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Battle Royale game 'Darwin Project' looks like it might actually be coming to Linux
14 Apr 2018 at 7:10 am UTC Likes: 1

this is actually one of the BR games that actually seems interesting, something different from the rest imo.
I own it since they sent me alpha key way back, even though i only use linux. I tried in wine but obviously anticheat prevents it from running.

looking forward to Linux builds if that ever happens

RUINER is looking good on Linux, official non-beta build due on Monday
14 Apr 2018 at 5:58 am UTC

Quoting: 14
Quoting: Xpanderyeah i know, now many come say do not use paypal, but i dont like to enter my credit card number to multiple sites, so if paypal gets hacked or leaked i know where to search where it got leaked.

So i guess i have to wait now and figure out whats the problem
Ever since I switched to buying Steam games using PayPal long ago, I only buy them from a full web browser instead of the Steam client. It seems more reliable and trustworthy to me.
yeah, i just wanted to be sure it counts linux, i never really trust how the browsers count, but if i play on linux straight after, its fine i guess

RUINER is looking good on Linux, official non-beta build due on Monday
13 Apr 2018 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wish it had Co-OP or even local coop.

first problem for me is that when i search "RUINER" from steam i get those 2 things only:


luckily i had it in my wishlist or i could use the Liam's link to open it.
But now paypal/steam is acting up for me, had to confirm my card, paypal took 1.50€ from me but steam still thinks its not confirmed and now i got this:



yeah i know, now many come say do not use paypal, but i dont like to enter my credit card number to multiple sites, so if paypal gets hacked or leaked i know where to search where it got leaked.

So i guess i have to wait now and figure out whats the problem

Steam revamps profile privacy settings, Steam Spy no longer able to operate
11 Apr 2018 at 4:43 pm UTC

This is actually sad that steam spy cannot operate anymore. It was really great way to check if its worth to buy <insert random multiplayer game> and check out if there even is a player-base before commiting to it.

NVIDIA 396.18 beta driver is out with a new Vulkan SPIR-V compiler to reduce shader compilation time
10 Apr 2018 at 10:45 pm UTC Likes: 4

Yeah new driver has lots of issues, tesselation not working, bad performance, but shader compiles are a lot smoother and this driver also fixes the Sun glitch in GTA V with dxvk for me. but they need to work on it more.

anyway its just a beta driver, they can improve it and until then i can run their old compiler with:

export __GL_NextGenCompiler=0

edit: That info only involves vulkan with the new SPIR-V compiler, OpenGL is unaffected

Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games
10 Apr 2018 at 1:30 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: fagnerlnNice, now we need a way to force the clocks of the GPU :P
easy with nvidia :D

nvidia-settings --assign [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1

so:
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g performance && nvidia-settings --assign [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=1 && nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GpuFanControlState=1 -a [fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=45 && notify-send "Performance Mode" "CPU set to Performance & GPU fan 45%" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info

something like that :)

Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games
10 Apr 2018 at 11:08 am UTC Likes: 4

This is what i used so far:

Spoiler, click me
xpander@arch ~ $ cat /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.archlinux.pkexec.cpupower.policy
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
 " http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>

  <action id="org.archlinux.pkexec.cpupower">
    <message>cpupower without super user</message>
    <icon_name>cpupower</icon_name>
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>yes</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
    </defaults>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/cpupower</annotate>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
  </action>

</policyconfig>


and then keybinds for:

pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g performance && notify-send "Performance Mode" "Cpu clocks set to perfromance mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info

and pack to normal:
pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g ondemand && notify-send "Ondemand Mode" "Cpu clocks set to ondemand mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info

Feral Interactive have released an open source tool that’ll help get the most performance out of Linux games
10 Apr 2018 at 10:58 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BrisseI guess this won't do much for us AMD-users since they don't usually default to "powersave"? When I used Ubuntu 17.10 I think it defaulted to "ondemand" with my Ryzen 1700X, and now I'm on Debian Sid which seems to default to "performance".

Edit: I just realized the latter could be because I run a custom kernel.
it does impact. ondemand mode is not good either. it will switch between clocks in games a lot (not in all games) and will cause fps drops. i run my ryzen always on performance mode when i go gaming. It has pretty big impact on the minimum framerates when running ondemand.

if you are on performance mode then its fine, its not the default behaviour on most distros though. Running it on performance constantly isnt that great also imo, but ryzen is pretty efficient (on idle with performance mode enabled) and just adds +20W compared to ondemand judging by my UPS reporting

to avoid sudo thing i created a polkit rule for cpupower to let me execute the command without sudo :)

looking forward to see this gamemode being implemented into the future games of feral and others.

DXVK, the Vulkan compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 and Wine has a fresh release reducing CPU overhead
7 Apr 2018 at 7:40 pm UTC

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: Xpanderyes you can copy paste and use the Steam.sh script modified to launch Witcher3.exe
Quoting: Xpanderthis doesn't show any error, looks like it launched fine.
Yeah, but i don't see the game, it just launches nothing. :huh:
that is strange. Try to comment the WINEDEBUG=-all line, then wine should throw more info into the terminal, that might reveal whats the problem. I haven't tested Witcher 3 (don't own it) myself maybe you need some special dll overrides with this game.

at least it seems you succeeded with installing dxvk into your prefix as the info comes up
I get this without the WINEDEBUG option:

Spoiler, click me
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Wine Staging 3.5 is a testing version containing experimental patches.
000b:fixme:winediag:start_process Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e0b0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x81000 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e0ac L"\f6a0\n" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e040 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x82420 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e03c L"\10b0\0008" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e040 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x81620 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e03c L"\56b0\0008" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e0b0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x810b0 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e0ac L"\f6a0\n" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e040 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x81270 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e03c L"\5680\0008" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e040 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x82830 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e03c L"\5680\0008" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e1a0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x810b0 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e19c L"\f6a0\n" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212dcd0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x81440 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212dccc L"\5680\0008" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e110 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x83070 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e10c L"\0208\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e1a0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x83070 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e19c L"\0208\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212dcd0 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x830b0 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212dccc L"\01c8\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e110 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x82730 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e10c L"\0688\0001" 0x00000000: stub
info: Enabled instance layers:
info: Enabled instance extensions:
info: VK_KHR_surface
info: VK_KHR_win32_surface
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e680 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x827b0 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e67c L"\0608\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e680 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x88130 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e67c L"\0568\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_List_SizeW 0x212e260 L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Get_Device_ID_ListW L"{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}" 0x870c0 0 0x00000300: stub
002e:fixme:setupapi:CM_Locate_DevNodeW 0x212e25c L"\0228\0001" 0x00000000: stub
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Global function "vkEnumerateInstanceVersion" not found.
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroups".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceFeatures2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceFormatProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceImageFormatProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceQueueFamilyProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceMemoryProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceSparseImageFormatProperties2".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalBufferProperties".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalFenceProperties".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalSemaphoreProperties".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetDeviceGroupSurfacePresentModesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDevicePresentRectanglesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceDisplayPropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceDisplayPlanePropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetDisplayPlaneSupportedDisplaysKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetDisplayModePropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkCreateDisplayModeKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetDisplayPlaneCapabilitiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkCreateDisplayPlaneSurfaceKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkCreateSharedSwapchainsKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkEnumeratePhysicalDeviceGroupsKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalBufferPropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalSemaphorePropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalFencePropertiesKHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2KHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormats2KHR".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkCreateDebugReportCallbackEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkDestroyDebugReportCallbackEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkDebugReportMessageEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkDebugMarkerSetObjectTagEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkDebugMarkerSetObjectNameEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceExternalImageFormatPropertiesNV".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceGeneratedCommandsPropertiesNVX".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkReleaseDisplayEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceCapabilities2EXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkSetDebugUtilsObjectNameEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkSetDebugUtilsObjectTagEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkCreateDebugUtilsMessengerEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkDestroyDebugUtilsMessengerEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkSubmitDebugUtilsMessageEXT".
002e:fixme:vulkan:wine_vkGetInstanceProcAddr Unsupported device or instance function: "vkGetPhysicalDeviceMultisamplePropertiesEXT".
info: GeForce GTX 780:
info: Driver: 390.42.0
info: Vulkan: 1.0.65
info: D3D11CreateDevice: Probing D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0
info: D3D11CreateDevice: Using feature level D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_11_0
002f:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0x182bfdc0 (nil)): stub
002e:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x2831878) stub
002e:fixme:msvcrt:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x2745768) stub

Maybe it's just missing dll as you said. Maybe I'll try with an another game...
hmm doesnt seem like its missing anything just "fixme" errors which shouldn't be a big deal. no real "err" messages. maybe something with your Window manager, doesnt create a window somehow or something, might want to tryto enable wine virtual desktop under winecfg.

DXVK, the Vulkan compatibility layer for Direct3D 11 and Wine has a fresh release reducing CPU overhead
7 Apr 2018 at 7:17 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: Xpanderyes you can copy paste and use the Steam.sh script modified to launch Witcher3.exe
Quoting: Xpanderthis doesn't show any error, looks like it launched fine.
Yeah, but i don't see the game, it just launches nothing. :huh:
that is strange. Try to comment the WINEDEBUG=-all line, then wine should throw more info into the terminal, that might reveal whats the problem. I haven't tested Witcher 3 (don't own it) myself maybe you need some special dll overrides with this game.

at least it seems you succeeded with installing dxvk into your prefix as the info comes up