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Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By Leopard, 29 April 2017 at 10:19 am UTC
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Geneshift, the top-down shooter with vehicles has an Early Access launch date and a Linux demo (updated)
By razing32, 29 April 2017 at 9:52 am UTC
Quoting: UltraViolet
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: UltraViolet
Quoting: robvv
Quoting: UltraVioletdoesn't seem to be a option to use a controller rather than the keyboard in the options menu [i might of been missing something] so i couldn't play it to its fullest

I started the game with my Steam Controller switched on and the game seemed to work just fine using it, despite there being no obvious option to select a controller.

no luck for me with a xbox 360 controller plugged in.

how much are steam controllers?

I payed like 46-47 euros for mine on a Steam sale if i recall. Don't remember if i payed shipping also or how much it was.

thanks for the info. i got some birthday money yesterday so i treated myself. looks a interesting controller

Hope you enjoy it.
Takes a bit of getting used to but I like it for Rocket League.
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By ValamirCleaver, 29 April 2017 at 8:44 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: throghI find it interesting using a free system and then install some really closed-source packages going online like STEAM or other clients. Then of course just another bunch of Netflix and Spotify. Those things make the concurrent used Linux-distribution to nothing more than a unixoid copy of Windows! And afterwards speaking about things like freedom and GNU/Linux? Okay, really interesting definition. :D

So I'm not the only one seeing the irony of the regular championing a locked down, anti-consumer, DRMed service while supposedly wanting the freedom offered by GNU/Linux... ;) You've very clearly verbalized why I avoid Steam, their vendor lock-in freebies and their key resellers like the plague.
Wine 2.7 is out with shader improvements for Direct3D 11
By Whitewolfe80, 29 April 2017 at 8:35 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlNot much has improved for the Witcher 3 in this release.

Well you are playing a resource heavy game in a vm which is emulating dx11 (not fully) so yeah there are going to be performance hits i would say leave it six months to a year it will run as well as any other wine wrapped game.
Awesomenauts, the side-scrolling MOBA is going free to play next month
By lucifertdark, 29 April 2017 at 8:24 am UTC
I bought it 4 years ago & it always seemed to me like a Pay to Win game.
Awesomenauts, the side-scrolling MOBA is going free to play next month
By DoctorJunglist, 29 April 2017 at 7:37 am UTC
Cool, I've wanted to check it out for a long time - now I'll have a chance to do so for free.
Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By Purple Library Guy, 29 April 2017 at 6:53 am UTC Likes: 15
So now if they ask me if there are games on Linux I can say "Are you kidding? Everything's on Linux!"
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By throgh, 29 April 2017 at 6:25 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: AnxiousInfusionHas GOG ever contributed anything to Mesa or Vulkan or any Linux gaming related project? That is one of the main differences that makes Steam more "Linux friendly". Valve gets out there and hoists up the foundation for Linux games while GOG just kind of farts out Linux ports 3~4 years after every other store has already hosted the Linux version of the same game.

I sound like a harsh critic but honestly nearly half my games library is with them and it's just frustrating to see them squander so much potential granted by GOG's unique position.

Valve has a special business interest in Linux as they wanted to be more independent especially from "Windows" as Microsoft came up with their own STORE-idea. Okay, they contribute, but that's no further reason having them beyond any criticism. In fact: The whole STEAM-client is just DRM itself. GOG have no real contribution, that's correct. And wishing any kind of open-source implementation or specification is just that: A good wish and it will stay that way because the Galaxy-client just implements DRM-mechanics for multiplayer-options and I don't think GOG will open that. The difference between STEAM and GOG?

  • GOG has OFFLINE-packages for downloads at the moment. Best way to do it from my point of view! And they've got a closed-source client.

  • STEAM has no OFFLINE-packages for downloads at the moment and their client is also closed-source.



So I choose the DRM-free packages, of course. When Galaxy become mandatory, I'll stop using GOG. There are other possibilities out there. But STEAM is not on this list and just because they make contributions doesn't change this. They are even more closed than GOG for now!

Quoting: elbuglioneStop GOG advertaising.
There are not Linux friendly.

How do you define that? Yes, they don't contribute own projects and in fact they treat Linux-customers not the best for all releases. But "Linux-friendly" is a highly doubtful definition. Otherwise you could also define STEAM as not "Linux-friendly" as they only distribute throughout a complete closed pipeline. And therefore "advertising" should also stopped. ;)

By the way, general speaking not as reply to anyone: I find it interesting using a free system and then install some really closed-source packages going online like STEAM or other clients. Then of course just another bunch of Netflix and Spotify. Those things make the concurrent used Linux-distribution to nothing more than a unixoid copy of Windows! And afterwards speaking about things like freedom and GNU/Linux? Okay, really interesting definition. :D
Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By shirethrone, 29 April 2017 at 5:53 am UTC Likes: 1
It's nice to see more and more games for Linux <3
Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By Joeyboots80, 29 April 2017 at 5:22 am UTC Likes: 1
My wallet is gonna file a restraining order against me for all the recent abuse, but I gotta check this out! Thanks for the heads up Liam!
Linux gamers on Arch may want to hold off on updating due to openssl breaking some games (updated)
By m0nt3, 29 April 2017 at 4:58 am UTC
As much as I love Arch, I am thinking I may have to jump over to one of the *buntus.
Awesomenauts, the side-scrolling MOBA is going free to play next month
By hardpenguin, 29 April 2017 at 4:58 am UTC
That way they will be able to give it a second life as the amount of players online was slowly, but steadily in decline.

I definitely recommend the game to everyone!
Geneshift, the top-down shooter with vehicles has an Early Access launch date and a Linux demo (updated)
By UltraViolet, 29 April 2017 at 4:02 am UTC
Quoting: razing32
Quoting: UltraViolet
Quoting: robvv
Quoting: UltraVioletdoesn't seem to be a option to use a controller rather than the keyboard in the options menu [i might of been missing something] so i couldn't play it to its fullest

I started the game with my Steam Controller switched on and the game seemed to work just fine using it, despite there being no obvious option to select a controller.

no luck for me with a xbox 360 controller plugged in.

how much are steam controllers?

I payed like 46-47 euros for mine on a Steam sale if i recall. Don't remember if i payed shipping also or how much it was.

thanks for the info. i got some birthday money yesterday so i treated myself. looks a interesting controller
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By GustyGhost, 29 April 2017 at 4:01 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: MintedGamerI've given up on waiting for the Galaxy client for Linux, and Witcher 3. Its clear that Linux users are an afterthought to CDPR and GOG.

Valve have done a HUGE amount to make Vulkan and Linux gaming more viable and the number of games in Steam is rapidly increasing, while CDPR have done nothing to help Linux gaming and have been giving empty promises about the GOG Linux client for many years now. My money goes to Valve every time.

Has GOG ever contributed anything to Mesa or Vulkan or any Linux gaming related project? That is one of the main differences that makes Steam more "Linux friendly". Valve gets out there and hoists up the foundation for Linux games while GOG just kind of farts out Linux ports 3~4 years after every other store has already hosted the Linux version of the same game.

I sound like a harsh critic but honestly nearly half my games library is with them and it's just frustrating to see them squander so much potential granted by GOG's unique position.
The next version of SDL will have Steam Controller support out of the box
By slaapliedje, 29 April 2017 at 1:52 am UTC
Quoting: Darkdisorder78Valve doesn't care about steam os. Can anyone tell me what they are doing for steam os? It still needs a lot of work

Sure they do, but this has nothing to do with SteamOS, in which the Steam Controller works fine.

SDL support will mean we can have native support in MAME, which is awesome.
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By solar_dome, 29 April 2017 at 1:30 am UTC
At the moment I have no need for a GOG Galaxy client.
I have not used 'LGOGDownloader'.
I am currently using 'gogrepo.py' for my GOG downloading needs.
Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By razing32, 29 April 2017 at 1:29 am UTC Likes: 2
Saw this and did not know what to make of it.
I STILL do not know what to bloody make of it.
Kudos to the devs for porting it to linux though.
Mesa 17.1 will use a set 1GB size for the shader cache
By lejimster, 29 April 2017 at 12:51 am UTC Likes: 1
The shader cache is an important feature us AMD owners have been waiting for a long time on mesa. Cutting loading times and smoothing out hitches. Its important, although not all games need it as much as others.
Everything, a game about experiencing, well, everything and it's now on Linux
By Schattenspiegel, 29 April 2017 at 12:36 am UTC Likes: 1
Nice! was hoping they would bring it to Linux. .. Now, where was my wallet again...:)
There's going to be a Vulkan event in the UK, Feral Interactive & Croteam will be attending
By MintedGamer, 28 April 2017 at 11:05 pm UTC
Quoting: lejimsterAny discussion of Vulkan is good. We need to hear it talked about more and more. I want to see it adopted on PC as the standard going forward not DX12.

I think that's starting to become much more possible. People and developers are finding that DX12 is not all it was hyped up to be (surprise, surprise) and Windows 10 adoption figures are not even halfway to the billion devices Microsoft projected/hoped for (surprise, surprise). People tend to use a more diverse set of operating systems for their devices than the Windows-centric world of old so I think it makes sense for developers to target the widest range of potential customers, and not just one version of Windows.
Wine 2.7 is out with shader improvements for Direct3D 11
By Shmerl, 28 April 2017 at 10:53 pm UTC
Not much has improved for the Witcher 3 in this release.
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By MintedGamer, 28 April 2017 at 10:50 pm UTC Likes: 2
I've given up on waiting for the Galaxy client for Linux, and Witcher 3. Its clear that Linux users are an afterthought to CDPR and GOG.

Valve have done a HUGE amount to make Vulkan and Linux gaming more viable and the number of games in Steam is rapidly increasing, while CDPR have done nothing to help Linux gaming and have been giving empty promises about the GOG Linux client for many years now. My money goes to Valve every time.
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By Zlopez, 28 April 2017 at 10:38 pm UTC
Quoting: AlthorionYou can manually add non-Steam games to Steam to be able to see them.

This is not the same, you are missing many functionalities. Mainly automatic updates.
Saints Row 2 is currently free on Steam, other Saints Row titles on sale
By dubigrasu, 28 April 2017 at 10:26 pm UTC
Quoting: adamhm
Quoting: dubigrasu<snip>
Interesting. Some suggestions to try with Wine:

- If you're running the GOG version they applied a hack to lock the framerate, this seems to have an impact on responsiveness & performance and the game seems to run better with it disabled, although a bit more glitchy (I've updated my wrapper script to include the option to disable/re-enable the hack as desired).

- If you're using an Nvidia card try setting UseGLSL to disabled (if you're using an AMD GPU it'll likely just cause the game to crash instantly).
Definitely an improvement, disabling GLSL hadn't much effect, but removing the cap did worked.

Wine = Green
Wine + no cap = Magenta
VP's port = Blue
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Wine:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 40.982 / 52.0097 / 137.58
Min/avg/max FPS: 7.2685 / 19.2272 / 24.401
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 52.206 / 58.942 / 60.78 / 64.29

Wine = no cap:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 19.713 / 27.6286 / 140.464
Min/avg/max FPS: 7.11926 / 36.1943 / 50.7279
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 26.725 / 33.514 / 34.55 / 36.243

VP's port:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 15.72 / 22.8035 / 114.261
Min/avg/max FPS: 8.75189 / 43.8529 / 63.6132
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 22.06 / 26.765 / 28.582 / 30.739
Wine 2.7 is out with shader improvements for Direct3D 11
By TheRiddick, 28 April 2017 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 5
Looks like Wine is on the DX11 home run now for support. Finally. Ironically we will probably see allot of games switch to Vulkan over the next year (including Bethesda ones) so VK will be used more under Wine for sure, lets hope DRM doesn't cockblock it however.
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By hummer010, 28 April 2017 at 9:34 pm UTC Likes: 8
Quoting: elbuglioneThere are not Linux friendly.

I've got 186 Linux games in my GOG account that would say otherwise.
Victor Vran Motörhead expansion has a beautifully heavy trailer, release date for the two DLC packs announced
By Kohrias, 28 April 2017 at 9:30 pm UTC
I really like Victor Vran and this expansion sounds awesome!
Saints Row 2 is currently free on Steam, other Saints Row titles on sale
By dubigrasu, 28 April 2017 at 9:07 pm UTC
@adamhm
Great, thanks, I'll try both.
Saints Row 2 is currently free on Steam, other Saints Row titles on sale
By adamhm, 28 April 2017 at 8:44 pm UTC
Quoting: dubigrasu<snip>

Interesting. Some suggestions to try with Wine:

- If you're running the GOG version they applied a hack to lock the framerate, this seems to have an impact on responsiveness & performance and the game seems to run better with it disabled, although a bit more glitchy (I've updated my wrapper script to include the option to disable/re-enable the hack as desired).

- If you're using an Nvidia card try setting UseGLSL to disabled (if you're using an AMD GPU it'll likely just cause the game to crash instantly).
GOG staff state that Galaxy for Linux is being worked on, but still no ETA
By DMJC, 28 April 2017 at 8:42 pm UTC Likes: 1
Man, people getting riled up over the galaxy client, what babies. More important than some stupid client to access games is the lack of games being packaged for Linux on the website. How many Dosbox wrapped games are there now on the GOG website which don't have Linux packages? The Galaxy client isn't going to magically fix that problem. My bet is that EA is blocking their catalog from non mac/windows platforms. That's a far worse problem than the Galaxy client missing.
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