Quoting: GuestI got a laptop, MSI decent specs, GTX870 vidcard.
But rocket leauge really is choppy, with everything on low even.
Any tips?

Any more to go on?

Version of Linux?
RAM?
Nvidia driver version?
Processor?
Screen Resolution?
What resolution are you trying to play at? 720p? Screen res?

Noting that by GTX870 graphics, I take it you mean GTX870M (i.e. the mobile version of the graphics chipset, which would be slower than the equivalent desktop graphics.)

Graphics can be 'choppy' if the graphics card overheats, and then ramps down automatically to lower the temperature.
Do you hear fan speed going up and down?

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Hehe, some more Linux games bought by me in the Humble Winter Sale:

Guards
Detective Grimoire
Gunslugs
Gunpowder
Reigns
Dungeon Hearts

Taking advantage of my Humble Subscription 10% off discount, just before I end the subscription.

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Although I've been using Linux for a long time (e.g. 15+ years) I moved to making it my primary desktop only 'fairly' recently, e.g. 5 years ago.

During my earlier years of Linux desktop, I was very into playing free "Nexuiz" FPS game. There was a decent community of Windows and Linux players, and we'd have fantastic high-speed deathmatch competitions (DOOM, Quake, Unreal Tournament style play). Unfortunately the intellectual property got tied up with one of the developers, which annoyed the community who'd contributed to it, and there is a different paid-for Nexuiz game (similar, but not identical) available to purchase.

The Nexuiz community moved on to build free "Xonotic" game, which is still active (but the servers are not especially populated with players :( ). The old community edition of free Nexuiz is still around, and online servers running, but very empty nowadays. Although it's good, something about "Xonotic" isn't quite right for me, whereas "Nexuiz" just felt fantastic.

I was also playing the other various free games around on Linux, e.g. The Battle For Wesnoth, Armagetron, OpenArena, free Flash browser games such as Gemcraft, Kingdom Rush, Monster's Den.

One of the earliest paid-for Linux titles I bought was "Legend of Grimrock" (DRM-free version on GOG). Previously, I'd enjoyed "Dungeon Master" early 90s game, and Grimrock was a fantastic modern version of the same style. Then I was playing and loving "Ziggurat" FPS shooter PvE game (also bought on GOG).

And in the past year, I have been buying up loads of Linux games on Steam and GOG.

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Cool, I've just updated my Steam Client on Debian, and it's now a 19th Jan 2017 build. ( Under "Help" menu in "About" )

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Picked up Humble Bundle Best of 2016 "Beat The Average" myself, but only for 2 games I wanted. The remaining 4 games, I'm gifting to a friend who is gifting me the 3 Linux games from Humble Overwhelmingly Positive Bundle (Day of the Tentacle, Pony Island, Refunct). Pretty happy with that turn of events.

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Request to Liam:

Now that the end of year has occurred have you got a definitive count of Linux games that came out on Steam during 2016?

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Just had a look at your Info specs. 8GB RAM, Core i5, and GTX 560. I don't think you'll have problems managing with Mad Max on your current rig as long as you don't set the graphics quality too high. Also, note that it only takes a graphics card to take you up a notch. GTX 1050ti 4GB is nice, cheap, and low power.

Quoting: SalvatosCrap, wish my rig could play Mad Max. At this price I'm tempted to buy it anyway, but it will likely be years before I upgrade again so I will surely have other opportunities.

I'm tempted to get the Shadowrun bundle, though. I've yet to play anything in that universe and it has intrigued me for more than a decade now.

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Completed my votes. Looking forward to seeing the results.

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Gawd! Another sale to search through all the bargains. Spent most of the evening looking so far. 60 pages and counting so far (starting at high discounts and going down). As I bought the XCOM2 Humble Monthly Subscription, and it is still active I can grab these Sale games for an additional 10% off.

Some of the titles I'm considering (typically 75% - 90% off):

Kings of Kung Fu (steam, early access) £1.52
Braveland Pirate (drmfree, steam, android) £1.07
Solar Shifter EX (steam) £1.34
Heroes of Loot (drmfree, steam) £0.74
Fox & Flock (drmfree, steam) £0.39
LYNE (drmfree, steam, android) £0.67

Also considering some Windows titles - boo ;) - because they're older, not likely to come to Linux, I want them, and can probably play using Wine.

Noting that Wizardry 6 and 7 old games are now available to Linux users on Steam, by packaging them with Dosbox. Wish more games companies would do this with their older titles.

As usual - King of the Discount ;)

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I would be very interested, after the game comes out for Linux (and has been available for a while) to see the percentage users / user count who are running Linux. Also a similar percentage / user count for the older game Civ5.

I'm guessing that a massively popular game, like the Civ franchise, there will be sufficient numbers of Linux users to cover the payment for the porting work (and make profit from it).

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