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Latest Comments by Edmene
Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold
2 Jun 2016 at 9:31 pm UTC

Well, because of it I ditched the Xbox 360 controller.

As a advice if somebody has a game that don't detect it, maybe is caused by having a Xbox controller connected in the computer at same time as the Steam controller, because of this is necessary to disconnect the Xbox controller before starting the game and connect it again after the game launch, with this process the Xbox controller become the secondary and both usable.

Motorsport Manager from SEGA and Playsport Games will come to Linux & SteamOS
18 May 2016 at 8:45 pm UTC

If the game is good is a sure buy from me, since it remembers me of two games that I used to play Pole Position and F1 Manager 2000.

Sunday chat: what games have kept you busy with week?
15 May 2016 at 10:40 am UTC

At the beginning of the week EU4 was my main game, since I was finishing a game with Sweden and after it just Stellaris and I really hope that it gets more ways of winning the game.

Nvidia 364.12 released for Linux with official Vulkan, Mir & Wayland support
22 Mar 2016 at 2:45 pm UTC Likes: 2

Well just tested The Talos Principle in Arch Linux and is impressive it maybe a proof of concept but runs way faster than opengl. I don't know about the regression but Portal works fine without __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 option in the launcher script.

Looks like the F1 2015 Linux private beta was left open for the free weekend
20 Mar 2016 at 7:04 pm UTC

The reviews as a whole complain of the lack of features, more than the driving model that appears for me that was improved over F1 2013, as a personal opinion I think that Codemasters should find a way of modify their contract with FIA/FOM and stop releasing yearly F1 games, maybe launch one after two or tree years and in the mid time use expansions (since they like to launch a bunch of dlc lately), to update the game to the new seasons, and maintain the game making improvements over the years with patches.
As a nice addition they could make better damage models since their other games have more reasonable damage, again maybe part of the problem is the yearly release or some contract clause and speaking of the safety car I never saw one during the time that I played F1 2011-2013 the IA simply didn't make big mistakes something that I miss from the old Codemasters games.
Anyways appears a good but not great game with lack of features comparing with previous games and I will pick up a copy. If is similar to previous F1 games its gameplay is kind of similar to GRID: Autosport in the sense that isn't a simulator but isn't arcade like DiRT: Showdown or NFS, one of the most interesting parts of the gameplay is the dynamic climate that you start a race with sun or rain (heavy or light) and can end it with different climate resulting in some mid race strategy change.

SteamOS stable updated to 2.64, brings Vulkan to the stable users
8 Mar 2016 at 8:04 pm UTC

Speaking about Nvidia Vulkan drivers, I saw that Windows have a main beta branch with Vulkan support, Will be good if Linux receives something similar soon, as well as a fix on the performance regression of 361.28 driver.

DiRT Rally also looks like it's coming to SteamOS & Linux
7 Mar 2016 at 5:59 pm UTC

Great, DiRT and the previous Colin McRae were some of my favorite series and even more now that there is pure Rally and no stunts as in DiRT: Showdown :D
Just waiting for F1 now them all my favorite race categories will be on Linux, since I grew up playing Grand Prix and Colin McRae games I am very happy :) .

What game would you most like to see on Linux this year?
29 Feb 2016 at 2:14 pm UTC Likes: 1

- Stellaris, Star Citizen
- DiRT Rally, Ashes of Singularity,
- Banished, F1 2015 and Project Cars.
As a extra Rocket League.

Steam beta client adds Vulkan support, plus some handy Steam Controller adjustments
19 Feb 2016 at 9:53 pm UTC

Thanks for pointing out!
You're welcome.

Since is affecting more than one distro some change in the steam client produced the problem with the game, I already have contacted feral to letting them know of the issue. Don't using the beta client also prevents the issue of occurring.

Steam beta client adds Vulkan support, plus some handy Steam Controller adjustments
19 Feb 2016 at 8:06 pm UTC

The bad part of the update is that makes GRID: Autosport run at least for me in "background" only with the sounds of the videos and menu, in SteamOS killing the game is the only way of going back to steam menu and in Arch using it in windowed mode solves the problem.