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What have you been playing on Linux lately and what do you think?
10 Aug 2017 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
10 Aug 2017 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
- Played recently: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
That game took me quite some time because I focused a lot on side quests (the best part of the game) and all three DLCs. I'm really not disappointed and I consider it to be very close to the quality of the first Deus Ex.
- Now playing: Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War III
I really enjoyed DaW II last year, and despite what many people state on the Web, I think the third installment is really great. The mix between DoW I and DoW II works nicely, unit management is less messy than in Retribution - yet less tactical. It's focused on really different parts of gameplay compared to the first two games, but what it does, it does really well. Each unit fills its own role and positioning on the map is crucial.
That game took me quite some time because I focused a lot on side quests (the best part of the game) and all three DLCs. I'm really not disappointed and I consider it to be very close to the quality of the first Deus Ex.
- Now playing: Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War III
I really enjoyed DaW II last year, and despite what many people state on the Web, I think the third installment is really great. The mix between DoW I and DoW II works nicely, unit management is less messy than in Retribution - yet less tactical. It's focused on really different parts of gameplay compared to the first two games, but what it does, it does really well. Each unit fills its own role and positioning on the map is crucial.
Cossacks 3: The Golden Age DLC announced, releasing this month
3 Aug 2017 at 11:30 am UTC
3 Aug 2017 at 11:30 am UTC
When will it run on Fedora without chrooting to a Ubuntu install?
The latest Steam Client Beta now supports shader cache management on Linux & more
29 Jul 2017 at 7:01 pm UTC
29 Jul 2017 at 7:01 pm UTC
Nothing happens when I opt into Beta, is it normal?
[Edit] Fixed by switching to German servers.
[Edit] Fixed by switching to German servers.
The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2
4 Jul 2017 at 2:14 pm UTC Likes: 5
On another hand many of us reacted in a decent manner and that is the kind of reaction I was referring to.
I would not be silly enough as to call these "background noise", it's a problem indeed, but I tend to think it's a problem with the internet in general. It's sometimes so dehumanised that you get some inhuman behaviours, and it's not getting any better in recent years.
I just hope you're not thinking I'm a complete douchebag because I didn't take the time to study the whole thing beforehand.
4 Jul 2017 at 2:14 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: scaineI must confess I didn't read the thread thoroughly before posting, which is a shame as I see you getting quite vocal about my comment. I stayed on the positive side of things which is a mistake, and I should have indeed stated that I do not agree in any possible way with such threats.Quoting: omer666There are a lot of good points made in this thread. My own position about this is that there were several justifications for such strong reactions. We must analyse what's gone wrong in context. <SNIP>Justification for threats of violence? Death threats? Yeah, real classy. I didn't even read past that opening sentence.
On another hand many of us reacted in a decent manner and that is the kind of reaction I was referring to.
I would not be silly enough as to call these "background noise", it's a problem indeed, but I tend to think it's a problem with the internet in general. It's sometimes so dehumanised that you get some inhuman behaviours, and it's not getting any better in recent years.
I just hope you're not thinking I'm a complete douchebag because I didn't take the time to study the whole thing beforehand.
The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2
4 Jul 2017 at 10:10 am UTC Likes: 5
4 Jul 2017 at 10:10 am UTC Likes: 5
There are a lot of good points made in this thread. My own position about this is that there were several justifications for such strong reactions. We must analyse what's gone wrong in context.
Back when the Witcher 2 was released, people had great hope in Steam Machines, and we all thought such ports would be native. Nobody was expecting a wrapper at that time. They should have advertised this from the beginning.
Then, the product in itself was so badly optimised it was unplayable.
The fact that Wine could run it with twice the performance didn't help in any way.
To finish with, communication from the devs was a disaster. The were no clear answers to our questions, and at first we were left trying to troubleshoot the game ourselves, which took me quite some time, along others.
With all these elements taken into account, you can see why there was an escalation.
Now, to the positive side of things:
Both devs and community learned from each other. The community is no longer afraid of wrappers, and several ports from VP have been acclaimed since then. VP went on to contact the community and with all the data and testing customers undertook, I think they learned a lot about their target OS, as well as its audience.
When you spend that time on a project and end up with greater knowledge, it is ridiculous not to take advantage of it. Both the community and VP did, but not CDPR.
PS: oh and I forgot to mention that at the time we didn't have a strong media. GOL is now a reference for Linux gaming that both gamers and devs can rely on. Such problems wouldn't happen that often nowadays because now we have a place to send/get informations. Thank you Liam for what you've done.
Back when the Witcher 2 was released, people had great hope in Steam Machines, and we all thought such ports would be native. Nobody was expecting a wrapper at that time. They should have advertised this from the beginning.
Then, the product in itself was so badly optimised it was unplayable.
The fact that Wine could run it with twice the performance didn't help in any way.
To finish with, communication from the devs was a disaster. The were no clear answers to our questions, and at first we were left trying to troubleshoot the game ourselves, which took me quite some time, along others.
With all these elements taken into account, you can see why there was an escalation.
Now, to the positive side of things:
Both devs and community learned from each other. The community is no longer afraid of wrappers, and several ports from VP have been acclaimed since then. VP went on to contact the community and with all the data and testing customers undertook, I think they learned a lot about their target OS, as well as its audience.
When you spend that time on a project and end up with greater knowledge, it is ridiculous not to take advantage of it. Both the community and VP did, but not CDPR.
PS: oh and I forgot to mention that at the time we didn't have a strong media. GOL is now a reference for Linux gaming that both gamers and devs can rely on. Such problems wouldn't happen that often nowadays because now we have a place to send/get informations. Thank you Liam for what you've done.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available on the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan
25 Jun 2017 at 2:56 pm UTC
25 Jun 2017 at 2:56 pm UTC
Quoting: chui2chSo is it just me or does vulkan SS3 hard lock any one else's PC with the steam over lay on? I have tried the 381 driver, and the 375.66 driver.No problem running Fedora 25 + SS3 on Vulkan with Steam Overlay.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is now available on the Fusion 2017 engine with Vulkan
23 Jun 2017 at 10:00 pm UTC
23 Jun 2017 at 10:00 pm UTC
I know Serious Sam 2 wasn't popular among PC gamers, but I played it at the time and enjoyed it as well. That's a little disappointing that they didn't try to update it as well...
Silver, an RPG from the Dreamcast days arrives on Steam with Linux support
4 Jun 2017 at 4:12 pm UTC Likes: 1
It disables Steam Runtime for a single game. Very useful!
4 Jun 2017 at 4:12 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: fagnerlnYou need to have this as command line option:Quoting: omer666How do you disable Steam runtime?Quoting: cprnYes I sorted it out by completely disabling the Steam runtime, but the game has some big graphical bugs in combat, too bad...Quoting: omer666You probably solved but in case you didn't... Are you using some non-standard glibc libs? 3rd party maybe? Try installing the stable one from Fedora repositories. The libstdc++6 [External Link] would be the right package for Ubuntu so maybe it's named something similar in your distribution. If you don't want to change your OS libraries just LD_PRELOAD it in app properties.[...] GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference [...]
Any idea?
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" %command%It disables Steam Runtime for a single game. Very useful!
Silver, an RPG from the Dreamcast days arrives on Steam with Linux support
3 Jun 2017 at 11:04 pm UTC
3 Jun 2017 at 11:04 pm UTC
Quoting: cprnYes I sorted it out by completely disabling the Steam runtime, but the game has some big graphical bugs in combat, too bad...Quoting: omer666You probably solved but in case you didn't... Are you using some non-standard glibc libs? 3rd party maybe? Try installing the stable one from Fedora repositories. The libstdc++6 [External Link] would be the right package for Ubuntu so maybe it's named something similar in your distribution. If you don't want to change your OS libraries just LD_PRELOAD it in app properties.[...] GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference [...]
Any idea?
Silver, an RPG from the Dreamcast days arrives on Steam with Linux support
3 Jun 2017 at 7:13 pm UTC
3 Jun 2017 at 7:13 pm UTC
On Fedora, no problem getting it to work with libGLEW, but I've got the following error:
Any idea?
/home/omer666/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Silver/silver32: relocation error: /home/omer666/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Silver/silver32: symbol _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE10_M_replaceEjjPKcj, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference
Game removed: AppID 606680 "Silver", ProcID 8227 Any idea?
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