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Torment: Tides of Numenera, early port report and thoughts
2 March 2017 at 5:59 am UTC

They were very generous to crowdfunding backers and they gave to them extra copies of the game. Some crowdfunding backers got like 2-3 extra keys , both Steam keys and GOG keys.
Well I guess now all the Gaming Black Markets are flooded with those keys in half price....

NVIDIA have announced the 1080 Ti and it's a beast
1 March 2017 at 8:03 pm UTC

I have a PS4 and I can say I am not that happy at all, however I am enjoying the games that are ONLY for PS4 (no regrets)

I had a GTX 980 and I used to play Rocket League at 2560x1440 and now I am playing rocket league at 1920x1080 and is worst than PC especially the PS4 controller has delays and the game is pretty much unplayable.
I think that games that are ported from PC to PS4 are not that good compared to PC.

I totally prefer playing games on my PC with 4k resolution and invest on good hardware than playing on PS4.

For me that GTX 1080Ti is instant buy :)

Thimbleweed Park to release on March 30th with day-1 Linux support
1 March 2017 at 10:19 am UTC Likes: 2

erhmm.. I thought I have backed up this game but I guess I have backed Crossing Souls instead....
Oh well...Actually I wanted to pledge for

Pledge $25 or more
"I pirated Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island when I was a kid and I feel bad!" This reward tier instantly absolves you of all guilt and includes the Thimbleweed Park game. All subsequent tiers also include guilt absolution."

Serious Sam 3: BFE with the 'Fusion' engine and Vulkan could arrive next month in Beta
21 February 2017 at 5:27 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo
Quoting: Leopard[

As i see,you have a specific fetish with Gog.Also this Che Guevera guy too.Which i'm so curious,what cause that?


Simple. When I buy a game DRMFREE on GOG, that game is mine and, once I download the install files, I own it forever; I don't need to request online permision for to install and play MY GAMES... And that is because GOG trust me and that is why I trust them.

Can you install an Steam game from a local backup without an internet connection?
No. Steam IS DRM and the fact that you need online permision for to install a game from a local backup, is evidence that you are not the owner of your games...

The only DRM that I happily accept is EA Origin on my Windows 7 machine, because for the 5 U$D per month of EA ACCESS I can play a lot of big EA games for FREE through EA VAULT... VALVe seriously MUST take note about that...


And yeah, I would like to see an interview to the people at Croteam explaining why they put DRM in their Linux games.

I think you have a wrong idea of what steam really is...and yes you can backup your steam games , and can run them any time you want even offline.
Steam creates a folder called SteamLibrary and on this folder are all your games, just backup that folder and you can have your games anywhere, even on an external hard disk. When you want to format your pc or install steam again you just point your location of your steam library , simple as that and you can play all your game offline(excluded games that require online connection)
Also if I dont have the game already installed or something happened with my PC and lost the game and my saved game data I just click on my library to install the game and by some kind of "miracle" my saved games are there as well since the game supports steam cloud :P

Well I dont have time to analyse to you how steam works since I have to go to work.... but you are missing a lot of things like for example games that are not on GOG. Look we are not going to live forever so enjoy your life while you can, play as many games you can DRM or NOT DRM enjoy life and so on...:)

you reminded me a man that wanted to have sex with a pretty girl and I bring him a very pretty girl 9.5/10 and then he says to me. if she is not a virgin I am not gonna have sex with her....

Be free to enjoy everything in your life, dont put restrictions to yourself :P

I Am The Hero, a surprisingly great beat 'em up has Linux support
21 February 2017 at 5:05 am UTC

yay!!! a NEW game that my old laptop with a GeForce GT 525M can run! :P

( I already missed my PC :'( )

Victor Vran Overkill Edition announced (two new DLC)
15 February 2017 at 5:46 pm UTC

Not FREE!
Existing owners get the base game for Overkill Edition and they have to buy the NEW DLC!

http://steamcommunity.com/games/345180/announcements/detail/681570579428398503

For players who already own the game on Steam; You don't need to buy the Overkill Edition.
The two new DLCs will be available for purchase from our Victor Vran Steam Store page.

NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
14 February 2017 at 10:06 pm UTC

Quoting: Mountain ManMy experience with KDE suggests that leaving the compositor on kills your performance

The only reliable way to eliminate tearing with Nvidia is to enable the "force full composition pipeline" option in "xorg.conf". See the following article:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

I dont have time to do the tests now with the new drivers but as far as I remember force full composition pipeline was giving me horrible frame rates and looked like the game was staling/laging

some others are using

export __GL_YIELD="USLEEP" (which is also causing problems on some games)

some other

export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1

so now which is better for tearing and performance I have to do tests again but at the moment I will settle with KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1 and some other vsync settings on profile...

My profile looks like this....(the SDL settings is to stop SDL games taking all over my 3x monitors)

# /etc/profile
export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1
#export __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export __VDPAU_NVIDIA_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export __GL_SYNC_DISPLAY_DEVICE=DVI-I-1
#export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_HEAD=1
#export SDL_VIDEO_FULLSCREEN_DISPLAY=1
#export SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0
export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1
export KWIN_USE_BUFFER_AGE=0

NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
14 February 2017 at 8:14 pm UTC

Quoting: BoypageDoes it fix the screen tearing I experience with my GTX1060? I have checked the "advanced" composition boxes in nvidia settings on previous driver. Still not gòod.

You shouldn't have any tearing issues especially if you are using Plasma.

By default ALL Opengl Games/Applications disable compositor so you have to FORCE the compositor to stay on.

No compositor = tearing issues

with the newest Plasma fixes they have added an option to allow applications to block compositor...so this must be disabled(uncheck)
if this is not working you must add a window rule for this to work.

The 'Humble Freedom Bundle' is huge and well worth picking up
13 February 2017 at 9:26 pm UTC

well is not that awesome since like most of the Linux Games have been in a bundle before.
Only three Linux games have not been in a bundle before...

2064: Read Only Memories
Overgrowth (Early Access)
Ellipsis

and also 4 Window Tittles have not been in a bundle...

Nevertheless is a good bundle...and is for charity! :D

Mesa 17.0.0 has officially released and it's well worth updating
13 February 2017 at 5:56 pm UTC

Quoting: tuxintuxedoClosed source drivers have nothing to do with Mesa. Also, Nvidia doesn't care about Mesa at all.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-Mesa-EGL-Debug-Patches