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I can't recommend Planetary Annihilation: TITANS enough. You'll often be able to find me in the (discord) PA Community Centre. ;)

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Quoting: M@yeulCSpeaking of Minetest, is it usable as a full game, including the survival aspect of it? I've seen projects like Voxelands or Minefix that try to achieve this, so I was under the impression that is was not (plus, last time I played it, there wasn't much to do).

Base minetest (without the mods) is a fairly quiet place without much life. However, mods are trivially easy to add and there are many extremely good ones, including modpacks that provide a quick starter on adding to the base build.

I have both minetest and minecraft servers running at home, and my children (7 and 9 years old) still play on both servers. Generally I'd say that the animation and polish in minecraft is better, but the ease of modding and variety available in minetest provides a highly interesting world.

I had not realized the scripts download was already automated. I played a bit online this time, and this is exactly what I was looking for.

Yes, it could use a bit of polish, I might try to contribute, one day :)

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Shame there's no multiplayer/coop. Still I'd check it out when/if it gets ported. :)

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Works. Yay!

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I got Dirt Rally from Humble Bundle. Was pleasantly surprised about how well optimized it is. You can really turn down the graphics, even to the point of replacing objects with sprites. I managed to run it on my modest Quadro K1100M at 1600x900 on medium settings at 30-35 FPS. Can go up to 60 FPS if I really don't care about the looks.

That's not amazing, I know. But for somebody who never owned a proper gaming machine, this is perfectly playable. In comparison I can only get around 20 FPS from Mankind Divided at 800x600 and all options on lowest.

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Quoting: kibbles...

lmao, yet another silver 3 blaming "cheaters"...

He is right and we don't need the facking Cheaters on Linux. The most Cheaters switch from Windos to Linux, because VAC is not on Linux active.
I have see many comments on Youtube about the switch. And yes i hate facking Cheaters.

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well, I seem to have a different view on CSGO, unlike most people here.

first of all: it runs fast like hell. I have no game that runs that good as CSGO does. besides that valve-typical sound-stutter when you click some stuff (like making a match selection, or changing some settings), it runs smoothly in any way.

I use it with steam controller and I am surprisingly good, mostly within the top players on public servers, not even that rarely on #1 with most points/kills/assists. Can't believe it myself, although I am surely not talking about ESL like skills, I just play this for fun on my TV and kick ass pretty much often.

Crashes? Maybe one in a week, having several hours of gameplay. Mostly it just returns to the big picture mode. I am playing this on steamOS.

Cheaters? zero. can't say that I have ever ever seen one. I don't even know about VAC not being available.

Sound is 5.1, works superb, even the music volume levels some complain about.

But yes, there is one issue: I have the distinct feeling that valve puts low priority on this game with linux or at least steamOS. There are bugs I can't remember right now, that are related to steamOS<>controller<>CSGO, which is surprising to me, since this game is known to work better by fps on Linux than on any other OS, including windows. Honestly, I am a little afraid that this source2-port or any work with vulkan won't see a day1 release on linux.

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Quoting: M@yeulCSpeaking of Minetest, is it usable as a full game, including the survival aspect of it? I've seen projects like Voxelands or Minefix that try to achieve this, so I was under the impression that is was not (plus, last time I played it, there wasn't much to do).

Base minetest (without the mods) is a fairly quiet place without much life. However, mods are trivially easy to add and there are many extremely good ones, including modpacks that provide a quick starter on adding to the base build.

I have both minetest and minecraft servers running at home, and my children (7 and 9 years old) still play on both servers. Generally I'd say that the animation and polish in minecraft is better, but the ease of modding and variety available in minetest provides a highly interesting world.

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Thanks for the heads up, Liam.

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Quoting: GrimfistSadly they do not support Vulkan, would really like to see a good Vulkan Benchmark for Linux.

Just ran it yesterday evening on 1080p extreme preset. My machine got only 1100-somthing score, whereas HexDSLs machine (nearly exact same hardware, same gpu, same driver) got over 1500. Only difference so far was, he uses Antergos and I still use Ubuntu 16.04. So maybe this was another coffin nail for Ubuntu.

Well you did have a different CPU, not sure if the Intel Xeon E3-1231 is comparable in speed with the Intel Core-i7-3770 at the same clock.
There is not much detailed information about the hardware, the MB RAM speed, Craphicscard RAM speed, PCIe speed etc could be different as much other things that could have an impact.

It sure would be interesting to see different distributions compared on the exact same hardware, and similar software that could impact the speed, like the kernel, graphics driver, compositor etc.

I do use Ubuntu 16.10, I might install some other distributions on free partitions, especially if someone else shows a big difference that can not be changed without changing distribution:-)

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Quoting: khalismurWe are happy because Arch is awesome. Nobody compared Arch to Debian or said Debian is not good. If it is also solvable with one command, Debian users should be happy too.
You don't understand that one is happy with their Linux distro??

Because the solution was due to Linux and not due to some specific distro is what badber was referring to.

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Quoting: GuestFor sure you missed that one on GOG:
Anima: Gate of Memories at -33%.
Not a huge discount, granted, but a great game ;)

(Here is your review from last November)

I cannot include every game, every time. That thoughts post is also old and the game is not good once you get properly into it.

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Quoting: liamdaweWelcome to another Wednesday Madness article here at GOL. Another quick look at some good deals you shouldn't pass up!....

I grabbed Valley from Steam 60% off!

Quoting: PompesdeskyI would have rather supported Feral by directly buying Dirt Rally from them but it was too pricey for me @49.99€, couldn't resist the Humble Monthly :(

I'm waiting on a Feral sale for Dirt Rally, I will buy directly from them if possible. But I don't blame you, it costs too much right now and I was tempted by the humble bundle aswell.

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Quoting: HoriPlease compare it with Windows. It would be incredibly useful.

Why would it be useful?

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Time to replay Jack Orlando again!

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We are happy because Arch is awesome. Nobody compared Arch to Debian or said Debian is not good. If it is also solvable with one command, Debian users should be happy too.
You don't understand that one is happy with their Linux distro??

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"The only issue I ran into in testing thus far is that it doesn't fully detect all my VRAM, only seeing 3GB out of 8GB on my RX 480." I am glade it was not myself as well with this issue. To be honest had a small panic that I got the RX480 4gb card instead. I ran Doom again and it told me 8gb and with this made me feel a little better. I upgrade to 4.11 RC6 and got a score of 1472. It would have been nice to see a Vulkan API there since I think would have been better.
With Doom I found out that OpenGL is a big burden on your cpu compared to Vulkan that is much less of one. I really do hope that Unigine puts Vulkan API in down the road would be nice.

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Quoting: calfretI see this term used quite a bit on this site, and I don't know what it means.

What is 'Roguelike'? Is that just a term for a top down view style game?

It means it has rogue like elements so basically perma deaths etc but with various elements from other games is ziggaurat is a fps mixed with a rouge game so its a rouge like.

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View video on youtube.com

Interesting review (contains swearies). I might skip this one for now, perhaps pick it up on sale. Some of the reviews coming out from trusted game journalists aren't the most encouraging. But It's easy to get excited with nostalgia and colorful modern graphics, especially if your platform doesnt have many titles like these. Glad they supported SteamOS/Linux though.

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Quoting: kibblesI gave up csgo. I banked a mountain of hours on it and slowly everyone I played with got frustrated with the endless bugs (usually introduced along with new features) and out-of-fooking-control cheating. Right now the hot bugs are music re-enables at full volume for no reason (makes 1v1 damn near impossible), lobby chat is broken (for some) and some kind of memory corruption when starting a game from the lobby (ends with a crash).

Oh and if your one of those "nobodies cheating guys" self-righteous reddit-tier spastics that are the cherry on top of the worst community in gaming, before you look like a complete idiot know that the linux version has no VAC and there is an open source hack that is VERY popular as of right now (and no I won't link to it).

lmao, yet another silver 3 blaming "cheaters"...

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This won't solve the problem, though. I guess Valve didn't update the .deb on their website with the latest version.

This comes from the fact that the Open source drivers are compiled against a newer version of the libraries present in the runtime.

Try to launch it with:

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
Then, update steam (opt into beta branch if necessary, I've been staying there for more than three years :P).

You might need to install some libraries to launch steam, though. Another way of fixing it is to launch
 find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete
Then restart Steam. Not the cleanest way, but I used to to it regularly before having the steam-native option on Arch.

I agree with the others, though. You should install only one graphics PPA. Probably x-swat, as it should be more stable, but you might choose otherwise (I am not using Ubuntu, so I don't have much experience with those PPAs).

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Quoting: pete910It is brutal on GPU's tbh, also the openGL implementation is nowhere near the perf of DX from the scores I've seen.

From what I can find the Win10/DX11 results are very close to the Linux/OpenGL looking at Average FPS:

Windows 10 DirextX (1080ti - Extreme setting - 46 FPS):
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/unigine-superposition-performance-benchmarks,2.html

Linux OpenGL: (1080ti - Extreme setting - 44.5 FPS)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=unigine-super-benchmark&num=3

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Quoting: calfretI see this term used quite a bit on this site, and I don't know what it means.

What is 'Roguelike'? Is that just a term for a top down view style game?

Rogue was an old ASCII adventure game. It had randomly generated rooms and focused on exploring said rooms. Modern Roguelikes tend to have procedurally generated levels, enemies, and weapons, as well as permanent death.

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Quoting: AnxiousInfusionSad to say that I no longer want to invest time into Minecraft simply because it is now at risk of spontaneously ending support for Linux. I don't think it is a matter of if, but a matter of when. Minetest is my go-to these days.

Speaking of Minetest, is it usable as a full game, including the survival aspect of it? I've seen projects like Voxelands or Minefix that try to achieve this, so I was under the impression that is was not (plus, last time I played it, there wasn't much to do).

There is so many Minecraft open source clones, it's a bit sad that no one reached feature parity; It feels like dispersing the efforts. Oh well, it's the same as Linux distribution. And, Open Source Will Prevail let's not forget it's cancer! (Quoting some Ballmer guy). Given enough time, these projects will likely grow a distinct personality. And they are probably around to stay.

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Quoting: fabry92Sry why steamos isn't supported? I can't run serious Sam vulkan too :(

Probably the driver is too old? I run SteamOS too and I see no issues, but I install latest drivers myself.

Actually some games should already be working with 367 it was on steamos?
I have now beta running 375.26, and even that doesn't change a single thing...

How many video outputs do you have?

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Sad to say that I no longer want to invest time into Minecraft simply because it is now at risk of spontaneously ending support for Linux. I don't think it is a matter of if, but a matter of when. Minetest is my go-to these days.

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I've only played through the start of the first world so far, but my 360 controller functions just fine with it. The only slowdown I've had is stuttering on the loading screen, but I'm fine with that. Everything in-world runs smoothly, in fact a bit more smoothly than I'm used to. And that's on a several-years-old machine, so current hardware should handle it just fine.

The voices though, those are the most annoying crap ever. I knew they would be from the trailers, but wow that unskippable cutscene at the start killed me. A lot of people in the Steam forum (when not interminably whining over JonTron) seem to think it's fine because Banjo-Kazooie did it, but I suspect they've got a bad case of nostalgia glasses.

I was amused that the book-stealing machine's name can be abbreviated to N64.

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Quoting: EgonautBut instead of trying to get the max FPS more upwards, maybe Feral could try to get the load more balanced on threads, if possible. If I could have stable 60 FPS I would be more happy as with 100+FPS and drops below 60 :)

The entire point is to have a more stable fps not a higher peak number as that by itself isn't that useful :) If you notice the bigger gains on Vulkan compared to GL are all on the minimum and average fps especially in the poorer performing areas, the peak fps in the best performing areas isn't that much slower on GL. This allows for a much better overall experience :)

The game engine is fairly threaded however some things can't be done at the same time and have to be serialised especially if that is how the engine works on all platforms.

Finally your CPU usage checks will be a little SKU'd as we need to spin the main thread when waiting on the GPU to avoid issues where the governor would reduce clock speed causing frame rate pulsing. Serious Sam for example is also effected by the governor being too keen to down-clock your CPU while playing.

Do send in your reproduction steps though as it does sound like you have an issue most people never experience.

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I would have rather supported Feral by directly buying Dirt Rally from them but it was too pricey for me @49.99€, couldn't resist the Humble Monthly :(

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Hollow Knight is my game of the year so far. Highly recommend it if you like Metroidvania games, or just action platformers in general.

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