Quoting: Mal

Quoting: omer666TressFX just kills my GTX660. Other than this it seems to run pretty well on Ultra, I'll see if it stays playable.

If I remember correctly TressFX is AMD tech and it used to kill fps on NVIDIA cards also when TR came out. A lot of time has passed since then. Did they change the tech to work well on NVIDIA cards as well? Otherwise I would say it's expected behavior (regardless of OS). I'll give a try too now.

I think they did make a few patches to improve performance, but Nvidia probably also made driver changes to accommodate it. It wouldn't be surprising to learn those accommodations never made it into the Linux drivers.

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Hopefully, this sets the stage for a Sleeping Dogs port.

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Quoting: CandricSWhat is a fourth-person?

First-person is when you're seeing from the point of view of the character and third-person is when you're observing the character as if there was a camera there. What would fourth-person be?

Just taking a guess here, but maybe you don't control the person at all, just the environment. Or maybe you make suggestions to the character and they may or may not listen? I have no idea. :S:

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It reminds me of the building/crafting component of Fallout 4.

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Quoting: garyzwThe West seems to cower in fear to ISIS. They can blow up our people, they can behead, slaughter them and the West's response is to lets not offend them they will stop, They will not stop until Islam rules the worlds. That means, no more Christian, no more atheists, no Buddhist. All will have to convert to Islam. That is what is coming unless they are stopped.

Ah, so you drank the propaganda kool-aid too, huh? If you really look at the numbers, almost all the people they kill are Muslims. Doesn't that strike you as odd? If they're trying to take over the western world and make you Muslim, they're doing a horrible job of it, and you have nothing to fear. ISIS, IS, ISIL, I-POD, whatever you want to call them is just the latest boogeyman western countries are using to spread FUD. They are really an insignificant group with a small following in the big scheme of things. We're not talking about a nation of hundreds of millions of people.

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When you run the Vulkan drivers, do they function well/normally with the desktop and other games, or do you have to switch back to other drivers when you're not testing Vulkan?

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Wow, that was fast. Or were they nearly finished with it when they released the demo?

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It works for me. I played a little Karboom without having to go through Steam. What I'd really like to use it for, however, is Rocket League and other Windows games in Wine. Unfortunately, that didn't work. In mouse mode, this will be nice for watching movies without having to keep Steam running.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusion

But if SteamOS gains traction, I will take another look at supporting that.

Back to the old catch 22. We need games like yours in order for it to gain traction in the first place!

One way to gain traction would be for Valve to sponsor ports of projects like these.

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I agree that the logo is confusing.

Regarding some games not having the icon, however, I think Valve is doing the right thing. In fact I think they should take it a step further. Games that claim to support Linux but have horrible performance (particularly games like Son of Nor where you can't even maintain 30 fps on low settings) should have their icons removed. It makes Valve and their Steam Machines look bad when they are selling something for their own OS that is unplayable.

They need better quality control in general. It's pretty ridiculous for a game to have a "full controller support" icon but not work with the Steam controller. Maybe they should just hire a librarian (and I mean me, of course). I'd have their store organized and efficient. :D

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