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The weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently
8 Aug 2020 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: XpanderBorderlands 3, because free weekend. Honestly, i have to say, this game is pretty bad. Runs okaish, looks ok, if blurs and TAA are turned off, but combat is so boring and dull. not enough feedback from guns or hits on the enemy or yourself, feels quite bland. Just cant enjoy it because of that. Lucky that it was free this weekend, so now i know i wont buy this game.
Ok adding more games:

Warhammer Online (Return of Reckoning) ... My go to PvP/RvR MMORPG fix.

Destroy All Humans Quite fun game, not that great gameplay but its funny a bit and works pretty well with wine. needs media foundation installed into prefix.

The weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently
8 Aug 2020 at 2:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: saturnoyoI disagree. Borderlands 3 has the best gunplay of any borderlands game. Shooting weapons is much more satisfying than it was in BL2 or BL:pre-sequel. The guns have more weight to it.
It doesnt excuse the situation though. If its the best borderlands game combat wise then, i cant imagine what the old ones feel like.. For me at least the combat was the worst i ever got from Triple A game in a while.

The weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently
8 Aug 2020 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Borderlands 3, because free weekend. Honestly, i have to say, this game is pretty bad. Runs okaish, looks ok, if blurs and TAA are turned off, but combat is so boring and dull. not enough feedback from guns or hits on the enemy or yourself, feels quite bland. Just cant enjoy it because of that. Lucky that it was free this weekend, so now i know i wont buy this game.

What play button have you been clicking on lately?
27 Jul 2020 at 2:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: MohandevirJust Cause 4 and Rage 2.

Rage 2 seems impossible to play... The game keeps on crashing every 15mins or so, no natter what I try in the launch options or in the graphic settings. Not really enjoyable, even tough I like the game.
turn off async compute from the config files.
~/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/548570/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Saved Games/id Software/Rage 2/settings.ini

zero crashes like that

What play button have you been clicking on lately?
26 Jul 2020 at 4:26 pm UTC

Since the EAC builds of wine do not work after the latest EAC updates. I can't play Apex Legends anymore sadly, which i really started to like, even though i dont like battle royale games usually, but the gunplay in it was so responsive and fun, so i got quite hooked.

But that made me go back to Warhammer Online (Return of Reckoning) once again, to satisfy my PvP needs.

What have you been playing on Linux? Come and have a chat
5 Jul 2020 at 3:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Haven't had much time to play games these days but:

Completed Titanfall 2 story mode (campaign). Story was generic as hell, but gameplay and not too dumb AI made up for it. Did few PvP matches also, but no progression there, so it got boring.

and ofc still playing a bit of Warhammer: Return of Reckoning - Nice to jump in and have some cool PvP battles, either small scale scenarios or big Keep sieges.

NVIDIA released a big new mainline Linux Beta Driver 450.51
24 Jun 2020 at 7:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

like on the 450.36.06 beta cuda drivers, this driver has the image sharpening built in :)

Image Sharpening

The __GL_SHARPEN_ENABLE environment variable can be used to enable image sharpening for OpenGL and Vulkan applications. Setting __GL_SHARPEN_ENABLE=1 enables image sharpening, while setting __GL_SHARPEN_ENABLE=0 (default) disables image sharpening. The amount of sharpening can be controlled by setting the __GL_SHARPEN_VALUE environment variable to a value between 0 and 100, with 0 being no sharpening, 100 being maximum sharpening, and 50 being the default. The amount of denoising done on the sharpened image can be controlled with the __GL_SHARPEN_IGNORE_FILM_GRAIN environment variable, with 0 being no denoising, 100 being maximum denoising, and 17 being the default.

DRAG certainly seems like a promising upcoming racing game
17 Jun 2020 at 4:04 pm UTC

Quoting: DuncOh, yes. :woot: First impressions are everything I hoped they'd be. I love the quick, “just one more go” old-school arcade feel to it. And I'm amazed how well it runs on my no-longer-cutting-edge rig. Handling is slightly strange, I'll agree. But it may just be the car.

So come on then... times. :smile: Anyone manage a sub-30s run yet? I did a 30.4 and it nearly killed me.
29.515, but i'm not good with controllers :( need my wheel support lol

DRAG certainly seems like a promising upcoming racing game
17 Jun 2020 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tuubiThe demo looked pretty and ran well for me, but the handling felt really weird. Unwieldy, not just unforgiving like Dirt Rally. Or maybe it is realistic and carts like this are just horrible to drive? I guess I'll keep my eye on reviews.
Handling is quite OK imo. Since the engine seems to be infront its expected to be quite light on the back and can easily spin off if you just keep the throttle on, specially on the mud/gravel or grass. It could use some tweaks here and there.. sense of speed is a bit lacking imo.. Other than that. Looks good, Runs good. Can't wait to Get my hands on the Early Access version.

DRAG demo - Linux | Gameplay
https://youtu.be/4Oivs7blCJw [External Link]

Linux Kernel patch being discussed to help Windows games run in Wine
1 Jun 2020 at 7:15 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PatolaDoes anyone know of any current use cases for this patch? Which Windows applications/games skip WinAPI calls to do syscalls directly?
i think its more to do with all those anticheat and drm protection systems, rather than games itself

Quoting: Liam DaweTo get something is to receive something, seems perfectly appropriate. It mentions clearly it's a patch (doesn't say merged or anything) and notes its 'RFC' directly in the title. A title is just a title, the key is as always the text that accompanies it.
I'm not native english speaker, true. but wouldnt it be better to use "might get" ? :)

i know its request for comments but its not inside the kernel yet lol...