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SteamOS update 2.83 beta released, new Nvidia and AMD drivers hit
29 Jun 2016 at 9:44 am UTC

What GPUs are supported by AMD GPU PRO?

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
28 Jun 2016 at 7:50 am UTC

Quoting: ProfessorKaos64
Quoting: wojtek88That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?
Not exactly. You must buy the game and dump the ROM yourself. However, some Steam game collections actually diatribe the ROM file to make playing possible.
Dump the ROM myself? What hardware do I can use to dump games from SNES? Little bit to much effort from my point of view to play 1 or 2 classic games, but ok, nobody told that this is work for everyone.

Quoting: Saulsecsiramirez wojtek88
Quoting: wojtek88That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?

Have You got dolphin running through emulation station? If so what did you put in the command section of the config file.
No, I was using only SNES emulator. But it was also pain in the *** to setup this, I've spent one day on it before I was able to run the single game.

Anyway, I'm still confused with the ROMs and legallity, so I'm not going to follow that direction, but it's nice that such a software exists and has Vulkan support.

Regarding piracy - it's hard for me to understand that in this days piracy exists. Especially on PC, where you can have so much great titles for such a reasonable prices. Just to be fair - as a kid, back in 90s I was playing games that were bought on the market and those were not official CDs. I'm not proud of it. As a student I used to download not legal content from University network (ashamed as well). But today, I can say that I haven't played game that I didn't buy for about 4 years. And 4 years ago I played one classic Blizzard game that I don't own through Wine just to see how it runs (and it did run well). Except that I guess "I'm clean" for about 6 years.

And if I would hear for example that someone downloaded illegal version of XCOM: EU, the game that was so many times available on Steam for 4.99 euro, and had so many other great deals, I would say that such a person is either pig or something worse. Of course - there are situations that someone bought PC, but does not have money for games. But if you have a car but do not have money for gasoline, do you steal it?

Dolphin, the Gamecube and Wii emulator is working on a Vulkan backend
27 Jun 2016 at 1:46 pm UTC

That's the problem I have. I was using emulationstation with my Dualshock 4 and playing Contra, Goal 3 and other classics. Then I've heard about Atari Vault and started to think - is there a way to legally buy roms this days? Is there a way to be perfectly sure that you can play this game from the platform that is dead?

The future of the Friday Livestream and my other GOL work
24 Jun 2016 at 1:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

Is it a mandatory military service or are you the army men by choice?

The work to bring Banished over to OpenGL is still going on
24 Jun 2016 at 9:41 am UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: TeodosioLook forward to the day when Mac ports are just not released any longer.
That's not a great attitude. I look forward to a day that each game is released to Windows/Mac/Linux. My dream come true is situation when all games in Steam has all those 3 logos (and not because of other titles removal, but because all titles receive such a ports/support)

Street Fighter V has passed the initial Linux & SteamOS release window
23 Jun 2016 at 8:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Shadowsedge117I learned my lesson about pre-ordering the hard way with Batman: Arkham Knight. Now I just wait until the game officially comes out. I won't believe SF V will come to Linux until I see the little logo in the Steam store...or if I read about the release here first :D.
You realise that game port was officially cancelled right?
I believe he was talking in general - he learned the lesson on Batman, and now, whenever he wants to buy a game, he waits until that particular game is released.

Ashes of the Singularity still plans Vulkan and Linux & SteamOS support
22 Jun 2016 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: edoSince bumblebee doesnt support vulkan I guess I wont be able to play it
Why don't you switch to nvidia-prime?

Buy games from G2A? You should just stop already, tinyBuild lost out on approx $450K of sales
20 Jun 2016 at 9:01 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguin
Quoting: DamonLinuxPLIm buying on Steam, GOG or Huble only cheap games or in sale. Other game in full price more than 20 euro? I prefer buying in my local country stores, box or digital version (cdp.pl, gamesrepublic, techland store or muve.pl), because Steam price calculator is unreal for my country.

Simply in Poland for new game I pay 100 złoty (polish zloty) (~22 euro) for digital key or 120 złoty (28 euro) for BOX. If I buy it on Steam, I need to pay in euros, so this same game I should pay 49 euro, so this is about 215 polish zloty.
So until steam not provide support for my currency, many gamers in my country, not bying in Steam and buying only cheap games or only in Poland stores.

I hope you understand my opinion and why people in Poland skip steam?

So maybe anyone know, If steam plans to introduce a new currency?
And Allegro, don't forget Allegro :)

(For people not familiar with the brand, Allegro is our local Polish ebay)
Btw guys I've bought my PS4 on Agito, they also count ;)

Buy games from G2A? You should just stop already, tinyBuild lost out on approx $450K of sales
20 Jun 2016 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 4

When I started to collect games for my Steam library I used to buy games on Kinguin (polish reseller, same as G2A). I din't buy much, about 5 titles I guess. Then I started to follow this page and I understood, that it is very bad idea, and developers and publishers loose money, because of those resellers.

Currently, PC games I buy from:
- Steam,
- Humble Store (Humble Bundles)
- GoG.

For PS4 I buy games from store and sometimes Box versions of the games if deal is really good.

I guess we all would be happy if everyone were just ignoring resellers.

What are you playing this weekend?
19 Jun 2016 at 12:29 pm UTC

Quoting: mcphail
Quoting: wojtek881) I've finally made my dualshock 4 controller to work with Don't Starve Together in wireless mode. The problem is that it does not work correctly with Steam in big picture (from time to time overlay kicks in, in big picture sometimes controller starts to behave like y-axis is moved down, and in general it starts to be unusable)
By any chance, are you having issues with your keyboard or mouse being wrongly detected as a controller? I had this issue, and Steam Big Picture mode would behave as if my XB360 controller was always pressing "up". I fixed it by using a udev blacklist for my wireless keyboard/mouse [External Link].
Hmm honestly I don't know. I've applied both fixes from your link and none of them worked. I don't see a way to determine if that's the problem I'm having.

What I also see is that whenever I press the "X" button on the controller, Steam behaves like it would be permanently pressed and launches a first game in the list of recently played. After I close the game it seems to work fine for a while.

@mcphail any ideas from your side?