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System76 formally tease their new 'Lemur Pro' laptop as their most open yet
24 Mar 2020 at 3:37 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sarmadI'm fine with Intel, but give me that discrete Intel GPU.
Ok, here you go.

NVIDIA driver 440.59 released for Linux
9 Feb 2020 at 5:31 pm UTC

Just updated the video driver from 440.48.02 to 440.59 on Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel 5.3.0-28. I can no longer control the video card fans using GreenWithEnvy(GWE). I could previously, and cool bits is still set. Anyone have any suggestions?

UPDATE: Well this is embarrassing. I checked the GWE support site, and evidently I need to run "flatpack update" after exiting GWE. I did this and GWE is running ok. I'll leave this here in case someone else has the same problem.

The Humble Team17 Bundle is up, another chance for some cheap Linux games
4 Dec 2018 at 11:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

No Amiga version, no sale! Uh, looks like some interesting games Liam, thanks for the heads up.

What are you playing this weekend?
1 Sep 2018 at 8:41 pm UTC

Quoting: WorMzy
Quoting: notinuse
Quoting: WorMzyI've been playing Mass Effect using Steam Play. For the most part, it's worked well. There have been a few crashes, but I think that's probably just the game rather than Proton.
Did you have to do anything special to make audio work? When I run Mass Effect using Steam Play, the intro audio works, and then the game is quiet.
Yeah, there's an asound override you need to do in winecfg: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40898 [External Link]

After that, sound works fine. For my system I had to run winecfg with the following prefix:
WINEPREFIX=/media/steam-ext4-fast/steamapps
compatdata/17460/pfx winecfg
you'll need to adjust your your setup.
Thank you, I'll give it a try.

Edit: I used the information in this link to force software audio, Mass Effect audio fix [External Link]. It works perfectly now.

What are you playing this weekend?
1 Sep 2018 at 8:06 pm UTC

Quoting: WorMzyI've been playing Mass Effect using Steam Play. For the most part, it's worked well. There have been a few crashes, but I think that's probably just the game rather than Proton.
Did you have to do anything special to make audio work? When I run Mass Effect using Steam Play, the intro audio works, and then the game is quiet.

Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine
31 Aug 2018 at 4:20 pm UTC

Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: GuestEven with a whitelisted game, you have no total guarantee. :D
Really curious to try these and see by myself... My setup is Ubuntu 18.04 + Nvidia 396.54. I respect Valve's minimum requirements. I'm waiting for a sale to test Doom, Nier:Automata and Star Wars: Battlefront 2. The only Whitelisted game I tested is Fallout Shelter and it runs great.

Edit: I would like to see a filter, in the google docs, to classify the tests per system configurations so that we may relate to similar configurations while trying to see if a game will work or not on our own systems.
I bought my Doom Steam code from here, Doom from Wingamestore. [External Link] It was $6.59 a week ago, bought it to test with the beta of Steam Play. Works great, although I had to add a start command to force starting the game in Vulkan.

Microsoft acquires GitHub for some loose change
5 Jun 2018 at 12:03 pm UTC Likes: 2

[quote=Dunc]
... Look, on the other hand, at Hotmail. Or Nokia. Or Lionhead. Or Rare. Or Blue Ribbon Softworks. (“Who?” ... Exactly.)...
I think you meant Blue Ribbon Soundworks. I remember. And I agree with you.