New titles from 2020:

Desperados III
The Pedestrian
Black Mesa
Drag (though I really suck at this)

and still

War Thunder

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Popcorn!

And since the distribution-which-must-not-be-named was named, I expect some flaming down the road. So far it has been way too civilized and therefore utterly disappointing.

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Quoting: damarrinAnd the 1080p nonsense in 13-14-15" screens is baffling. Linux has no functional fractional scaling and those screens should not exist.

Care to elaborate? I have a 13.3" display with full HD resolution. Works perfectly ok.

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Quoting: headless_cyborgI once read somewehere that Steam Beta is not included in Steam HW/SW survey, is that right? I use the stable release channel just because of that.

Don't think so. I have had the beta client running now for a really long time and IIRC I got the survey twice over this time.

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Quoting: maasican any of you launch the game without any problem? I still cant run the game since the 'new power' update. I've tried everything, delete everything, report problem, launch from local file, update still nothing.

Works pretty much flawlessly. It rarely crashes with some out-of-vram error. But apart from that it just... works. Ubuntu 20.04 w/ Mesa 20.2 and AMD RX5700; tried s clean install on a smaller machine with an 5500XT - same result.

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelSlightly off-topic question before I bother to reinstall: Did we get fully modeled gunner positions on aircrafts with the vulkan update or is that still dx11 exclusive?

You get the cockpits. And TAA. And sonic boom graphics. And nice clouds.

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Quoting: ninjasftw

Quoting: keanI have Premium account and I thought this is a greedy move from Gaijin, however, it way too different and it really worths getting it. I also bought my Premiun during 50% discount, 20€ for 6 months.

Honestly the monetisation in this game is getting pretty crazy.
Premium accounts aren't really cheap outside of sales.

Why would you buy outside sales? There are sales at least twice a year. I've been playing WT now for more than 6 years always with a premium account and never paid the regular price. (And yes, you have to go for the 90-days or 1-year premiums.)

Quoting: ninjasftwVulcan.

That's a planet or a gatling gun... The other one's called Vulkan. That said - the Vulkan renderer really rocks. Particularly when coming from the OpenGL abomination.

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Quoting: maasineed help

I still cant play the game. what should I do?

Post a more verbose problem description? File a proper bug report in the Linux bugs section of their forum?

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Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: dpanterBlender good.
Money good.
Facebook... pure evil. :dizzy:

Money is money, though. No matter where it's from. ;)

Not if there are strings attached to that money. The worry is Facebook using their money to control Blender like a puppet.

You mean like AMD, NVidia, Google, Microsoft, Canonical, Ubisoft, Epic... Because they are all corporate sponsors.

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Quoting: jorgenp

Quoting: TheRiddickyeah I've tried that trick before but it always ends in problems, missing controls, sound, or freezes on switching back to desktop... all sorts of things. Haven't tried it in a while however so I might give it a shot now.

Ahh, it works now it seems. Sound plays in background but that's ok.

EDIT: tabbing back to TTY1 crashes the warthunder game. Ell well.

I didn't try to switch while playing. But it seems Vulkan and Xorg doesn't play nice. But at least it is playable sort of, but for sure needs to be fixed by Gaijin or where ever the issue is.

Strange. What hardware, driver, kernel? I am on Xorg, Dual-Screen, AMD RX 5700 with latest Mesa drivers and switching has never been a problem for a long time now - neither with OpenGL nor with Vulkan. Clicking on the "other" screen minimizes the game and mutes the sound, and the overview shows me the (animated) game window.

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