This is great!
More sales of a VR title to encourage Valve to produce more VR titles :)

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What's her warcry? More austerity!?

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Quoting: AnzaThere's remedy though that I use. I prefix CPU and IO heavy operations with following snippet

nice -n 20 ionice -c3
Just remember to add the heavy operation to the same line, those commands won't do much on their own.

Except the nice will do nothing because of retarded default behavior these days. You first have to disable scheduler auto-grouping:

 
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPImagine a game like Serious Sam or Doom Eternal in VR

I don't need to imagine:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5145/CROTEAM_VR_Bundle/ [External Link]

Quoting: TheSHEEEPAnd I mean, with the same amount of enemies, challenge and the need to be REALLY fast in both movement and aiming/shooting/precision.

Serious Sam offsets this with dual wielding. Now you have an advantage against KBM unless someone has a dual mouse setup ;)

Quoting: TheSHEEEPYou cannot be as fast with your arms as you can be with a mouse cursor. Even if eye tracking actually worked flawlessly (it really doesn't) and you are somehow a ninja with lightning fast whole arm movements that compete with other people's slight wrist turnings.

I don't know what kind of ideas you have about VR controllers. You don't have your hands amputated and controllers mounted to your forearms. Wrist movements are still a thing.

As for rogue(like|lite), I'd wholeheartedly recommend "In Death" for example if it wasn't for controller issues with proton+index(I still play it, it's so good i put up with the issues).
The immersion definitely makes a difference.

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Quoting: BeamboomBut it'd be interesting to see your script, yes please!

https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/5t87cxkCHZ/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Beamboombecause I usually need to change audio device to the headset

You mean the HDMI port on nvidia?
I have a small script/system unit to auto switch. Can share if you want ^^

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Quoting: scaineFinally, Liam, yeah, starting Pulseaudio often fixes crackling, but sometimes it doesn't for me. Rare, but on those occasions, I found that stopping SteamVR, then doing a systemctl --user restart pulseaudio
...will do the trick (although you'll probably have to re-select the HMD sound output again).

Don't ask me how or why, but starting pavucontrol before anything else and keeping it running prevents the audio crackling/breakup/dropout in steamvr for me. I've added it to autostart and haven't had the crackling since ...

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Can also recommend:
- Windlands 2 (Spiderman with bow)
- The Wizards Dark Times (Short but sweet)
- Synth riders (second best VR rhythm game)
- SairentoVR
- Elite Dangerous (If you have a HOTAS)
...

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So the 30% cut is an issue now, 15 years after they started publishing because of their current market share?
How did they ever manage to reach this market share if their cut was so unreasonable/unacceptable/abusive for the past 15 years?
Who was mad enough to put their game on steam if it was so unsustainable?

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Quoting: peta77The reason why they officially don't support Linux, was that it only worked 100% on AMD GPUs for Linux. Do I remember that correctly? Does anyone know what the current status of that is? Because if it doesn't work as good with an Nvidia GPU even the current price is way too high for me.

Async re-projection isn't supported on nvidia, so you need a GPU that is fast enough if you don't want stuttering. But it ran flawlessly on a 1080ti at max settings.
On the AMD side I experienced various rendering bugs and graphics glitches so ... meh.

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