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 :)

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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.

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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

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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 :)

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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 :/

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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?

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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.

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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.

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If 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.

EDIT: Everyone, please ignore that. It was a driver issue, not the game.

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I thoroughly recommend supporting these guys! They whipped up a Linux demo during their Kickstarter campaign, despite not initially planning to support Linux, just because us fans were asking for it in the comments and chat; not only that, but they kept it up to date and added Linux as a target platform as a result.
Also, the game is already pretty fun and definitely feels like Descent (more so than Descent: Underground in my opinion).

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