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X-Plane 11 system requirements revealed, needs plenty of RAM
17 November 2016 at 11:32 am UTC

My board can apparently only cope with 32GB, so that's what I have. But maybe it's time to upgrade, in contrast to probably most of you, I only have i5-3570K at 3.4GHz.

Alienware manager on Steam Machines lull: Windows 10 changed things
15 November 2016 at 7:55 am UTC

Quoting: elmapulwine dont fully support Dx9 yet, the support for dx11 is not a big thing yet and they will fully support dx12?

Wine is an open source project. If you decide to write code for DX12, and nobody else wants to write the missing code for DX9, this is what happens.

Here's a list of what's missing: https://wiki.winehq.org/Summer_Of_Code

Alienware manager on Steam Machines lull: Windows 10 changed things
15 November 2016 at 7:31 am UTC Likes: 2

[quote=barotto]
Quoting: wleoncioWhy the hell should I use SteamOS, which is nothing more than a crippled console OS, when I can use Windows, a full blown operating system???

Actually, Windows 10 resembles a crippled console much more than SteamOS. After all, that "full blown operating system" does come with a mechanism to lend you games that don't really end up as binaries on your harddrive, whereas on the other, you can just "apt-get install" everything, from server to desktop applications.

'Planet Explorers', the open world RPG sandbox finally released in full, with Linux support
11 November 2016 at 9:03 am UTC

I've played this from some Alpha on, and it's great to see this finally getting mature.

I actually started about three times, because the early versions lacked story, so you'd be inclined to play 40 hours and then put it away because there was nothing else to do, or you hit a show-stopping bug in the story. And when you wanted to pick it up again, the savegames were incompatible.

The crashes neowiz73 mentions are most probably due to memory leaks. You can avoid them by having a lot of memory...

And yes, the game is great. Recommended if you like these kind of games (open world, survival, some action, building..)

Developer of 'Steam Marines' talks sales, Linux represented 2% over the lifetime of it
9 November 2016 at 11:50 am UTC

Perspective of one Linux gamer:

I'm buying a lot of games, and I also did buy Steam Marines 1, I got it on June 20th, 2014, apparently on sales for 5,99€ at that point.

I'm not really into rogue-likes, or strategy, or even most 2D games -- my favourite games are things like Minecraft, ARK Survival Evolved, Borderlands, 7 Days to Die, Planet Explorers, Skyrim and Fallout 3 (the latter two I played with Wine; I don't have any Windows). I probably bought it because a) it was reasonably cheap, and b) ran on Linux. I did the same for hundreds of other games, most of which I tried out, but never really played. I also sometimes pay full price, but only if the game really interests me and only if it runs on Linux.

I'm only pestering developers if I would like to play the game, or if it's got empty, but existing, depots on steam, or if it actually would already work on Linux, but wasn't released: https://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/windows-unity-games-on-linux/

Steam store updated, Valve still haven't fixed filtering to only Linux games on the homepage
7 November 2016 at 11:34 pm UTC Likes: 2

At least it's Dishonored 2, whose predecessor was really good, and ran nicely on wine.

But I actually only need the "Popular new releases" and the "Specials" lists.

I love that I now can exclude everything, everywhere that is tagged with "Soccer". Sadly, hat feature doesn't work yet in real life.

GOG Connect has new games for you to grab from Steam for free if you already own them
7 November 2016 at 2:53 pm UTC

I got: Risk of Rain, Vangers, The Witcher Adventure Game, Frozen Cortex, Metro 2033 Redux, Frozen Synapse, HuniePop

First Steps with OpenVR and the Vive on Linux
6 November 2016 at 12:03 pm UTC

C++ ABI troubles: If Vrui or hellovr crash with "symbol _ZNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEC1Ev, version GLIBCXX_3.4.21 not defined in file libstdc++.so.6 with link time reference"

you need to recompile with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0.

Now they run, but I still don't quite get it to display as it should.

Using Nvidia's NVENC with OBS Studio makes Linux game recording really great
29 October 2016 at 5:48 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasuYou can see it unboxed and tested by Penguin Recordings here:
View video on youtube.com
View video on youtube.com
Interesting. The hardware seems to be great -- with OBS, because a software such as Media Express which outputs as MJPEG AVI, and has no keyboard-shortcuts is obviously unusable.

The Steam 2016 Halloween sale has some nice Linux games for cheap
29 October 2016 at 9:07 am UTC

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMy store page is properly filtering Linux-only titles ever since adding it to preferences. I wonder why it doesn't work for so many other people.

Oh, that's new. Did it, mostly works. I don't mind having a few (like in "minority") Windows-only titles appearing in the "Now Available/Recommended for you"-Box, but if it's all of them -- like this morning, before setting that preference -- it's just a nuisance.