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Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By tuxisagamer, 14 June 2014 at 12:00 pm UTC
Sign me up. Now, if only we could get a AAA RTS!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:57 am UTC
Good news,
Good Luck Everyone
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By JoZ3, 14 June 2014 at 11:54 am UTC
Quoting: IlyaI already own Civ5, so I'm not participating.
If people start sharing, won't that attract non-linux people as well?

Maybe, I already have the game :) good luck to the future winner, and maybe have to forget that have a life ...
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:35 am UTC
That's nice.
My steam account :
armandraynal1
Unity3D Releases Unity 4.5 & With It Comes Major Linux Fixes
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:35 am UTC
Quoting: Anonymous" Linux: Worked around drivers grossly underreporting video memory. "
This !
I have been waiting for this fix. Now Just to wait for Verdun , Guns of Icarus and Rust to update.
Verdun played nice on my Linux Mint 15 on high resolution. Update 150 (Unity 4.5) screwed up the whole game. Mouse is difficult to control or not at all. Motion is choppy etc. Not playable at all anymore :((
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:29 am UTC
Thank you for constantly advocating Linux gaming!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Pinguino, 14 June 2014 at 11:29 am UTC
n30p1r4t3, you are awesome! I appreciate your generosity, thanks for the opportunity.
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Astro, 14 June 2014 at 11:28 am UTC
I would love to play Civ V. Thank you, n30p1r4t3!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:24 am UTC
Thanks for the chance!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By uriil, 14 June 2014 at 11:22 am UTC
I really love civ 5!, so thanks to n30p1r4t3
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Belarrius, 14 June 2014 at 11:18 am UTC
Hehe! Thanks to Aspyr, thanks to n30p1r4t3 :D
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:14 am UTC
I really love civ 5!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By serjor, 14 June 2014 at 11:13 am UTC
I like it! But, how do you will control who shares or not the post?

I will share it anyway, just curious.
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By sobkas, 14 June 2014 at 11:07 am UTC
I was thinking about buying the game but I will probably wait for Beyond Earth.
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By , 14 June 2014 at 11:05 am UTC
good man
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Ilya, 14 June 2014 at 11:02 am UTC
I already own Civ5, so I'm not participating.
If people start sharing, won't that attract non-linux people as well?
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By FutureSuture, 14 June 2014 at 11:02 am UTC
I am cool with this. Thanks, n30p1r4t3!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Sslaxx, 14 June 2014 at 10:59 am UTC
Bit late here, I brought the game the moment I read the announcement!
Civ V Steam Giveaway!
By Liam Dawe, 14 June 2014 at 10:55 am UTC
Very generous thanks for hosting it here!
ROCCAT Just Made Sofa Gaming Easier
By , 14 June 2014 at 9:14 am UTC
Quoting: The wooden couch tableI uploaded two fotos I made to my dropbox. You can find it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ejjhaei0wqr0nyx/AACfCXUXP24DZaf_mxm0u4mFa

Cool thing!
Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future
By STiAT, 14 June 2014 at 7:34 am UTC
"two guys for month" is actually less than I expected, because I'd put out the guess it was less than half a year. If they manage to get 50k out of it, they should have made profit. And I'd guess - almost everyone gaming in linux bought this title(s) in the steam sale.
Mount & Blade: Warband Has Hints Of Linux Support Coming
By , 14 June 2014 at 7:29 am UTC
Quoting: hardpenguinParadox!! Give us Magicka, too!!

Magicka on Linux ! We want Magicka on Linux ! And Majesty 2 !
In fact, it seems to me I would like to see almost every Paradox game I own on Linux. But who knows.. it seems we are getting a lot of surprises with them. Crusader Kings 2 was the nicest one for me, as I bought it before knowing it was coming to Linux. Then Europa Universalis 4. And the Cities in Motion series (don't have them, but on my wishlist), and now Warband.. it would be really great.
Mount & Blade: Warband Has Hints Of Linux Support Coming
By hardpenguin, 14 June 2014 at 6:02 am UTC
Paradox!! Give us Magicka, too!!
The Wine development release 1.7.20 is now available.
By NothingMuchHereToSay, 14 June 2014 at 5:10 am UTC Likes: 1
After thinking about these wrappers and how useless they are, I've retracted that opinion and I have to say that they're much more important because of what developers are used to, especially with legacy BS from Windows.

It's going to take time until devs begin making actual native games, because now they have good reason to do so, especially when there's SteamOS coming out. Current gen games are GOING to be wrappers, don't expect too much for the time being as Windows STILL has that monopoly on the desktop, mostly because of businesses and work related stuff. As long as games still run on x86 processors and Windows, enthusiasts/gamers will still run Windows.
Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future
By DrMcCoy, 14 June 2014 at 1:03 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GNUzelWait, DrMc Coy is the founder of the Xoreos project?

Yes.

Quoting: GNUzelI've been meaning to ask them where I can donate

I rather still need someone with OpenGL knowledge to donate their time and experience to the project, not money.

EDIT: Thanks for the offer, though.
Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future
By GNUzel, 14 June 2014 at 12:41 am UTC Likes: 1
Wait, DrMc Coy is the founder of the Xoreos project? I've been meaning to ask them where I can donate because I really want to see that project succeed.
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition Released For SteamOS Linux
By , 14 June 2014 at 12:30 am UTC
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: GNUzelTurns out the problem was that I had UberSampling, unbeknownst to me, enabled, causing my frame drops.
That's a common mistake. Actually if you'd play it in Wine, you'd see that the "ubersampling" setting is highlighted in red (to indicate that it's extremely demanding). It's recommended never to use it because it always kills performance (on Windows the same way) since it's a very wasteful brute force antialiasing. Some even argued that such misleading setting should never had been included in the first place.

May be in the Linux version that option wasn't highlighted, and many simply don't pay attention.
Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: GNUzelTurns out the problem was that I had UberSampling, unbeknownst to me, enabled, causing my frame drops.
That's a common mistake. Actually if you'd play it in Wine, you'd see that the "ubersampling" setting is highlighted in red (to indicate that it's extremely demanding). It's recommended never to use it because it always kills performance (on Windows the same way) since it's a very wasteful brute force antialiasing. Some even argued that such misleading setting should never had been included in the first place.

May be in the Linux version that option wasn't highlighted, and many simply don't pay attention.

When I first ran it, I just clicked on the "Ultra" spec preset because 100% of the rest of the time, my computer could handle it but little did I know about UberSampling in The Witcher 2, so when I went to the "Advanced" options I saw UberSampling in red. Disabled it, ran the game with everything enabled- ran fine. Looked up UberSampling and saw almost all video cards, including 680 SLIs can't run it which made me feel better because my 690 was a beast of a card and I believe it still is. I don't think Linux uses the whole card though.
Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future
By Belarrius, 13 June 2014 at 11:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
I want Duke Nukem Forever.... <3 haha i'm a fan of Duke Nukem XD
Aspyr Media Comments On Linux, More AAA Games In Future
By Belarrius, 13 June 2014 at 11:19 pm UTC
Quoting: FutureSutureIt would be amazing if Linux not only received the same games that Mac OS receives from now on, but all past games as well. I would certainly buy them. People may argue that it hasn't helped Mac OS attain more market share, but that is really because of the financial barrier and the hardware barrier that Apple imposes, aspects that Linux fortunately does not suffer from.

+1 !!!!
Retro Tex Murphy Adventure Games Come To Steam For Linux
By FrasierCrane, 13 June 2014 at 9:38 pm UTC Likes: 1
Regarding the new Tex Murphy game, Tesla Effect, for Linux:
Big Finish Games stated that they will make a Linux version available as soon as they get a Linux port of the RAD Video codec they are using, which most likely will be this summer (as said by a programmer on the launch live stream).
Here is a recent quote from Cubase, one of the developers, on Kickstarter:
QuoteProgress on the Linux version is all up to our 3rd Party Developers. We technically have the ability to release the Linux version without issues, however, RAD Video Tools who make the video codec we use is still working on getting a version working with Linux. Once they are done, we will be done shortly afterwards and get all you Penguins sorted!

I think it's great that they are still determined to get a Linux version out as soon as possible although it wasn't a Kickstarter stretch-goal (so it's not just to please those pesky backers :P).
It's also quite cool that the count for Tex Murphy games on Linux went from 0/6 to 5/6 in almost an instant.
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