Quoting: ColoneilWhat about the intel Pentium g3258? It's only a dual core but when pushed up to 4.5 Ghz it has been reported to keep up with an i7-4790k, most of the games are not yet properly multi-threaded anyways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUlS5Q7tEJI

This will allow to go for a mini-itx motherboard and therefore the wonderful Silverstone Raven RVZ01 which has enough room for any graphics card (for a possible future upgrade). As for the hard-drive did you consider an sshd? for 25$ extra you get 1TB and more speed. Regarding the Graphics card I totally agree the gtx 750 ti is an awesome graphics card.

Here is my build (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/TWbGhM

And great article btw ;)

its good..but future proofing is also a great idea.. since new game consoles are multicore AMD CPUs.. with singlecore perf a bit weaker...and as we know many games are done first for consoles.. so they are probably going to be optimized to use more cores.

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great article.. pretty much all the components are the ones i always recommend for budget gaming pc.

its a bit more expensive than xbone in US but PC can do a lot more than xbone + games arent locked to 900p and 30 fps

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i cant compare it to battlestations or warshpips because i havent played those.
But i can compare to M&B in some terms. it is pretty similar.. but way more simplistic.
you cant upgrade or equip your ships with different guns/armor/whatever. You can just buy new ships(There are a lot of them, with statistical differences like more armor, more gun range etc)
gameplay is pretty simplistic as well. there is not huge amounts of actions to do when battling (no micromanagement for ship crew or anything). But that doesnt mean its boring. Some battles are pretty intense. you have to navigate your ship closely to not get hit by torpedos and position them the way to sink enemy ships easily, that requires some good thinking and fast thinking to switch and position multiple ships. Campaign mode gets repeative pretty fast. most battles are too easy and against 1 or 2 enemy ships only. Theres also no multiplayer sadly.
Its still fun game as it is.. and theres Axis campaigns on the list of their new updates as well, which will bring more variety to campaign (being able to play other side).

overall, i think if you into battleship games, its worth to pick... maybe wait for small price drop if thats too much, or enter the contest to win the key (above video)

PS sry for my poor english

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ohh that Red Factions Guerilla 2 thing..i really hope it comes.. first one is superb, but only 1.0 version plays nicely with wine.. after updates its broken.

darksiders is not really my type of game however..but good to see it anyhow

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Quoting: GoCorinthiansreally strange...dev said that ue3 isnt compatible with linux...but i downloaded a file of 1gb in steam linux...

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because it has openVR for linux, which probably came with the package and they forgot to remove it.

http://steamdb.info/app/296070/depots/

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no framerate problems for me since launch... but it feels a bit better with the new beta indeed. probably the framerate is even higher...i can see that its using 2 cores now..goes up to 3 cores sometimes.. while it was using 1 core only when it was released for linux.
all maxed. bloom sh1t off and uber off 1080p is super smooth.

the one thing that was pain when the game launched for linux was the mouse jerkyness.
which seem to be fixed with the latest beta update. all is great now.. i dont see any crashes when i exit the game either.

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Quoting: liamdaweWow, so Arch could possibly be Steam's number 2 distro right now. That's a lot of users.

i dont think its only arch, its probably any distro that doesnt come default with lsb package installed. probably manjaro, fedora and similar as well

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Linux 3.10 is the distro that doesnt have LSB package installed.
at least thats how it reported for me when i uninstalled lsb-release package

without lsb package:

Operating System Version:
    Linux 3.10 (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.15.7-1-ARCH
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11600000
    X Window Manager:  Xfwm4
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2014-07-22

With lsb-release installed:
Operating System Version:
    "Arch Linux" (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.15.7-1-ARCH
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11600000
    X Window Manager:  Xfwm4
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release_2014-07-22

Arch by default doesnt come with this package..

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XCOM, Shadowrun (was it this year?) and FORCED.

waiting for Project Cars mostly and any of the upcoming Aspyr or Feral ports!

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Quoting: lem18Hey Xpander,

Can you try holding down the \ key on the Ryos, does it repeat? Also when it's held down, if you press other keys, what happens?

Here's what happens with other NKRO keyboards under Linux (in this case a Deck Hassium in NKRO mode, switchable by a key on the board itself):

Holding down backslash: \
Holding down backslash and typing roccat: \r\\o\\c\\c\\a\\t\\

Linux has issues with USB NKRO keyboards in general, but this Roccat Ryos seems not to have the issues that the others do.

Cheers

holding it down and typing roccat brings me: \roccat

if i hold it down it does repeat, but when its held down and i press other keys it stops repeating and wont return anymore unless i release and press again

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