What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?

Quoting: GuestStardew Valley. It’s a bit grindy but new things happen regularly and you slowly improve your farm and equipment and there are many different things to discover and do, which keeps the game fun for many hours. Also the UI is a bit unpolished but you get used to it and workaround the issues.

I'm going to have to finally break down and play this. Harvest Moon was one of my favorites growing up, and I think I've been scared that this would be too much like it but not as good : )

lol that sounds weird, but it's seriously why I haven't played yet.

Quoting: mrdeathjrAlso test ffmpeg 3.24 with nvenc 7.1 (waiting for sdk 8.0) and works good

I seriously had a partition with Ubuntu installed b/c my main rig broke my ffmpeg setup (GTX-1070). The steps you have to jump through to get a FULL ffmpeg install on Ubuntu is not trivial, to say the least. Anyways, I ran one last strace today and solved my nvidia-uvm module issues that had plagued me since I believe 4.9 (4.10.1 now). So no more dual booting Arch with Ubuntu..

The performance is better than before, with cuda 8.0 and they added vp9_cuvid, (decode only), making it easy to do full hw transpiling (*_cuvid) -> (hevc). I think GPU to GPU transfers are something like 8X faster than RAM to GPU, and who knows about disk to GPU. I tested today with transpiling a 8k video down to 4k and it was somewhere around 80 or so fps. CPU was around 8-12% b/c I was also on Steam/YouTube lol (@Liam -- that's what 64GB of RAM is for :))

Thanks for your YouTube content as well! I've watched several when trying to determine if something runs on Wine or not ;)

Oh, and to answer the forum question -- Civ6 and DiRT Rally. Also, I highly recommend Typoman to anyone who hasn't played it/looking for a recommendation outside the other 90% mentioned.Cheers --

Recently brushed up my copy of the first game I ever bought for linux: Professor Fizzwizzle. Still holds up as a nicely crafted puzzle game from before there was such a thing as widescreen support ^_^

Sadly, it is no longer available for linux, since the company, grubbygames, was taken over by bigfish. One of the co-founders, Ryan Clark, went on to work on Crypt of the Necrodancer. I always keep hoping he buys back the rights to the fizzwizzles...


Last edited by emphy on 11 March 2017 at 11:29 am UTC

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut

(With Wine, lol.)

Great story, can't wait to play Mankind Divided but I've got to upgrade my hardware *sigh*

Quoting: saildataI seriously had a partition with Ubuntu installed b/c my main rig broke my ffmpeg setup (GTX-1070).

The steps you have to jump through to get a FULL ffmpeg install on Ubuntu is not trivial, to say the least.

Anyways, I ran one last strace today and solved my nvidia-uvm module issues that had plagued me since I believe 4.9 (4.10.1 now).

So no more dual booting Arch with Ubuntu..

The performance is better than before, with cuda 8.0 and they added vp9_cuvid, (decode only), making it easy to do full hw transpiling (*_cuvid) -> (hevc).

I think GPU to GPU transfers are something like 8X faster than RAM to GPU, and who knows about disk to GPU.

I tested today with transpiling a 8k video down to 4k and it was somewhere around 80 or so fps. CPU was around 8-12% b/c I was also on Steam/YouTube lol (@Liam -- that's what 64GB of RAM is for :))

Thanks for your YouTube content as well! I've watched several when trying to determine if something runs on Wine or not ;)

Oh, and to answer the forum question -- Civ6 and DiRT Rally.

Also, I highly recommend Typoman to anyone who hasn't played it/looking for a recommendation outside the other 90% mentioned

.Cheers --

Have ffmpeg with nvenc in ubuntu is complicated as your said, various guides are needed case

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Installing-Nvidia-CUDA-on-Ubuntu-14-04-for-Linux-GPU-Computing

At least can use libnpp with ffmpeg (i have reinstall cuda-8.0 but disable symlink to usr/local/cuda) and put /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64 in ld.so.conf after this ldconfig as sudo

Respect nvenc consume minor resources compare GT 630 GK208 (old card), in various titles is possible capture with cpu at 90% or more use without loss frames (this occurs in some titles with GT 630, in this cases is needed capture at 30fps)

Without forget install video driver manually and have all emus i have without no appears conflict dependencies is very dificult, various packages from ubuntu 14.04 are needed case various gtk libraries case pcsx2

One purpouse of channel is give a idea about which games runs in wine (native games and emulators too)

But most important objective is have large duration tests (at least 1st chapter of each game if possible)

Actually many games run in wine but most import is for how much run and which problems can appear in large sessions case:

-stability

-compatibility

-graphics behavior (glitchs if appears and others)

-audio behaviour (pulse, alsa in some games cases like zestiria, god eater 2 rage burst and others)

-input behavior (in which games xinput must be selected as built-in or native) mouse stay all time or leave after some time, actually various games begins need have xinput as built-in in wine cfg) and other issues

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 11 March 2017 at 5:51 pm UTC

I liked Shadow Tactics a lot recently. And then I started playing EU4. Now I'm broke, have lost all my free time and kind of love/hate my friend for fixing me up to the game.

Last month Dirt Rally(not much of a petrol-head but the Dirt series always provided a good mix of challenge and fun for some reason and this one is definitely worth playing) and many a night duelling a friend in Chaos Reborn(online play is basically dead, but if you convince one or two friends to play it's an awesome game) took the lead.


Last edited by Schattenspiegel on 11 March 2017 at 10:44 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: saildataI'm going to have to finally break down and play this. Harvest Moon was one of my favorites growing up, and I think I've been scared that this would be too much like it but not as good : )

I’ve never played Harvest Moon so I can’t compare…

What?? That's immediately what I thought of when I saw SV... "Someone's made a modern Harvest Moon".

Your mission is to search the dark webs until you find it, install it (snes version was the best.. or N64) and come back saying, "holy crap they made a modern Harvest Moon!" :)

Quoting: mrdeathjrHave ffmpeg with nvenc in ubuntu is complicated as your said, various guides are needed case

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Installing-Nvidia-CUDA-on-Ubuntu-14-04-for-Linux-GPU-Computing

...

*Mic drop* : -|

Where were you when I was hand linking and compiling each.. individual.. codec.. asking myself do I really need this one too.. I can follow a recipe card lol. Live and learn.

I completely agree with the "your mileage may vary" depending on the game. I'm a total nerd and basically install it for either strategy or simulators. You'd think that someone would put two and two together and figure out that sims would sell like crazy on Linux.. but alas I can only blame myself for giving into the temptations.. why should they port it when people like me jump through hoops so they don't have to..

I can, however, say that I still have my original 512GB Nvme with Windows 10 on it just in case Asus ever decides they will update their UEFI and I have to have my windows install to initiate it. Even with that I haven't booted Windows (for more than the initial warranty registration) in about 3 years.. I had to dual boot in grad school. If a Linux drive fails totally I'm wiping the factory one though.. just sayin :)

Have you seen anything/anywhere about the latest Rollercoaster Tycoon? People had originally said they would port it to Linux (it IS built on Unity..). I want to verify before actually paying more than $10-$15 for a Windows game. E.g. Simple Planes... Love that game.

Honestly, as someone else said, the new X-PLANE 11 is amazing on Linux. Best (proprietary) Flight Sim I've used.

EDIT: I can't seem to properly quote a post ( smells like PHP >:-| )


Last edited by saildata on 12 March 2017 at 6:53 am UTC

So I just finished all of the Hard West scenarios, though I am going to replay the last one again so that I can take a look at one of the different endings. Then there's the DLC.