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This is sad, because on Fedora 25 repository, these all only drivers available. So I can't downgrade to previous version.

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QuoteNote: The game may look like it's suitable for kids, but it does feature some bad language. Just a note for parents.

I really don't understand your obsession with "bad language". I think it's kind of unhealthy and it runs counter to (most) European culture to even care.

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No issues here as well. Bought the metro redux bundle on sale today. Totally awesome and atmospheric games that both run smoothly on my machine :)

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370.28 is the newest here on Debian (unstable) anyway, as long as I don't decide to compile and build the packages myself. Usually I don't do that, unless there's a compelling reason to do so. Which there wasn't in that case anyway.

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Quoting: QUASARUps thanks for the alert! I will downgrade and test DeusEx MD again (I'm having freezes during the dialogs)

I have the same problem and have the 375.20 Driver installed. I also downgrade to 370

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QuoteYou might want to avoid Nvidia

Agreed

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mdiluz said on the telegram chat (thanks search feature!) that it only affects Kepler and Maxwell based Nvidia cards. I have a Pascal based card, and have had no issues with this driver.

One interesting tidbit.. I am running Linux Mint 18. I realized very recently that I do not get tearing with Vsync turned off in games. BUt I also did not set up the ForceCompositionPipeline in xorg.conf (in fact, there is no xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d directory in /etc/X11 on Mint 18). But still no tearing. I don't know how that is working, and I don't know if it has always been this way with Mint 18, or if it's something with the newest driver. Maybe that option is somehow embedded in the newest driver, and if you have manually added it, maybe it is somehow causing a conflict and the performance issue?

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GRID Autosport does't Start with 375.10. h.265 and h.264 habe a Bad support with the New nvidia driver. To mich CPU usage. GTX 1070 strix OC.
4k Gaming is very unstable with nvidia driver. I hope they will fix it.

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Ups thanks for the alert! I will downgrade and test DeusEx MD again (I'm having freezes during the dialogs)

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I already installed it on Kubuntu. Played some games today. Didn't have issues.

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For anyone living in the states there's this:

https://www.destructoid.com/best-gamestop-black-friday-picks-225-alienware-steam-machine-10-fallout-4-and-40-civ-vi-401009.phtml

It's the older steam machine but the price is not bad.

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Quoting: PitI hope the Linux build will eventually show up on GOG, too

^ This.

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Looks interesting enough for me. It's on my wishlist now. Not sure when I will pick it up.

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Looks interesting!
I hope the Linux build will eventually show up on GOG, too (Mac/Win is there at least)...

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It's really great.. but fuck it's also really difficult ;-)

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https://www.humblebundle.com/store/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-ii-grand-master-collection

WH40K Dawn of War II Grand master for -75% (14,5€) at Humble. For some reason, no discount at the Feral store?

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Made sure to nab Life is Strange from the Feral Store for 9.99.

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Already own it but I picked up GRID: Autosport.

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I started playing Medieval Total War 2 in the hope that since it was the oldest Total War game it would be the simplest and I got really engrossed. I've sent over 60 hours (200 years game time) and I'm still enjoying it. I find the Total War tactical battles give it a freeing of reality that purely large scale strategic game don't. I'm also keen on the historical detail

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Just decided to purchase GRID Autosport direct from Steam. It is 75% off (£6.24) at the moment. Buying on a Linux pc, naturally.

Also picked up indie game "The Swapper" (for Linux) on Steam - It is currently 81% off (£2.27).

Future purchases "when they get ported to Linux".... Witcher 3 GOTY, Shadow Warrior 2 - I'm holding back on purchasing these until the Linux version is out. Tempted by XCOM 2, Tyranny, Deus Ex: MD - but maybe at some point in the future.

Recently finished "Mad Max" which is on the sales now. It worked really well on my Linux system. Good port.

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OMG I have a new addiction.. best shooter I've played in a long time! =)

P.S. I added a Steam Controller configuration.. surprisingly I'm almost as good with it as with mouse&kb

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So many demons games, so little time.
Seriously, I'm sure I need to check out at least 9 of these 8 titles, but I need time/money. With how much of an EUIV fan I am, I'm scared of trying Stellaris - it sounds like an even bigger time-sink and I do need to sleep every now and then, after all...

BTW as to the whole 'suggest my own favourite'-theme: Battle for Wesnoth. Hands down.

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I'll wait for winter sale as it's bound to have better deals.

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I would recommend putting the rules in /etc/udev/rules.d instead.

udev, like a lot of other Linux software, store their configuration in several different places. Technically, you certainly can make that rules file in /lib rather than /etc and yes, it would work as it's expected to, but there's a logic and an order of precedence to each configuration location that should be conformed to, so as to avoid any potential behavioural issues in the future.

/lib/udev/rules.d = Location for default udev rules. This includes rules that came with udev itself, as well as rules that came with your distribution and other software installed through your package manager. If you create rules in this directory, they will work, but you risk them being clobbered (overwritten) by software and distribution upgrades, resulting in a "where the hell did my configuration go?!" scenario. Not good.

/usr/lib/udev/rules.d = Some distros use this instead of the above directory. In other distros it might even be a symlink to the directory above. In any case, same description as above.

/etc/udev/rules.d = Location for udev rules created by your local sysadmin. This is probably you. Anyway, you are the BOSS of this directory. Other packages shouldn't be installing rules in this directory, so if you haven't touched it before, it's probably empty. The point is, this is where you should be putting any rules you have to make for your system that aren't in /lib already. In the event that there's a rules file in multiple configuration locations with identical names (say, /lib/udev/rules.d/99-custom.rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/99-custom.rules, for example,) rules in this directory take precedence over rules in other locations.

When your distro includes the necessary changes to its Steam repo package's udev rules, it will likely put that file in the first or second location in /lib or /usr/lib. Keep a close eye on your updates for the next while, once it's integrated you can probably get away with deleting the file you created in /etc. This fix will eventually be automatically integrated into every distro's Steam repo packages, but for now this fix is very useful while we wait for our respective distros to catch up.

Hope this helps everyone out. Glad to finally be here, by the way. :)

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Thanks for the kind words, everyone. To give my usual spiel, though, we really need more contributors. :P

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Quoting: InverseTelecineMaybe it's old news now, but I know I'm not the only one still depressed about things here in my home (USA). But people coming together and doing nice things like this really does make me feel better!

It might be tempting to write it off as just another marketing scheme, since Itch and the game developers will benefit at least from the increased exposure, but that kind of cynicism can ruin literally anything. You can only be so cynical about 100% proceeds to charity.

Sometimes people, even people running companies, do actually want to do something good for other people! I really need more examples of that like this right now.

Hey, as many as are depressed, are happy!

Also, please don't be so prejudiced against business owners, they're as much people as you or I.

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Quoting: DJViking

QuoteCivilization VI - Aspyr Media sounded positive about the port

Not lately. The latest news from Aspyr, they say it is no longer certain there will be a Linux port.

QuoteIt still isn't certain if we are doing the linux port

Where did they say that? The latest we have was linked which is from November 8th.

Found it on twitter
https://twitter.com/AspyrMedia/status/801518516235075588

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: SeekTheShrubberyGah! No Hearts of Iron IV or Europa Universalis IV?

Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of them, far too much depth with very little actual gameplay. I need to put a lot more time into Hearts of Iron to get to grips with it, but it doesn't seem all that great to me so far.

This is like saying "The Pacific ocean is very deep, but doesn't have a lot of water in it." ;) If you personally don't like 'em that's fine—we all have our preferences—but Europa Universalis IV is chock full of gameplay. The best moments in EU IV come when you have a dozen schemes all in different stages of motion at the same time looking dozens of years down the road, thinking three wars ahead of everyone else, playing and exploiting the diplomatic game to turn things to your advantage, and outplaying your enemies on all levels, political, diplomatic, economic, military…it's just an experience I haven't found in any other genre of games.

Having experienced the depth and complexity of Paradox's grand strategy games, I find myself unable to get back into other games that don't require (or reward) that level of thought. The latest expansion, Rights of Man, is definitely up there among the best ones they've put out so far, and Paradox has shown that they're willing to re-think, re-work, and improve some of the most fundamental parts of the game with the change to the whole technology system in the October 1.18 patch. I even had a few suggestions for features accepted in the 1.19 patch that came out yesterday. :D

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Quoting: DJViking

QuoteCivilization VI - Aspyr Media sounded positive about the port

Not lately. The latest news from Aspyr, they say it is no longer certain there will be a Linux port.

QuoteIt still isn't certain if we are doing the linux port

They never said anything but that. I have no clue how many more months it will take them to have someone look into it. It can't take THAT long. Source code can be ported by definition and if it's a middleware issue, they wouldn't need THAT long to see if it's available for Linux or not. *sigh*

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My own list would look like this:

1. Civ V
2. Stellaris
3. Company of Heroes 2
4. Hearts of Iron IV
5. Age of Wonders III
6. Wargame: (European Escalation, AirLand, Red Dragon)
7. Pandora: First Contact
8. Europa Universalis IV
9. Civ: Beyond Earth
10. Any Total War game. :D

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