Some devs have noted that their games have been activated on Linux in the past (despite not having a Linux build). Although this might purely be the purchase without install.

However, the Wine version is definitely sent to Steam:

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Quoting: TheRiddickTHey should also count users who are using OS type Wine or similar.

They do, and possibly as Linux. If you run Steam in Wine and get a survey it records the wine version (you can see this in the information before you submit it).

What would be interesting to find out is how many active user accounts Steam has now, as last reported in November 2015 it had 125 million active accounts.

Last I saw (probably 12 months ago) the trend was for 1 million new accounts added per month. So perhaps 135 to 140 million?

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Quoting: NovaTiny

Quoting: neffoThis is great news, and this is why Ubuntu is great. It's actually supported!

What do you mean with supported? By Canonical?

Read the link at the start of the article, but here is a summary:
All the PPAs for Mesa were built from the git (a daily grab bag of features, bugs or regressions), rather than from the latest release. This made it near impossible to support, but the Mesa bundled with LTS Ubuntu was ancient and lacking features. This PPA means that Feral (and others) have an up-to-date Mesa target to support. Great news for Feral, great news for people on AMD/Intel hardware and great news for gamers all round.

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This is great news, and this is why Ubuntu is great. It's actually supported!

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ShabbyXIf you allow one to stay logged in for a long time, with the usual "Remember Me" checkbox or something (checkbox disable by default), that would definitely increase my activity here.

We do have that already, it's how I and most likely most people stay logged in here. Steam login is an extra.

Is the Steam login used for anything?

It'd be cool to poll public profiles to get of number/percentage Linux games in the library.

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Despite the fact that steam hasn't launched the controllers in your locations, you can still buy through other retailers. I bought mine from Amazon without a problem as well.

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Quoting: HalifaxOh, you're a more sensitive man than I am. I shove my emotions as deep as they can go, so I can take care of the dirty work a woman will need me to in a relationship - taking care of the dog when it dies and telling her it was peaceful and calm so she doesn't have to know the details, etc.

The sound-track I could only take five seconds of before turning off. The only emotional response I have is the picture of the girl is hot -if she was of age, I'd like to date her and possibly get some loving from her. Then I'd have to periodically endure this emotional kind of stuff she'd inflict on me as a toll for partaking of her feminine charms.

Plus, country music. Good god, what is it with women and country music. Someone give me a shotgun so I can suck-start it the next time I hear a warbling momma's boy sing some stupid country music song my woman makes me listen to.

bro.

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A fantastic read, Cheese. Can't wait to play the game!

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Quoting: UlukaiI love the SR3 and SR4 games too! I play them with the Steam Controller but because the right trackpad is mapped to behave like a mouse, I often get the keyboard and mouse bindings on screen instead of the gamepad bindings.

Not sure if I should report this to them or to Valve/Steam community. Or is there a way to fix this using controller settings or action sets? Anyone else experiencing the same?

The whole Steam Controller Action Sets things is totally passing by on me, I guess I don't understand the good use of it...

By the way, I have a high end PC all with SSDs and have the loading issue as well in SR3.

Did you set it up that way? It works better if you use the right track pad as mouse-like joystick. You then dial up the sensitivity in game (for the joystick) to maximum. Works a treat.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: neffoThere is an option to "fix" the handling of the cars. I don't know what that means.

Thanks… I just played a bit of the game and the cars seem to handle very well already. Also performance is not that bad. Sure it should run at 60 FPS easily, but even with every video option to the max it seems playable on my i5 4690K + GTX 660 (30-50 FPS). There is some stutter while driving but it’s not that horrible, you can still drive easily. (And no I haven’t installed the game on an SSD.)

For some reason even with all the video options to the minimum (except the resolution) it won’t reach 60 FPS either, while looking very bland. CPU and GPU usage in this case are both lower than 30%…

That's the engine problem, not something that VP could fix. The PC port had the same issues a long time ago [External Link].

This is something that may help, although if someone with more skills can compare (say in a video).
- find the saints row 2 install dir
- open saferun.sh in your favourite text editor
- find the line "${EXEC}" "$@"
- change it to taskset -c 1,2,3 "${EXEC}" "$@"

(This sets the CPU task affinity to 3 cores (ie keeping it from using core 0). This has been recommended on Windows, and it seems to make some difference to me too. This is due to the fact that the game was originally coded for the 3-core xbox.)

Your kilometreage may vary.

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