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What have you been playing recently and what are your thoughts?
8 March 2020 at 3:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Supraland. A 3D platformer with nice visuals, level design and gameplay and tons of secrets. I like it very much so far. There is a demo on Steam, you should try it. It performs poorly though, about 50 fps with crashes every few minutes.

DARQ has just been updated with a new level, short but good.

Halo 1. As bland and boring as Halo: Reach. Probably even worse. You walk, you shoot, you drive, that's it.

WRATH: Aeon of Ruin got a new level too as well as a new enemy type and some other changes.

Nier: Automata. An uncommon one, its gameplay always varies from 3D platformer to 2D platformer to 3D action to shoot'em up to twin stick shooter... It doesn't run great, with frequent framerate drops to 45-50 fps and the mouse cursor always on the screen.

Descenders on the recent 'free weekend' event. A bicycle racing/stunt game. I had been playing for 10 or 15 minutes, and it crashed twice during that. Whatever, I'm not a fan of racing games anyway.

Bright Memory. A one-man project, inherently a 30 minutes long demo of the upcoming full-sized version. It looks promising. It may crash too though. What's the problem with so many games crashing? Is it my computer, or games themselves, or just UE4 and Unity being too shitty?

Castlevania: SotN (PS1, Mednafen). It's overrated in my opinion but still a good game with great graphics and music. I had finished it once in the past, but it got released on Android recently (based on the PSP port), and after spending some time with my phone I decided to play on my computer instead. Maybe Konami will release the game on Steam too, I think it's likely.

I will probably spend the next two weeks on Supraland and Nier, then Doom Eternal and Doom 64 are released, then Resident Evil 3 is... I'd like to find some time for My Friend Pedro as well.

Metro Exodus is now live on Steam and Deep Silver say it's coming to Linux
16 February 2020 at 2:05 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: HoriIn any case, I'll get the game when it will have a Linux version and I'll have an RTX card.
It is still a question whether the Linux port is getting a raytracing feature.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)
9 February 2020 at 9:33 am UTC

Quoting: RekiIs there something I can do to make it work?
Restart Steam.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)
8 February 2020 at 4:37 am UTC

Quoting: Grifter
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoTime to retest..
Now, they should enable by default PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE for ALL 32 bit games..

Pardon my ignorance, but what does this do?
32-bit applications cannot use more that 2 GB of RAM+VRAM combined, so they crash at high display resolution and high graphics settings, but with that option they can use 4 GB. I'm not sure if I understand this correctly though.

Proton 5.0 for Steam Play released - it's a huge update (updated)
8 February 2020 at 1:28 am UTC

Wait, does Batman: Arkham Knight really work now? It didn't earlier, though it ran fine with regular Wine Staging.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech
6 February 2020 at 11:09 pm UTC

Quoting: Guestis there a vintage build?
No, this is leftovers from GZDoom which dropped old OpenGL versions support some time ago and has this message too now.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech
6 February 2020 at 2:22 pm UTC

No, nothing. I was surprised to see it launched. Try to edit ~/.config/raze/raze.ini to add it manually.

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech
6 February 2020 at 12:45 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: ageresWhat is libomp.so.5? Raze needs it, but I cannot find a package that contains it.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/openmp/
Thank you, but that installed libomp.so, not libomp.so.5. I copied it to the Raze folder, renamed to libomp.so.5 and finally could launch Raze with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./ ./raze
It even found my installation of Ion Fury in its Steam folder and ran it!

Raze - a new open source fork of EDuke32 backed by GZDoom tech
6 February 2020 at 12:12 pm UTC

What is libomp.so.5? Raze needs it, but I cannot find a package that contains it.

MangoHud, a new open source Vulkan overlay layer for gaming on Linux
5 February 2020 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 3

Is it possible to change F12 to toggle HUD for any other key?