Latest Comments by fabertawe
Torchlight II Now On Linux, Old News By A Day, But Here’s My Report
5 March 2015 at 7:56 pm UTC

Not the type of game I'd normally buy but really liked the look of it and at a bargain price! Unfortunately I was getting no audio. As I posted on the Steam forum...

I'm assuming the game assumes pulseaudio only as I get no audio when running this game on Arch Linux. I'm not using any DE and my audio output is via ALSA.

The solution in my case is to use the incredibly useful apulse which I'm already using for Skype. It's available from the AUR for Arch or from source.

Simply go to 'Properties -> General -> Set Launch Options' and enter the following...

APULSE_PLAYBACK_DEVICE=plughw:0,0 /usr/bin/apulse %command%

You will have to change the 0,0 part after plughw: to the sound device you use for output, if it differs. Note there is also a /usr/bin/apulse32 command for 32bit applications.

Am I the only person to experience no sound in this game?

Feral Interactive Have Put Up Another Port Teaser
21 January 2015 at 3:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Waikano
Quoting: fabertawe
Quoting: tmtvlI have no mouth and I must scream.

I'm surprised you got no "likes" for that (bar mine). It tickled me anyway! At least you wouldn't be an alcoholic :D

p.s. I have no idea what the game could be.

Already available in Steam for Linux...works fine.

I assumed tmtvl was joking, hence my reply (also joking) ;)

Feral Interactive Have Put Up Another Port Teaser
17 January 2015 at 12:16 pm UTC

Quoting: tmtvlI have no mouth and I must scream.

I'm surprised you got no "likes" for that (bar mine). It tickled me anyway! At least you wouldn't be an alcoholic :D

p.s. I have no idea what the game could be.

GOL GOTY Awards Are Over, Here's The Top 10 From Each Section
15 January 2015 at 2:46 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: fabertaweI never selected an open source game.... was this a category I missed or was that list just generated from the overall vote?

It had its own voting.

Oops I'll be more attentive in future!

GOL GOTY Awards Are Over, Here's The Top 10 From Each Section
15 January 2015 at 8:25 am UTC

I'm also in favour of picking your top five, ranked with points from 5 to 1, as stss mentioned. I'm not too keen on the Editors finalising the voting list though as this will definitely exclude games some (many?) might want to vote for and lend bias to the ones the Editors actually like. Unless it's a massive list of course, in which case just repeat what we had this time (my choice). Choice is good! I don't think early access should be included either.

I never selected an open source game.... was this a category I missed or was that list just generated from the overall vote?

p.s. I voted Borderlands 2 - incredible game!

Western Digital Green HDD, How To Stop Them Dying On You
13 January 2015 at 9:56 am UTC Likes: 1

Great article, happy to see more like this. I have two WD 1TB Blacks in a RAID1 array and it's good to learn something new! Load_Cycle_Count is 1860 for both btw (couple of years usage).

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From GamingOnLinux
25 December 2014 at 1:20 pm UTC

Have a good one everyone! Thanks to all and may GOL continue to be the shining beacon it already is.

This year's been amazing for Linux gaming and the new one coming is going to be very interesting indeed :D

More 'Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel' DLC Announced For Linux
5 December 2014 at 1:31 pm UTC

Exactly the same here with me Beamboom :D

I'm only level 44 on True Vault Hunter mode and have only played one of the DLC as of now. I will eventually get around to the Pre-Sequel, probably when Borderlands 3 is out

p.s. I absolutely love this game!

GOL Survey Results: October
3 November 2014 at 10:24 am UTC

Quoting: OZSeafordHow and why did I not see this survey? I read every article...

Anyway, some nice stats here. I hope to be able to fill in the next one.

The link's at the bottom of this article! I missed filling it in last time too

Keep up the good work Segata, very interesting.

Game Saves Are Messing Up Our Drives!
1 October 2014 at 9:47 am UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: fabertaweSomething randomly creates an empty "Documents" folder which I keep deleting. I'll find the culprit one day and when I do.... :><:
Might have something to do with your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs…

I've only recently started using that so Cheese wouldn't save in root :O and "Documents" is set to a temp location. So whatever's creating it is ignoring $XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR anyway. Thanks for trying to help though (+ what Stan said) :)