The quality of the environments, the animations, the sound design - this whole project just oozes quality. Absolutely superb.

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Quoting: Eike

major change for save files

Anyone knows what this is about? Did they auto-adjust casing? :D

Basically just what Liam points out in the article, I think:

It's supposed to fix the Steam cloud sync feature

It's not a bug I've come across, but "losing your save" is probably quite a high priority bug to address.

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Elite Dangerous is now playable without workarounds?? If true, that's a huge amount of .Net work that's happened behind the scenes - their launcher is an absolute abomination and a constant source of pain.

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Just gonna leave this here if you're on an Ubuntu derivative, cos I didn't see anything on Polychromatic's github issues page on this.

First, for Razer's to be detected, you need the OpenRazer stuff installed... and it's not, by default. Which is weird, because right now, Polychromatic ONLY supports OpenRazer, so a bit bizarre that it's not a dependency. I guess Liam calls that out in the changelog above, but I missed it, so others might too!

sudo apt install openrazer-meta

But annoyingly, you also have to make sure that your user is a member of the plugdev group. Admittedly, this is really obvious on the OpenRazer website, but since I just did the command above after a brief "apt search", I didn't visit that site until it still failed to work properly. So...

sudo gpasswd -a $USER plugdev

Then reboot. Should be all good after that.

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Well, it's taken two and a half years of boycot, but I suppose I get to play Bloodstained, after they officially cancelled Linux support.

I already own three of the rest too, but some decent titles in this month, so I reckon I'll be cashing in instead of skipping.

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I'm not a big dating-sim fan, but the combat in this looks so satisfying, I think I'm going to give it a go.

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Quoting: LachuMaybe not related to topic. Could I install normal Wine as compatibility tool to play Civ5?

You'd be better off joining the GOL Discord [External Link], or starting a forum post for a query like this. However, judging by the ProtonDB comments, the only reason you'd want to play a native game like Civ5 under wine is for multiplayer with Windows players... and that's reported to be extremely flaky under wine, with either immediate disconnects, or one player reporting that they were kicked out every hour on the hour. Probably not recommended.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineHowever, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).

Must be an archive manager specific thing, the KDE Ark didn't give it an extra folder. It's probably an option in your settings.

Doesn't do it for ProtonGE though, so I assume it's the way it's packaged.

Yeah, I've just tested "Extract Here" again, with ProtonGE and Luxtorpeda. They look like they're packaged the same, but they extract differently. Not sure how that works.

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Easy to see if you use the tar command directly and ask it to list the contents:
 
f.ultra@Sineya:~/Hämtningar$ tar -Jtvf luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       233 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/toolmanifest.vdf
-rw-r--r-- root/root       125 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/config.json
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4406 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/README.md
-rw-r--r-- root/root     15487 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/LICENSE
-rwxr-xr-x root/root   6461024 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/luxtorpeda
-rw-r--r-- root/root       228 2021-08-07 22:43 luxtorpeda/compatibilitytool.vdf
f.ultra@Sineya:~/Hämtningar$ 

edit: two theories here though, one is that your system handles .tar.gz and .tar.xz differently. Another is that whatever archiver you use looks at the top directory and if it doesn't match the filename it creates a dummy topdir, aka "luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz" have a topdir of "luxtorpeda" which does not match the name of "luxtorpeda-30" while "Proton-6.14-GE-2.tar.gz" have a topdir of "Proton-6.14-GE-2" that does match the name.

It's just the default archive handler in gnome, called "Archive Manager". Yep, you're right, I tested it: I just renamed luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz to luxtorpeda.tar.xz and when I extract it, I have a single folder as I'd expect. Nice one.

I wonder why they package it with the version name, but don't include it in the archive. Doing it this way means that while it's very tidy in the Steam dropdown, you can't actually tell what version you're using.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: scaineHowever, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).

Must be an archive manager specific thing, the KDE Ark didn't give it an extra folder. It's probably an option in your settings.

Doesn't do it for ProtonGE though, so I assume it's the way it's packaged.

Yeah, I've just tested "Extract Here" again, with ProtonGE and Luxtorpeda. They look like they're packaged the same, but they extract differently. Not sure how that works.

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Wait... a... minute! I recognise that contributor name!!

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages.html [External Link]

d10sfan... is that you?

How on earth is this the first I've heard of this project!? It even has Descent (dxx-rebirth) support! Superb! Downloading immediately! This would have saved me so much time over the past couple of years - not just Descent, but also Doom, Hexen, Morrowind.

There's vxQuake support! STALKER! OpenJK for some sweet jedi action! This is incredible!

Edit: Well, it didn't show up in Steam for me. Turns out, it's because I download the Release file, then I tell Gnome/Nautilus to "Extract Here", the same way I do for ProtonGE releases. However, while that creates a folder with the same name as the release as usual, with Luxtorpeda, they've put the whole archive inside another folder, just called "luxtorpeda", so Steam doesn't see it (because it's a folder inside a folder).



So either move that folder out before copying it into the compatibilitytool.d folder, or just use the tar xJf luxtorpeda-30.tar.xz command described on the main page, then copy (or move) the resulting folder.

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