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The GOG Spring Sale is on - giving away the 'Witcher Goodies Collection' for 48 hours
16 March 2020 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 2
I had DK2 sitting in the shopping basket, didn't pull the trigger on it yesterday. It's on sale today.

Procrastination does pay off! Wonder what else I can put off for profit?
Get ready to live a Life of Crime with Kingpin: Reloaded announced by 3D Realms - will be coming to Linux
24 February 2020 at 1:37 pm UTC
Patching the game to the latest version might help, but maybe you already tried that?
http://download.kingpin.info/index.php?dir=kingpin/patches/official/

To get around the hard lock, try using software rendering with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
23 February 2020 at 6:55 pm UTC Likes: 3
My GPU died recently (poor little R285, only five years old!) so I for the moment I'm limited to less demanding games. Currently playing the single player campaign of Worms Reloaded.

I have been stuck on level 24 for a week, because in 25 years of Worms my skills with the ninja rope have not improved one bit.
Get ready to live a Life of Crime with Kingpin: Reloaded announced by 3D Realms - will be coming to Linux
11 February 2020 at 10:35 am UTC
Quoting: slavezeoI got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)
Broken 32bit drivers?

FWIW, the GOG release works fine in Wine (with MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000).
POSTAL: Classic and Uncut is now permanently free on GOG
18 December 2019 at 1:20 pm UTC
Don't know if there's any truth to this, but Wikipedia states: "The game remains banned in New Zealand to this day and possession, distribution or even buying it for personal use is a criminal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $50,000."
BattlEye now say they're working with Valve to support Steam Play
11 May 2019 at 5:03 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: jensNice to read that. I'm not into multiplayer games, certainly into the type of games where this is needed, but still very cool and I hope that this will get more users to switch to Linux.

I was wondering though, to my knowledge (I'm not at home in this domain) this kind of anti-cheat software mostly ensure that no one tampered with the game files, related libraries and game state in memory . If one wanted to cheat on Linux, wouldn't it be far easier to keep the game, libraries and Steam (Play) related files as is, but directly target the GPU drivers (kernel modules, mesa etc) and tinker there to lets say make things transparent in a game? Is there even a chance to detect something like this with anti-cheat software?

On Linux you can override symbols with LD_PRELOAD and your own library so it's possible to modify a e.g. a driver without actually patching and recompiling it. I assume Windows have something similar, so just checksums for the driver is pointless. You need to detect this kind of behavior too.

Fun article on the subject:
http://haxelion.eu/article/LD_NOT_PRELOADED_FOR_REAL/

On thing might be for the game/anticheat to do off screen rendering tests and compare to some predefined output. If the tests are substantially different (transparent textures or wireframes for example) you're probably up to no good.

(No idea if anticheats on Linux use any of this stuff, just some idle musings...)
DXVK 1.0.3 is released while work towards fixing up DXVK 1.1 continues
16 April 2019 at 5:00 pm UTC Likes: 2
The game itself have a minimum requirement of 6GB RAM. I'm guessing DXVK and Wine have some overhead so it's kind of surprising that it's at all playable.
GOG adds a Linux version of the RPG 'Silver', still has a graphical glitch during combat
1 November 2018 at 11:46 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: GuestUnfortunately it’s impossible to get an idea about what the game is from the comments on GOG, and I can’t find a gameplay video of it on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Noa6d-Rro_8
Akane is an addictive blood-soaked slasher that's now out with Linux support
12 September 2018 at 1:41 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: TheSHEEEP"Coming to PC Mac Linux"
*sigh*
A port to the original IBM PC 5150? That's quite impressive. Wonder if it is clone compatible?
Mesa 18.1.8 and Mesa 18.2.0 have been released, pushing Linux open source GPU drivers further
10 September 2018 at 9:02 am UTC
Quoting: lejimsterOk, so I have been testing the patch for a few hours, haven't experience one hang on either Rage or Wolfenstein N.O. with it.

That leaves just one major problem left with 32-bit Rage now, the megatexture corruption.

https://youtu.be/EUwq4dbnFkA
Great! I will file a new bug for the menu hang. The patch is most likely not the right way to solve it though.

The textures was reported in bug 107694 but sadly nixed by Mesa devs.
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