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Want to use dual monitors but don't have enough desk space? I found a great monitor arm for you
23 Mar 2016 at 10:18 am UTC

hmm unity dock and panel are cloned to both monitors? thats nasty

ARK spin-off ARK: Survival Of The Fittest will come to Linux
22 Mar 2016 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

ts not too bad, runs 40-60FPS for me most of the time.. allmost everything on epic except shadows and textrures... it has improved a lot, no more huge fps stutter near huge player built bases also

but there are missing graphics options for linux client as well as some weird graphical glitches from time to time

Thats with __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1

AMD FX8320@4,4GHZ, GTX 970

PAYDAY 2 now available on SteamOS & Linux, free to try for a few days
22 Mar 2016 at 9:14 am UTC Likes: 1

Seems to run really good. Also seems like Vsync is enabled even if its not marked from the options menu(locked 60 fps makes recording much simpler though so its a good thing in that case).
Depth of Field is terrible. Not really my type of game, but bought it anyway to support devs.

View video on youtube.com

System Specs:
Processor:AMD FX-8320 @ 4,4Ghz
Memory:16 GB DDR3 (1866Mhz)
Video Card:Asus 970 STRIX 4GB (3.5GB)
Sound Card:Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
Operating System:Arch Linux 64bit
Kernel: 4.4
Filesystem: ext4
Nvidia drivers: 364.12
Desktop Environment: MATE (1.12) + nvidia's ForceCompositionPipeline = On

GOL Asks: What have you been playing recently?
16 Mar 2016 at 3:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

Blaze Rush - Fun Top Down Racing game with Guns. Played it mostly local co-op with my 2x steam controllers.

7 Days to Die - played around 4-5hours, lots have been improved (played like 2 years ago last time), visuals are really good and runs amazingly if 64bit executable is enabled from the launch script and reflections disabled.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn't look like it will come to Linux any time soon
15 Mar 2016 at 12:44 pm UTC

i hope they dont cock out
i backed just because of the promised linux client

How big is Linux gaming? Some estimates
14 Mar 2016 at 12:20 pm UTC Likes: 4

so if we know that we are ~1% in steam and on average every game has ~3% sales for linux users
we can calculate how many people are likely buying a game
and we can do same for windows

so lets say 1.25 milion linux users. A game that sells 200k copies for example and 3% of them are Linux sales
its 6000 copies

200k copies from all 125milion users is just 0.16%

now lets take out those linux figures 200k-6000= 194k
and lets take out linux user count 125mil-1.25 mil = 123,75mil

194k copies from 123,75mil users is 0,156% - thats how likely mac and windows users buy this game.

and for linux

6000 copies from 1,25 mil users is 0.48% - thats how likely Linux users wil buy the game

well i hope i did everything correctly. im not really good at math :D

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 3:54 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: rustybroomhandleI play ETS2 using a Logitech Driving Force GT wheel. It works fairly well there (and presumably on ATS also) but on ETS2 at least, the force feedback and rumble was not fully implemented yet. (On Grid Autosport it's fully working)

Even without these features though, a wheel is the best way to play this.
you might want to check here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/linuxff/discussions/0/405692224235574471/ [External Link]
Yus. It's not a driver issue though - the rumble and force-feedback works perfectly in Grid Autosport. I believe it's just a limited implementation in *TS on Linux.
from what i gathered its still a driver issue. grid autosport just has its own simulation engine or something but ETS/ATS need the information directly from the wheel(drivers) to function correctly.

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 3:16 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI play ETS2 using a Logitech Driving Force GT wheel. It works fairly well there (and presumably on ATS also) but on ETS2 at least, the force feedback and rumble was not fully implemented yet. (On Grid Autosport it's fully working)

Even without these features though, a wheel is the best way to play this.
you might want to check here: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/linuxff/discussions/0/405692224235574471/ [External Link]

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 2:51 pm UTC

Quoting: lvlarkAlso, just out of curiosity, what's the added value of ATS over ETS? Is it mainly so that Americans can ride in more familiar lands, or do the traffic/roads/trucks differ enough for people to want to have both? Or are there different features? Could be thrilling to be able to drive ice roads..
well, Europeans can also see US landscapes & places :) which is amazing imo. Roads are different yeah, trucks also, turning radius is different but you can get US trucks into ETS2 also via mods. There arent much different features. Parking is a lot Harder in ATS when you choose the hard parking mode, there are cops that drive around and fine you (in ETS2 there are just speedcams afaik), Weigh-In stations. Its not too much different, but the maps alone make it really interesting at least in my opinion.

I played American Truck Simulator on Linux, don't ever let me drive a real truck
8 Mar 2016 at 2:44 pm UTC

:)

damage model isnt implemented probably because of the agreements with truck manufactures :(
its pain in the ass.

i myself dont really care about the radiostations much, since i listen my own music anyway and have mouse binds to change tracks in my playlist etc. but would be good to have it..

FFB would be nice and head tracking is also a bit hard to configure perfectly but its doable

great game, multiplayer would be even more amazing, there are some mods but no A.I. traffic and i think only for windows atm.