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Something tells me Valve does it on purpose. In any case, http://whenisthenextsteamsale.com/ was estimating the exact same date, so I don't think this comes as a biiiiig surprise. :)

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Quoting: toorApparently this game is pretty shitty

Metacritic average seems fairly low but Steam reviews are mostly positive. Some of the bad reviews are referencing technical issues one would hope are resolved at this point and most of the reviews aren't from particularly well-known sources.

I watched a little of this being streamed when it was new and it seemed intriguing at least.

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Well, it has a demo, so I will at least take a look at it :)

EDIT: the demo is only windows/mac at the moment…

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Apparently this game is pretty shitty

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Rust survival mechanics are awesome then DOTA2 of course some times Tomb Raider Witcher 2 and finally Wine+Diablo3 Heroes of the Storm + Sniper :ghost warrior 2

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Shame in some ways that I hadn't noticed postings of the tournament earlier, I used to be a big old school CnC fan, and have been enjoying OpenRA for a while. I'll have fun watching this later though.

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: tusharkant15This forces Triple Buffering so the performance does take a hit

Triple buffering is supposed to improve performance compared to double buffering. Well, the framerate should improve, not the latency.

i think the issue where it takes the hit is where game itself has triplebuffer enabled as well.
some games get really jumpy framerate when thats in xorg.. thats with my experience.

just ForceCompositionPipline fixes all tearing for me and no need to use other tweaks.

Did you try to disable your compositor while running games ?

I know the auto-detection doesn't work well since lot of games now play in a borderless window. It's hard for them to detect fullscreen and then auto-disable compositor, and that's what I experienced when I switched from XFCE (without compositor) to KDE (with compositor) 2 years ago. So I chose to do it by myself when needed.

KDE provides a shortcut key to disable it manually, default is Ctrl+Alt+F12 iirc, and can be changed to any key you want (I personally use Pause key). While compositor doesn't hit performance on "low demanding" games, it can cripple fps on "high demanding" games like Feral or Aspyr ones. So I press my "magic key" to improve FPS. :P

To be honest I hardly believe triple buffer may hit performance, since its very benefit is to improve performance and provide steady FPS, at the cost of a larger usage of VRAM. Your problem should come from somewhere else.
See Nvidia documentation or simply Wikipedia article.

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Hi there, is it possible to get these weekly recaps as Email? It would be perfectly for me, since there are so much posts and articles here on unknown indie games that do not interest me much and even on patches of games, that you quickly get lost if searching only for the very substantial news/articles.
(I still deem some articles here not substantial, but its way better and the viewcount and sorted by view - please switch the order - is REALLY helpful imo.)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: nifker

Quoting: FUltra

Quoting: nifker1. Any special reason why would you support Unity3D?
2. Everyones acting like X11 is the past and is really buggy and slow - but really most don't have real problems with X11 and if there are problems let us fix them or rewrite parts if neccesarry.

But X11 is the past and is really buggy (try for example to create a 100% no-one-can-bypass screen saver lock for X11). More to the point is that the devs behind X11 is the same devs that are creating Wayland.

The only sad thing with these nice changes to Unity3D is that AFAIK Unity3D is statically linked to each game and does not exist as a shared resource in for example Steam so for this new version to be used games have to be updated one by one(?).

As I said stop creating new projects and help existing - for me it is "I WILL NEVER STOP USING X11" unless I'll see dwm for Wayland which I guess won't happen and Wayland needs to be cross-platform like other Unix-software.
Anyway who says it is the past and is buggy - Really who needs screenssavers thats like Im not at my desk but I need something running at my screen.

Sorry mate, but really that ship has sailed. Yes, X11 has done yeoman service over many years, but as FUltra said, the people making Wayland are the X11 people. It's coming and that's that. And X11 has/creates a whole bunch of security problems, which don't matter to me sitting at my desktop but matter plenty overall. And X11 ultimately just has too many concepts built deep into it which are at odds with how graphics are done now. It just does not, at its core, do things the way modern graphics work, and that creates bottlenecks and limits capability. For a long time the advantages of maturity outweighed that, but the people who developed X11 seem to pretty much all agree that time is past. They could "just update" X11 but for that to work it would have to be a distinction without a difference--the name is about all that would be left.

Wayland has been slow, but it is arriving. And maybe Mir I guess, wtf Canonical and their Not Invented Here syndrome.

So why would I switch - I have no problems and I will probably never have problems. I mean why would I switch to something that says it better but wouldnt benefit for me. So no Wayland wm no Wayland for me.

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I don't have much time to play at the moment, but I've been playing Armello natively, Stardew Valley and Clannad in wine. Also found some time for Final Fantasy X on the PS4.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI didn't realize this series had so many games. I tried playing 5089 on the Vive, still haven't figured out HOW to play the game, but it seemed pretty cool. Will have to play it some more once HTC/Valve fix SteamVR for Linux.

It is REALLY fun once you know how to play it as the progression in the game feels awesome. I used to play the first one and slowly upgrade my gear to higher gear and doing quests for NPCs. A good game honestly just puts people off by the learning curve and graphics.

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Quoting: jnriversStellaris @ 17 hours. Picked fight I couldn't win, surrendering terms were the emancipation of all my systems except home base. Tried re-conquering my lost systems only to get b****-slapped. Crawled back like a beat dog claiming systems none of the other empires would touch. Game is way too addictive for me : )

Sounds similar to my first game, strangely similar :D

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Finished Batman AA, Spec OPS and Tomb Raider

Now I'm busy with:

1 - Shadow Warrior
2 - Victor Vran
3 - Saints Row the third and IV ( 2 crashes often)

:)

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Stellaris @ 17 hours. Picked fight I couldn't win, surrendering terms were the emancipation of all my systems except home base. Tried re-conquering my lost systems only to get b****-slapped. Crawled back like a beat dog claiming systems none of the other empires would touch. Game is way too addictive for me : )

DOOM on the PS4! Considering the mountain of expectations of this game, they really did well. The gameplay is really refreshing, it's downright furious. Constant homage to the originals with state of the art graphics and a metal soundtrack. Hell yeah.

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I think I've gotten to the point where they just need to fix the paste buffer stuff in Wayland and I can switch to that, and I always thought one of the things Wayland was supposed to fix is this issue with screen tearing.

That said, I'm not getting a whole lot of tearing right now using Debian Sid on my 55" screen. I haven't done much to the configuration either, beyond installing the nVidia drivers. I really need to fix my laptop though so I can actually USE the nVidia side of things. What would have been nice is if they could come up with a chipset that had a really nice powersaving mode so we wouldn't need this PRIME/Optimus nonsense in the first place! Maybe their 10x0 cards will?

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I didn't realize this series had so many games. I tried playing 5089 on the Vive, still haven't figured out HOW to play the game, but it seemed pretty cool. Will have to play it some more once HTC/Valve fix SteamVR for Linux.

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My weekend died for the glory of Star ruler 2: Wake of the heralds. I'm not good at those games, but… (^  ^)'

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: tusharkant15This forces Triple Buffering so the performance does take a hit

Triple buffering is supposed to improve performance compared to double buffering. Well, the framerate should improve, not the latency.

i think the issue where it takes the hit is where game itself has triplebuffer enabled as well.
some games get really jumpy framerate when thats in xorg.. thats with my experience.

just ForceCompositionPipline fixes all tearing for me and no need to use other tweaks.

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Dark Souls 2 and Styx: Master of Shadows.

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Quoting: sigz@mrdeathjr : Why testing neverwinter nights on wine ?

Good question

Because native alternative is complex* (steam version or gog could be acceptable), especially for new users

*same case occur with castle wolfenstein but in this can use nglide 1.05

However if installation process become more frendly for new users maybe can try native

^_^

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@mrdeathjr : Why testing neverwinter nights on wine ?

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It is Arma 3 Freekend, so Arma 3 :)

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Quoting: TheReaperUKVampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™ with Crossover and Tomb Raider, Really want to build/buy a windows computer so i can play Doom 4 as this is the first time i've never played a doom game on release :'(

@TheReaperUK : be strong, live penguin and wait (& wait & wait & wait & wait & wait ) for releases *

I have been playing Darkest Dungeon this week

@everyone : Stellaris worth it ?




* remember: the wait is the goal

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X Rebirth, Tomb Raider and Deponia 1

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Quoting: wojtek88I always enjoy mrdeathjr videos, no reason to remove them from my point of view.

Quoting: tuubiLinks should enough.

Just my opinion of course.

Relax point cleared with liamdawe and put 2 videos as limit for users bandwith reason

Respect for other videos i leave links, good idea

^_^

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Not much time to play this week, but I did catch up in the end buying on-sale (and completing) Firewatch :)
Also a few tries at No thing level 7.

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Quoting: wojtek88I always enjoy mrdeathjr videos, no reason to remove them from my point of view.

Links should suffice. And even those should be limited to native Linux games unless the thread is about wine or emulation. Just my opinion of course.

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100% Stellaris since it dropped. More than once I found myself wondering why I felt a little "off" while playing, only to realize it was almost 4 in the morning and I'd been playing for 6+ hours without realizing it (i hope my boss forgives me). It's not a perfect game, but it really hits all of my buttons. I'm completely its victim. And, yes, I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it expansion, DLC, etc-wise.

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I was trying out 7 days to die multiplayer this weekend. Planning on getting Stellaris next week & downloading the MOO alpha on Linux if my download limit allows..

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Quoting: BOYSSSSSIs there a tutorial on how to use Valgrind to debug games or applications for newbies, or is Valgrind used only when you have the source code?

I haven't used valgrind in a while but all I think you need is the binary:

valgrind --log-file=valgrind.output --leak-check=yes --tool=memcheck <Your Binary Here>

You can name the log file whatever you want as well.

To get myself on the topic: I've been achievement hunting, but I've been playing Kopantino All-Stars Soccer the most. This game actually got me interested in continuing my sports related project. It will probably never get done, but at least I can say I keep trying, eh?

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