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Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux
14 Apr 2021 at 3:51 pm UTC

I would love to win a copy of the game. Thank you kind internet stranger.

Looks like Total War Saga: TROY is still coming to Linux in 2021
26 Oct 2020 at 6:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Well it is not on the radar anymore. The only thing they have listed is XCOM 2 for IOS. I hope it is another glitch.

Explore a nightmarish world of twisted religion in Blasphemous - now available for Linux
21 Sep 2020 at 12:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ageresThe game's folder is empty...
Did you restart steam? I downloaded it and got into the menu. I did not have time to play before work.

We're giving away two copies of 3dSen PC
24 Jun 2020 at 7:33 pm UTC

I would love to win a copy!!!

NVIDIA have released a new Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02
28 Oct 2019 at 2:06 am UTC

Quoting: Grifter
Quoting: chui2chIs there a good guide somewhere on installing the NVIDIA driver using the run file?
Several other replies have mentioned dangers to installing the drivers manually, and while yes, conflicts can occur, they don't have to with a few precautions taken, it's not all doom and gloom and should something go wonky, like you did an upgrade and all of a sudden your 3d games feel like molasses, it just means the symlinks that point the gl driver to the nvidia version got overwritten, and you can either fix them manually or just re-run the installer of the nvidia driver. Nothing dangerous will happen, nothing that can't be fixed will happen.

So first precaution (speaking from a debian perspective) if you want to be manually installing nvidia drivers you should not have any nvidia packages installed, cause that's just inviting misery. Without nvidia packages, apt will want to satisfy dependencies with libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx, these are the two packages that will overwrite your nvidia files, so if any of these are upgraded, see first paragraph.

You download the file, shut down X, be root, sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-version.run; if it warns about compiler version mismatch between kernel and driver you can give a variable infront to use the one you want, for example CC=gcc-4.8 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-version.run. Obviously you need to have the particular gcc version it asks for installed. It will ask if you want 32bit stuff installed, yes you do, and if you want it to generate an X config, you probably don't need that.

Then you start X and that should be that. Start up nvidia-settings to check everything over. Actually I think in this modern age you don't even need an X config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf), and it will just detect the nvidia driver by itself. But just in case it doesn't, and you can't launch X, either you mess with the config yourself (pretty easy, but everything is easy if you know how), or just run the installer again and when it asks if you want it to generate an X config just say yes.

Go forth and experiment and try new things, it's the best way to learn =)
Thanks. Yea I had issues with the nouveau driver. I had to blacklist it and rebuid? the kernel(I'm not sure if that is the correct terminology). I also saw a lot of people say don't install the run file, but if you want up to date drivers on Debian stable right now you almost have to. The Nvidia 430 drivers have not made it to backports. I also used time shift in case I broke anything :D.

NVIDIA have released a new Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02
25 Oct 2019 at 9:13 pm UTC

Is there a good guide somewhere on installing the NVIDIA driver using the run file?

Facepunch Studios confirm their plan for the Linux version of Rust, to be split from Windows & Mac
9 Aug 2019 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

I understand, but it does feel bad. Most of the people I played rust with are windows users. I'm glad they are upfront about no longer supporting Linux with future releases.

Mesa 19.1 is officially out plus NVIDIA 430.26 is available now
12 Jun 2019 at 10:40 am UTC

The Nvidia driver seems to fix the visual bug in Assassins Creed Odyssey that has been present in the last few driver releases https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/928 [External Link].

Steam Play just got two updates with 4.2-3 and 3.16-9, some great stuff included
19 Apr 2019 at 7:32 pm UTC

Quoting: morbiusMutant Year Zero worked great yesterday with Proton 4.2-2, tonight Steam auto updates it to 4.2-3 and the game won't start any more.
It works for me on 4.2-3.

Steam Play just got two updates with 4.2-3 and 3.16-9, some great stuff included
18 Apr 2019 at 10:53 pm UTC

If any one has Okami HD and can test I would like to know if it works. I would really like to play that game.