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Key reseller G2A is being told to clean up their act, or lose AAA publishing deals
By camoceltic, 6 April 2017 at 11:14 pm UTC Likes: 3
I checked the G2A comment on the article 2 months ago that you linked here. My god, that would be funny if it weren't so stupid. My "favorite" part was the paragraph about how you should buy their G2A Shield for added "protection". You know, the kind of thing every reputable marketplace provides for free.

Here's hoping G2A starts going by those requests by Gearbox. It'd be nice to see their name next to something not bad for a change. I'd say "next to something good", but those requests seem more like the bare minimum.
Key reseller G2A is being told to clean up their act, or lose AAA publishing deals
By niarbeht, 6 April 2017 at 11:02 pm UTC
This article is good article. Please take thumbsup.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By melkemind, 6 April 2017 at 11:02 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!

Hey, even Oprah needs a good graphics card.

"And you get a Titan! And you get a Titan! And you get a Titan!"
Key reseller G2A is being told to clean up their act, or lose AAA publishing deals
By GloriousEggroll, 6 April 2017 at 11:00 pm UTC Likes: 23
Fun story:
bought the whole stardocks 2016 bundle pack from g2a for my dad, which included several games he had on his wishlist (they sell a lot of the genres he enjoys)
bought g2a protection on it
it was one of the gifts for my dad for his birthday.
3 months later - all keys rejected, games removed from my dad's steam account. he called me to find out what was going on with it.
contacted g2a - got nothing. their $2 protection doesn't do squat.
on top of that I felt awful for one of my dad's gifts basically getting taken from him
I went on steam and bought the official bundle for him (again). Lesson learned.



Fun story #2:
Was streaming elder scrolls online, had a few friends who played other MMOS with me asking about it.
Told them it was on sale for cheap on G2A
friend goes and buys collectors edition for fairly cheap from them, buys the g2a protection. pays a sub for the game, gets his character to like lvl 30 or so over the next two weeks

one day he comes back, he finds he cant log into the game, but can access his account on the website.
he contacts bethesda support

--they removed his key (and all items related to that game key for his account) for the key not being legitimate.

He then contacts g2a to see if he can get reimbursed (at this point he doesnt want another key, he already lost the progress he made). g2a does nothing/does not reimburse him/blames it on the seller and says he has to work it out with the seller.

LESSON LEARNED: DON'T buy from g2a.
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter & Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter released in full
By slaapliedje, 6 April 2017 at 10:27 pm UTC
The above post was correct (as far as I have tested so far, I only tried the liquorix 4.9 kernel under Debian Sid though). I had working audio though (I use gnome shell, though now that I think about it, I may have just been using my usb connection).

Problems I have found; the "install bluetooth driver" doesn't work for fairly obvious reasons... which makes it so the lighthouses don't wake up /shut down on their own. Power cycling them once you have started steamvr works though.

Other problems would be in the library support itself. I have seen some games that are vr only and allow you to install them, but they don't display on the Vive (Alice VR). I suspect this may be related to the engine (UE4) and it's lack of support for Vulkan.

Serious Sam VR is absolutely amazing, and it even uses cloud sync, so my save game progress was already there. Which means I start on a level where I get rushed by tons of things that don't die like they should...

Overall it does work really well though. Once they can work on gettingthe lighthouse issue fixed, and more games with working binaries, and the official nvidia drivers to supprt the vulkan extensions, I will be very happy, and will be pimping it more on here.

If I ever get time... I intend to write up a review here.

Update: looks like the 381.09 beta drivers released for the Titan Xp support everything for SteamVR as well as kernel 4.10
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By Jahimself, 6 April 2017 at 10:19 pm UTC
8K incoming. Can't wait for a more reasonnable budget card and also like Liam, if possible an AMD GPU. Playing at 2k5 is already quite a budget I can't afford^^
Superposition Benchmark powered by UNIGINE 2 releases this week with Linux support
By nitroflow, 6 April 2017 at 10:04 pm UTC
Delayed to April 11th.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By lejimster, 6 April 2017 at 9:58 pm UTC
Ive been toying with the idea of getting a 1070 or 1080 solely down to the drivers just working in most games on Linux. But I do want to continue to support AMD and I know open source is going to be better in the long run.

But seriously not interested by these Titans... Just money grabbing nonsense.
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By skrysz, 6 April 2017 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 4
I joined, you have my $8 :D
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By bingus, 6 April 2017 at 9:00 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at?

My old workplace (an engineering company) used to use a Titan for this modelling software they used. It required a really hard core PC. For them, installing the Titan cut their simulation time down by a matter of hours.

I remember putting that baby in there myself, knowing it was probably the closest I'm ever going to get to one :(
Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter & Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter released in full
By bubexel, 6 April 2017 at 8:53 pm UTC
You are welcome.

I mean, i haven't enough english to make a full report, but maybe i can make some movies showing how it perfome at each update :P
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is now available on the Fusion engine with Vulkan
By robvv, 6 April 2017 at 7:51 pm UTC Likes: 1
Sold a few trading cards and paid 50p for my copy of The Second Encounter :-)
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By KuJo, 6 April 2017 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 3
I doubled my pledge to 3$.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By KuJo, 6 April 2017 at 7:14 pm UTC
I'll take 2 and let it run in SLI ... *rofl* ... no way!

QuoteMy 980ti is sounding a little old right now, but I still personally want to move to an AMD GPU to take advantage of the open source Mesa drivers. Still, I can't help feeling excited by how GPUs have progressed in recent years to be able to get a behemoth like this.
Wait for the Vega Cards. Nearly the same power for 1/2 the price of the NVidia-GPU (that's my expectation).

I wait for the Vega Cards, too - because I hope for a nice price cutting of the AMD rx480. :D
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By Shmerl, 6 April 2017 at 7:02 pm UTC
They probably put it out, to look better when Vega will come out. But it's hard for them to compete on price. I'm getting a Vega GPU as soon as kernel / Mesa will be in shape to support it. Seems like there will be a delay with that, because DC code wasn't merged yet.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By bubexel, 6 April 2017 at 6:39 pm UTC Likes: 1
I got a 1080 yesterday ^^
2D racer 'Race Online' to get dedicated servers and release date announced
By Linuxer, 6 April 2017 at 6:39 pm UTC
Just bought and it's a lot of fun!
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By ProfessorKaos64, 6 April 2017 at 6:16 pm UTC
I just got a GTX 1080 FTW :( lol it will power a lot.lf games for me for a while at nice visuals. Always something around the corner with GPUs.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By razing32, 6 April 2017 at 6:06 pm UTC
Quoting: meggerman
Quoting: razing32How much you want to bet the lack of (proper) Linux drivers will bring it down like a rock tied to its neck

You made me login for this one, well done :P

The Nvidia Linux driver is a binary version of the windows 10 driver, bundled up for Linux. Any performance differences between windows and Linux on Nvidia is more down to the quality of the: OpenGL port, OpenGL itself, Middleware, Lack of developer investment/knowlage, Engine inefficiencies between platforms etc..

I doubt the Linux driver will "bring it down like a rock" because you can apply the same theory to the windows driver by that logic.

Well , my comment was a half joke at some driver issues with Nvidia on Linux.
But the following you mentioned : " OpenGL port, OpenGL itself, Middleware, Lack of developer investment/knowlage, Engine inefficiencies between platforms etc.." pretty much mean you can't milk this thing properly if the people making the games and tech behind them don't give you a good milking machine ;)
Stellaris: Utopia expansion released, some thoughts on the game as a whole now
By BTRE, 6 April 2017 at 5:54 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: NovenTheHeroI wish we could set the default behavior for each class of ships, IE how Battleships will sit back and fire from max range. I want to be able to make destroyers do the same thing.
Bingo. That's the sort of thing I would expect, even simple things like that.
This isn't how combat works in any of their other grand strategy titles and I don't think they'll ever add anything more micro-intensive.

On the whole the combat systems shy away from tactical decisions. The decisions you're supposed to make are done at the ship design level: what hull parts, what components, how many and so forth. These affect the effective range of battle, evasion of ships, ability to absorb damage and basically how your battles play out. This is why in most patches the most noticeable changes to combat are how they rebalance weapons and components. A fleet heavy on fighter/bombers fights in a very different way than one heavy on large battleships and tachyon lances. On top of that are admirals and their traits as well as faction-wide modifiers that adds some diversity.

What I think is likely we'll see eventually is that admirals play a more important role in combat. More in line with HoI, EU and CK where they can pick tactics from a list according to your doctrines/their experience/their traits and whatever else. I'd like to see them add "terrain" (such as asteroids, nebula, proximity to atmosphere) to bring it more en par to the positioning decisions in their other games but even that seems unlikely without potentially making the map an unreadable mess.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By MaCroX95, 6 April 2017 at 5:50 pm UTC
I'd like to support open-source and MESA but it's just impossible to ignore all these awesome GPUs full of performance that Nvidia is rolling out :P
Another weekly look at some good Linux gaming deals going on right now
By no_information_here, 6 April 2017 at 5:48 pm UTC
Quoting: Geppeto35About Serious sam, why steam doesn't mention it works for linux? Does it ?
While games are still in beta, they don't usually show the Linux icon on Steam. Also, Croteam is doing a slightly different thing where the new Fusion versions will show up as separate games from the old HD versions (although you will own both). Until the dust settles and everything is officially released, don't expect Steam to show anything very sensible.

(edit for spelling)
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By Purple Library Guy, 6 April 2017 at 5:43 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: inlinuxdude
Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!

IBM has worked with NVidia to incorporate their GPU's into high performance computing servers. This could well fit into some supercomputer type applications (and could also explain the initial limit of 2 per customer?)..

If your supercomputer connection is true, that suggests they would actually have to do good Linux drivers since most supercomputers run Linux.
Thinking of graphics and drivers in Linux . . . this is not directly gaming-related, but has anyone else noticed that Canonical is apparently dumping the Unity desktop and going back to Gnome? And so the thing is, that suggests to me that maybe they're dumping Mir as well, since Gnome are heavy into Wayland. And that would mean the absurd situation of the Linux desktop using two competing stacks for certain graphics stuff would be going away, and I think that would be good for Linux gaming.
EVERSPACE still dealing with Unreal Engine bugs, possible workaround found for Linux
By Shmerl, 6 April 2017 at 5:20 pm UTC
Quoting: cip91skThey mention Nvidia We've just asked Epic about any news and apparently there aren't any and they're contacting Nvidia again
I wonder it this is a problem with OpenGL in general or just with Nvidia's implementation , did someone try the demo they shared on AMD hardware?

I sent them this question exactly (see also here. But they never replied.

Now that they published the demo, I'll give it a try on RX480.
EVERSPACE still dealing with Unreal Engine bugs, possible workaround found for Linux
By Shmerl, 6 April 2017 at 5:18 pm UTC
It's out on GOG as well. I'll buy it as soon as they'll release the Linux version. And I hope Epic will fix their shader translation bugs. What exactly do they use for translation by the way? Their own tools, or some open source translators?
Another weekly look at some good Linux gaming deals going on right now
By Keyrock, 6 April 2017 at 5:14 pm UTC
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Aimela
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Keyrock
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Geppeto35About Serious sam, why steam doesn't mention it works for linux? Does it ?
As mentioned in other posts, they give you access to Fusion. Fusion is the only engine that supports Linux for the First and Second Encounter games.
Will it count as a Linux sale?
People need to not put so much thought into that, people get bogged down with it. This doesn't matter unless it's an external port, which Serious Sam is not.
Well, I'd say that it's about more than where the money goes. To me, it's also about showing that the Linux audience is indeed there.
Of course, which is always shown on Steam statistics, this only ever matter for external porters getting paid.

I know for a fact developers can see Linux sales even without a Linux version. I've been told this by several developers now.
Thanks, that's a burden off my mind.
NVIDIA have announced the TITAN Xp and it's a monster
By Leopard, 6 April 2017 at 5:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: inlinuxdude
Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at? This behemoth will likely retail for well over a grand, given that the plain 1080s are still around the £500-600 mark and the TI edition is £800-900. I mean, there's top-end gaming, and then there's just flushing money out the window!

IBM has worked with NVidia to incorporate their GPU's into high performance computing servers. This could well fit into some supercomputer type applications (and could also explain the initial limit of 2 per customer?)..

Cards used for that purpose are different.This is customer targeted.

2 per user limit exist because of the targeted audience is so small ; this card is probably manufactured very few. So there is a possibility that someone can buy all these limited edition cards and start blackmarketing with crazy prices to some enthusiastics.
Stellaris: Utopia expansion released, some thoughts on the game as a whole now
By Liam Dawe, 6 April 2017 at 5:11 pm UTC
Quoting: NovenTheHeroI wish we could set the default behavior for each class of ships, IE how Battleships will sit back and fire from max range. I want to be able to make destroyers do the same thing.
Bingo. That's the sort of thing I would expect, even simple things like that.
EVERSPACE still dealing with Unreal Engine bugs, possible workaround found for Linux
By Ehvis, 6 April 2017 at 5:09 pm UTC
Quoting: CorbenIf I'm right they're using Metal on macOS and not OpenGL.

In that case Vulkan may also fix the problem. If they update their UE4 version at some point.
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile & Charlie Murder to released soon with Linux support
By no_information_here, 6 April 2017 at 4:54 pm UTC
These are the earlier games by the people who made Salt & Sanctuary. I enjoyed that game a huge amount so I will definitely check these out as well.

Ethan Lee's ports are always great!
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