Quoting: sunbeam4@eike steamdb add-on.

Huh, you're right. I'm on Chrome and must have added the SteamDB extension years ago, cos I don't remember doing it! When I browse the Steam store, I get those stats embedded on the page. Sure enough, that's how I also get the Sales tracker embedded on there too (when there's a sale on)!

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Yeah, Evolve might be beyond saving, sadly.



Looks like it was popular at one point though. Still £25 to buy too!

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Looks like Red Hook at aiming at having Linux support out for their March update [External Link]. Great news!

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Quoting: HadBabits

Quoting: Games Republic RepHello @scaine.
1) 45 games available today on sale on Linux are available as a Steam keys,
2) 8 games that are available as a DRM-free download. We always inform about type of DRM - take a look on product page:

1) I believe he means does the sale count as a 'Linux sale' in Steam's statistics. Some 3rd party key vendors buy the keys en masse as a Windows sale, even if you only play it on Linux.

2) So does that mean you download directly from the site?

Sorry for the confused comment - you're exactly correct, that's exactly what I was getting at, HadBabits. Do these sales count as "Linux" and where is the DRM-free download from. Thanks!

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And since I've never used them before, can you clarify if these are Steam Keys and counted as Linux sales?

Hmmm, just checked and some of these actually have DRM-free downloads too. Is that via Games Republic, or is a Humble/GoG tie-in?

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroThis time we see 10 American, 4 English and 2 Australian voices (which is an improvement from the last game) but seriously, could some of those American ones not been Scottish, Irish or South African?

Actually there's definitely one Scottish and one Irish in there, but I think they're just described as UK voices. Sadly, no Welsh representation.

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Quoting: dubigrasuThe PoolSize is a proven tweak for UE3 titles, but why would I set
MaxSmoothedFrameRate to 400?

Good question! The original source suggests "leaving" this at 400, but I found my setting was actually 62. I bumped it up to 400 because I have no experience to argue against an obviously knowledgeable UE3 tester, but since that advice came from 2013, it may well be flawed. 400 does seem a bit on the high side and potentially risks running your card hot generating frames that your screen can't draw and your eyes are incapable of discerning.

Of course, if this was CS:GO, you'd have some folk argue that 400 isn't really high enough... :)

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Quoting: TuxeeWTF? Changed XComEngine.ini to bigger pool size and ThreadedShaderCompileThreshold to 2. chown'ed the file to root:root and gave it a 0755. Guess what? It got both reowned by the "me" and chmod'ed to 0770 again. How can that be? Any suggestions?
Anyway, contrary to the article my settings were not reverted - pool size is still 512 and the compile threshold still 2.

The only way that should be possible is if you're running Steam as root, which would (obviously) be a terrible idea. Beyond that possibility, you have a serious flaw on your box if you're seeing root-owned files being chowned by non-root processes...

Did the game improve for you though? That's the most important thing. :D

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Quoting: Xpanderand done.. completed
5.5 hours (minus the food and drink breaks)

Snap! 5.2hrs here. Loved this. Fantastic game.

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Quoting: nattydreadI really wish they could fix the scaling for high resolution displays.
I have a 4k TV and can hardly see the words! I have to use a magnifying tool to use steam
(when not in big picture mode).

Not a perfect solution, but have you tried the Compiz "Enhanced Zoom" function? I made a 30s video about it a few years ago.

View video on youtube.com

But yeah, c'mon Valve. That said, they've only been aware of this bug for 18 months [External Link], so realistically we've got a few years yet for any hope of a fix going by their current shameless bug fixing record.

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