Quoting: liamdaweWell Skully, it's not a Steam Machine officially unless it runs Steam OS, so your answer is really a no.

Ok if thats how it is, I will choose "no" in future.

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I filled it out also. The last question
Unique Question 2: Will you be getting a Steam Machine any time after release?
Gaming PC running SteamOS
Yes
No
Still undecided
Already built my own
Planning to build my own

I find it hard to answer. I have built my own, but not running steam os. It is running Fedora 20 and booting straight into steam big picture. So I count it as a steam machine, only better in my opinion. Will buy the steam controller when it's out.
Anyways I chose "already built my own" as it's about as close as the available answer will allow.

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Looks awesome. Like Fistful of frags but medieval.

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Not sure why you think we should change our passwords, nothing in that message says anything about other people being compromised, just you. And I haven't received such a mail.

Not even sure why it's an article on here.

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Liam I see you always cheering about Alt+tab working in games.
Alt+Tab works almost all the time since people stopped using the old version of SDL.
And if you do find a game that doesn't. Bring up the steam overlay and bam you can Alt-Tab in any game.

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Does the game play as jerky as that video? Or is it a very poorly made trailer video?

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Quoting: sleortI must admint that I'm biased since I have AMD gpu's in my main rig and intel in my laptop, but I still don't get it that I should have a "worse" experience in some games only because I went with the open solution from AMD and intel.

Thats like saying "I don't get why I should have a worse experience in games because I have a 60hz monitor instead of 120hz"
If you want Physx buy an Nvidia card.

Some hardware have different features, buy the hardware that has the features you want.

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I don't own the game yet. But I have no doubt they will get it running sweet on Linux.
Looking at Dead Island, It now is probably the most impressive game on Linux. While not my favourite game (gets boring), they have made it run sooo good. Sits at 60fps with vsync all options maxed out, amazingly smooth and NEVER EVER drops below. All while showing some sweet looking graphics. Runs smoother and better than in windows.

Only problem I have with it is from the multithreading with too many cores on my I7. It causes stuttering. Easy fixed by forcing the game to only see 2 cores like this

save a text file called cpucnt.c

int SDL_GetCPUCount(void) {
return 2; /* replace with how many CPUs you want the game to see */
}

compile like this: gcc -m32 -Wall -fPIC -shared -o cpucnt.so cpucnt.c

now set games launch option in steam to this
LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/cpucnt.so %command%

Enjoy a smooth stutter free game.
I got this originally from somewhere on the steam forums. (I am not going to find it again)

PS. Maybe this or something similar would help Dying light aswell. Once I can afford it I will muck around with it.

EDIT: Here is a the file already compiled for you http://filebin.ca/1txAoJBv1I3h/cpucnt.so [External Link]

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It's too hard to find games worth having on there. I am sure there are some. But sifting through all the absolute trash to find them isn't enjoyable at all. It's like going to the local dump and sifting through the rubbish to find something good that was accidentally thrown out. This is where games go that no other digital store will take.

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I like it so far. Wish I could walk with w,s,a,d instead of clicking tho :(

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