog sale and absolutely recommend it to all the point&click fans ;)

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It is a great game, no doubt.
However, as an owner of Dom3, Dom4 and CoE4 (Conquest of Elysium), I feel kinda ripped off here.

Dom5 is more of a slightly expanded Dom4 with not-too-many changes. And such a price for that seems way out of line.
Especially considering they haven't touched the series' biggest shortcomings - no AI diplomacy making single player almost entirely useless and the UI is still just terrible.

I think they should offer owners of the previous games some deal as other developers have.
If you're new to the series, though, the price should actually be worth it.

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Quoting: ZlopezBTW: I never heard about the TV serie.

Completely off topic now, but watch it. It's a fantastic series, with each episode being a completely different story.

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There's a 10% discount for the launch of the game, 8.99 is a steal ;)

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It seems quite some Steam reviews are negative due to the controls. :-(
I hope they improve them, I was looking forward to playing this!

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Quoting: ZlopezI didn't know there will be a reboot of the trilogy. I played all the games from original trilogy and I'm glad there will be something new in this world.

BTW: I never heard about the TV serie.

Pretty much exactly what I was going to say. I loved this series back in the day and I look forward to a reboot with modern tech. A lot has changed since the early/mid 2000s.I will definitely be getting this soon.

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I didn't know there will be a reboot of the trilogy. I played all the games from original trilogy and I'm glad there will be something new in this world.

BTW: I never heard about the TV serie.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeDamn, I had replied to this, but maybe I never hit post? Anyhow, I was incorrect, and you are correct, only Edge gets the special deal, though I don't think it's because of HDCP. Except for 4k? Since technically 720P is considered as HD. It literally is a limitation due to stupidity. I'll have to see if there is a way to see what the PS3/4 gets, I sometimes watch Netflix on that.

Now I wonder if Amazon Prime has the same limits (since that's where I watch HBO/Showtime.)

PS3 has 1080p in their app, that i know from my friend. I don't have Gameconsoles myself. So i imagine PS4 has same.

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I think I'll hold off buying this one till the Linux port of the original is on steam.

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Quoting: gustavoyaraujoI think they should focus just on the Linux, trying to get wine running on android is too much work for a few users. I can not imagine any windows app I would like to use on my cellphone.

Yeah, I wasn't even aware Wine ran on Android until today. I don't even like running anything on my cell phone outside of a web browser, my email and the occasional dumb time waster. Granted, I'm one who angrily hates mobile gaming too :P

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, I navigate and do that all the time with my steam controller. I lay in bed and watch Netflix, Plex, HBO, Showtime, etc. On my Linux Desktop. I currently have two 2560x1440 G-sync monitors, and yes I can generally tell 720p vs 1080p. HDCP only prevents thongs from displaying IF the program is trying to use it and it doesn't exist. With your logic, I would not be able to watch a 1080p movie that was ripped because the resolution is capped on any media. In fact, HDCP will completely black out media, not downscale it. I watch videos in 1080p on youtube all the time in Linux.. 480p looks terrible these days.

Edit: literally the only thing I have seen that requires HDCP is an officially licensed bluray player, which is why Linux will probably never have an officially licensed Bluray player.

Netflix is 720p capped though, you can check it when you have it windowed and press alt+ctr+shift+D
its only 4Mbps bandwidth also. Its so in Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera. Its not the worst, can live with that but 1080p would be much better.. i have 1440p screen also

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As you can see thisone is even at lower Bitrate than 4Mbps, i have seen some at 4098kbps
but its 720p like seen from the picture. Everything is in netflix. Only Edge browser gets the special deal, netflix apps get special deals with 1080p and chromecast i think has 1080p capability also.
rest of the browsers are stuck at 720p.

Damn, I had replied to this, but maybe I never hit post? Anyhow, I was incorrect, and you are correct, only Edge gets the special deal, though I don't think it's because of HDCP. Except for 4k? Since technically 720P is considered as HD. It literally is a limitation due to stupidity. I'll have to see if there is a way to see what the PS3/4 gets, I sometimes watch Netflix on that.

Now I wonder if Amazon Prime has the same limits (since that's where I watch HBO/Showtime.)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHDCP only prevents thongs from displaying

Evil censorship technology! Or the opposite, depending on how you read this.

Ha! Teach me to try to reply to forum posts from my phone... I miss my N900 and physical keyboards...

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Quoting: mahagrI really hope it'll be Ryzen based, if it is, it'll be instant buy for me. If it's using older AMD, I see no point of getting the device...

What makes you think it's gonna be AMD64 architecture? More likely it will be ARM based.

Doubtful, if they're going to offer any non-vintage-Atari games, they will need Steam support. Which necessitates x86

Not only that, they actually specifically stated it will be an AMD APU.
AMD really doesn't have any ARM's with a decent GPU.

I think I posted earlier that there are AMD earnings listing a deal with Atari. It specifically states Radeon. Fairly certain there are no Radeon based ARMs?

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Quoting: GuestWhich other one didn't work for you ? I got them all to work, I'll tell you how
Hopefully Charlie will fix them !

Bullet Candy

there's a FAQ help webpage about installing 32 bit games on 64 bit hardware which says 'page not found' it was only pennies so i just left it and thought of it as a donation

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Quoting: Xicronic

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: mahagrI really hope it'll be Ryzen based, if it is, it'll be instant buy for me. If it's using older AMD, I see no point of getting the device...

What makes you think it's gonna be AMD64 architecture? More likely it will be ARM based.

Doubtful, if they're going to offer any non-vintage-Atari games, they will need Steam support. Which necessitates x86

Not only that, they actually specifically stated it will be an AMD APU.
AMD really doesn't have any ARM's with a decent GPU.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHDCP only prevents thongs from displaying

Evil censorship technology! Or the opposite, depending on how you read this.

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I think they should focus just on the Linux, trying to get wine running on android is too much work for a few users. I can not imagine any windows app I would like to use on my cellphone.

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i see no one looks at the forums here anymore then :-)

the game is amazing, and for me it came out of nowhere. as its been said above i wish more of his games where available on Steam. brought one on itch.io and couldn't get it to work on my system

i brought this for the Vita on release and it was so refreshing to play a genuinely fun game. i really look forward to playing more games from Charlie's Games,

not sure why though its almost twice the price of the PS Vita version which came out a little while back and has the same amount of content

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After decidedly not installing Wine on my system for the past four years or so, I finally did it a few day ago for WoW. I have WoW installed on my Windows 7 drive but I got too tired of rebooting into Windows. I was only booting to Windows about every 20 days or so, but I've been doing it more frequently due to ESO, PUBG, and now WoW. After setting up WoW in Wine on the family computer that doesn't have Windows, I convinced myself to do the same on my tower. Sure, it's not a win for Linux gamers to play in Wine, but it's a win for me to boot into Windows less. Besides, booting into Windows isn't a win for Linux gamers either.

Anyway, now that I'm a consumer of Wine (at least until I let my WoW sub run out), update news is nice to see. :)

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, I navigate and do that all the time with my steam controller. I lay in bed and watch Netflix, Plex, HBO, Showtime, etc. On my Linux Desktop. I currently have two 2560x1440 G-sync monitors, and yes I can generally tell 720p vs 1080p. HDCP only prevents thongs from displaying IF the program is trying to use it and it doesn't exist. With your logic, I would not be able to watch a 1080p movie that was ripped because the resolution is capped on any media. In fact, HDCP will completely black out media, not downscale it. I watch videos in 1080p on youtube all the time in Linux.. 480p looks terrible these days.

Edit: literally the only thing I have seen that requires HDCP is an officially licensed bluray player, which is why Linux will probably never have an officially licensed Bluray player.

Netflix is 720p capped though, you can check it when you have it windowed and press alt+ctr+shift+D
its only 4Mbps bandwidth also. Its so in Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera. Its not the worst, can live with that but 1080p would be much better.. i have 1440p screen also

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As you can see thisone is even at lower Bitrate than 4Mbps, i have seen some at 4098kbps
but its 720p like seen from the picture. Everything is in netflix. Only Edge browser gets the special deal, netflix apps get special deals with 1080p and chromecast i think has 1080p capability also.
rest of the browsers are stuck at 720p.

On Android only approved devices like the Shield TV boxes play in HD or more. The rest is locked in 480p.

I dont know why is difficult to implement 1080p for everyone. Youtube can do it in both VP9 and H264

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Meanwhile, Linux builds of his other games are still missing from Steam. :-/

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Quoting: slaapliedjeHa, I navigate and do that all the time with my steam controller. I lay in bed and watch Netflix, Plex, HBO, Showtime, etc. On my Linux Desktop. I currently have two 2560x1440 G-sync monitors, and yes I can generally tell 720p vs 1080p. HDCP only prevents thongs from displaying IF the program is trying to use it and it doesn't exist. With your logic, I would not be able to watch a 1080p movie that was ripped because the resolution is capped on any media. In fact, HDCP will completely black out media, not downscale it. I watch videos in 1080p on youtube all the time in Linux.. 480p looks terrible these days.

Edit: literally the only thing I have seen that requires HDCP is an officially licensed bluray player, which is why Linux will probably never have an officially licensed Bluray player.

Netflix is 720p capped though, you can check it when you have it windowed and press alt+ctr+shift+D
its only 4Mbps bandwidth also. Its so in Chrome, Vivaldi and Opera. Its not the worst, can live with that but 1080p would be much better.. i have 1440p screen also

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As you can see thisone is even at lower Bitrate than 4Mbps, i have seen some at 4098kbps
but its 720p like seen from the picture. Everything is in netflix. Only Edge browser gets the special deal, netflix apps get special deals with 1080p and chromecast i think has 1080p capability also.
rest of the browsers are stuck at 720p.

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Quoting: danniello

Quoting: slaapliedjeYou are partially correct. They require DRM, but they do NOT require HDCP support. I watch videos in Netflix in 1080p all the time on my Linux system. From what I understand, HDCP is really only something that is attempted to be enforced in bluray playback programs. For example, HDCP is not supported on the HTC Vive, so even in Windows I can't use PowerDVD to play a Bluray directly through to Virtual Desktop, I only get a black screen. But I have DVDFab, which decrypts the disc, then I play it through the media player classic, with MadVR plugin, I can even watch 3D movies in VR. It's AMAZING.

I meant that play high resolution content require HDCP and this is not available in Linux (Intel started implement something, but no progress).

What it is "high resolution" depends of provider.
Netflix - in theory 720p max (1080p and more require HDCP + Internet Explorer or Windows Metro application)
HBOGO - in theory 720p max
Google Play/YouTube Movies - 480p max

Perhaps theory and reality are different... Netflix and HBOGO do not provide real information what resolution is streamed. Hard to say "on eye" if it is 720p or 1080p, but I think that it is 720p.

Only Google Play/YouTube Movies provide information about streamed resolution and, unfortunately for Linux, it is really 480p and it is visible:(

Quoting: slaapliedjeAs far as a new UI around it, I'm pretty sure that launching Firefox in full screen with video playback is fairly easy, isn't it?

Start Firefox in fullscreen is easy, but navigate Netflix or HBOGO website with this joystick will be very uncomfortable.

Ha, I navigate and do that all the time with my steam controller. I lay in bed and watch Netflix, Plex, HBO, Showtime, etc. On my Linux Desktop. I currently have two 2560x1440 G-sync monitors, and yes I can generally tell 720p vs 1080p. HDCP only prevents thongs from displaying IF the program is trying to use it and it doesn't exist. With your logic, I would not be able to watch a 1080p movie that was ripped because the resolution is capped on any media. In fact, HDCP will completely black out media, not downscale it. I watch videos in 1080p on youtube all the time in Linux.. 480p looks terrible these days.

Edit: literally the only thing I have seen that requires HDCP is an officially licensed bluray player, which is why Linux will probably never have an officially licensed Bluray player.

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Quoting: KimyrielleI don't know why they feel they need to release a major version either. Most people don't care. They just download each new release, because every new release is an improvement over the previous.

That being said, I really like where DX11 support has been going lately, and there is some hope that we will be able to play more recent AAA games soon. I even got back into GuildWars 2, because it now runs really nice in WINE, when it produced single digit FPS rates for the longest time.

I still remember when Wine barely ran notepad and nothing outside of that worked at all. I also recall when Wine finally had version numbers instead of dates, then when it hit that 1.0 version, but by that time it was already quite usable.

I do find it funny that I have been able to get some games working flawlessly in Wine that are utterly broken in Windows 7+.

And the compatibility layer in newer Windows versions doesn't help much.

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The whole gimmick is stolen from Hidden in Plain Sight, and the point is to blend in. In any case, this seems like a competitive game only, to me. What is the point of the co-op mode? Couldn't you just figure out where you are on the screen, and then tell the other player(s) so they don't kill you? Not seeing the point of co-op...

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Do the games run better in GemRB than they do in say wine ?

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Looks nice.
Survival 2D style reminds me of Lone Survivor.

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I just watched a 50 minute let's play video of this game. What I have seen of the lore is promising, and the NPCs seem like they have interesting dialog. I am disappointed in the choice of using squares in the grid and not hexagons or similar in combat. I wonder if they have explained the reason for that somewhere.

Both graphics, combat and dialogs reminds me of fallout 1+2. Those games are quite good, and are still among the best games ever made even they graphically look old. I do think I would prefer combat based on the system of fallout tactics or the cancelled van burren over f1+f2 though.

I will definitely buy it, but I am not sure if I will buy it so early, as me playing it now might take away from the experience of the game when it is finished.

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