Quoting: ison111@tuubi
You completely missed the point of my entire post.

I don't think I did, but I realise my own didn't quite come through.

I didn't say any of this was "ok". I completely agree that this isn't how things are supposed to be. What I disagreed with was your attitude mostly. You seem to imply we should be offended when games aren't released on Linux, and that getting up in arms about it would somehow help. That's just not true.

As you say, the only effective way we can influence big business is by choosing how we spend our cash. I do my own part daily by boycotting several companies whose policies or actions I disagree with. That said, the best thing to do for Linux gaming as a consumer is to spend that cash on Linux games.

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Quoting: ison111Rolling over because of "business moves" is most certainly something we don't have to accept, and I for one think gamers in general are worse off for it the more business moves get in the way of them connecting with their audience and doing what they love.

Sadly, as long as these "business moves" aren't in violation of consumer protection laws in our markets, we do have to accept them. We don't have much choice. In this particular case Zenimax seems perfectly within their legal rights to pick their platforms, and the only way we can hope to influence them is with our wallets.

Whether or not a game would be easy to port doesn't change anything. If they see a business opportunity (and they might not, even if it exists), they might release on Linux. Until then they will be totally indifferent. No place for ideology in most investor-owned companies, although prejudices and plain ignorance do play a part.

Also, just try telling their executives they're in the art business and they'll thank you for the joke, or tell you to bugger off.

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Quoting: GuestYep, it's much better indeed, and for some reason I don't get tearing even when disabling this option.

Nvidia's "Full Composition Pipeline" would explain it.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI'm not getting the green screen with the latest patch, could it be your video drivers? I'm using the 390.48 nvidia drivers.

Interesting what causes this. Video driver version would be my first bet too, but I'm also running nvidia driver version 390.42.

390.42 and 390.48 are actually two different driver releases, but I didn't see anything in the changelog that could be relevant.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoHmm..
The lack of activity about Linux depots in the SteamDB suggest me that Feral has an internal DRMFREE version of this port...

Not necessarily. It's quite easy to run steam games without steam for development purposes.

Might be Feral trying out a new development/QA process, possibly mandated by their contract with the IP owner, or pretty much anything else really. The information tab for the SteamDB entry does mention the Feral Launcher by the way.

It would definitely be a good thing if Feral branched out to the other stores as well. It's not good to be at the mercy of a single storefront, regardless of who runs it.

Actually, the Feral launcher is listed at the bottom of the information tab, as overlaywindowblacklist [External Link]

Isn't that what I said? The launcher is mentioned on the information tab, which shows that Feral is doing at least something.

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Torilla tavataan.

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Quoting: Al3sCall me when they fix it to work with mesa

According to this wiki page it already does if you force the OpenGL version with "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.4 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=440". Annoying but not difficult to work around.

Problems launching the game on rolling distros like Arch seem unrelated. Check the long thread on the GOL forums.

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I'm not sure I'd want to reinstall the game (and relearn the ropes) for timed challenges, new baddies or outfits, but actual story content or a new area to explore would be very welcome.

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Quoting: EikeBy the way, Owlboy renders in 1280x720.
Do you think it has bad graphics quality?
I sure don't.

Actually the original resolution is 640x360 I think, rendered with double pixels for 1280x720. Makes it even more impressive.

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Quoting: DestroyerIndiegala has DiRT Rally for $9.99 atm (about 11 hours remaining on offer now). Good price? Good game?

323 hours of playtime and surely more to come. Either it's good or I'm a masochist. Also it's the only game to sustain a GOL league for any amount of time.

Just a warning, it's a rally simulator, and nothing like the rest of the Dirt series.

Just noticed my reply is probably late, but there'll be other sales.

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