Rumour has it that this uses Denuvo. That, the launcher and the microtransactions are enough for me to say "no thanks."

@soulsource

On Switch, at least, you could work around the login-requirement by disconnecting from the internet. I don't know if that's an option on PC.

I can confirm that, at least in Windows, you can set the launcher to offline mode. It's a bit of a hassle, however.

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Strange. If it's an official stable version, odd that it's not listed as an available option on the Compatibility tab.

As Liam said, however, it can be found by searching the Steam Library manually.

I've tried Proton 10 and GE 10 on a couple of games over the past month or two and had zero success even getting them to run. Had to fall back to 9 which has been flawless. I'll probably wait a while to try 10 again.

I've experienced this too. Steam is set to default to Experimental for me. A number of my games wouldn't launch when Experimental moved to the 10.0 base. I had to switch them to a stable release based on 9.0 to fix the issue.

On the other hand, I just picked up Stray (52% off at Fanatical). It actually runs with better frame rates on the 10.0-based Experimental (and GE-Proton 10.25). It was appreciably slower on Proton 9.0-4.

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For those of you that have this game on Steam (I got it for free at some point), Fanatical has it on sale for even better than GOG:

Fanatical - Battlestar Galactica Deadlock [External Link]

(Sorry, Liam. I don't know how to encode the GoL affiliation into the URL.)

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So, what have you been playing lately (and why isn't it ARC Raiders?).

I don't play online multiplayer games. Not my thing.

I have been modding and now playing a fully modded TES IV: Oblivion Classic/2006, with lots of OBSE mods that improve the QoL in the game.

(I'm not all that impressed by what I've seen of the remastered version, especially the character faces. They look worse than the original game's faces.)

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Details for any installed driver would be great, especially Mesa.

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Please do not talk about dgvoodoo2, it's closed source and his dev is not friendly with open source

For those of you that are curious about the background to this matter, please follow these links:

https://github.com/lutris/dgvoodoo2/issues/5 [External Link]

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=104797 [External Link]

At first it seems that the dev is being reasonable in his concerns until you read on further and discover that his most recent version is having problems in Linux and he doesn't seem to care. It is made worse by the fact that, two months later, he locked down his GitHub site and put the project into read-only mode.

@legluondunet, I can certainly appreciate your frustration in having to deal with this individual. Strange that he cannot comprehend that forcing absolutely everyone to do your beta testing is the wrong approach. Why should they have to potentially wait months for a fix when a previous version will work just fine? Hopefully, someone will step up to produce an alternative to his project. A shame that they will likely have to reinvent the wheel. This is a good beginning.

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Not for me. My mods are already installed. All I have to do is upgrade the game and update the config files with my mod list and game settings then I'm ready to go...!

Of course, if you don't maintain a custom mod list like I do, you could always try the automatic install feature at Modding OpenMW.

https://modding-openmw.com/guides/auto/ [External Link]

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I had the oddest and quite unexpected thing happen to me with the Nvidia drivers on the previous update. I used the PPA as recommended in Liam's guide to get the 550 series. The last update to my 550 driver automatically installed and shifted me to the 580 driver. Not that I necessarily mind but can anyone tell me, is this normal?

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@Leahi84

I saw the original 70s one when I was a kid, but only as re-runs.

I saw the original series during its first run. I think my parents even took me to see the movie at the theatre.

@Purple Library Guy
Sudden axe, in my opinion. For me, the original series was great right until the last episode. The follow-up series, Galactica 1980, in the other hand, was horrible. A lot of people look on that series as the final season of the original. I prefer to ignore it.

As to the reimagined series, it was not made for my generation. I just couldn't get into it. I wanted the shiny cylons that looked like knights wearing armor, not this The Thing borrowed cylon that looked just like any other human being. I never made it past the initial miniseries. But the series was huge with the twenty-somethings that worked for me -- as big as Babylon 5 was for my cohort when I was in my twenties.

@Liam Dawe
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I'll probably grab some of the "season 1" DLCs from GOG before Nov. 15th.

Edit[11/11]: Oops! I don't have the GOG version. I guess I'll have to get the DLCs from Fanatical or pick up the core game from GOG too ...

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I do really wish they would embrace Linux more. I know it also is a cost but I'd love to see a Linux Galaxy client.

Or, at the very least, work more closely with the FOSS community to produce a Linux client (or clients) that integrates as tightly with GOG's services as GOG's proprietary Windows client does.

Not that it effects me so much -- I prefer to install from the offline installers myself. Since I mostly play offline, achievements and chat features don't really matter to me either.

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