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The weekend chat - what have you been playing?
13 September 2020 at 8:34 pm UTC

It's been mostly Red Dead Redemtion II. My daughter persuaded me to get it, and it has been a massive pleasure to play.
The great pity is that we cannot have a multiplayer game as that is sadly broken on linux.

I have also been logging in for a few Wargames in Interstellar Marines - scary robot time :). There are usually a couple of players around to team up with and a nice bunch they all seem to be.

Hope you get over your cold @scaine, VR is no fun is you have to keep blowing your nose.

Single-player dino survival horror 'Goner' is a success on Kickstarter, coming to Linux PC
11 September 2020 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 2

I do wish they had posted some daylight footage, just to get a better look at the game.

On the subject of running around in the dark and completely unrelated to this game, I recently had a go at Interstellar Marines and teamed up with a couple of players who clearly knew exactly what they were doing and where they were going in the pitch black. I didn't know the maps as well and ran straight off the edge to my death AND with a third of our team points, now lost and unrecoverable. DOH!

Open source 3D creation suite 'Blender' has a major new release
1 September 2020 at 11:13 am UTC Likes: 2

This is very early days for VR in blender, and I haven't had a lot of success with it but if you start blender through steam. Go to preferences and then add-ons then tick 3D View VR Scene Inspection. You will now have the option to start a VR session. Press 'n' to open the side bar and there will be a vr tab with an option to start a vr session. It's buggy but nice to see some of your creations :)

Lenovo adding Ubuntu & Red Hat on their entire ThinkStation and ThinkPad P lines
2 June 2020 at 8:23 pm UTC

Getting a community going is a wise move, I certainly hope this works out.

Might be time to upgrade my x200 :)

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
28 March 2020 at 9:06 pm UTC

I am very pleased with my card. The only time I really experience issues is with VR, but the current state of VR is beta anyway. I have watched corben78 play H/L Alyx on his nvidia harware on GOL's twitch channel and he experienced problems also. Unless you really want openCL I recommend the radeon rx 5700 very much.

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
24 March 2020 at 12:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have a 5 -7 week wait for the controllers :)
btw the launch options I'm using are - RADV_PERFTEST=aco gamemoderun %command%
and this is the branch I am using.
The game is definitely worth the wait :)

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release
24 March 2020 at 11:44 am UTC

Quoting: sub
Quoting: HoriIDK... I've got a Valve Index this monday (a great way to fight the pandemic btw) and SteamVR works VERY badly on Linux, and often freezes my whole system. Many games also refuse to start even.

I'm sorry to say this but I play all my VR games on Windows because of that, and they will likely count as Windows sales because of this. I really hoped I can stick to Linux, but VR is where I draw the line. I can handle errors, glitches and crashes on traditional games, but not in VR.

If I may ask - what GPU?

Recently bought a 5700XT and waiting for the Index, which currently says 2-4 weeks. :(

Alex will run on the rx 5700. I am currently running Arch with these tweeks from the mesa-git repo, vulkan-radeon-git, mesa-git, together with 32 bit libs and xf86-video-amdgpu-git. I am also using the drm-fixes-5.6 branch of the linux kernel (An easy way to do this can be found in gardotd426 's comment on this thread from about a week ago). I have had about 3 crashes in about 4.5 hours of gameplay and been able to ssh in but can only recover with a reboot.
The game itself is great fun, I am using the index headset but I only have the old controllers and I think to get the most out of the game you need valves new controllers.

Help GamingOnLinux beat Coronavirus, join us on Folding@home
21 March 2020 at 7:05 pm UTC

Another 1000 points for the team! :)

Open source XR runtime (VR/AR) 'Monado' sees a first release
26 February 2020 at 6:23 pm UTC Likes: 2

Christoph Haag has posted this on youtube xrdesktop