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Some thoughts on ‘Sky Break’, the futuristic open-world game that wasn’t all that great
2 Nov 2016 at 9:12 am UTC Likes: 1

Nice atmosphere. Remembers me a lot on Phantasy Star Online. Don't have played it much yet. There seems to be a segfault when you quit the game. This indicates unclean programming.

I absolute don't get this memory of Phantasy Star Online when I watch videos from NMS. NMS is a no atmosphere Game for me. It does not take me. I hope that Elite: Dangerous appears for Linux some day.

Also I hope they will make Sky Break even better. Because the atmosphere they have done great. It is certainly not one of the games that one plays hundreds of hours. But I like it.

Just my personal view.

Using Nvidia's NVENC with OBS Studio makes Linux game recording really great
27 Oct 2016 at 8:23 pm UTC

Quoting: KithopYeah, just an FYI - if you're on a Debian-derivative (e.g. Ubuntu) and want proper ffmpeg packages?

apt-get source ffmpeg
tells you you should instead run:
git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-multimedia/ffmpeg.git

Then you just add '--enable-nonfree' and '--enable-nvenc' to the debian/rules file, and run:
debuild -us -uc -b
optionally, you can also add -j4 or -j8 for a multithreaded build

That will give you nice .deb packages in the parent directory you can just dpkg -i :) None of this clobbering system packages with manual ./configure && make && sudo make install ... that way lies pain. Lots and lots of pain.

Similarly, while their repo is out-of-date, after you've added OBS Studio's PPA, it's just:
apt-get source obs-studio
cd into folder
debuild -us -uc -b

And voila, obs-studio.deb - their other install instructions however have a bit different method, but in the end they do actually properly build and register a package in apt, so whatever, it's all good.

(and don't forget to apt-mark hold obs-studio!)
I also had to download the NVIDIA SDK I remember:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk [External Link]

I need some header files from the SDK. But maybe they are come from other sources on your system.

'Sky Break', a single-player open-world action & adventure game now on Linux
23 Oct 2016 at 9:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just bought and tested briefly. Graphics and atmosphere reminds me on Phantasy Star Online. 
That's why I like it from the first moment. Simple but nice game-play. Good and exciting for kids, I think. With the highest graphics settings I come to a GPU utilization of 40% with my GTX 970 (resolution 1920x1080).

EDIT: Tested under Xubuntu 16.4 with nvidia driver 367.57.