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LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By Koopacabras, 1 March 2017 at 1:33 am UTC
It looks really promising . How does it work? The videos I saw will let you use a full fledged windows 10, and then you have to login into steam? It's like a virtualbox on the cloud?
Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
By sigz, 1 March 2017 at 12:55 am UTC
There is nothing wrong with your driving skills
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By Asu, 1 March 2017 at 12:53 am UTC
En Sabah Nur... but whateva I'll play it... wish it were on mobile too...
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By badber, 1 March 2017 at 12:48 am UTC
Quoting: psycho_driver
Quoting: Aryvandaar
Quoting: badberOnly problem was Pulseaudio deciding to stutter like crazy but switching to plain ALSA seemed to help.

ALSA without pulseaudio seems to work better for most games in my experience.

If pulseaudio is stuttering I think you can change some settings in the configs to fix it. Just don't remember exactly what.

I think what you're looking for is:

killall -9 pulseaudio

Repeat as necessary. Or you can just purge your system of the unholy beast and be done with it.

You can disable autospawn in pulseaudio's client.conf and then control when it's running with pulseaudio -k and pulseaudio -D
Cities: Skylines - Mass Transit DLC announced, adding more transport possibilities
By Janne, 1 March 2017 at 12:43 am UTC
I rather like the game. It doesn't have that "gotta play it right now!" draw; but I often open it just to putter about with my little city for a while, and to my own surprise it's been several hours without me realizing it. And it's really cool to zoom way in on a single busy street or intersection and click around to see what people are doing and where they're going.

The one game mechanic I'm missing in the base game is really large-scale information about people flows. It would be great if you could get an arrow overlay of traffic (people, cargo) flow between districts. Would make planning much easier.

I also wish there was a way to create cities that are less, well, car-bound. I suspect that recreating a place like Stockholm would basically be impossible since too many avatars would insist on driving and create permanent gridlock in the old parts of town.
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By rick01457, 1 March 2017 at 12:27 am UTC
This is actually pretty interesting to me. If the price is $9.99 a month for unlimited, that could give my current computer some serious longevity past its use by date, but for cheaper than the price of the cpu upgrade i was planning. Pricing isnt really clear though...
Editorial: Steam Machines are not dead, plus a video from The Linux Gamer
By elmapul, 1 March 2017 at 12:16 am UTC Likes: 1
[quote=Alm888][quote=liamdawe]
Quoting: Alm888
Quoting: liamdaweTorment: Tides of Numenera

1) We showed our strength at Humble Bundles in the 2010;

of course, the games had no competition since we had almost no games on linux, so 20% of the income came from linux users, that dont mean the same would happen nowadays that 1/5 of the games on steam are avaliable to linux.
what strength we can show now?
Khronos announce 'OpenXR', their new standard for virtual reality and augmented reality
By elmapul, 28 February 2017 at 11:48 pm UTC
"This always happens with new, emerging tech. A useful technical standard simply can't be written until there is some sort of a consensus on how the technology is supposed to work."

that is why we have khrnnonos group to discuss and create standards, OSVR came with the same proposal, bring the industry players togheter to discuss an standard, i cant understand why we need an workgroup to discuss an standard if we are already doing that
Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'
By Shmerl, 28 February 2017 at 11:29 pm UTC
Good, hopefully more games will use Vulkan out of the box now.
Valve have announced 'Steam Audio' an SDK of advanced audio tools, it will support Linux
By Shmerl, 28 February 2017 at 11:18 pm UTC
Quoting: drakkar123I am not sure why there are always people that jump to the worst conclusion possible about anything to do with Valve, but Steam Audio is 100% royalty-free and they have made the source code available as well.

I didn't find the source. The only thing available on github it their license file, which is clearly not FOSS. If you refer to the archive called "Source code", it's the same thing. There isn't actual code in it.
Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
By Liam Dawe, 28 February 2017 at 11:11 pm UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: niarbehtMy God, he's so awful at HL2. It's so horrible to watch. Like... Does Liam even know how 2 games?
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Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
By niarbeht, 28 February 2017 at 11:06 pm UTC Likes: 1
My God, he's so awful at HL2. It's so horrible to watch. Like... Does Liam even know how 2 games?
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By dubigrasu, 28 February 2017 at 10:53 pm UTC Likes: 1
I do have a Liquidsky account and tested a bit the client. Their current Wine installer is a bit iffy though, so I installed the client manually. It does work very well except for the lag. The cloud computer for the moment is using Nvidia cards.
I still have few credits/hours left but I gave up until a closer server comes up.
Not sure what to say, I'm curious about the free (adverts based) option but it looks like they backing up a little. It was initially supposed to be up to three hours/day but now they cut it to only two hours.
The RPG 'Eschalon: Book I' is now completely free, to celebrate being 10 years old
By psycho_driver, 28 February 2017 at 10:52 pm UTC Likes: 1
I played through this a couple of years ago. A nice competent old school RPG.
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By psycho_driver, 28 February 2017 at 10:49 pm UTC
Quoting: AryvandaarAt this point I think we should just let it rest. I have my point of view, which I've explained thoroughly. You have your point of view, which you have explained.

But this is the internet and you're in an argument . . . THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By psycho_driver, 28 February 2017 at 10:47 pm UTC
Quoting: Aryvandaar
Quoting: badberOnly problem was Pulseaudio deciding to stutter like crazy but switching to plain ALSA seemed to help.

ALSA without pulseaudio seems to work better for most games in my experience.

If pulseaudio is stuttering I think you can change some settings in the configs to fix it. Just don't remember exactly what.

I think what you're looking for is:

killall -9 pulseaudio

Repeat as necessary. Or you can just purge your system of the unholy beast and be done with it.
The RPG 'Eschalon: Book I' is now completely free, to celebrate being 10 years old
By slaapliedje, 28 February 2017 at 10:43 pm UTC
I have had this game for years, but have never gotten the time to play it. Then again, I have tons of games that are the same way, doesn't help that I picked up playing Dungeon Master again, now that some bad ass patched it to work on the Atari TT030...

So many fun things to waste my time on, which ends up making me not learn a programming language...
Valve have announced 'Steam Audio' an SDK of advanced audio tools, it will support Linux
By drakkar123, 28 February 2017 at 10:40 pm UTC Likes: 2
I am not sure why there are always people that jump to the worst conclusion possible about anything to do with Valve, but Steam Audio is 100% royalty-free and they have made the source code available as well. There is a link provided to the GIT page right in the original post, or take a look here- https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-audio/releases

Right now they have a Unity plugin and a C API for integrating into custom engines. They are also working on Unreal Engine, FMOD and WWise support. It appears that it is NOT tied to, or dependent on, any other Steam software. I am fairly sure that their main motivation for developing it was they needed a good 3D audio library for Linux, to use with SteamVR on SteamOS, which they have been working on recently. But it is still in their best interests to make the source code freely available for wide adoption to anyone that wants to use it. But considering there are not a lot of royalty free high quality 3D audio options out there that are multi-platform, I can't see this as anything but good for anyone calling themselves a Linux gamer.

OpenAL is partly free, but for the more advanced features, Creative holds the rights on it and licenses it out, and I don't think MS will be sharing any of their crap anytime soon (thankfully). Sure, I would have preferred to see a full GPL license on Steam Audio, but I am still all for any free option, with freely available source code, especially if it provides a high quality, free alternative to other "less friendly" companies.
Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'
By Madeanaccounttocomment, 28 February 2017 at 10:36 pm UTC Likes: 1
"Not only that, but developers who upgrade their Unity version could hopefully ship a Linux (and Windows) build using Vulkan."

Feels like most developers that use unity cite that they will inevitably run into problems when upgrading that requires quite a bit of play testing to flush them out. Additionally once flushed out they have to either undo workarounds applied for the previous version, or make entirely new ones for the new one, that makes the process difficult. So for completed games I wouldn't count on it too much from small developers.

It would be nice if one day game engine upgrades could be drop in replacements but there must be way too much happening under the hood for it to happen in the present.
Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet
By slaapliedje, 28 February 2017 at 10:31 pm UTC
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: scaineNo idea how people find time (or patience) to rack up thousands of hours in games.
That is the question. My most played game on Steam happens to be Mad Max at ~90h and I cannot imagine investing much more than that on a single game. I'm sure some online games take a lot more time and dedication, which is probably one reason I never properly got into any of them.

Ha, I think I have tons of hours in Star Trek: Online, but only because I launched it under Wine, then left the launcher running for days and forgot it was going.
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By M_Klekowicki, 28 February 2017 at 10:31 pm UTC
No problem. Happy to help:)
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By oldrocker99, 28 February 2017 at 10:28 pm UTC
Quoting: DrMcCoy
Quoting: oldrocker99Still waiting for my key as a backer ...

Huh, shouldn't that just display on the backer portal?

Yes, it did appear after not being there. Holy cow, but its first fifteen minutes are stunning.


By the way, has anyone but me noticed the similarities between Numenara and Tek'umel, of Empire Of The Petal Throne fame?
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By slaapliedje, 28 February 2017 at 10:28 pm UTC
Quoting: DrMcCoy
Quoting: oldrocker99Still waiting for my key as a backer ...

Huh, shouldn't that just display on the backer portal?

I got my backer key (from Backing Bard's Tale IV) back in September... So not sure what happened with yours. I got the 'Tormented Bard' level.
Torment: Tides of Numenera released for Linux with day-1 support
By edmondo, 28 February 2017 at 10:19 pm UTC
Installed and played about 90 minutes on AMD RX 470 (mesa driver) without issues.

The game looks nice and the story seems interesting, even I've only scratched a bit of it.

Now let's go back into the last castoff body and try to understand "what does one life matter".
Unity 5.6 to release March 31st with 'out of the box support for Vulkan'
By Kimyrielle, 28 February 2017 at 10:17 pm UTC
That's fantastic news! \o/
The RPG 'Eschalon: Book I' is now completely free, to celebrate being 10 years old
By Colombo, 28 February 2017 at 10:09 pm UTC
I have played it, I don't know if first or the second, and I was quite disappointed. Weak RPG elements, weak story and horrible controls. The turn-based system is nice, but having to click all the time I wanted to move by one point was tedious.

Additionally, the world was quite empty, I expected a lot of interactions, but most interactions were just killing stuff, which was basically if diablo was turn-based and without flashy spells.

I certainly see why some people might like it, but I missed either interesting character development in the sense of skills and abilities or

more interesting and interactive world.
Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
By Samsai, 28 February 2017 at 10:08 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: hardpenguinThat was amazing :D More please!
More will definitely be made. Probably not about the rest of HL2 but when the co-optimizing of Portal 2 happens I will be sure to download the VODs for yet another video like this. Naturally these won't be happening that often since just this video required going through about 4 hours of footage and took about 2 and a half hours to edit.
Watch the video Samsai put together that utterly roasts me
By hardpenguin, 28 February 2017 at 9:55 pm UTC
That was amazing :D More please!
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By Linas, 28 February 2017 at 9:54 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: CybolicTheir Linux support is currently limited to claiming that it runs in Wine...

That's not good enough at all. By that logic Microsoft Office supports Linux. Unless they actually put some effort into it, I will not be putting money into their pockets.
LiquidSky, the 'PC in the Cloud' gaming service will support Linux
By feyerbrand, 28 February 2017 at 9:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
I miss OnLive, I hope that this new option can replace my missing gaming piece.
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