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Earthlock: Festival of Magic is still heading to Linux
15 May 2017 at 9:42 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: lucifertdarkThey're seriously prioritising the WiiU version? Why?
Probably because they expect their JRPG to sell better on a Japanese console platform, even if it's not the most popular one.

Earthlock: Festival of Magic is still heading to Linux
15 May 2017 at 8:35 am UTC

It's nice that they didn't forget us. I haven't played a decent traditional JRPG in ages.

DiRT Rally is currently free to play for three days with 70% off
11 May 2017 at 9:14 pm UTC

This game is so frustratingly hard but so good. <3

NVIDIA 381.22 driver released with lots of bug fixes and newer Vulkan support
11 May 2017 at 9:16 am UTC

Quoting: GuestWhat fixed it for me was I uninstalled the nvidia drivers (and purged them) then installed the newer kernel (I was on 4.4.0-53) to 4.4.0-77.

This time around installed the 381.22 driver (again from PPA/mint driver manager) and when I rebooted everything was fine.

So moral of the story, seems if you update your nvidia driver and get the black desktop with mouse cursor and nothing else, try updating your kernel and reinstalling the driver.
For me X would not start at all, so my problem was not the same as yours. But as I said, the fix was quick and easy. I'm running kernel 4.10 by the way.

NVIDIA 381.22 driver released with lots of bug fixes and newer Vulkan support
10 May 2017 at 6:55 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestGreat, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).

*sigh*

I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.

Gonna try reverting to 375.xx
I had to run sudo nvidia-xconfig to fix this. I guess we can't blame Mint if an unsupported Ubuntu PPA package causes problems. It's not likely they're tested on Mint at all.

Friday Livestream with Samsai at 5 PM UTC!
5 May 2017 at 4:42 pm UTC

Looks like a fun selection of games. And I do want to see you fail at play Dirt Rally on stream, thanks for asking!

Saints Row 2 is currently free on Steam, other Saints Row titles on sale
26 April 2017 at 9:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: liamdaweGuys, keep it in English please.

Sorry. ;)
I explained what I meant with my previous English comment.
An EU law prohibits from removing a software licence when you bought (or got gifted) software, be it digital or on disc (if it has not been explicitly only been rented).
Corporations seem to have a hard time accepting that they can't just override laws willy-nilly with their idiotic EULAs.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 April 2017 at 8:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerI forgot something or there is no way to include more PC, if there is few?
Nope. And that's on purpose. This is what it says near the top of the form:
QuoteThis is for your MAIN gaming computer.

OpenLara, an impressive open source engine for classic Tomb Raider has a WebGL demo
24 April 2017 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: GuestThat would need (very roughly) 50 people working together full time for 3 years. This will not happen as a hobby project.

How about 500 working in spare time?
Keep 500 spare-time (but professional level) artists and coders motivated and focused on a single creative goal for the duration of a major project and I shall bestow upon you the title of supreme cat herder.

There are no technical roadblocks but many social ones.