Quoting: SkipperroNice, maybe it will stop to crash because of RAM limitation. :)

That seems to be the case.

I think I've mentioned my old save that would crash the game about 20 seconds after loading no matter what I did. I haven't had a proper chance to test it thoroughly, but it certainly doesn't do that any more, and the tell-tale graphical glitches that used to be a sign of an impending crash are gone too.

Oh, and the configurator program works now. You can download Steam Workshop mods and actually use them. :woot:

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Six years ago tomorrow

No!

(yes really!)

Wow. :D

Quoting: Nanobang2012: Xbone or PS4? Xbone or PS4? Xbo---Hm? What's this? Steam? Linux? Hellz yeah!

Absolutely. The last few years have been pretty tough for me, and I simply can't afford a current-gen console. Steam on Linux came at the perfect time. I've lost count of the games I would never have had a chance to play otherwise (and, thanks to sales, bundles, etc., they've been way cheaper than they would have been on a console). Steam has its critics - not without reason - but if I ever meet GabeN, I'll shake his hand and buy him a beer.

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I'm with Rutine: I did not expect this at all. I take back all the unpleasant things I may possibly have said about TaleWorlds on the Steam forums. :whistle:

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Quoting: DJVikingFor them it is all about the money.

That's the sad part. The original intention of Electronic Arts (and the name was carefully chosen) was to acknowledge and foster the creativity of its developers, at a time when even admitting there were real people making videogames was a rarity*. Modern EA is basically the diametric opposite of what Hawkins set it up to be.

*Of course, the founding of Activision is a similar story. And it went the same way.

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Quoting: lejimsterEA have always been garbage. I had the "pleasure" of experiencing it first hand when I was in game development.

In the '80s, under Trip Hawkins? I don't know what they were like to work for, but they had a pretty good reputation among gamers back then.

Released all their internal tools, too. Not free, because that wasn't really a thing, but you could buy them: Deluxe Paint (still, to this day, one of the best bitmap graphics editors around), Deluxe Music, etc. And they were almost an unofficial first-party developer on AmigaOS. The IFF container format (on which Microsoft based RIFF WAV) was EA's work. In my Amiga days, they were genuinely thought of as being among the good guys.

I kind of lost touch with gaming during the '90s, so I don't know when or how they went downhill, but it was quite a shock to discover how reviled they'd become in the community when I got back into it 10-15 years ago. They deserved it, but it was still a shock.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe ORIGINAL METRO 2033 [External Link] IS BACK on STEAM!!!... And for FREE for 24hs...

Apparently Steam can't decide whether to recommend it to me because it's unlike any other games I've played before. Such as Metro Redux and Last Light...

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Quoting: tuubiIt's an UE4 game so it might be the nvapi problem. If it is, you can work around it by spoofing an AMD gpu. These [External Link] are the first instructions I could find. Might be worth a shot.

Nope, still no joy. Thanks for the tip though. I was vaguely aware of this GPU spoofing thing, but didn't really know what it was all about. Maybe it'll come in handy in future.

I just noticed a post in the Steam forum from a Windows user with a suspiciously similar issue, so I'll look into that too. To be honest, it's not a game I'm particularly bothered about; it just bugged me that it worked perfectly under vanilla Wine, but not with Proton.

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Quoting: GuestI'm excited to test these games with Steam Play.

- Wreckfest
- Shadow Warrior 2
- Cuphead

Shadow Warrior 2 should be fine. I got it in the GOG anniversary giveaway, and it runs flawlessly under “normal” Wine/DXVK. I can't recall having to use any workarounds or tweaks, it Just Works.

(For what that's worth. I still can't get The Flame in the Flood to run at a decent framerate under Proton, even though it was the first game I ever tried with DXVK - being the most recent Windows game I owned at the time - and it was perfect. Don't know what's going on there.)

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Cities: Skylines is basically the ultimate city builder available on Linux

Probably the ultimate city builder right now period.

Quoting: Guestidk, Is there really $15 USD worth of content in that, seems pricey to me at this point, the DLC is really adding up I suppose.

From what I've seen, it adds a whole new level of management, almost turning the game into more of a Transport Tycoon clone than a city builder, so it's not insubstantial. I don't feel like shelling out that kind of money on it myself, if I'm honest, but I think it's a reasonable price to ask.

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Quoting: buenaventuraI recommend Refunct from that list, it's a really nice chill little game!

Definitely, at that price. It's a little short, but a lot of fun while it lasts. (There's a game, if ever there was one, that would benefit immensely from a level editor, now I come to think of it.)

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