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An interview with Beamdog about Linux gaming, they say it’s worth it
9 Apr 2017 at 2:40 am UTC Likes: 2

Well, that just earned them a preorder! I normally don't preorder, but with the involvement of Chris Avellone and the lovely interview here, I'll trust them and make sure they get their cut :)

EDIT: I'm talking about Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition [External Link], in case that wasn't clear.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
27 Mar 2017 at 2:00 pm UTC

Quoting: Ardje[...]
That's the easiest way to perform a script as root: make the script safe, and then hand out rights to users to run that script.
That's what I did, but for some reason it won't work with Argos. I assume it's due to per-terminal login / "tty_tickets", which I don't want to disable completely.

The Away Team, a sci-fi interactive fiction game, now available on Linux
25 Mar 2017 at 12:36 am UTC Likes: 1

That indeed was a lovely announcement, so lovely in fact that I bought the game purely based on it. I don't think I'll have the time to play it any time soon, but Linux love is Linux love :)

Megaquarium, a new and exciting looking simulation game about building your own aquarium
25 Mar 2017 at 12:30 am UTC

I wish the zoomed out view had more of an aquarium theme than what is shown in the trailer. As it is, it's an adorable idea, but it looks a bit too sterile and doesn't quite tickle my fascination with marine life.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 4:15 pm UTC

Quoting: M@yeulC
Quoting: Cybolic
Quoting: HailToTheGrail
Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?
You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.
No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/
Are you sure it is owned by root?
chown root script.sh

A plasmoid to change the CPU governor doesn't seem a bad idea, I might look into that.
Yup: [cybolic:~] $ cat .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
#!/usr/bin/bash
exec cpupower frequency-set -rg "$1" 
[cybolic:~] $ sudo chown root .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
[cybolic:~] $ sudo chmod u+s .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh 
[cybolic:~] $ ls .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh -l
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Mar 23 18:11 .local/bin/set_cpu_scheduler.sh
[cybolic:~] $ set_cpu_scheduler.sh performance
Subcommand frequency-set needs root privileges

Space sandbox game 'Avorion' has a whopper of an update, considering getting a server for it
23 Mar 2017 at 3:52 pm UTC

Quoting: linuxjacques[...]I'm curious - what FPS are you seeing?
Never mind, I had an issue with my driver and it was running without GPU acceleration on my main monitor :P I'm seeing ~70 FPS with everything on high now :)

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 1:58 pm UTC

Quoting: HailToTheGrail
Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?
You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.
No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 12:39 pm UTC

Quoting: M@GOidFor a more easy way to change the settings, install the package "indicator-cpufreq"("sudo apt install indicator-cpufreq" for those of you in Ubuntu). It will show a icon in your taskbar were with 2 mouse clicks you can change to the Performance governor and back. I use it for both AMD and Intel CPUs for years and it works great, for any DE.
Seeing as this lovely utility seems to be missing from the Arch repositories, I whipped up this Argos script [External Link] instead.

I wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

Space sandbox game 'Avorion' has a whopper of an update, considering getting a server for it
23 Mar 2017 at 12:05 am UTC

Quoting: linuxjacques
Quoting: CybolicIf only it ran at anywhere near acceptable framerates on my 3440x1440 screen, I'd love to jump on multiplayer but it's unfortunately a bit of a slideshow currently.
Uh-oh. This may apply to me too then.

I'm curious - what FPS are you seeing?
About 12 FPS with everything on low/ultra low/off and bloom turned off and 5 FPS with bloom on. This is on a GTX 970 OC where Total War Warhammer runs fluidly so there's definitely something up with the game.

Space sandbox game 'Avorion' has a whopper of an update, considering getting a server for it
21 Mar 2017 at 1:30 pm UTC

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTThe graphics looks pretty similar to the X series. Does it also play like that?
It's been a while since I played X, but as I remember it, not really. It's a bit more like EVE done in Minecraft.