Quoting: Thormack

Quoting: kf

Quoting: fedotixIt seems far away the day Linus Torvald insulted Nvidia...
We must accept that NVIDIA today is more cooperative with Linux System.

As a Nvidia user myself, I still feel they are doing the bare minimum just so they can say they support Linux.

Agreed, Optimus still can't switch between GPUs without a system re-log.

Also, when I leave my notebook using only the discrete GPU, sometimes the fan goes like crazy even when computer is idle (doing nothing).

That sounds like it's more the ACPI / Power management in your system than it is anything else. The fans on mine only kick off if I'm doing something like watching videos (cranks up when trying to resize a window while a video is playing).

Hell, I have a VM running right now on my laptop, and the fans aren't on at all.

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Quoting: fedotixQuestion : the PS3 games are available where ? Can we purchase PS3 games then play with the emulator ??

So at this point you have to either have a modified PS3 to dump games or one of the specific Bluray drives for your PC, and if you go that route, you have to copy the iso to your computer then patch out the copy protection, then it works.

Sadly the performance / stability of the Linux version isn't as good as the Windows one. (Tested with Red Dead Redemption which I bought long ago, but my PS3 is dying.)

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOh, I think it is actually D&D Online (is that still around?) that was supposed to be 4th edition. I actually recently got back into playing Neverwinter Online simply because they added Ravenloft to it! But you have to play through all the other crap first, so I haven't really been playing it more...

Really wish they'd release either more Ravenloft based games, or even Spelljammer, those are still my favorite two D&D settings (mainly because they're such a departure from the typical murder hobos.)

I think in the year 2019, I'm going to have to try to spend more time in VR :) Hopefully I can get Elite working so I don't have to reboot!

Yes, D&D online [External Link] is still a thing. I have never played it, but according to SteamDB [External Link], there seems to be about 300-400 players online at any given moment. (Of course, like Neverwinter Online, Steam users are probably only a small portion of the entire game as both of these existed standalone before getting on Steam.)

I never played D&D Online. The only reason why I played Neverwinter Online is because the group I play D&D with all joined and they researched ahead of time and showed me a website on how to get it to work with PlayOnLinux.

Yeah, I could be wrong. But I think the game engine is pretty much the same as Star Trek Online, they bithe work very well with wine.

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Quoting: stretch611It seems like everything that I have been playing is Early Access and not released yet, or older than this year.

Early Access: Oxygen Not Included, Factorio, and my friend wants me to start playing 7 days to die. (Still under 1 hour in 7 days to die now) My guess is none of the 3 will release in 2019 either.

I have played a lot of Rimworld, which actually did release this year. However, most of my playtime was before release. (Over 1000 hours, compared to under 50 since release.)

I did just buy Kingdom Rush Origins, and Island Invasion. Both of which are 2018 releases, but I have not invested much time in either yet. (Both are also Tower Defense games, Kingdom Rush Origins is well polished, Island Invasion is rough around the edges.)

I also have both Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition (bought it when released) and Pathfinder Kingmaker(bought during the Autumn sale last month.) Though I haven't played much of either, I will though, I remember playing the heck out of the original Neverwinter Nights. My interest is still in the game, but I'm spending too much time in other games... As for Pathfinder, It seems that whenever I am about to start it, a notice of a huge bugfix comes out and I'd rather wait for the fix. (I noticed the 1.2 patch being announced a day or two ago as I was about to start it up.)

For the record, yes, Neverwinter Nights is/was D&D 3(or 3.5), Pathfinder was based on 3.5 as well. As for Neverwinter Online (MMO) that really has no basis in actual D&D rules. NWO was the only game I have played on WINE in the last few years since it came out... and I have been clean and sober away from MMO's for 2 years now after Neverwinter Online. (It really burned me on MMOs.) Oddly, D&D version 3/3.5 was the only one that I only played on a computer, not pen and paper. I have played Basic, AD&D (v1), AD&D v2, D&D 4, and D&D 5 with friends. I still play once a month with friends.

As for older titles that I bought this year and have been playing... Don't Starve, Sky Force Reloaded, ...

Ok, I wrote a book and don't want to go on forever. But one other title I would like to mention is Liam's favorite that he won't admit... Meltys Quest. I did actually get it and play it after Liam's recommendation. WOW, that was more graphic than I expected. I restored the castle in game, and actually went and put a Steam trading card badge for Meltys Quest on my profile [External Link]. But, I am sure Liam will be happy to hear that the developer is in the process of making another title [External Link]. Perhaps Liam can reach out to the developer and get us some pre-release keys.

Oh, I think it is actually D&D Online (is that still around?) that was supposed to be 4th edition. I actually recently got back into playing Neverwinter Online simply because they added Ravenloft to it! But you have to play through all the other crap first, so I haven't really been playing it more...

Really wish they'd release either more Ravenloft based games, or even Spelljammer, those are still my favorite two D&D settings (mainly because they're such a departure from the typical murder hobos.)

I think in the year 2019, I'm going to have to try to spend more time in VR :) Hopefully I can get Elite working so I don't have to reboot!

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNeverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition is still 3.5 Edition of D&D as far as I know.

The Neverwinter MMO game is 4th Edition, so maybe that is where the confusion is?

Nope, I was just utterly convinced that it used v4 for some reason! I'll update my spiel in the article in a while - need to rush out the door right now!

[Edit: All done.]

I was going to say, if they were going to upgrade the core system of how it ran, not sure why they'd stop at 4th and not just go to 5th. But then again I haven't played real D&D since 2nd edition (with the exception of one session I played with a friend of mine and his brother in law... ). I've been playing GURPS since switching to that because of how much more the rules make sense.

Neverwinter Nights is the only time I've played 3+ extensively

Even the MMO Neverwinter kind of bugs me the way they did it.

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So, for the record, the game seems to run about the same on my P3200 Quadro as it does on my 2080 GTX (that is to say not all that great).

I did set up a server, though I still need to open ports for people to be able to play on it, and figure out a way to make sure it starts up automatically if I restart the computer it's on.

But I also probably don't have the proper bandwidth for more than a few players at a time.

Also of note. I got my ass kicked many, many times....

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Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition is still 3.5 Edition of D&D as far as I know.

The Neverwinter MMO game is 4th Edition, so maybe that is where the confusion is?

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Quoting: iiari

Quoting: jensNo, avoiding Wine would be kind of counterproductive (someone needs to test the base components of Steam Play :D)

And now that Steam Play counts our play time of Windows titles as Linux use in the reports developers see, I actually see the use of Steam Play as a way to send devs a message we are out there...

I think especially for the studios like Rockstar, Bethesda, Ubisoft. If they're being shown who is using Linux to play their games, there might be the 'oh, we could support them' thought that starts. But then again, there could be the 'oh someone will patch in proton / wine and it'll work and we don't have to care.' thought.

It's kind of tough to say at this early stage what effect it'll have. If it weren't for the 'well Linux users use it because it's free and they're cheap bastards so don't buy anything' mentality, I think we'd already have seen more major studios support native games.

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Quoting: joaojotta

Quoting: slaapliedjeI will admit I am lazy and just want to be able to 'apt install lutris' why isn't that a thing yet?

I’ll admit it: I don’t know how to install it from source. );

Ha, yeah I can install it from source, I just don't see a reason too if the license is open enough why we don't have an official package build, vs ones that are on the opensuse build system.

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Isn't Lutris open source? If it is, why hasn't it been put into the Debian repos? I will admit I am lazy and just want to be able to 'apt install lutris' why isn't that a thing yet?

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