Yeah I think they were already on sale. Valve's being a bit confusing once again.

What I find really cool is that in the top three tiers (silver to platinum) for every game that supports Mac but not Linux there's a game that supports Linux but not Mac. The percentage of games supporting Linux is huge compared to the percentage of actual gamers on Linux. Bodes well for the future of the platform I think.

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Quoting: oldrocker99It's not only New Year, but also my 45th wedding anniversary! And my wife :wub: lets me play games :D !

Congratulations on having a cool wife! :)

Quoting: oldrocker99A very happy New Year from an old (and I mean old) rocker to all!

Keep on rockin' good man!

One thing I love about this community is that we aren't fussy about irrelevant details like age or sex or nationality. As long as you like games and are vaguely penguin-shaped, or even just a part-time penguin, you are welcome. <3

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Happy 2017! Sadly no rum for me tonight. I could really go for a swig of good old Matusalem [External Link] right about now.

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Thanks guys. My impression of the Metro games seems to have been a bit off. I've already exhausted (and exceeded) my Winter Sale budget, but I will get the bundle in the next sale. :)

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: tuubiThe Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

It can range from really easy to hardcore crazy depending on your difficulty settings.

Ah, so there's an easy difficulty level available. Good enough for me. Thanks.

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The Metro games proclaim "full controller support" so I assume it's not all hardcore twitch action, but how's the difficulty? Can I expect to enjoy the story even if I'm not that keen on (or very good at) FPS action?

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Quoting: GuestAnybody here likes the idea of including the continent where the GOL member resides?

North America
South America
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
Antarctica

I think it's good to know how Linux gamers are distributed around the world :)

Seeing as we're all penguins, I'd bet Antarctica is surprisingly well represented. Although I think most species actually live in places like South America, Australia and New Zealand.

But seriously, I guess this could be useful. Though I don't know if GOL's userbase is exactly representative of the larger Linux gaming community. The English-speaking world and the western countries would most likely be overrepresented in comparison to the actual market. But developers should understand this. And maybe this is interesting to some GOL users.

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Quoting: deathxxx

Quoting: tuubiEDIT: I spoke too soon. Got a hard freeze right after I wrote this. Oh well, back to OpenGL for now.

I used 'Enhanced Stability' in BIOS for all possible options. RAM, CPU .. etc. Every error in RAM could be fatal. Also i dont have ECC RAM to test with.

I think some people get crashes with lastest Nvidia Driver. Look what version i'm used. Try with it.

Nah, the game runs well enough with OpenGL. I was curious but I won't lose any sleep over this. Maybe I'll try again when the Vulkan backend is finished / no longer in beta.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloOr is it intended to know about the hardware? In this case, Desktop-PC and Sofa-PC don't tell a lot about the hardware in the case. Because either of these could be quite high end or low end.

It think this one is mostly about the situation as you put it, or the type of your main Linux gaming setup. There are other questions focused on actual hardware.

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Quoting: XicronicI wish it also did webm. GIFs are going out the door

Yeah, GIF is ancient and unnecessarily limited. Does the job though. Anyway, you can convert the result to webm or whatever with some ffmpeg magic if you don't mind the added lossy compression.

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