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Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By pete910, 6 July 2016 at 9:49 pm UTC

Quoting: Pecisk
Quoting: DamonLinuxPLSadly TF2 is now (as many gamers reporting) broken on Linux. Look at valve github, many reports and no one from Valve carring about it. TF2 after The Tough Break for me is unplayable. Before I playing in max setting on my notebook, now I can't play even on low details. FPS drop (a lot of Linux gamers), game have micro lags (also many Linux gamers reporting) and often crashing or hanging X server.

So, maybe anyone have contact with anyone who know if or when Valve want to fix it? or how to fix it manually?

None of these things for me on both laptop and desktop. I will guess - AMD?

Runs fine for me on AMD (prop driver)

Not played in a while though

Edit:

@DamonLinuxPL
Just noticed that you use Mageia too, What driver you using ?

Sven Co-op, a co-operative game originally based around Half-Life now on Linux in Alpha
By rea987, 6 July 2016 at 8:20 pm UTC

Quoting: ZeitgeistYou can also play HL Invasion and Natural Selection on Linux.

Wow! Back in the day my PC was not capable enough to run NS2 on GNU/Linux, so I asked Unknown Worlds Forum to port good old NS into Linux.

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/comment/2177568/#Comment_2177568

After many years, I gave up on that mod and meanwhile recently I got a new PC which can run many Linux games. Now NS is avalable for Linux but servers are empty. Better than nothing I guess. :-D

They even messaged me to ask for testing; I did not see, shame...

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By Rhythagoras, 6 July 2016 at 8:08 pm UTC

I was just playing the other day and it ran fine for me.

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By Pecisk, 6 July 2016 at 7:52 pm UTC

Quoting: DamonLinuxPLSadly TF2 is now (as many gamers reporting) broken on Linux. Look at valve github, many reports and no one from Valve carring about it. TF2 after The Tough Break for me is unplayable. Before I playing in max setting on my notebook, now I can't play even on low details. FPS drop (a lot of Linux gamers), game have micro lags (also many Linux gamers reporting) and often crashing or hanging X server.

So, maybe anyone have contact with anyone who know if or when Valve want to fix it? or how to fix it manually?

None of these things for me on both laptop and desktop. I will guess - AMD?

An update on the GOL Podcast, we need help
By serjor, 6 July 2016 at 7:50 pm UTC

I almost missed this post.
If a non fluent english speaker is needed, I'd be happy to co-host the podcast, but the schedule is terrible for me.
I understood I'm not the best option, but hey, if for any reason you need a substitute of the substitute of the substitute... (you see my point, don't you?), I'll be glad to help.

Project Zomboid shows off more work on their new animations system
By Luke_Nukem, 6 July 2016 at 7:39 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweYeah this was one of the few games Valve dropped the SteamOS icon for as it doesn't work OOTB on SteamOS but works fine on Linux desktop.

Now that, is going to get annoying fast.

Today GOL turns 7 years old!
By Liam Dawe, 6 July 2016 at 7:25 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: liamdaweThe livestream is nearly into hour three, the girlfriend is being subjected to Outlast in the dark right now!

I couldn't attend - do you have a recording?

View video on youtube.com
I'm hoping it will be higher quality in a day or so when it's been entirely processed, it's a 4+ hour video so it's probably taking a while.

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By DamonLinuxPL, 6 July 2016 at 7:23 pm UTC

Sadly TF2 is now (as many gamers reporting) broken on Linux. Look at valve github, many reports and no one from Valve carring about it. TF2 after The Tough Break for me is unplayable. Before I playing in max setting on my notebook, now I can't play even on low details. FPS drop (a lot of Linux gamers), game have micro lags (also many Linux gamers reporting) and often crashing or hanging X server.

So, maybe anyone have contact with anyone who know if or when Valve want to fix it? or how to fix it manually?

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By Liam Dawe, 6 July 2016 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Daverball
QuoteOh, Valve developers forget they do OpenGL again?
Well, technically they do not for any of their Source games, it's just a translation layer that converts the DX9 calls to OpenGL:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

It's a different story for Source 2 though, where they actually support native OpenGL.
I know, it's just amusing that they state it like so.

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By Daverball, 6 July 2016 at 7:19 pm UTC

QuoteOh, Valve developers forget they do OpenGL again?
Well, technically they do not for any of their Source games, it's just a translation layer that converts the DX9 calls to OpenGL:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL

It's a different story for Source 2 though, where they actually support native OpenGL.

Team Fortress 2 'Meet Your Match' major update teased, sounds exciting
By Krootox1986, 6 July 2016 at 7:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

This is great news for an absolute noob like me. I love pc gaming but I get so daunted by playing online because I get absolutely destroyed by 99% of players. We're talking 2 kills and 30 deaths type of destroyed!

Slime Rancher now available DRM Free on GOG
By ElectricPrism, 6 July 2016 at 6:01 pm UTC

Needs a demo, for the price I can't tell if i'll love or hate it without a demo.

Dwarf Fortress gets a 64bit build
By niarbeht, 6 July 2016 at 5:59 pm UTC

Quoting: OZSeafordI like that. As twisted and complicated as making 100 dwarves content.

On a side note, would DF run on an Ubuntu Phone? I suppose it doesn't run on ARM devices?

To the best of my knowledge it's x86 only.

Slime Rancher now available DRM Free on GOG
By PublicNuisance, 6 July 2016 at 5:47 pm UTC

It looks interesting but i'm usually not into sandbox games like this. Need more of a narrative to follow. If it is on for a good sale on GOG I may bite. Either way more DRM free Linux games are always a good thing.

Sven Co-op, a co-operative game originally based around Half-Life now on Linux in Alpha
By ElectricPrism, 6 July 2016 at 5:37 pm UTC Likes: 3

Also of interest, Black Mesa confirmed for linux several days ago.

It's a good week in Linux.

Project Zomboid shows off more work on their new animations system
By Liam Dawe, 6 July 2016 at 4:38 pm UTC

Yeah this was one of the few games Valve dropped the SteamOS icon for as it doesn't work OOTB on SteamOS but works fine on Linux desktop.

NECROPOLIS, the third person action game from Harebrained Schemes may come to Linux
By nmk, 6 July 2016 at 4:15 pm UTC

Quoting: SpykerIt seems those devs never heard of the Steam Runtime.
No need to target a specific distro, just build with the Steam Runtime and your game will run basically on any Linux distribution able to run the Steam client.
How useful is Steam Runtime to people publishing their games outside of Steam, like on GOG, or Humble? The name kinda implies it's not, but I'm not any way better aware of the specifics than bigger devs.

Doesn't help that the description is very specific to being about helping run Steam games, not games in general.

Today GOL turns 7 years old!
By Segata Sanshiro, 6 July 2016 at 2:34 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdaweSince people are interested, I might do a small limited run of the cups in future :)

I'd be interested in one too. Maybe you should try Red Bubble or something so you wouldn't have to take care of shipping yourself.

Project Zomboid shows off more work on their new animations system
By codyaj1995, 6 July 2016 at 2:01 pm UTC Likes: 2

Brain, Valve just removed the steam icon because the game requires you to install Java yourself and wont work with Steam Machines out of the box.
The game still works on Linux :D , (Even GoG says its for linux)

It's starting to look nice!

Project Zomboid shows off more work on their new animations system
By Brian [Linux], 6 July 2016 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

The Steam page lists support for only Windows and Mac. Did they drop linux support?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/108600/

Sven Co-op, a co-operative game originally based around Half-Life now on Linux in Alpha
By rea987, 6 July 2016 at 1:31 pm UTC

Downloading via Steam right now. I just wonder, does it only make you play original Half-Life single player campaign co-op or are there dedicated maps for co-op? I have played Half-Life: Decay a year ago and it was beautiful.

Dwarf Fortress gets a 64bit build
By OZSeaford, 6 July 2016 at 1:15 pm UTC

I like that. As twisted and complicated as making 100 dwarves content.

On a side note, would DF run on an Ubuntu Phone? I suppose it doesn't run on ARM devices?

Pro Pinball Ultra now available on SteamOS & Linux
By jotomo, 6 July 2016 at 12:42 pm UTC

Quoting: Glog78[...] I hope for the future of the product and i can't wait for them to release more tables from this series. [...]

Just don't expect anything too soon. Originally this was kickstartered in August 2013 with a scheduled release date of December 2013. Which slipped by 2.5 years, with the game now in EA, not finished.

Also, another recovering Pinball Dreams addict here, with a considerable lack of practice ;-)

Slime Rancher now available DRM Free on GOG
By DasCapschen, 6 July 2016 at 12:41 pm UTC

I hope they'll put it on GOG Connect, because I already own it on Steam, but it's nicer to have it DRM free.

Dwarf Fortress gets a 64bit build
By WorMzy, 6 July 2016 at 12:23 pm UTC

^ Set the PRINT_MODE to TEXT, install an ssh app on your phone, and run df in a tmux session. :D

It's not actually running on your phone, but it's as close as we can get right now. :P

Dwarf Fortress gets a 64bit build
By OZSeaford, 6 July 2016 at 11:07 am UTC

wow great news. I have left this to the side, but usually keep an eye on the news and updates. My last fortresses were great, but having mined too much underground without supporting pillars, the whole thing collapsed, sending my computer in a coma.

I also remember trying to run a fortress on an eepc 701, with 512 gb of ram, and a puny processor, good times.

I wish that game would run on mobile phones.