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Quoting: GuestMy question is why does Valve work on Nouveau when almost everybody uses the blob and there is basically no hope of getting decent performance with Nouveau on recent cards?

Define "no hope". Open source projects can be surprising . . . they toddle along for years on life support, and then some committed, productive developers come along and suddenly they're serious mojo.

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Very nicely laid out. Looking forward to the results. This is fun!

Seen games I have never played before, will be looking some of them up.

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Fantastic news.

Planescape Torment remains one of my all time favorite games. I can still remember vast amounts of that game's characters, settings, and story 16 years later.

I have some pretty high hopes for this one. :)

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Hi Seamoose,

Thank you very much for that report! It sounds like the game is quite stable for most Linux set-ups.

QuoteThanks for letting us test and best of luck with your game on Steam!

Our pleasure and thanks again!

DDG

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This is terrific news. I was going to buy this today and noticed that there was only a Windows version on Steam. I'll hold off and but it off the SteamOS store.

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Completed my votes. Looking forward to seeing the results.

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Still have high hopes for the game. Although that monster UI with its animations that constandly scream: "Look at me! I am the thing that blocks 30+ % of your screen, mostly with border decorations, in case you havent noticed." is hard to ignore in the game footage i've seen so far. Hope that will not be as much of an atmosphere killer once one has goten used to it.
Anyway - nice to see day 1 release.

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Quoting: PicoboomI was a bit saddened that my favorite gaming related FOSS project --- sc-controller --- wasn't a nominee, though I suppose that's because it's written in Python.

You should have nominated it! Python is not a disqualification...

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I've put quite a number of hours into DiRT Showdown. The port is excellent, and I love racing games that don't try to take themselves seriously.

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Quoting: GuestMy question is why does Valve work on Nouveau when almost everybody uses the blob and there is basically no hope of getting decent performance with Nouveau on recent cards?

Maybe to show IHV's that they're not taking sides, or simply trying to make Linux a more viable base for their gaming OS in any way they can? Or maybe they can't ship the binary drivers with the SteamOS installer for legal reasons, and need basic OpenGL on first startup for their GUI?

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and I can not play it because my cpu ( AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor ) is not supported :-/.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/337000/discussions/1/152391995404970493/
I returned the game now :-/

...waiting for ryzen ....

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Gawd! Another sale to search through all the bargains. Spent most of the evening looking so far. 60 pages and counting so far (starting at high discounts and going down). As I bought the XCOM2 Humble Monthly Subscription, and it is still active I can grab these Sale games for an additional 10% off.

Some of the titles I'm considering (typically 75% - 90% off):

Kings of Kung Fu (steam, early access) £1.52
Braveland Pirate (drmfree, steam, android) £1.07
Solar Shifter EX (steam) £1.34
Heroes of Loot (drmfree, steam) £0.74
Fox & Flock (drmfree, steam) £0.39
LYNE (drmfree, steam, android) £0.67

Also considering some Windows titles - boo ;) - because they're older, not likely to come to Linux, I want them, and can probably play using Wine.

Noting that Wizardry 6 and 7 old games are now available to Linux users on Steam, by packaging them with Dosbox. Wish more games companies would do this with their older titles.

As usual - King of the Discount ;)

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Quoting: marcusThanks for this article! I played the demo and instantly bought it. Brings back good memories from my Commands times. Real Time Tactics was a genre really missing on Linux.

Not just on Linux, it's a genre that disappeared almost entirely for about a decade.

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I was thrilled to see them give away a Linux game this time. Last month they had given away GRID which I eagerly snatched up only to realize that it was Windows-only. :|

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Great to see that Paradox are still adding content into the game, I love it.

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Quoting: fabry92i need to set every reboot 144 Hz... Btw "force full composition" disable gsync. I use it only for vulkan games beacuse gsync on vulkan it's not supported at moment

I used to have to set my refresh rate to 144hz on every reboot, until I found out that you have to hit APPLY in the "Display" program on ubuntu after applying it in the nvidia settings. Mint may have a similar method?

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This game still doesn't work properly on RadeonSI :/

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Quoting: salamanderrakeBut is there any 2D/3D acceleration with the nouveau drivers yet?

Yes for a number of cards, but not for newer cards as noted. It depends on what card.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHmmm . . . going a bit Civ-like there. Like Civ 5+ culture stuff. Not a bad thing, I kind of like that stuff.

Niggle: At the end of the article there, I think you mean tactical. Strategic is broad sweep of the empire, what you do in a space battle is tactical.

More like EU3 and EU4 national ideas.

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The Talos Principle is 75% off. I might grab that.

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Thanks for this article! I played the demo and instantly bought it. Brings back good memories from my Commands times. Real Time Tactics was a genre really missing on Linux.

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nice update!

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Yesss free stuff

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But is there any 2D/3D acceleration with the nouveau drivers yet?

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Wow, this really is an impressive list. Looks like more than 50% of their DRM-free games are discounted (although the filter is somewhat flawed).

A lot of those I already own, on my personal list of interest are

Whispering Willows, A Good Snowman is hard to build, Back to Bed, The Way, and Lumo.

A pity the free game is Steam-only.

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Ok I will get the deluxe edition of mankind for $29. Time to power up Manjaro, its been collecting dust due to me playing FO4 allot lately.

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Cool thing grabed one key ;)

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkOne thing I don't get is why use logic blocks. I would have gone for one logic block, and have a visual coding language, similar to Scratch that you edit through it. https://scratch.mit.edu

http://alvekatt.deviantart.com/art/Yamato-inspired-ship-made-in-the-game-Starmade-596776972

I would suspect logic blocks exist the way they do for three reasons...
1) The game is already voxel based and it's easier to create new voxel blocks then a new sub-system
2) Including a scripting language (essentially programming) in a game means they'd have to write (or include) a runtime interpreter. They could use LUA, I suppose, but that's a relatively complex language that only hard-core modders would care to sit and learn. Creating their own scripting language would be a chore and a half... and suffer even more than using LUA as you'd be asking people to learn a language that has no use outside of the game.
3) Technically, the logic system as it stands IS a visual coding language. Why not contain that into a sing block and use a GUI for the programming part? My best guess is the complexity of doing that. Attaching the logic to the games already existing voxel system is easy. These voxels are already designed with logic as part of their code (like, how a "cannon computer" needs to be attached to "cannon barrels" to work, as an example), so exposing relatively simple logics (gates, delays, triggers, etc) is a trivial addition. Trying to do the exact same thing in a 2D space sounds simple, but you'd basically be asking for a new component of the game engine... and asking for it to integrate with the voxel component of the engine in a seamless way. That's a TON of work.

All that said, it boils down to how the engine is written. I don't work on the game, so I don't know what the code looks like, but, having tried my hand in a number of game projects, I've come to realize that more often than not, seemingly simple tasks are leagues more complex than you'd think they were, if you've never programmed before.

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Quoting: pete910

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Quoting: pete910Interesting to see pascal on this

As I've explained on reddit though, having the OpenGL feature set is one thing, having re-clocking (for performance) and other card features are entirely different things.

Kinda what I was getting at, I mean how much testing could be done on Maxwell/Pascal GPU's

There effectively useless on the oss driver for the most part.

Well, not really. As soon as the re-clocking comes to bring up performance, they then already have the OpenGL needed for some recent games.

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36 hours to complete the whole campaign with non-lethal force. Loved it. What a game.

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