Shit. I started in a place with no minerals and I had my starting fleet butchered by a nearby un-contacted empire in my own system.

I thought I was going to play as a little vassal, but lucky me I found 4 advanced ships on an 2 abandoned shipyards and then nobody seemed to bother about colonizing a nearby mineral-rich system.

I'm still on the weak side for the time being, but I'm back in game.

(Plot Twist: Sol III is a nuclear waste inhabited by rad-roaches)

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I got it from imperial games some days ago and they released the keys today around midday. Maybe the other stores have released them too?

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Quoting: omer666TressFX just kills my GTX660. Other than this it seems to run pretty well on Ultra, I'll see if it stays playable.

If I remember correctly TressFX is AMD tech and it used to kill fps on NVIDIA cards also when TR came out. A lot of time has passed since then. Did they change the tech to work well on NVIDIA cards as well? Otherwise I would say it's expected behavior (regardless of OS). I'll give a try too now.

I think they did make a few patches to improve performance, but Nvidia probably also made driver changes to accommodate it. It wouldn't be surprising to learn those accommodations never made it into the Linux drivers.

Yeah, you're right. I found some articles claiming that. For my part I confirm that tressfx kills my 660ti as well. For the rest the game is supersmooth and enjoyable as it were when it came out on Windows so I don't really care. Very good job Feral!

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Quoting: omer666TressFX just kills my GTX660. Other than this it seems to run pretty well on Ultra, I'll see if it stays playable.

If I remember correctly TressFX is AMD tech and it used to kill fps on NVIDIA cards also when TR came out. A lot of time has passed since then. Did they change the tech to work well on NVIDIA cards as well? Otherwise I would say it's expected behavior (regardless of OS). I'll give a try too now.

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For what it matters my download is stuck too.

I remember buying the game a few months after the original release. I had just build my rig back then (a dream came true thanks to my first salaries :) ) and this game was already on a 75% steam sale. It was just asking to be bought in order to put my graphic card to the test.

The game is not very challenging imho but the visual were stunning. I finished it 100% in like 3 days during Easter holidays and then I never played it again (also because a few months later I lost my temper for the last time and I deleted the windows partition for good :D).

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Imho tux icon and steamos icon should be separated things: if it works on linux put tux icon.

If if works on steamOs, has steam controller support (or at least is reasonable to play with that), has steam cloud support (without messing with different user savegames), etc etc put the steamOs icon.

Yea, 99% of the times if it support steamOs it supports linux too so the 2 icons may look redundant. But they're not. In addition this would allow Valve to put some stricter quality control on official SteamOs games. Sure if the game runs on linux you get the tux icon. But for the SteamOs logo they could demand some additional requirements.

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Quoting: dlfi'd rather have a earlier blizzard title - Warcraft 1/2/3, Diablo 1/2, Starcraft 1/broodwar

Diablo 3 with Steam Controller support. And local co-op.

The day we see that happen the earth shall shatter, lava will start flow in the country whilst legion of deamons will pour in our cities streets. And Sean Bean will not die in a movie.

For the last seal will be broken and the End War will begin!

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The problem of VR is that is a new and still empty market: should they have missed their duel with Oculus this month mr. Facebook would have imposed his technology to the world (and his "all your likes belong to us" user agreement as well as we learnt from the other article). Then it would have been very difficult to penetrate an already saturated market. Think of Android: despite its superiority to iOS it took ages to penetrate the market. And Valve is not Google. And similarly towhat did Apple there would have easily been Facebook censorship and a trivialization of the technology. Which is a shame in a supposedly free world.

So I can understand why they had to put linux aside for a while. Also in the grand scheme of things it won't hurt that much. The point where AAA titles on linux are the norm and Vulkan is the standard on PC are quite far. Until then there won't be big fluctuations in the market. We will remain the pretty 0.8% of the market. The pretty share. :)

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I can't really like or dislike this article. I don't own my likes.

Quoting: "Mark Zuckerberg"All your like are belong to us.

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Quoting: SamsaiI believe you messed up the headline. Isn't it supposed to say "Linux Usage Dramatically Drops, Linux Gaming Practically Dead, All Hail Our Corporate Overlords"?


Sorry, forgot to add the </sarcasm> tag.

Also: the 1st of April is long gone. Bring back the gaming on win 10 logo before Ballmer catches you.

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