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Quoting: neffoAn anonymous redditor posting that he spoke to some Polish sounding people, and that they said it was happening. That is about the least convincing game confirmation I have heard since "my dad works for Nintendo".

I'd email CD Projekt and ask them.

Their lanyards also said that they were exhibitors, and said lanyards had CDProjekt Red on the handle.

I know you can't trust me until they confirm it to everyone, but I really am telling the truth; a CDPR dev told me that TW3 is coming to linux.

I was being facetious, I wasn't suggesting you personally were dishonest. I was suggesting the information wasn't particularly reliable. It was off the record, to start with. The guys with the shirts weren't necessarily speaking with authority. And, yes, you were a random redditor.

I'm suggesting a few more pinches of salt than Liam was.

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I grabbed this one when it was first released on Desura last year, I've beaten most of the puzzles but it was surprisingly harder than it looks especially on the later puzzles.

Happy to see it on Steam. :D

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Y'know, I wondered if you could start a SteamOS session without having to boot fully into that environment. Great find - thanks!

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QuoteI use stock Ubuntu, Nvidia proprietary, with Unity. I have very few problems with using Linux for gaming, but I do occasionally see some games experience screen tear. Not all games, and not so severe that I'm prepared to run crazy Openbox/Compton combos to eliminate it, but it's about the last thing I'd like to see fixed in my gaming experience.

I use XFCE for my gaming rig and it is among the worst for screen tearing (with compton its a whole different story). LXDE is also a similar case. I have KDE on my laptop and get no tearing on that whatsoever.

Before I installed compton on Xubuntu, I used the SteamOS session on the login screen, which gave 0 screen tearing and marginally better FPS. Might be a good solution for you (good if you want to try SteamOS without doing a full istall too): http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-the-steamos-session-on-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-tahr/[quote=scaine]Do you find, with all these compositor fixes, that SteamOS does a better job with screen tearing than stock Ubuntu?

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Quoting: lem18Holding down backslash: \
Holding down backslash and typing roccat: \r\\o\\c\\c\\a\\t\\

Linux has issues with USB NKRO keyboards in general, but this Roccat Ryos seems not to have the issues that the others do.

holding it down and typing roccat brings me: \roccat

if i hold it down it does repeat, but when its held down and i press other keys it stops repeating and wont return anymore unless i release and press again

I think we have a winner. Thanks for the feedback!

This suggests that other NKRO keyboards might have bugs in their firmware, or are designed around Windows' HID drivers, or both..

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I've put a few hours into Micron and I really like it so far. It's very simple gameplay wise, but as you say offers a real challenge once you get a bit into it. The developer is also very responsive and added (admittedly extremely basic) keyboard controls when I asked about it on the Steam forums.

There has really been a ton of new and good puzzle games being added on Steam this year, with games like Blocks That Matter (new to Linux), Full Bore, MouseCraft, Hexcells, LYNE and Micron being among my favorites.

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Quoting: scaineDo you find, with all these compositor fixes, that SteamOS does a better job with screen tearing than stock Ubuntu?

I use stock Ubuntu, Nvidia proprietary, with Unity. I have very few problems with using Linux for gaming, but I do occasionally see some games experience screen tear. Not all games, and not so severe that I'm prepared to run crazy Openbox/Compton combos to eliminate it, but it's about the last thing I'd like to see fixed in my gaming experience.

Personally I don't use Ubuntu, but I can say that SteamOS is better than XFCE stock (without compton). That might be an interesting video to make though.

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Do you find, with all these compositor fixes, that SteamOS does a better job with screen tearing than stock Ubuntu?

I use stock Ubuntu, Nvidia proprietary, with Unity. I have very few problems with using Linux for gaming, but I do occasionally see some games experience screen tear. Not all games, and not so severe that I'm prepared to run crazy Openbox/Compton combos to eliminate it, but it's about the last thing I'd like to see fixed in my gaming experience.

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Quoting: AstroThe Last Tinker: City of Colors is something incredibly amazing and infinitely charming. It's not even 5/5, it's 100/100. Probably it's the best game I've ever played in my entire life.

I also really liked that one. Not among my favourites though, but still a very enjoyable game.

This month I've mostly been playing MouseCraft since it came out of Early Access. It still has some Linux issues, but is playable and is a great puzzle game. Half of the fun is in finding solutions that are better than the intended perfect solutions.

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Hmh, having ~15 FPS on a i7 with a 560gtx on low settings. And the main menu seems to be cracked (fonts).

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Quoting: lem18Hey Xpander,

Can you try holding down the \ key on the Ryos, does it repeat? Also when it's held down, if you press other keys, what happens?

Here's what happens with other NKRO keyboards under Linux (in this case a Deck Hassium in NKRO mode, switchable by a key on the board itself):

Holding down backslash: \
Holding down backslash and typing roccat: \r\\o\\c\\c\\a\\t\\

Linux has issues with USB NKRO keyboards in general, but this Roccat Ryos seems not to have the issues that the others do.

Cheers

holding it down and typing roccat brings me: \roccat

if i hold it down it does repeat, but when its held down and i press other keys it stops repeating and wont return anymore unless i release and press again

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Hey Xpander,

Can you try holding down the \ key on the Ryos, does it repeat? Also when it's held down, if you press other keys, what happens?

Here's what happens with other NKRO keyboards under Linux (in this case a Deck Hassium in NKRO mode, switchable by a key on the board itself):

Holding down backslash: \
Holding down backslash and typing roccat: \r\\o\\c\\c\\a\\t\\

Linux has issues with USB NKRO keyboards in general, but this Roccat Ryos seems not to have the issues that the others do.

Cheers

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You said the Coming to SteamOS banner was taken down quickly but I saw that banner as recent as last week IIRC.

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Dont care, Im playing in Windows in my Steam pre-order. late Im playing in linux in gog client! lmao!

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Quoting: vulturei don't know if he watched me playing, but it is exactly how i felt

You should watch the review for the first one, its actually where the "PC gaming master race" meme was born, given how needlessly over-complicated it was.

View video on youtube.com

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Well... I like the glxosd overlay im seeing here. I installed it on arch and tried adding 'glxosd %command%' to the launch properties on steam but it doesn't launch. Im geuessing because of the launcher. I can't get the game to run via command line as it complains of steam not running when it is. =( 'glxosd glxgears' does work and I can see fps though it doesn't show any gpu or cpu info.

Since I can't see my fps I don't know what it is running at but I can say it seems much smoother than before. Running on ultra -motionblur (hate it) -uber -SSAO. It 'seems' to be around 30fps give or take. Much more playable.. but ill wait til it (hopefully) gets better before playing.

Arch Linux
AMD FX-8350
8gb ddr3 1600
2x GTX 580

also the game is running from a Samsung 840 EVO SSD.

*EDIT fixed the gpu output.. had to change some paths in /bin/glxosd
*EDIT I did some file renaming in the game folder and can now launch TW2 directly from steam but its still not working. liamdawe, are you running 32bit linux? or am I missing something because the github states "32 bit applications running under a 64 bit operating system can't be injected."

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroI played around 30 mins of the last one (actually worked pretty well for me), will never play it all the way through or buy the sequel though. Found exactly what Yahtzee experienced with the game:

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ok, this is most outstanding witcher review ever, lol

i don't know if he watched me playing, but it is exactly how i felt

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Quoting: TheswweetI know you can't trust me until they confirm it to everyone, but I really am telling the truth; a CDPR dev told me that TW3 is coming to linux.

For the future, it doesn't hurt in such case to ask them if you can record that small Q&A to publish it later. It adds more credibility.

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Quoting: neffoAn anonymous redditor posting that he spoke to some Polish sounding people, and that they said it was happening. That is about the least convincing game confirmation I have heard since "my dad works for Nintendo".

I'd email CD Projekt and ask them.

Their lanyards also said that they were exhibitors, and said lanyards had CDProjekt Red on the handle.

I know you can't trust me until they confirm it to everyone, but I really am telling the truth; a CDPR dev told me that TW3 is coming to linux.

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after the crapheap that was witcher 2 ill definitly not be picking this up till others confirm its working well and native

i thought i would love withcher 2 but after spending weeks to get it to even run then putting up with the shoddy performance i only got a few hours out of it before i put it in the meh basket atleast it was so cheap at release i dont feel cheated.

lets hope CDPR do a good job this time i dont think they could do worse

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Mint 17 64 bits, i7 4790K, 16GB ram and GTX 770. All tests with high settings.

Only tried the beginning of the tutorial but I went from 15 - 25 to a 25 - 30. Tried with low settings and it's starting to be playable with a frame rate between 40 to 60.

Huge improvements but still not enough for my taste.

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Quoting: GuestApparently development is made on Linux, which is cool :).

Manjaro on the desktop, Kubuntu on the laptop, CentOS on the git/Steamworks server. :)

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I'm really excited for this. The developer has been hard at work every day on this project.

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Truth be told, some of their games are Linux-compatible for the first time. And I'm not only talking about Wine-bottled ones like FlatOut: CLARC for instance is native and it had never been available on Linux before.

PS: I bought it. :P

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QuoteApparently development is made on Linux, which is cool

That's very cool! Glad I bought it :). I too will have to put off playing for a while, still have 2 other adventure games to play through.

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Since CryEngine supports Linux, they already announced support for it and Deep Silver having brought some games to Linux, I think chances are quite good.

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Here is a more serious review

View video on youtube.com

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We'll be doing TME for Game Club pretty soon as well, so if anybody picks it up and is interested in chatting about the game (chances are that we'll have some of the lovely developers from Screwy Lightbulb join us ^_^ ), be sure to keep an eye out for announcements (follow @DFGameClub on Twitter or watch the Game Club section of the Double Fine Adventure production updates index.

I also had the pleasure of chatting with developers Del and Jaco for SteamLUG Cast, way back in season 1, episode 4. Hard to believe it's been a year already!

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I decided to get it yesterday after it accidentally released a day early and after having a quick chat with Cheeseness about it. Looks really interesting. Hopefully I'll get a chance to play through it tonight.

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This new beta seems to be slightly better, but, so slight i'm not even sure if it's really better. ^^

The fact remains that wine + CSMT patch is way faster, very close to windows version if it's not equal on my hardware (i5 3570 + nvidia 660).

If you want to test it, follow this tutorial :
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/the-witcher-2-guide.612/

Replace wine 1.7.5 with wine 1.7.4-CMST in playonlinux and add this settings in your game configuration :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#CSMT_Patched_Wine_for_Significantly_Better_Performance

There are some visual glitches (small black areas here and there) but nothing that prevents you to enjoy the game.

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