WTF? Changed XComEngine.ini to bigger pool size and ThreadedShaderCompileThreshold to 2. chown'ed the file to root:root and gave it a 0755. Guess what? It got both reowned by the "me" and chmod'ed to 0770 again. How can that be? Any suggestions?
Anyway, contrary to the article my settings were not reverted - pool size is still 512 and the compile threshold still 2.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: leillo1975I have a problem: When I execute the game, It shows a window to configure resolution and other issues. When I push the button to start, the game stops in the Grid Autosport logo.

I try in fullscreen, in a window, at 1080 and 720. I use Ubuntu 14.04.3 64bits, with Nvidia 750ti (358.16) and 16GB RAM. My steam library are located in a NTFS shared partition

Are you sure it completely installed correctly? I don't know much about NTFS, but I know some Linux Steam games won't install correctly on FAT32 partitions, something to do with symbolic links I think. Maybe NTFS is the same way?

Add
LANG=C %command%
to the launch options.

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Downloading... Haven't played a racing game since GT5 on my ol' PS3. Got the complete package - one can never have too many cars and tracks.

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Quoting: I Need More Pixels

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: toorSo… they make you pay for wrapping those game in an emulator?

You pay for the games, mostly.

Legal roms, SDL2 supported (in the one I tested), with a natively built emulator. Pretty damn good really.

Whats SDL2...?

Living under a rock? Anyway, even there you should have heard about "search engines" or "Google".

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Quoting: wolfyrionWell if you look the Steam TOP SELLER GAMES , you will understand why gamers are not getting a steam machine,and if you still didn't understand why, the question is very simple as it has been for ages...

"Why to get a steam machine or install Linux if I cant enjoy playing the newest best games?"

When the 99% of the TOP games is released exclusively for Windows and if we are lucky we may see a port after some years then this is a huge NO,for every passionate gamer.

I always thought gaming is about playing games, not merely buying games. If you look at the most popular games on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/stats [External Link]) I'd say that at least 50% of these titles are equally available for Linux, too.

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Quoting: wleoncioNot only it's a survey, it's apparently a non-random sample biased against Linux users (there are many testimonials of people never getting those surveys on their Linux partition but getting them frequently on their Windows one), so those OS percentages are probably underestimating the true percentage.

Well, I can't complain. Gotten it on my Linux machines (no Windows available for comparisons) for maybe 6 or 7 times over the past 3 years.

Anyway, why should we see a change when allegedly there is no survey in Big Picture mode? SteamOS machines will never see a survey and never be accounted for.

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- War Thunder
- Broforce
- Alien Isolation
- Outland
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall

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Quoting: EKRboiWait.. so am I reading this right? While using the steam link it doesn't run a local version of steam? It actually streams the steam client from your main computer?

If so, I'm extremely glad I didn't get one.

What would be the benefit of a "local" steam client sans any games?

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Quoting: wojtek88That sounds great. My problem is that whenever I see "MMO" abbreviation I know that this game is not for me. I just play when I can and as long as I can (usually with frequent breaks) so MMO games are just not for me.
Anyway, I'm sure that there are a lot of people that will play this title because it looks very nice.

Actually you can get away with really short sessions. Recently I have hardly been playing more than an hour a day, and I usually spread it out over 2 or 3 sessions. An average arcade air battle lasts 10 to 15 minutes.

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Quoting: Glog78Some thoughts:

CS:GO -> Positional Audio doesn't work as expected out of the box , mouse input is hard to configure | requires good linux knowledge | to get full performance you need to tweak the starting commandline | some still have issues (microstutters) with multithreading enabled | performance below windows
DOTA2 -> performance below windows

Not according to these comparisons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDnbi0N7qM [External Link]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8qXbJqMvs [External Link]

Granted, these are rare cases (War Thunder is another example that comes to mind) but it is not an inherent problem of the platform.

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