Still heavily into Factorio. Completed the starter bit (which is the victory condition of launching the rocket) in under 15 hours and wasn't even trying to get that achievement. Now it's time to scale up. I want my 1000 science per minute base. :grin:

And of course 7 Days to Die released A19 to stable, so that had to happen. No time for anything else!

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You know you have issues when your new trailer is a stuttery mess.

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Pictured: Two golx rockets going up for my first contract…moments before they both exploded.

I have an idea how this happened. You were racing in DRAG after setting up your mission. You lost two wheels. Again. And each hit one of the rockets. Close right? :grin:

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Quoting: randylI wish they supported Steam then I could choose to use either the Proton Windows OS compat layer or the SLR Ubuntu OS container.

You can add it as non-Steam game after which the container or proton can be used just as easily.

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Thanks for clearing up the drm situation. If it's just a one time check, I may have a look at it. Because I obviously need more games to play. :grin:

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Quoting: RFSharpeI am going to have to come to terms with the fact that if I want to play Factorio, I must pay the full $30.00 price. No discounts on this game.

It might change at some point. Rimworld did the same thing for many years until it finally started showing a 10% discount this year. But for now there are no signs that it will change in the short term.

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One of my top games. Started seriously playing it after the 0.17 release and quickly running up to 300 hours now. Still trying to get good though. :grin:

The only discount you can get is the Humble Choice discount on the humble store.

Also important, it's available DRM free on their website. And if you register on their website and link your Steam account, you also get the DRM free version.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Avehicle7887Nice article, I've been interested in VR for a while, the issue though is that it seems way too focused solely around Steam on Linux. Has anyone actually tried playing games on VR without Steam?

This may ruffle some feathers but I don't like Steam and having to depend on such a platform to run VR isn't my cup of tea. I would welcome any suggestions for a "game client agnostic" method.

Short answer, no. There is no way to activate Valve's VR without Steam that I know of. It depends on Steam drivers to be activated and the controls don't even appear on "xinput list" even after having been activated. Which brings one of the reasons there are no open source VR games, they'd be dependent on Valve's VR libraries.

Your concern is quite legitimate. :unsure:

SteamVR should not be tied to the Steam client at all. Although I have no idea how to practically install SteamVR without the client. However, SteamVR is moving away from OpenVR to OpenXR, so open implementations should be usable. However, at present this does not make much of a difference since SteamVR is still the only full featured implementation of either API.

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I recognise your frustration. Although different because it was a good while ago and using nvidia gives different issues, you just start out endlessly googling things until you get a feel for the finicky stuff.

That linux_temp branch should be removed though. It was created to quickly distribute a fix for a critical issue and hasn't been updated since. It would have saved you hours of messing around.

Also there with the base station noise. Not a pleasant sound and I need to put up my headset sound quite a bit to drown it out. However, headset does switch for me these days. Although pulse has messed that up again if my main monitor went to sleep and then came back with pulse switching my audio over to the monitor (which can't actually play sound), but that's entirely a pulseaudio problem.

I also have no issues starting proton games from SteamVR home. First starts can be a bit weird though since it has that dependency install thing.

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The leaked specs of these new cards appear to have lots of vram and memory bandwidth. Interesting to see how they will market that. Since there is no competition at that level, I expect some extremely high prices.

Quoting: ShmerlLooking forward to an upgrade, but not to Nvidia. Waiting for RDNA 2 cards from AMD.

Always waiting for the next card that is several years behind the times, right? Why are you even reading the nvidia related posts?

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