Unfortunately, this is a result of there being no standardized way to design a digital storefront. There is a learning curve for every website, so it doesn't surprise me that someone might miss what seems obvious to someone else.

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Quoting: Mountain ManMy experience with KDE suggests that leaving the compositor on kills your performance

The only reliable way to eliminate tearing with Nvidia is to enable the "force full composition pipeline" option in "xorg.conf". See the following article:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

I dont have time to do the tests now with the new drivers but as far as I remember force full composition pipeline was giving me horrible frame rates and looked like the game was staling/laging

It may be one of those "individual mileage will vary" things, but if you enable "force full composition pipeline" then make sure you turn vsync off in your software settings or it will impact performance. I get great performance across the board with no tearing.

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That really reminds me of an old game called Sub Culture.

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My experience with KDE suggests that leaving the compositor on kills your performance

The only reliable way to eliminate tearing with Nvidia is to enable the "force full composition pipeline" option in "xorg.conf". See the following article:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

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It's about time for Linux gamers to boycott Kickstarter. With over 3000 Linux games currently on Steam, and more being released every day, we can afford to be choosy.

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When I buy from Steam, it's because I know exactly what game I'm looking for because I learned about it from somewhere else. I almost never randomly search the store looking for something to buy, so how the games get to Steam makes no difference to me.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: MajGuanoWow, the Linux port chews up about 15x as much disk space as the Windows version.

15x? You sure about that?

It's not 15 times, but the Linux depots are twice the size of Mac/Windows ones. Which is still a big difference.

Windows requirement is 12GB hard drive space. Linux requirement is 15GB hard drive space. Not that big of a difference, really.

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Quoting: MajGuanoWow, the Linux port chews up about 15x as much disk space as the Windows version.

15x? You sure about that?

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Honestly, it's hard to beat Leonard Nimoy's narration in Civilization IV.

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Quoting: apocalyptechDidn't Civ5/BE have the slowly-dropping-FPS thing as well? I seem to recall that things would get slower the further you are in the campaign (not that it ever got awful, really).

That's actually pretty typical of all Civ games. Civ 4 would get downright unstable towards endgame.

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