Quoting: ProfessorKaos64Is it better yo go high settings with no/low MSAA/FA/AA etc... Or drop to medium with that smoothing?

I tend to use custom settings to get the best performance. Some things can be on high like "anisotropic filtering" and have very little performance impact, whereas setting something like "shadows" or "anti-aliasing" to high can severely drop performance. Tweak it to find the sweet spot or look for an online guide. Just keep in mind that performance is going to be quite a bit lower than what those guides report on Windows, so you'll still need to tweak it to your comfort zone.

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Quoting: TobiSGDYes! Now please Dirt Rally also!

If Codemasters porting this game, I see no reason why they wouldn't do Dirt Rally as well.

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Quoting: kidoIm happy!

You look very happy in your profile pic. :D

By the way, for anyone who wants to know, this game works great with a Steam controller. I haven't had a chance to try the gyro yet, but I might give it a go this weekend.

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Funny, they fixed the fullscreen bug that was never fixed on the Windows version.

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Quoting: leillo1975I have a problem: When I execute the game, It shows a window to configure resolution and other issues. When I push the button to start, the game stops in the Grid Autosport logo.

I try in fullscreen, in a window, at 1080 and 720. I use Ubuntu 14.04.3 64bits, with Nvidia 750ti (358.16) and 16GB RAM. My steam library are located in a NTFS shared partition

Are you sure it completely installed correctly? I don't know much about NTFS, but I know some Linux Steam games won't install correctly on FAT32 partitions, something to do with symbolic links I think. Maybe NTFS is the same way?

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It reminds me of the original Torchlight port that came out of Humble Bundle years ago. Whenever you attached anything like a hat to the head of your character, the head would disappear.

My question to all you zombiephiles is: Does being headless make a zombie more or less scary?

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Quoting: TuxeeI always thought gaming is about playing games, not merely buying games. If you look at the most popular games on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/stats) I'd say that at least 50% of these titles are equally available for Linux, too.

According to SteamDB, the current "Most Played Games" are:

1. Dota 2 *
2. Counter-Strike: Go *
3. Fallout 4
4. Team Fortress 2 *
5. Warframe
5. Civilization 5 *
6. ARK: Survival Evolved *
7. Garry's Mod *
8. Skyrim
9. Football Manager 2016 *

Note that the (*) denotes Linux versions are available. That's 7 out of 9. Also, keep in mind that Valve is making ridiculous amounts of money from Dota 2. The current players are 297,975 compared to 114,050 for Fallout 4. And we know people in Dota 2 are spending money, whereas Fallout 4 spending pretty much stops after purchase. Even if all Valve ever accomplishes with Steam Machines is to convince half of their Dota 2 subscribers to use SteamOS, that would be a huge win.

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I've been wanting this for some time but was put off by reports of poor performance. I'm still considering it though.

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This game suffers from a fullscreen bug on Windows that they decided to never fix. I wonder if Feral will fix that for Linux. This game is also one of the few I've seen that supports dual monitors. You can have your race on one screen and race information on the other.

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Quoting: omer666When you know that the vast majority of them wouldn't even spot the difference between the port and the original without an FPS counter...

Except for all people with lower and or older hardware. Why are all deniers acting like everybody has a 970 or better GPU. I've a pair of 290x - trust me, I notice the performance difference quite well. I'm pretty sure anybody with a 2 gig 960 would be like WTF when his game starts running at 40 instead of 60+ frames.

I obviously can't speak for the "vast majority", but I have a 970, and I notice the difference too. When a game should be able to get a steady 60+ FPS and it's dipping into the 40s, I definitely notice. I don't get why we shouldn't hold developers to high standards just because we're using Linux. That's a like a beautiful desperate woman settling for an old drunk guy who hits her because she's so afraid he'll leave. She deserves better, and so do we. ^_^

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