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Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
By Whitewolfe80, 12 April 2017 at 2:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

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.

Yooka-Laylee released with day-1 Linux support, some quick initial thoughts
By , 12 April 2017 at 2:05 pm UTC

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.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is moving to Source 2
By metro2033fanboy, 12 April 2017 at 2:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

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"...

AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released
By MayeulC, 12 April 2017 at 1:45 pm UTC

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This comes from the fact that the Open source drivers are compiled against a newer version of the libraries present in the runtime.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

Superposition, the latest benchmark by Unigine, has been released
By FredO, 12 April 2017 at 1:38 pm UTC

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

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
By chuzzle44, 12 April 2017 at 1:36 pm UTC Likes: 3

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.

The next big update for Minecraft is in development and will feature Parrots
By MayeulC, 12 April 2017 at 1:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

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.

Feral have patched the Vulkan Beta of Mad Max again, another look at performance with benchmarks
By Ardje, 12 April 2017 at 1:22 pm UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
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?

The next big update for Minecraft is in development and will feature Parrots
By GustyGhost, 12 April 2017 at 1:19 pm UTC Likes: 3

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.

Yooka-Laylee released with day-1 Linux support, some quick initial thoughts
By Nezchan, 12 April 2017 at 1:18 pm UTC

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.

Feral have patched the Vulkan Beta of Mad Max again, another look at performance with benchmarks
By edddeduck_feral, 12 April 2017 at 12:52 pm UTC Likes: 3

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.

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
By Pompesdesky, 12 April 2017 at 12:37 pm UTC

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 :(

Hollow Knight will officially launch on Linux tomorrow
By kf, 12 April 2017 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

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

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
By calfret, 12 April 2017 at 12:24 pm UTC

I 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?

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition released with Day-1 Linux support, my review
By badber, 12 April 2017 at 11:54 am UTC Likes: 1

Heh, I'd expect that to be solved by a single apt-get on something Debian-based so I'm not really sure why you're so happy about it being so easy on arch.

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
By Kuduzkehpan, 12 April 2017 at 10:56 am UTC

thx for the nice news. happy gaming.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is moving to Source 2
By Kuduzkehpan, 12 April 2017 at 10:51 am UTC

Quoting: salamanderrakeYou mean like the broken vulkan in dota 2?
its not broken ofc it may some bugs related to its really NEW to Driver vendors, Game developpers,Hardwares. But for me it works like a charm. (has to set cpufreq to PERFORMANCE)

Yooka-Laylee released with day-1 Linux support, some quick initial thoughts
By Arehandoro, 12 April 2017 at 10:20 am UTC

Still hesitating whether I should play this on the PC or on the Switch, which I guess seems a bit more reasonable to play in... and by the time I can dedicate it any time at all will be on both platforms.

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition released with Day-1 Linux support, my review
By khalismur, 12 April 2017 at 9:57 am UTC

Had the same problem and fixed the same way as you did.
Gotta love Arch and its derivatives.

Superposition, the latest benchmark by Unigine, has been released
By pete910, 12 April 2017 at 9:53 am UTC Likes: 1

See I am helpful :P

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

Edit:

@BTRE

I've done a bench thread in the forum here https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2683

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is moving to Source 2
By minkiu, 12 April 2017 at 9:46 am UTC

Call me when they do something about TF2... one can only dream.

Europa Universalis IV: Mandate of Heaven now available
By lvlark, 12 April 2017 at 9:43 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: razing32What field ?
You peaked my curiosity :)
I'm a tutor for pupils at high school level. Sometimes one-on-one, sometimes in (relatively) small groups. My fields are physics and math. Sometimes chemistry, though for pupils at the IB level I have the luxury to pass that on to a more capable colleague.

I also help younger pupils (from age 12), but then subjects are more of a mixed bag. That part is also more about pedagogy than working with exam-level-pupils.

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition released with Day-1 Linux support, my review
By tommystig21, 12 April 2017 at 9:42 am UTC

QuoteDid you check the traces? I'm on Arch Linux, and I had to install lib32-json-c and symlink libjson.so.0 to libjson-c.so in /usr/lib32/ for the game to start successfully.

worked like a charm... that's why i love arch, solutions are so simple :D
Thanks mate

Yooka-Laylee released with day-1 Linux support, some quick initial thoughts
By lvlark, 12 April 2017 at 9:32 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: eldersnakeWhat a gorgeous and fun little game!

Maybe it seems sad, but the kid in me is pretty delighted with this. Lol.

It's not just the kid in me. The adult in me likes to unwind, and games that aren't about 'preventing the end of the world and the destruction of all that is good' are a welcome addition there. So this one's definitely on my radar.

Superposition, the latest benchmark by Unigine, has been released
By Grimfist, 12 April 2017 at 9:17 am UTC

Sadly 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.

AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 driver released
By tuubi, 12 April 2017 at 8:35 am UTC

Adding all the driver/mesa PPAs at the same time doesn't seem like a safe thing to do. If you did this anyway, you should use ppa-purge to remove all but one of them. I recommend leaving either the ubuntu-x-swat one or padoka's stable PPA.

Feral have patched the Vulkan Beta of Mad Max again, another look at performance with benchmarks
By Vash63, 12 April 2017 at 8:26 am UTC

Quoting: catskinsoxI have a Pascal card, and it still crashes on the 381 drivers. I have gone back to the 378 drivers again.

Do other Vulkan games work for you on 381? I have a 1080 and I can't run SteamVR, Mad Max or Serious Sam Fusion for longer than 5 minutes on the 381 series. It seems to be just broken across all games and not game specific.

I'm really not sure how that got past Nvidia QA...

Yooka-Laylee released with day-1 Linux support, some quick initial thoughts
By eldersnake, 12 April 2017 at 8:00 am UTC

What a gorgeous and fun little game!

Maybe it seems sad, but the kid in me is pretty delighted with this. Lol.

It's working well for me with Mesa 17-git, AMD 380X GPU. Also my XBox 360 controller works just fine too, though I do use the steam-xpad module (installed from AUR on Arch) instead of the default one, if that makes any difference.

Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition released with Day-1 Linux support, my review
By tommystig21, 12 April 2017 at 7:54 am UTC

on intel graphic and Manjaro wont even start... looking for a solution

Cosmic Star Heroine, yet another Kickstarted game to delay Linux support
By hardpenguin, 12 April 2017 at 7:37 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: LeopardI can understand delays on titles like 'Inner Chains' ; but delay on 2d indie games like this is just unacceptable.
Inner Chains is being made by a small (8-12 people according to their Kickstarter) indie studio in Warsaw, and announced for two platforms: Windows and PS4 (plus VR support).

Cosmic Star Heroine is being made by 3-4 people, and releasing simultaneously on four platforms: Windows, Mac, PSVita and Playstation 4.

How is that different to you? Do you seriously think that 2D games don't need much work?

Now as much as I don't enjoy having Linux releases delayed, how do you think, does that make more sense for them to focus more on the most profitable platforms (with 2 of them having biggest share in the video games market), or to start their focus with the single least profitable platform first?

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