It is oddly the only game that is listed in my library on Steam when I list SteamVR. Which I want so badly to play with this, it would have helped tremendously last time I was playing it, I could have seen out my windows to where I needed to shoot things!

I have a huge steam library that mostly goes unplayed because I hate booting into Windows.

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The Elite messages boards have tons of Linux requests going way back. The theory has been that they would work on it after the xbox version was out. Since you can't run this on a dedicated server, the only reason to hire someone that specifically knows how to write platform independent code would be for the client, right?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2920

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Sweet! With the exception of the first one, this is the only one I haven't beaten. I have yet to win a single GTA game, but have won all of the Saints Row games.

This is great news.

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Quoting: coryrj19951

Quoting: SamsaiThere are ways to download the data from Steam using a tool called steamcmd or simply by running Steam in Wine. Alternatively you can download the installer from GOG and use innoextract to essentially unzip the contents into a nice directory. All you have to do then is to tell OpenMW where the data files are (it has a setup wizard).

Another way of downloading a Windows game using Linux would be to use this python script. No Wine required, it downloads Windows game data using the Steam Linux client.

Or you could just to it manually and make a file called "appmanifest_APPID.acf" in your "steamapps" folder. Insert this text into the newly created acf file and start up Steam. It will automatically start downloading it.

"AppState"
{
"AppID" "APPID"
"Universe" "1"
"StateFlags" "1026"
}


*replace all "APPID"'s with the game ID that can easily be found on SteamDB (when it is back up though :P )


Edit: a few screenshots of the ease of use :P

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That's pretty sweet. Throw in your steam id, hit refresh, choose what you want it to download, exit steam and start it back up, and it starts downloading.

Also, Debian Sid looks like it already has OpenMW 0.37 in the repositories.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyMe, I don't really give two figs about the TES games; I never managed to get into any of them. I prefer games with a stronger focus on narrative, with stronger plothooks and, yes, more linearity (*). I had the same issue trying to get into the Ultima games, back in the day. Soley my own subjective opinion, of course.

Still, I really like the OpenMW project, and I wish them all the best. :)

(*) Like, say, the BioWare games. :P

Quoting: MurderousMincePieWouldn't it be impossible to install on a Linux system?

You can use SteamCMD, a command line version of the steam client, to installing of Windows-only games on GNU/Linux. It's far from user-friendly, though.

Ha, I'm the opposite, I absolutely LOVED the Ultima games. Ultima 7 pulls you right into the narrative, then hands you some clues and lets you do what you need to do to win it. Same reason I've not liked any of the final fantasy games, they always seemed to lock you into a certain area until you would grind until you could beat some guy and then you could go on to the next area. Very linear. But then I came from a background of playing many pen and paper role playing games, where the GM sets up the base environment, and then lets the players decide what they want to do.

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While I have beaten the main game, I had lost my save for when the expansions came out. From what a friend had told me, even though at the end of Morrowind, you can pretty much slaughter any enemy, in the expansioins you get your butt handed to you. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, Oblivion and Skyrim were somewhat ruined by the monster level always being close to your level. Morrowimd doesn't have that issue, and is definitely difficult to start out on. But that's part of the joy! I have been waiting for OpenMW to be done so I can play again. I believe there is a similar project for Daggerfall, which is still the largest game out of the series (it covers the whole land of Tamriel instead of sections. Even Elder Scrolls Online doesn't have all of it yet.)

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I can't help but think that 4k isn't really a worth while thing for gaming. A) I'd rather have a surround gaming setup, wide peripheral vision is awesome. B) VR Headsets are going to mostly make 4k gaming also pointless. On the other hand 4k is awesome for desktop usage IF you are using a desktop environment with proper HiDPI, like Gnome-shell. I do find it funny on my 4k laptop, under gnome-shell all of the 'native' applications look fine, but steam is TINY! Under Windows 10, Steam scales, but poorly, so it looks like it's running at a non-native resolution on the LCD, very fuzzy fonts, etc.

I've been rather surprised on that system how well it runs somethings in 4k on it's wimpy 960. Elder Scrolls Online is somewhat playable on it (I'd guess 15-25 fps). Granted, I'm also not one of those people who bitch if I'm not getting 150fps across the board. "I can tell the difference over 60!" "yeah, and you should eat this piece of gum, it'll give you magic powers."

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They need to port the rally games (as has already been said) but I think someone needs to hop on porting Assetto Corsa.

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Besides it crashing when I set the graphics detail to 'Ultra' everything worked. I'd like to get it working across three screens (I have two 1920x1080 and 1 2560x1080, Fallout 4 looks awesome on them, this game would be fantastic on it.)

Anyone doing much multi-monitor gaming on Linux?

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Quoting: edddeduckferalHere is a list of wheels with details of if force feedback and/or 900 degree mode is supported.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/255220/discussions/0/494631967653257694/

Yup, FFB definitely works with the Logitech G27. I'm running Debian unstable right now (kernel 4.2.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.2.6-3 (2015-12-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux)

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