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Latest Comments by Gerarderloper
Woops - Valve accidentally put up the Valve Index, Base Station and Controllers unfinished store pages
2 Apr 2019 at 12:41 am UTC Likes: 1

I think Valve should also release with this a wireless upgrade pack, this whole tether thing is a turnoff for VR, at least for me.

Valve have now officially teased their own VR headset with Valve Index
31 Mar 2019 at 1:50 am UTC Likes: 2

Waiting for the day when Vive and Rift companies suddenly decide to go for large FOV headsets (110fov is not large, 180 is). I really don't like the idea of wearing a ski-mask, surprised so many people are content with that, it would drive me mad!

Quoting: axredneck
Upgrade your experience
"Downgrade your price"
If price is your only concern then you can just get the first gen headsets for a bargain, second hand that is.

Wine 4.5 is now officially out with more Media Foundation APIs, Vulkan 1.1 and more
31 Mar 2019 at 1:46 am UTC

Once Star Citizen 3.5 drops I'll download it and give it a shot, see how she runs. I hear 3.5 has performance improvements worth talking about... we will see.

Can't wait for when SC gets Vulkan, that will just be amazeballs...

Valve are having a rethink with Artifact, no updates due soon as they look to address the major issues
31 Mar 2019 at 1:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Well the major issue I hear is that its a digital card game... gonna be a tough one to fix :)

Valve just released a big Steam Play update with Proton now based on Wine 4.2 & more
27 Mar 2019 at 1:11 am UTC

It's possible for your proton versions to get corrupted, I had to PURGE proton entirely from my system and start again because steam was getting confused about installing it correctly and I had pre-existing broken proton files around the place.

Also proton doesn't like running directly from NTFS drives, you need to symlink compat data folder (as per wiki instructions).

Valve just released a big Steam Play update with Proton now based on Wine 4.2 & more
27 Mar 2019 at 1:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NeoTheFoxThis, right here, is why I'm a Steam loyalist. GOG may be DRM free, but they sure are useless for Linux
Well you can add in any GOG game and run it via proton via the in steam shortcut system, it works for the most part but be warned it creates invalid game paths initially and you must go into the shortcut and select target again.

The main problem I have with GOG is that some games have disabled features because the developers want a authentication method to enable them (ie NMS multiplayer). So you get a inferior product on GOG with some titles, GOG need to add that feature into Galaxy quickly and also release it for Linux/Mac users.

No Man's Sky runs very nicely on Linux with Steam Play, huge online feature update and VR support coming
27 Mar 2019 at 12:50 am UTC Likes: 5

Some people seem to think by sniffing their own farts and acting all high and mighty by not buying anything that isn't native linux will somehow change the situation for linux gamers...I'm here to tell you, IT WON'T

Until Linux gets a PLAYER BASE of %5-10, the majority of developers will not care. So I say just play what you want, how you want, regardless of native support. If anything that will get us to that %5-10 faster and only THEN will developers start releasing more natives.

Essentially when it comes to Linux, the chicken(player) comes first. Then eventually developers (egg) will come later. No amount of soap box fart sniffing will change that!

Cities: Skylines is another game having a free weekend on Steam right now
22 Mar 2019 at 11:00 pm UTC

I was going to get this until I realised it has like 100 DLC's for $204 or something, if they ever have a COMPLETE pack for sale, like 90% I'd consider it.