PC Perspective reported on the problem. http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Power-Consumption-Concerns-Radeon-RX-480/Overclocking-Current-Testing [External Link]

I'm with stan right about now...taking a long, hard look at the those GTX970's.

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I had high hopes for these cards, but in light of this impending debacle, I'm going to wait...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/4qfwd4/rx480_fails_pcie_specification/ [External Link]

tldr;
These cards are drawing way more power from the PCIe slot than they are supposed to.

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Quoting: edddeduckferal

Quoting: DePingusI'm getting a missing DLC / Mod error when I try to load my save game. Its looking for the Resistance Warrior Pack which was pre-order DLC, and the only DLC that I own. Steam shows the DLC is installed. Verifying the game cache integrity in Steam didn't help.

CANNOT LOAD SAVE GAME
The selected Save is missing required Downloadable Content or Mods:
"Resistance Warrior Pack"
Choosing to load it may result in a negative experience such as poor performance or
instability. Proceed at your own risk.

Running on Fedora 23, AMD FX-8320, AMD R9 270, Mesa 11.1.0

Make sure you restart Steam client then verify your installation that should force the Steam client to pickup the patch correctly. There were a few issues shortly after launch where some pre order content didn't update correctly but a restart of the Stema client (as that forces the client to get new ownership info) should clear the problem. You will likely get a download at this stage as the missing files update/reinstall.

Edwin

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately, this didn't work. Steam shows the pre-order DLC is installed, but the game still doesn't see it. Just to see I started a new game, did the first mission, got to base, and checked the armory. I only have regular kevlar and the old war survivor soldier is not there. I think that rules out an issue with the save.

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I'm getting a missing DLC / Mod error when I try to load my save game. Its looking for the Resistance Warrior Pack which was pre-order DLC, and the only DLC that I own. Steam shows the DLC is installed. Verifying the game cache integrity in Steam didn't help.

CANNOT LOAD SAVE GAME
The selected Save is missing required Downloadable Content or Mods:
"Resistance Warrior Pack"
Choosing to load it may result in a negative experience such as poor performance or
instability. Proceed at your own risk.

Running on Fedora 23, AMD FX-8320, AMD R9 270, Mesa 11.1.0

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I think I just accidentally social engineered open my own paypal account...they only asked me for my name.

Anyways, just got off the phone with paypal. After going up 2 levels their engineer deactivated 2FA and then had me complete the purchase and re-enable 2FA. She blamed it on the website and said I'll probably have to disable 2FA every time I buy from here.

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Quoting: Games Republic Rep

Quoting: DePingusIs this a legit website? I just spent 40 minutes trying to buy AI War and gave up. Its not working in Firefox or Chromium with Paypal (2 factor auth) or credit card (payment_method_nonce does not contain a valid payment instrument type). What a bad experience that was.

Sorry to hear about problems with using our website. Probably we're pointed out what's not working in your case - both Chrome and Firefox is blocking PayPal Express pop-ups, to unlock it, you just got to:

To protect your privacy, external media requires approval to load.

Source: s32.postimg.org

View cookie preferences.
Accept & Show Accept All & Don't show this again   Direct Link

Unlock the pop-up in adress bar.

And about credit card payment method - probably your trying to pay via credit card that's not supported (we're supporting VISA, Master Card, American Express, Discover Network and JCB).

Please let me know if it works for you.

Thanks for the response. I put a ticket (1151) in yesterday with more details.

I get the secure paypal popup, but it says my username or password is incorrect. I can, however, log in to paypal.com directly using that username password...along with a 2 factor auth code I receive by text message. Your secure popup never takes me to the 2FA stuff after the password.

The CC I was using is an American Express card. This morning I got 8 emails from gamesrepublic telling me my order is under review. I hope I don't get 8 charges on my card!

Hey I see https://linux.gamesrepublic.com/ [External Link] seems to be changing...cool.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: DePingusIs this a legit website? I just spent 40 minutes trying to buy AI War and gave up. Its not working in Firefox or Chromium with Paypal (2 factor auth) or credit card (payment_method_nonce does not contain a valid payment instrument type). What a bad experience that was.

Hey.. key still available? This is the one game out of the lot that I was looking to pick up. If not, no biggie. Thanks for offering it

I think you meant to quote tonyrh. Too much Beer!

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Is this a legit website? I just spent 40 minutes trying to buy AI War and gave up. Its not working in Firefox or Chromium with Paypal (2 factor auth) or credit card (payment_method_nonce does not contain a valid payment instrument type). What a bad experience that was.

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This is great! There's not a lot of info out there that covers gamedev on/for linux.

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Quoting: Wildy

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: scaine

Quoting: TuxeeWTF? 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.

The only way that should be possible is if you're running Steam as root, which would (obviously) be a terrible idea. Beyond that possibility, you have a serious flaw on your box if you're seeing root-owned files being chowned by non-root processes...

Did the game improve for you though? That's the most important thing. :D

It did improve. And the "WTF" was exclaimed for a reason. Steam and XCOM is of course running as "me" (and the overwritten file is again owned by "me" ). My box is actually a pretty well maintained 14.04 Ubuntu.

Audit lists two access sources to the file: "XCOM2" and "?" - the latter one presumably setting the permissions.

The directory is writable by you which means its contents could get unlinked and recreated. chattr +i prevents this

I edited XComEngine.ini using sudo gedit instead of using chattr +i (like the article suggested) and left the editor opened. When I started the game gedit noticed the file had changed and asked me to reload it. I reloaded the file and the poolsize was still set to 512 (I didn't make any other changes), I guess gedit noticed xcom taking back ownership.

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