I remember this video by the late TotalBiscuit, from years ago: https://youtu.be/0RgiXklIELk?t=1014 [External Link] (it's pretty funny; he's awful at the game.)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Blaster-PRwhere is the ppa for this we need one!

Sadly, it seems the original Ubuntu PPA [External Link] for these drivers hasn't been updated in some time.

You have the wrong link it's /ppa not /dev
Last update was 4 days ago for version 4.15.27

https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa [External Link]

Wrong, that is the normal PPA.

Sorry, I couldn't help it. [External Link]

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Avehicle7887The Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu can be installed using the default installer from the official website, I've been installing them that way for the past 5 years without issues.

I would never betray my distro's packaging system with such a vile and malignant non-packaged installation!!! I am even surprised it apparently survived kernel upgrades for you....

(in the most extreme cases I build the package myself)

I used nvidia's installers for about a year on Fedora (and briefly on openSUSE), with no problems; the kernel modules would be automatically rebuilt with each update. I moved to negativo17's repos just out of laziness -- and because he updates his repo very quickly. (The only drawback is that he doesn't package the beta drivers for stable (so to speak) Fedora.)

I understand distros' general caution about this, but I don't get why they don't explain (in wikis or manuals; whereever the topic of proprietary nvidia drivers comes up) *exactly* what's under risk of breaking. It can't *just* be that they don't want newbies to panic when they have to boot into a virtual terminal.

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Quoting: scaineThe Witcher 2 put me off The Witcher 3. Having to drink potions before certain fights to have any chance of success is just a horrible gameplay mechanic.

That's one of my favorite things, though; because it adds an element of strategy into the combat, and also motivates the player to read the codex, to get an idea as to which signs & oils & potions are effective with what type of enemy. Since in-lore a witcher is supposed to have encyclopedic knowledge of such matters, having to do this kind of preparation deepens the role playing aspect a bit.

In any case, in easier difficulties one can pretty much ignore potions & alchemy; so there's a way to bypass that, if you don't enjoy it.

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Thanks to the generosity of GoL member drlamb, I've been playing Dusk, and I love it. (I've never even been an FPS fan; though I suppose I caught the bug thanks to Doom 2016.)

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Quoting: kuhpunkt

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: 14I don't enjoy having a 50 GB game backup eating up disk space.

50 . . . gigs. For one game. I've had hard drives way smaller than that. I've had adventure games I plugged away at for hours and never finished that were 16K. OK, I didn't finish them mostly because they were badly designed, but still. What is the excuse for a game taking up 50 gigs?
Sorry, my old curmudgeon is showing, but really . . . 50. gigs.

The new DOOM is 71 GB, Project Cars 2 is 52 GB, Deus Ex Mankind Divided is 60 GB. Those are the biggest games I have installed at the moment :D

Doom's ridiculous size is probably due to the multiplayer & level editor, which they haven't been arsed to move to a separate install.

I think GTA5 is also in the ~70G range.

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Quoting: tijder

Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: follower

Quoting: Guestassassins creed III works flawlessly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMSGD3T9R50 [External Link]

I wonder if the UPlay fixes will allow Watchdogs 2 to work!

Assassin's Creed II still can't install -- I mean, it gets stuck at the disk space allocation phase, before uplay can even do anything. Weird.

The problem with old Assassin's Creed games is that the Steam client can't load the cd key. More info on github isue [External Link] isue [External Link]. When Valve fixes this Assassin's Creed 2 will be working.

Sure, but the key request has its own prompt, as well as a distinct error message when it fails. I don't even get that far, the installation dialog gets stuck as it's allocating disk space -- which is all the more strange, because the download does run in the background. When I close the installation window the downloaded bits are erased.

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Quoting: follower

Quoting: Guestassassins creed III works flawlessly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMSGD3T9R50 [External Link]

I wonder if the UPlay fixes will allow Watchdogs 2 to work!

Assassin's Creed II still can't install -- I mean, it gets stuck at the disk space allocation phase, before uplay can even do anything. Weird.

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... so Proton 3-16.7 is supposed to "Restore previous functionality of the Uplay client."

I take it to mean that it still doesn't work. What else could that mean?

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... hopefully a solution to uplay will also be found.

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