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Dawn of War III updated on Linux, we now have the Annihilation mode update
6 Jul 2017 at 11:52 am UTC

Quoting: coolboberGame itself starts. I can only hear audio. On screen I am able to see only feral logo (without animation - before was with animation) and then game mouse cursor with black background. Terminal shows nothing special. I will contact you, via "official way" later, maybe this is a steam issue.
I submitted a report very much like this one. For me the screen froze at the feral logo as well. But only on OpenGL+Fullscreen. Vulkan and OpenGL+Windowed were fine. Worth a check.

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
5 Jul 2017 at 6:46 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasuVulkan already working :)
Interesting! IIRC, the setting has been there since the beginning, but it didn't work back then. Nice to see it coming along. Any problems yet?

Some things developers might want to think about when bringing a game to Linux
4 Jul 2017 at 1:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Opening up a private beta to a few select people is always an option too, there's many ways to get users involved early.
As they "other big thread" clearly demonstrates, don't do involuntary beta testing under the flag of a released product. It won't end well.

Interesting read. Nothing too surprising for me, but it's good to have a place to start for small developers that are thinking about doing a Linux release.

Another pitfall I haven't seen mentioned here is the difference between a native and steam release. I remember one game where the developer had a Unity3D game running within a day, but had dependency problems when starting from the Steam runtime.

The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2
3 Jul 2017 at 10:22 pm UTC Likes: 7

This is a pretty lame excuse. Are they now not going to make a new Windows game because of the backlash from the Windows users at release of TW3? That was orders of magnitude worse. It's the internet. If you can't stand foul language, better move into a cave.

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles
30 Jun 2017 at 11:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: UltraVioletcool, this bug only effects nvidia hardware? i have the same set up with a amd card and have had no problems with FireFox ever
Possible. It had something to do with the allocation of large memory pages. If those were effectively allocated by the nvidia driver, then it could be that. It may have been other combinations of hardware though.

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles
30 Jun 2017 at 1:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Nanobang
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: UltraVioletgood news, i wonder if this driver might fix a problem i have while using FireFox and my whole system locking-up
That was a kernel bug that Ubuntu introduced by incorporating patches from an unreleased kernel into theirs. Apparently Mint happily copied it. After it being in there for three months, it was finally fixed recently.
Was it fixed in Ubuntu as well? Or just Mint?
It was fixed in Ubuntu (going by two weeks without a crash). Don't know about Mint.

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles
30 Jun 2017 at 9:45 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: UltraVioletgood news, i wonder if this driver might fix a problem i have while using FireFox and my whole system locking-up
That was a kernel bug that Ubuntu introduced by incorporating patches from an unreleased kernel into theirs. Apparently Mint happily copied it. After it being in there for three months, it was finally fixed recently.

Facepunch Studios 'Rust' has $4.3 million in refunds
29 Jun 2017 at 11:52 am UTC Likes: 4

This is more a measure of success. Apparently 6% refunds is a pretty normal number. And if 6% adds up to 4.4 million, you're doing amazingly well.

STASIS, the point & click horror game is now officially available for Linux
28 Jun 2017 at 7:59 pm UTC

Quoting: grumpytoadI'm unsure why the game is not marked on steam as linux compatible, anyone know why that is?
Because you need to choose it from the beta branch. It is explained in the 22 June news post.

Wine Staging 2.11 released with GTA 5 and The Witcher 3 fixes, also improved Unity game support
28 Jun 2017 at 2:03 pm UTC

Quoting: malek69Witcher 3
The only weird thing I noticed was that the water doesn't look quite right. There is something "low res" going on there. Is that normal or one of the remaining issues for Wine?