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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS continues to improve with another recent patch
10 Nov 2018 at 4:16 pm UTC

Quoting: hummer010
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: liamdaweI've no doubt they will work towards that, especially now they've begun improving all aspects of it.
I sure do hope... But they've had years to do it already...
Yes, and no.

Yes, because Uber had years to do it and didn't.
You're mistaken, it was long supported & only removed over concerns about complying with GDPR [External Link].

Valve have updated the Beta of Steam Play which fixes VR games, fullscreen improvements and more
12 Sep 2018 at 3:09 pm UTC

Quoting: spacemonkeySince the VR should work better I would like to try Everspace. But only the Windows version of Everspace supports VR (the Linux version does not).
So using the `-vr` launch option doesn't work on linux? This is one of the titles that ia tempting me to picking up a headset.

Planetary Annihilation removed from sale to focus on TITANS, new test build on the way
7 Sep 2018 at 9:03 am UTC

Also if you're looking for games or how to get good you should join the PA Community Discord [External Link] ;)

Planetary Annihilation removed from sale to focus on TITANS, new test build on the way
7 Sep 2018 at 8:52 am UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: lucifertdarkI thought they removed it from sale back when they first released TITANS?
They kinda messed it all up, but I'm glad they finally done it properly. What they're doing now, is what they should have done from the beginning.
Due to *outrage*, they made it re-available. But this outrage was never based in reality and so I'm glad to see it removed once again.

Quoting: WYWI own Titans and half the time have the Titans DLC turned off to change up the gameplay.
It should be noted that the expantion never needs to be disabled to play with the original game users. Only to host lobbies without the expantion changes (joining others has always ben seemless).

Quoting: wojtek88The problem is that it isn't running well on my rig and I doubt today for me it is worth to pay even 10 percent of original price.
Indeed there's no point getting the expantion if you can't run the base game. What graphics card and drivers are you using? I can run it fine on Nvida and Intel, have no AMD hardware to test on myself.

Quoting: wojtek88And I believe this 90 percent discount will vanish and when I upgrade hardware, I will be forced to pay whole price.
Just as with the 66% they had always had on it before, they have said this upgrade discount is permanent.

The RTS game Planetary Annihilation: TITANS is to live on with a new team
18 Jul 2018 at 9:32 am UTC

Quoting: MayeulCIIRC, one of my big gripes with it is the lack of a dedicated/self-hostable server. Or was that solved some time ago?
That's been possible since release. Recently they have had to remove showing such servers in the lobby list due to GDPR concerns (for now connecting requires issuing friend invites or a mod to connect directly).

A new Steam Client Beta is out with reduced CPU use, DPI fixes and more
16 Sep 2017 at 3:31 am UTC

Quoting: ImFromMostonOh right.. so it works flawless for everybody. So when you minimize steam big picture and decide to use a browser etc it does not lock up. That must be nice because for me using the controller on the desktop is broken. regardless of whether steam is in big picture mode or desktop.
Nope, never had that. See if you can find your issue on the bud tracker [External Link] (and if not, do report it).

Quoting: ImFromMostonOh I can use it as a mouse but thats not much use if you can't input text with it.
Oh but you can! Click down on the joystick for text input. ;)

A new Steam Client Beta is out with reduced CPU use, DPI fixes and more
15 Sep 2017 at 1:34 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ImFromMostonHave they decided to fully support their own controller yet.. or is it still the half assed implication its been, pretty much since launch.
You're going to need to elaborate on what issue(s) you had with it. It's been flawless for me.

Rocket League to get a huge Autumn Update, come see what's new including what's coming later
15 Sep 2017 at 1:23 am UTC

Quoting: tofuheadreally? how can you even tell on the game this fast? :)
Because the jaggies are rather huge with zero AA. By the way this was the best workaround I've come up with so far.

Rocket League to get a huge Autumn Update, come see what's new including what's coming later
14 Sep 2017 at 4:33 am UTC

Quoting: MarkyIs it just me or does AntiAliasing not work?
Anti-aliasing is and has always been broken under Linux (liamdawe claimed otherwise but without a source and I've never seen a working case). This is the main reason I don't play the game more.

A bunch of Feral Interactive Linux ports may be broken on Arch and others, here's a possible workaround
14 Sep 2017 at 3:42 am UTC

Quoting: STiATI've looked a bit closer at this, and it seems that Feral / games with this issue use glibcs hwcaps to determine the architecture. Formerly, it reported x86_64 on all x86_64 platforms, and seems to have moved on to reporting either haswell or xeon_phi (side-note, for x86 it reported i386, i486, i586, i686, so managing different x86_64 platforms actually makes sense on a long-run).

Not sure if we can lay that out as ABI break, but it seems very much like it, since it used to report something different from 2.25 to 2.26.

Fact is, I'm a not so sure if it's wise to rely on hwcaps for determining the target platform, or in other words, rely on it to determine the path for your platform specific libraries.

It should be pretty easy to fix for Feral if they want to, but they'd have to do that for all their games...

But doing getconf LONG_BIT or uname -m seems more reliable than going for glibcs hwcaps which can be subject to change on new architectures.
See $LIB under the Rpath token expansion section of man ld.so.