Quoting: ShoNuff!!!is this game able to be played with dxvk/wine?

apparently not [External Link]. Interestingly, I didn't find it on WineHQ. I also learned that the game had a DX11 renderer, I thought it was only DX12/Vulkan. If it's borked on spcr it could be due to one of two things:

• The users didn't know how to force the vulkan renderer before starting the game trough a config file or argument (it might not be possible?)
• Wine itself broke something.

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Well, this one was obvious. The seagulls, first, and then the name, Aurora.

You know how the Aperture Science boat is called the Borealis in Half-life 2 and Portal 2, right? Half-Life 3 Confiiiiiiiiiirmed! :D

Otherwise, I don't know. Maybe The witness? I haven't played it, but it's on an island. Would it fit with seagulls and Aurorae?

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Hey, that was an interesting answer to me at least, that's something I wondered about for some time, and I get very little exposure to windows, so it was nice to get one. That said, I also somewhat agree with the above post, and while an answer was provided (thank you!), I find uninteresting to dwell on the subject much longer, especially as this is an old (but popular) topic, is kind of off-topic, and will send a notification to every participant ;)

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Quoting: cprnI wonder if virtual keyboard would be reliable with those. AFAIU the specs they can detect not only the releasing of a single finger but also the proximity of the finger to the controller so in theory displaying a standard QWERTY keyboard and detecting key "press" should be possible. Goodby mechanical clicks, hello force feedback?

That's why I really like the "lighthouse" tracking system, you can add more devices into your virtual environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVXvk1X1Gbs [External Link]
That said, a completely virtual keyboard would be a good option if feasible :)

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Quoting: PikoloTo put that into human words: if you can't buy the same product without Windows, you might be able to get it refunded.

Yeah, like cpm said, that works quite well, although you sometimes have to fight quite hard for this. Licenses are typically less expensive nowadays (especially if you consider windows *something* home. That's usually between 20 to 50 EUR, depending on the manufacturer (in the past, some went as high as € 150).

The exact amount and procedure depends on the manufacturer, though. And more and more are selling computers without OS (yay!).

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Quoting: liamdaweNote: Updated the text to be clearer, it's Steam wanting to use system SDL, not Forsaken. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.

Which should be fixed, id I read the bug report correctly? (Not yet in bionic, though)

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for some reason on Ubuntu 18.04 Forsaken Remastered wants to use the system installed SDL (instead of the Steam runtime) which causes Vulkan in the game not to work

Meanwhile, you could try to run steam with
STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steam
It just has to do with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH order, that was changed a while back (the current default is 1). Steam should probably get involved a bit more, and could even provide its own loader, I think.

Thanks Icculus!

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Quoting: PatolaBorderlands 2 GOTY + All DLCs + Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel [External Link] with 91% off. Amazing.

Interesting, it looks like the euro price hiked from 19.99 ($1=€1) to 29.99 [a whooping 75% more than the USD price] for no apparent reason in december 2015, according to steamDB: https://steamdb.info/app/49520/ [External Link] That, plus the fact that 90% of what I don't own is cosmetic DLC, will make me pass on this one.

BTW, it's 81% off, but some special offers stack, so 91% if you don't own anything yet. Much less appealing to me for now.
Well, if the bundle stays around, I might buy it in the future, of course ;)

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I ended up playing more FTL than I'd be comfortable admitting. Being stuck on my cellphone's plan, and having already eaten trough 10GB, I was looking for something light to download.

This time, I did an easy playtrough, though, which allowed me to beat the final boss for the first time \o/

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Quoting: Stupendous ManI just stupidly did rm * on the root partition while trying to migrate to a new M.2 ssd. I stopped it within 2 seconds of having issued the command but already 8GB had been deleted, including everything in /bin and /usr/bin... :D

Luckily my last automatic backup was only 10 hours old, so I'm already back up and running with no data loss.

Quoting: HmeGrabbed a copy of DOOM (2016) for 7€, thinking I would test this whole proton thing not expecting much...
IT RUNS SO SMOOTH!

Where did you find it at that price?

It's quite cheap on the humble store right now.

Sadly, I won't play much over the weekend, and I still have a huge backlog. So, tempted as I am, I think I'll refrain from buying more stuff. But after this, I intend to check every game in my library for compatibility with proton ;)

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