Article has be re-done, please re-check folks.

Feds has done some great work re-doing the graphs, the Months on the graphs now match the correct month for the Data not the month we present it (so it's accurate now).

Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

I'm now leaving out the old/jokey left in question about what type of drivers people are using on Intel, as there's only one type.

:'(

Hah, sorry! :)

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Quoting: TheBossI'm going to look at ways to re-do the survey and make it more accurate, unsure how right now. I am thinking possibly re-starting it and getting fresh data then from day-1. A hopefully easier option will be to get Feds who does the graphs to bump all the data back a month to show it correctly.

If you would do a whole new setup, I wonder if it should be more about gaming and less about Linux. E. g. I don't care a cent if people changed their distro last month (and I really wonder if that many do or if that many don't understand the question). I'd be more interested in say if they use a controller or a wheel, or what their most interesting game of the month was, or how much time they use for playing, ...

Very good comment, I will see what I can do. I also think the distro-hopping question really isn't needed at all for a gaming focused survey.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestLinux games bought (and related) graph(s) are interesting. I guess it coincides with xcom2.

How? XCOM 2 wasn't available in january.

Ah... title is wrong?

The results are from February, but the answers are for January data if that makes sense.

Wasn't my choice, this just how it was setup originally and I took over.

I'm going to look at ways to re-do the survey and make it more accurate, unsure how right now. I am thinking possibly re-starting it and getting fresh data then from day-1. A hopefully easier option will be to get Feds who does the graphs to bump all the data back a month to show it correctly.

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Yep, instant buy for me too due to Sunless Sea.

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UPDATED: see the top, twitter replies.

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For those interested, I found the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/46sske/cities_skylines_crashing_on_launch/d07ljf9 [External Link]

It also affects other games. Looks like it's going to be an issue for newer/more up to date distributions.

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Quoting: SketchStick

Quoting: tuubiThis also highlights the fact that although Croteam's code might be slow right now, Nvidia's Vulkan driver is unlikely to be well optimized at this point either. I guess it's pretty hard to optimize a driver until there are real world apps/games using the API to test with. Isolated, synthetic tests are unlikely to reflect real world use cases. I'm sure all the big IHV's will get there eventually, and relatively quickly due to Vulkan's design.

I don't think we can really assume that the driver is responsible for the performance issues, especially since Vulkan moves a lot of that responsibility out of the driver. Hell it might not even be the game engine, for all we know the shader compiler could be affecting the performance too. There's no point in pinning the blame on anyone at this point because nearly every part of the pipeline is still rough around the edges and there's still a lot of work to be done.

Croteam clearly stated they aren't doing any multithreading in Vulkan at the moment, which would be a reason why Talos with Vulkan is slow.

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Quoting: TheBossSkins, skins people. It doesn't affect gameplay in ANY way. How can people even remotely get annoyed by that?

It's not just skins. Hunters and monsters are available as DLC, too and they definitely impact the gameplay.

And it's no wonder that people get upset about DLC if you're looking at the prices [30 €/$ for the base game -> 80 €/$ including the important DLCs…]

I was replying directly to Scaines comment on the skins.

As for DLC characters, so what? It's not like they have an advantage, it's all fairly balanced gameplay wise.

Would you rather they split the community with map packs?

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Skins, skins people. It doesn't affect gameplay in ANY way. How can people even remotely get annoyed by that?

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It's a shame the community is very small now, so maybe a Linux/SteamOS & Mac port will help revive it.

It has a reason and I just can hope, that everyone is avoiding this game. They added so much DLC. It was worse than Assassins Creed and Call of Battlefield: Modern Payment combined! Avoid this at any costs.

People are throwing a hissy fit over nothing for this game.

Most DLC for online games split the community, Evolve does not. Evolve doesn't do map packs which splits everyone up, it's characters and skins so you can play with anyone.

It has one of the least evil DLC stances around, yet people shunned it.

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: wojtek88According to my knowledge Steam OS is missing important boot feature - booting machine on remote controller button press. I can't imagine living without that functionality on my living room's pc after I started to use ps4. Without that functionality, for me, it's still pc, not a console experience.

This is something I also hope can be sorted, it's not a major issue, but convenience is what these machines are supposed to be all about.

I don't agree it's not major. For me it's major :).

It's a difference of what button turns the unit on, I don't see that as a major issue, but a convenience issue.

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