switched to the beta and upgraded to latest NVIDIA drivers

sofar only ran subnautica and had the escape pod/some objects be invisible so used feedback to submit the bug
really wish subnautica would just do a linux port been waiting since it was announced hopefully they fix it to work with steamplay atleast

more titles still downloading i just hope this doesnt lead to less linux ports i normally dont do wine but atleast this type of wine will count as a linux sale instead of whatever windows version wine reports

anyone put up a list anywhere of games that run well/has problems with this modified version of wine?

Edit: got subnautica working by forcing opengl

also tried but doesnt work
sniper elite v2
viscera cleanup detail - freezes installing .net

works but with lag
sanctum 1

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Quoting: linuxslacker...
[EDIT, or are you saying the converted price is roughly $72 US dollars?? That would be a crazy mark up though!]

steam lists their prices in USD on the client in Australia so that's $72 USD. there's plenty of other examples borderlands TPS is ~$60 USD and on steam AUS its ~$70 USD civilization beyond earth is currently ~$50 USD on steam AUS its ~$90 USD lucky for the last 2 there's places(aspyrs store) you can get it for the US price and the keys are not restricted haven't seen any for this game yet unfortunately

Dying Light Store Page:
http://imgur.com/EIo2o3d [External Link]

Civ BE store page:
http://imgur.com/QD8tyL3 [External Link]

and the australia tax isnt a tax its just the word we use to describe the big extra wads of cash the developers squeeze out of us for being aussie.

its mostly AAA titles and console titles that still do this haven't seen many indies do regional pricing would be nice if steamDB showed the australian price too would be nice to see the prices without logging into steam

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at $72 US or $97 US with season pass in Australia i wont be forking out for this. would like to buy it but with the "Australia" tax its just too much(even without its quite a pricy game) hopefully one day game makers wont rip people off for where they live

hopefully it will be in the next sales the game does look fun

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thank god for gameagent not having regional pricing on steam its 90 bucks in australia

got it for under 40. quite a saving! pity aussies always get ripped off when it comes to games

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started out in linux a few months after my 1st pc in 07 was also running windows 3.1 back then. thought it was cool and far superior to dos but lacked a gui(didnt know about x or how to configure it back then) i then ran windows primarily with 98 then 2000 then xp and had other pc's that i had various versions of linux on(redhat, mandrake, slackware, suse, etc) they all were interesting but i always kept going back to slackware. 2003 i think was the time i really got sick of rebooting into windows for gaming that i decided that ill drop windows altogether and stick with slackware and only play linux games since then slackwares been the only thing on my main system. i have tried some other distros on other pc's i did use mythbuntu when i first setup my mediacenter only to drop it for slackware when the update system did not get out of my way when i wanted to manually install the nvidia drivers because the distro provided drivers were a version old and had a bug. also used kubuntu on my nephews pc because i though it would be easier then slackware unfortunally an update screwed it - slackware to the rescue again. i also have a 2nd frontend to my mediacenter now and that does run mythbuntu. updates have left it non-functional once but since its a remote frontend i reinstalled mythbuntu and its still running fine for now one day it will also be a slackware machine.

why i use linux instead of windows
* it isnt a chore to use
* it is far superiour imho
* it is mostly FOSS and you can fix it yourself if you wanted to
* only had 1 kernel panic(linux's BSOD) and it was because i wanted to take a hand at writing(and failing) a driver(unsupported OEM capture card that looked like most of the work was done but turned out the chip code only supported usb not pci-e so was a little out of my skilllevel) :P totally user error there but was fun

extending the question to why i use slackware instead of insert distro X
* mostly vanilla
* stable
* doesnt get in the way of the user
* doesnt have a package repository or dependency resolution
* uses sysvinit with bsd style init scripts
* no custom config gui's
* will never have pulseaudio or systemD unless if forced(seriously stop trying to fix what isn't broken and creating nasty crap like that nothing wrong with sysvinit and alsa)
* will not use <insert new fangled thing here> till it has proven better then the alternative
* the oldest surviving distro still ran by the same guy who started it
* with my past distro hopping its still feel like the fastest distro i have used

should also mention arch's wiki documentation although i dont use arch that stuff is gold and very useful in slackware

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after the crapheap that was witcher 2 ill definitly not be picking this up till others confirm its working well and native

i thought i would love withcher 2 but after spending weeks to get it to even run then putting up with the shoddy performance i only got a few hours out of it before i put it in the meh basket atleast it was so cheap at release i dont feel cheated.

lets hope CDPR do a good job this time i dont think they could do worse

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UE2 also supported linux too. i also think once the game gets ported more developers need to take control and actually keep it updated. the initial port is the hardest part once thats done aslong as you make sure it compiles(buildbots help heaps lots of open source projects use them. and are very useful when every commit to revision control gets tested) and do the testing alongside the windows tests its really little to no effort to maintain it and we wouldnt be 6 months in the future waiting for a patch

dont get me wrong i <3 you guys and <3 that you have supported linux for a long time but the patch lag is quite bad and is only getting worse with icculus's workload(just count how many active ports hes doing at once on his trello and all the "old" work in his todo) hes a great porter and i also <3 his work but theres a little drop in quality since steams come out and i think its just because hes got so much to do!

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Quoting: BestiaLinux versions won't be available in August.

http://enterthemetro.com/uk/news/game_information_uk/return_to_post_apocalyptic_moscow/ [External Link]

Dedicated Linux and SteamOS versions will also release later this year.

sadly i have seen that too. having the linux icon on preorders that wont be a day 0 release is kinda lame. im sure theres alot buying them based on that icon and will be counted as a windows sale since the linux version although has the linux icon in store will be out after release(and that icon will vanish)

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way to disappoint boysssss :(

would be awesome if this came out one of the groups im with(teamIPX) played this and the original to death and still love it. would be great to play with them in the future.

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im running nvidia binary 331.79 on slackware64 14.1 and i have always had it(well i dont remember scrakes having invisibility(they do now for me) but the map and stalker errors have always been there on nvidia cards)

are you sure your running nvidia phillip afaik it doesnt affect other cards

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