Just dropping by to agree with TheSHEEEP on Path of Exile - great game, got a nice 30 hours of it and didn't even finish the free content. My dude was epic by then and the whole game had, finally, become a bit of a grind, but still in quite a fun way. I didn't spend a penny in game and didn't even notice any particularly "locked" areas of the game as a result of my freeloading. I'd highly recommend it.

Warframe is more in your face about buying content. You get a choice of three warframes at the start, and although you can technically build others in game, it's pretty opaque and far easier to spend the £5 to unlock the one you want. I didn't have to, actually, because my Amazon Prime sub gave me a freebie that I enjoyed playing, but again - that's about 30-40 hours of really fun gameplay for free.

It can be done, but I suspect that there are certain personality types that simply can't enjoy a game without accessing the exclusive content.

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Quoting: Liam DaweOur team now actually shows up. We're ranked currently 12,516 of 238,810.

I left my GPU running last night, only to wake up this morning to a jump from 600 points (two jobs on my CPU) to 137k!!

The team is now visible with detailed stats too: https://stats.foldingathome.org/team/245680 [External Link]

My GPU runs at 82 degrees when it's folding - roughly the equivalent of playing a AAA game. But the loads it takes are worth much, much more than the loads my CPU is assigned. Very impressive!

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Well, it's working. I didn't do the toolkit, but either the GPU = true worked, or the ocl-opencl-dev did the trick. After a reboot, it still didn't detect anything, but when I went to FAcontrol, I could add my GPU (without having to change the OpenCL ID either) and it just popped up. I'm now waiting on two queued downloads - one for CPU, one for GPU. It keeps timing out, but apparently that's fairly normal because they're under a fair bit of load right now. I've run two loads on CPU already, it just takes time to initiate.

Thanks for the help everyone!

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I suppose Kimyrielle is right that F2P is generally bad, but as noted there are exceptions.

In this case though, I kind of feel that there are too many exceptions to agree fully. I've enjoyed playing Path of Exile, CS:GO, Warframe and Albion Online are all in the "F2P with monetisation" category.

But there's quite a few "Free to Play but pay if you want" category (which is admittedly different) such as Tales of Maj'Eyal, Mindustry.

Anyway, all to say that I don't agree that "Free" means "Bad"!

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Thanks. I've done that, I see the GPUs.txt in the /var/lib/faclient folder. I'm just going to finish the CPU job that's running before trying a reboot. Fingers crossed, but not very hopeful, as the web interface didn't update in the way you describe! I've also installed the ocl-opencl libraries for dev too, which required quite a few other libraries to download. We'll see.

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No joy getting my GPU recognised. I have the OpenCL libs installed, I've tried manually over-riding the OpenCL-Index in FAcontrol, and I've tried editing /etc/faconfig/config.xml to both include a GPU slot AND to make "gpu v" true instead of false. When I reboot, all the config.xml changes reverted.

It's a mystery. I can still contribute via CPU though, but it's a shame I'm not taking advantage of my beefy GPU.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: scaineJoined the team - great idea, Liam!

I wish there was an actual client/shortcut as part of this build though. I had to visit the Arch WIKI to realise that you have to visit http://localhost:7396/ [External Link] to see your progress and turn Folding on/off.

There should be one, it’s called FAHControl but I don’t remember the steps involved in installing it. Should be explained somewhere on their website :)

I downloaded the client only, which has no interface. I've now downloaded control and viewer, both of which are fat-clients. Strange approach, but it's all working now, although FAHcontrol doesn't recognise my GPU (Nvidia GTX 1080, running 440 driver). I'm looking into it now, appears I'm not the only one to have this issue.

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Joined the team - great idea, Liam!

I wish there was an actual client/shortcut as part of this build though. I had to visit the Arch WIKI to realise that you have to visit http://localhost:7396/ [External Link] to see your progress and turn Folding on/off.

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Quoting: GFX47

Quoting: BOYSSSSSYou can download Gladiabots on itch from the browser, but you can't claim it, so it's not really 100% off. I noticed other games that have the same problem. I don't know if it's intentional, but in the itch client when I click to install the game I get "No compatible uploads were found for this title".

Hey! Let me clarify it: this "sale" is actually more like a temporary giveaway for the confinement period : players can download and play the game for free during the next 2 weeks but it will expire after that. Sorry for the confusion.

Sounds like a Steam "Free Weekend" kind of deal, but for longer. Nice.

This reminds me of a mix between Frozen Synapse and Doorkickers. Very slick. If only I was any good at these games, I might get into them more!

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Looks fantastic, and has reminded me that I really need to play Deep Rock Galactic again. It's been well over 6 months and the interior of the base has seriously changed layout since I played! Also, the new arm animations for picking up bolo cap - lovely stuff. Great game!

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