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Unreal Tournament on Linux, checking up on the progress by Epic Games and how to get it running on Linux
18 May 2016 at 6:20 am UTC

On my end, the game renders with lots of square planes and missing textures if I run in GL4 mode. Also, to use the 'Epic' settings, I have to set them to 'High' and back to 'Epic'.

New major version of OBS Studio recording and livestreaming software released
25 Apr 2016 at 5:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: KithopI'm still trying to get the NVENC support to work. Rather, to detect. Managed to hackily build a .deb for Ubuntu 16.04 off the master tree for ffmpeg with --enable-nonfree and --enable-nvenc tacked on the end. Have the required toolkit installed from nVidia, headers symlinked in /usr/local/include ... a bit of futzing around later with it not detecting libva properly (maybe just an issue from when I cloned master?), and I have working ffmpeg .debs!

I installed them! 'ffmpeg --codecs' shows nvenc in the list!

OBS still mocks me with 'Software (x264)' as the only encoder drop down. :( So now I'm thinking, great, do I have to actually build OBS from source too, so it detects my new custom build of ffmpeg? Oh, right, I need all the -dev packages that OBS depends on if I want to bui-

*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

If anyone figures it out, I'd love to know... and no, I can't redistribute the .deb files legally - hence the requirement for non-free. ;/ This is why we can't have nice things, like a PPA with NVENC-enabled ffmpeg builds, unless nVidia relicenses the required libraries.

95%+ sure that my next card (and potentially my next CPU!) are going to be AMD, so here's hoping for some love in the form of, say, AMD VCE support in OBS Studio? ^.^ Especially if it's exposed through the new-and-upcoming open source AMDGPU drivers. I'm so, so sick of binary blobs and stupid license incompatibility issues.
Yes, that is exactly the case. You have to compile both. And if you follow their instructions, you have to do the checkinstall bit twice. Otherwise, OBS will bitch about not being able to get OpenGL context. It's annoying.

SteamOS beta update brings in a new Nvidia driver with Vulkan support
19 Feb 2016 at 2:51 am UTC

Quoting: LinasI am stuck with 352 right now, because I could not get 355 to work with primus. Although the nice thing about hybrid graphics is that I don't end up with a broken system when that happens. :)
I keep backups of the last working driver and have SSH enabled. This way, if a driver doesn't work, or is broken for any reason on my system, a phone or tablet can be used to reinstall the last working driver and/or generate a new xorg.conf.

Ars Technica Benchmarks Show Windows 10 Beating SteamOS Performance
14 Nov 2015 at 2:40 am UTC

Quoting: ElectricPrismThis origin article is dumb. Steam Machines are competing against PS4 and XBONE, they're proven to generally run a higher FPS than those competitions - after all their competitiors cap at 30 FPS.
Uhhh... Actually, most XBone and PS4 titles run at or get near to 60FPS @ 1080p. A few or even a lot don't, but no, the consoles are not capped at 30FPS.

Dota 2 Reborn Launches Without Linux Support
19 Jun 2015 at 8:39 am UTC

Quoting: ArminSI downloaded Dota 2 + Addon (~14GB) on Steam on playonlinux and tried 4 different wine versions. Every time the same results: Dota 2 works perfectly, Dota 2 Reborn works great expect of the fact that the ingame screen is black [External Link]. Even if they release the native port within the next 2 weeks, I hope I can find a workaround for this.
You need to run it with -gl flag, I think.

Prepare A New Set Of Pants, Outlast Releases For Linux On Tuesday
30 Mar 2015 at 1:08 am UTC

Quoting: PublicNuisanceSweet. I've been putting off playing it waiting for a Linux port.
Same here. Good to see some good sense and patience. :) Good on ya.

Editorial: Linux Gaming Will Be Fine Even Without Steam Machines Succeeding
21 Feb 2015 at 12:18 am UTC

@sleort: I couldn;t have said it better, myself. ^_^

An Update On The Open Source Xoreos Project For Neverwinter Nights 2
2 Feb 2015 at 2:06 am UTC

I'm eagerly awaiting the day I can run KOTOR/KOTOR2 native. Here's to Dr. McCoy and Xoreos!

Aspyr's Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy Remaster Is Real And It's Out, We Have Keys For You [Key hunt is over]
29 Jan 2015 at 11:41 pm UTC

Oh geez... best thriller story... Well, I did recently watch a movie called Maze Runner. It takes place in this almost alien maze. In the center is a meadow where people live. A few of those people go and run the maze trying to map it out and find the way out. I about crapped my pants when the Grievers showed up. ~shudders~

Favorite horror game so far is Amnesia, a Machine for Pigs. REALLY scary game, excellent ambiance, compelling story... I love it.

Thank you GoL for the news, and for the raffles. Congrats to the winners, whoever they may turn out to be,