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Return a wasteland to green glory in the upcoming Terra Nil
12 Jul 2021 at 7:42 am UTC

Seems good.
"it is planned for the full release"
Ok, i plan to wishlist it in the future too.

Humble Choice for July is up with a fresh set of games to pick from
7 Jul 2021 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

@Liam Just an idea for improvement, maybe adding Proton rating for non-bold games ? :smile:

Astro Colony is an upcoming space sci-fi exploration and automation game
7 Jul 2021 at 2:54 pm UTC

It looks very nice !
But 10000€ budget seems very low (even without the goals)...
Another thing, i dont see any Linux/SteamOS mention on Steam.
The FAQ states: Windows, iOS, Linux (in that order)... so wait&see...

Little Red Dog Games say there's "no reason not to" do Linux versions of games
28 Jun 2021 at 1:13 pm UTC

Quoting: emphy
Seeing 7% might be quite surprising, since according to the Steam Hardware Survey which we track on a dedicated page, Linux hovers around the 1% mark but we've seen lots of other developers show higher than that too in previous articles.
That is hardly surprising; those linux users are more likely to spend their money on a native linux game, so they purchase from a smaller pool of games, increasing the share of linux gamers for those games that support it.
Exactly.

Talking point: what have you been playing recently?
28 Jun 2021 at 7:24 am UTC Likes: 1

I'have buy the infinity bundle on Steam for the summer sale, so i'm making all the baldur's gate games. :)

GemRB 0.9.0, the game engine reimplementation for the likes of Baldur's Gate
24 Jun 2021 at 7:47 am UTC

"GemRB currently works with Baldur’s Gate 1, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale 1, Baldur’s Gate 2, Icewind Dale 2 and eventually possibly even mods designed for the Enhanced Editions from Beamdog."

So the enhanced editions are working too i suppose ? :)

Online sandbox adventure Elteria Adventures gets a huge overhaul and opens up a Playtest
10 Jun 2021 at 2:30 pm UTC

OMG MineCraft with OverSized Blizzard-like gear ! xD
I'm in (Only 2GB!), thanks !

Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway
2 Jun 2021 at 5:16 pm UTC

Not a surprise, a game on linux market has way less concurrence than on the Windows one, % of users is meaningless if the offer is not the same !

I have always think that way, and it seems to be confirmed by numbers we can find from different sources.

Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.1 released
7 May 2021 at 7:32 am UTC

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Quoting: drlambWell the game crashes for me on Mesa-git so...
Mine doesn't even start, first it was crashing without anything, them I've forced the game to run once using steam runtime (so it could download some files) and try to run without it again.

It still crashes, but now it open a black screen before crashing, instead of not opening at all.
The MESA Fix for Metro Exodus has nothing todo with the game crashing on startup. It fixes a memory leak that appears after playing for 10-30 minutes.

For fixing crashes on startup you could try the following.

1. Avoid Wayland
2. Set the right native displayresolution in the games user.cfg file
3. Make shure that libibus is installed
Same here, game is crashing at startup.. i have a black window... 1/4 of a second.

- i'm on wayland with XWayland i think: "WaylandEnable=false" in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
- libibus-1.0-5 installed
- no user.cfg in game folder
- weird thing, but i have tried to rename the .webm files into the game folder (i heard this could help, but not in my case, so i have renamed them back to their original name)
- i have tried "~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/run-in-soldier %command%" with no success

In syslog, i see this when i try to launch the game:
kernel: [28873.954999] traps: A3 :: worker[592167] general protection fault ip:7f863fcdaad1 sp:7f85577fb138 error:0 in libc-2.31.so[7f863fba0000+14b000]
The user.cfg is located in an hidden folder in your home directory not in the games folder itself. Take a look into the
.local or.config folder.

Please login into a prober X11/X.Org session before launching the game. Wayland is not ready for gaming at this point.
Too bad, i'm just to dumb to make a proper Xorg configuration with my two screens...
That's not entirely true. I'm playing on Wayland session using XWayland and it's even better than plain X (I can set resolutions not supported by the screen, no screen tearing and without performance penalty compared to X11).

You can launch the game by adding SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 environment variable to force it to run using XWayland.
Thanks for the tip !
Unfortunately it does not work for me.
I have 2 weeks of vacations, maybe a little patch will solve the problem during them.