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Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
10 January 2017 at 7:15 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: rustybroomhandleDa heck is everyone so angry?
Ever been to the Internet before? As they say, 90% is porn and the rest pretty much heated arguments about stuff that just doesn't matter.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 January 2017 at 10:45 am UTC
Quoting: buenaventuraDo you have a ppa for ubuntu 16.04 for the latest kernel? I have tried installing it before (manually sort of) but it seems to have some bug with my wifi card (it just does not work). But I would like to try again. It would be nice with a ppa with a new kernel with amdgpu-for-gcn1.1 flags enabled.
I don't use one myself, no. A quick Google search finds this though, if it helps. Daily (mainline and drm-next) builds are available on kernel.ubuntu.com as well if you're feeling adventurous.
Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL
10 January 2017 at 10:24 am UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeDebian Stretch is going into a Soft Freeze soon, then hard Freeze, so there should be a HUGE update to SteamOS once that happens.
Maybe. Jessie will be on long term support "to end of April/May 2020" so there's no actual need to hurry. I'd imagine they'd want to do it sooner rather than later though, unless they want to deviate even more from upstream and take a heavier maintenance burden themselves.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI'm wondering how much of Valve's work is just being put back into Debian proper. Anyone who has been following the development of it, should be quite excited for the potential SteamOS.
I don't think they actively upstream anything much. Any changes are in the open SteamOS repo, but Debian maintainers pretty much need to actively trawl for patches. Valve doesn't seem to have an actual policy of keeping a minimal patchset (like Ubuntu claims to) unless I've missed something.
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
10 January 2017 at 9:39 am UTC
Quoting: tuxintuxedoJust a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.
You can also install even newer, supported kernels through the update manager's Linux-kernels dialog. Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) has up to 4.8.0 in the standard repos. For 4.9.0 you need a PPA.
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
9 January 2017 at 7:03 pm UTC
Quoting: ShmerlValve have no control over how games store configuration. And games shouldn't rely on such control either. It will only complicate ability to release games without Steam.
Valve have quite a lot of control over games sold on their service. They're important enough that devs are willing to work to get their games on Steam.

In any case, I don't see the harm in them requiring adherence to standard practices, like the XDG directory spec. I don't think they would though, although they already recommend the spec and have automation/helper tools in their SteamOS SDK.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 January 2017 at 1:22 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: LeopardFor possibility of Aspyr media speaking as you say in the article;can you ask them are they planning to move their previous tittles to Vulkan?
This is extremely unlikely for existing titles. Is there a specific Aspyr port that doesn't perform adequately with OpenGL? Bit of a wasted effort otherwise.
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 January 2017 at 1:12 pm UTC
Quoting: dmantionedaniel@daniel:~> tclsh
% format %c%c%c%c 0b01000011 0b01101001 0b01110110 0b00110110
python3 -c "print(''.join([int(char, 2).to_bytes(1,'big').decode() for char in ['0b01000011','0b01101001','0b01110110','0b00110110']]))"
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 January 2017 at 12:12 pm UTC Likes: 3
<3

(I actually hope I won't be able to afford this any time soon. I really need to get some work done.)
Divinity: Original Sin may soon work with Mesa drivers
9 January 2017 at 11:18 am UTC
Quoting: SamsaiWhile it's good that more and more games will run on Mesa without users having to do a lot of fiddling, I certainly hope that this doesn't become the norm. I don't really like the idea of Mesa becoming a mess of exception cases and strange code paths for all the weird things game developers do when they don't really know what they are doing.
As was mentioned, this is purely a config change. No new code paths so we're not quite there yet. Also the mechanism is generic enough to be usable for debugging and other problematic titles. Wouldn't have been accepted otherwise.

I can't honestly argue that this isn't a hack though and it will stop working if the executable is renamed.
If you act fast you can grab a key for the demo of Disgaea 2 and it runs on Linux already
9 January 2017 at 9:00 am UTC
Quoting: cybikAaaaaaaaaaaand I sunk about 21 hours in 3 days in this game. Damn it.
A demo? 21 hours? I'm almost afraid to give it a proper go myself.
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