It makes perfect sense in my opinion : you can get enough performance with a not-too-high TDP form an AMD APU, and play more demanding games with in-home streaming.
Steam's offline mode is perfect if you don't have an Internet connection.
Overall, I would love to play civilization/the binding of Isaac/Super Meat Boy, or whatever, on such a portable console.
But I am not completely sold on 3D games, though.

Somewhat reminds me the open pandora (or dragonbox pyra), and would be cool to use as a portable linux device.

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Quoting: Mikeany chance of a GOL multiplayer?

My last game took me 5 hours (I didn't want a military victory, and the DLCs were not installed yet), on the smallest map, with the fastest speed. And the difficulty was not high.
I once did a game on the biggest map... it took me nearly 6 months!
But I never played multiplayer in CIV V (only CIV II), it may be different?

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Quoting: DaifukuLinux full screen games still have isues when alt tabbing though.

It must depends on your DE. I had no issues at all (Arch, KDE)

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Quoting: LostParadiseHas anyone else problems with dual monitor configuration except me?

From the steam forum, it seems that the game window appears on the monitor which has the (0,0) coordinates. You could use absolute positioning with RandR to put the origin on the correct monitor.
That's a wild guess, but worth trying IMO.

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Yeah maybe just an error on the devs side (I hope not =D)

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Civ IV just showed up in my library.
http://steamdb.info/app/34440/ [External Link] it lists Linux as a valid platform, but not on the store. It doesn't download anything, too.

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Quoting: Half-ShotArch and its derivatives can download the latest mesa from its repositories along with the latest 3.15 kernel.

OMG 307 packets on my last pacman -Syu. Some KDE updates as well as (finally) the latest mesa and kernel stuff...

Anyway thank you for these graphs :)

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AWESOME!!!
I don't have anything else to say.

Oh, btw, I am deleting TW2 from my partition to install CIV5, I am counting on gol to tell me when an update is available ;)

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Yep! But I have no space left on my steam partition to try it :D

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I had some of the issues quoted above for various unity games. The fixes for me in those games were :

-add "LC_ALL=C %command%" (or something like that, I am not sure about that %command%) to the game launch options

-start and play the game in windowed mode at least one time to get rid of that freeze bug.

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