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scharfshutze009 said:
LOL, Boonie. Does that mean you like it or you're having any luck with it under Linux because I thought I was, but it locked up and I had to use terminal with ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep steam to find the the pid. Then kill -15 or -9 [PID] to terminate the process and restore control of the mouse to the GUI desktop instead of Portal 2. I probably didn't use the ps command the best way, but at least I was probably close and got the process terminated. pressing ctrl-alt-t to bring up the terminal helped to because bringing up system monior by typing gnome-system-monitor did, since I couldn't use the mouse and making a keyboard shortcut to system monitor doesn't help much for situations like this either. Also the new shadow warrior runs very slow under Linux too and I running it with the native version of steam for Linux not under PlayOnLInux or Crossover.

I'm not sure why Portal 2 locked up under Ubuntu Linux 16.4 LTS, but it did and it was kind of a disappointment because the list of popular titles for Linux is already kind slim or lacking. Therefore, it's even worse for a game to lock up and disable the Operating System a little by preventing the mouse from being used. Hopefully, it has nothing to do with the corrupt files Anti-virus Live keeps telling me I have every time I use it.

I'm having a really hard time as it is finding something to do with Linux due to the lack of desirable games to play and because I can't think of anything to write a program for or how to actually write programs for Linux as is. The fact that ALICE for C++ if not C as well is an .exe and won't run under Linux from my experience doesn't help either. Also, I need to actually learn how to program with the rest of C++ anyway because writing the sample programs helped at the time, but wasn't enough and now it's been to long, since I wrote any program with C++ in my opinion.

I still need to learn Open GL at least if not Vulkan if I'm really going to make games or be of any real help to the Linux community.

Whoever mentioned the Vulkan patch probably hit the problem right on the head because Vulkan is probably exactly what Linux needs and where it's at.
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You probably have a misconfigured system.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
LOL, Boonie. Does that mean you like it or you're having any luck with it under Linux because I thought I was, but it locked up and I had to use terminal with ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep steam to find the the pid. Then kill -15 or -9 [PID] to terminate the process and restore control of the mouse to the GUI desktop instead of Portal 2. I probably didn't use the ps command the best way, but at least I was probably close and got the process terminated. pressing ctrl-alt-t to bring up the terminal helped to because bringing up system monior by typing gnome-system-monitor did, since I couldn't use the mouse and making a keyboard shortcut to system monitor doesn't help much for situations like this either. Also the new shadow warrior runs very slow under Linux too and I running it with the native version of steam for Linux not under PlayOnLInux or Crossover.

I'm not sure why Portal 2 locked up under Ubuntu Linux 16.4 LTS, but it did and it was kind of a disappointment because the list of popular titles for Linux is already kind slim or lacking. Therefore, it's even worse for a game to lock up and disable the Operating System a little by preventing the mouse from being used. Hopefully, it has nothing to do with the corrupt files Anti-virus Live keeps telling me I have every time I use it.

I'm having a really hard time as it is finding something to do with Linux due to the lack of desirable games to play and because I can't think of anything to write a program for or how to actually write programs for Linux as is. The fact that ALICE for C++ if not C as well is an .exe and won't run under Linux from my experience doesn't help either. Also, I need to actually learn how to program with the rest of C++ anyway because writing the sample programs helped at the time, but wasn't enough and now it's been to long, since I wrote any program with C++ in my opinion.

I still need to learn Open GL at least if not Vulkan if I'm really going to make games or be of any real help to the Linux community.

Whoever mentioned the Vulkan patch probably hit the problem right on the head because Vulkan is probably exactly what Linux needs and where it's at.
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I think B00nie's talking about 'Postal 2', not Portal 2. Having said that, I run Portal 2 under Ubuntu 16.04 and it runs better than it does under Windows.

Why are you running anti virus? I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the cause of all of your problems.
 
BulletDust said:
Hmmm, Orwell...

After reading 1984 (a great book, and coming a little too true for my liking BTW), this game has me intrigued - Good ratings too.
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Orwell is a good game. I enjoyed the story to it and it was well done. The only thing that bugged me was it acts as if you have some kind of turmoil about what you may report to the government but at many times throughout the story you are forced to report certain events in order to progress which takes the choice out of your hands. Still a good game worth the money.
 
Another bit of Wine gaming. Diablo 3 ate so much time in the past, I'm almost scared to know it plays.

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BulletDust said:
I think B00nie's talking about 'Postal 2', not Portal 2. Having said that, I run Portal 2 under Ubuntu 16.04 and it runs better than it does under Windows.

Why are you running anti virus? I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the cause of all of your problems.
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Yes, Postal2. And pissing.



Most antiviruses are actually more harmful than most viruses they're trying to catch. I've always found it ironic how people gimp their computers intentionally by installing a software that sets low level hooks to the system and sometimes works as the actual conduit for the attacks (Norton, anyone?).

If you block scripts on internet and avoid illegal software sources you can get by safely with linux. On Windows you're constantly attacked even by the manufacturer of the OS in form of function degrading updates lol. I wouldn't use Windows for more than a secondary computer used for games and some occasional badly coded software that doesn't support anything but Windows.
 
B00nie said:
Yes, Postal2. And pissing.



Most antiviruses are actually more harmful than most viruses they're trying to catch. I've always found it ironic how people gimp their computers intentionally by installing a software that sets low level hooks to the system and sometimes works as the actual conduit for the attacks (Norton, anyone?).

If you block scripts on internet and avoid illegal software sources you can get by safely with linux. On Windows you're constantly attacked even by the manufacturer of the OS in form of function degrading updates lol. I wouldn't use Windows for more than a secondary computer used for games and some occasional badly coded software that doesn't support anything but Windows.
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It's a shame you can't piss on Norton's in the game....!
 
BulletDust said:
I think B00nie's talking about 'Postal 2', not Portal 2. Having said that, I run Portal 2 under Ubuntu 16.04 and it runs better than it does under Windows.

Why are you running anti virus? I wouldn't be at all surprised if that was the cause of all of your problems.
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I run antivirus live because it's the only thing that seems to fix the corruption I get with linux besides the sudo apt-get -f install command.
 
B00nie said:
Yes, Postal2. And pissing.



Most antiviruses are actually more harmful than most viruses they're trying to catch. I've always found it ironic how people gimp their computers intentionally by installing a software that sets low level hooks to the system and sometimes works as the actual conduit for the attacks (Norton, anyone?).

If you block scripts on internet and avoid illegal software sources you can get by safely with linux. On Windows you're constantly attacked even by the manufacturer of the OS in form of function degrading updates lol. I wouldn't use Windows for more than a secondary computer used for games and some occasional badly coded software that doesn't support anything but Windows.
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I don't use any antivirus, but Antivirus Live Linux and it doesn't mess up my system because it's the only thing that fixes the corruption I get from malicious websites. I don't install install illegal software under Linux either as there is no need to and hardly possible. I try to block out malicious websites with the hosts file, but pricks out there keep making more to block.
 
scharfshutze009 said:
I don't use any antivirus, but Antivirus Live Linux and it doesn't mess up my system because it's the only thing that fixes the corruption I get from malicious websites. I don't install install illegal software under Linux either as there is no need to and hardly possible. I try to block out malicious websites with the hosts file, but pricks out there keep making more to block.
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I've been running Linux for many years now and I have to say, I don't run anything at all and I've never had an issue.

I've definitely never experienced any corruption.
 
BulletDust said:
I've been running Linux for many years now and I have to say, I don't run anything at all and I've never had an issue.

I've definitely never experienced any corruption.
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Likewise... I'm wondering where he is finding all these Linux aimed malicious websites. :)

For the most part Linux anti virus packages are complete BS. Almost as bad as most of the windows packages.

The only real reason I can think of to worry about it is if you have a ton of wine software installed that aren't just games. Having said that for a windows virus to be able to infect anything important on a Linux machine is highly highly highly unlikely. I mean could you make a windows virus capable of attacking a known Linux vulnerability. I guess technically its possible. However it would mean having Linux sploits in your pocket that aren't already patched. (which if you had and wanted to you would use to attack servers directly as they are not likely running wine for anything).

So your target would be Linux desktop users which... we can admit is a small target window for a virus maker. Those users would have to be using wine.... those users would have to be running the unpatched Linux vulnerability and be running likely an older version of wine (as it does get security fixes as well). The virus maker would also likely have to know what version of Linux your running... as most of the best ways in are going to be at least somewhat distro specific. Very good chance it would also only work on older kernels... as most known sploits or even unknown ones tend to get patched quickly, or get reverted by accident if we are being honest. From their you have to write your malware to understand it will be dealing with at min 2 completely different file systems (also likely 3 as many Linux users use 2 different file systems for their / and /home parts and chances are you will need to access both)

So to sum it up... your overall target windows is stupid small. Your malware would have to pick a subset of Linux machines to target.... the code would for sure be larger then regular old windows malware, and if you build it to target more possible Linux configs its going to only get larger. Anyway very long post to basically say its just not something your going to run into outside of whitehat style messing around. It may be interesting to see if you build something for a specific system... but as a real world attack. lol No just no.... go after the weak.

EDIT: The only legit reason I have seen to run Linux antivirus is for linux servers in mixed windows/linux setups. At that point the Virus scan isn't there for Linux... its there to protect the little windows terminals from the bad things. Having said that I do like f-prot... but I honestly can't remember the last time it actually found anything. I do also run rkhunter on clients machines if I didn't set them up or I haven't looked at them in ages, its almost always a waste of time but whatever it doesn't take long and I do something else while it checks.
 
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BulletDust said:
I've been running Linux for many years now and I have to say, I don't run anything at all and I've never had an issue.

I've definitely never experienced any corruption.
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Bulletdust friends of mine have either been malicious enough or not smart enough not to put malicious links for ransonware on facebook that messes up my browser at least. Maybe that's all these malicious site I occassionally run into do to, but I do notice bizzar behavior from files hidding themselves unless I do a ctrl f for them, to my computer not coming out of sleep mode properly, so I'm not making this up and is does mess up my Linux system a little. No one is hacking my computer unless they can gain access through a backdoor they may be planting with the malcious code from their websites, but weird things happen for sure. If you or anyone else in this thread or on HF haven't experienced this consider yourselves lucky. These problems have gone away, but just recently I had chrome asking if I was a robot just during a normal browse.
 
/dev/null said:
Here are some linux games on sale now.

I'm looking to pick up:


Maybe this:

I have (oldies but goodies):


Trine bundle: http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/721/Trinelogy/





Love this game:


Possibly thinking to pick these up for my 5yo...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/340300/Teddy_Floppy_Ear__Mountain_Adventure/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/340310/Teddy_Floppy_Ear__Kayaking/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/284000/PuttPutt_and_Peps_BalloonoRama/

Or maybe the FE collection (not sure if all appropriate for my kid...he gets scared easily):
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/580/FE_Ultimate_Bundle/
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Everyone should play the Overload games at least once. They are a ton of fun. I have yet to try them out on Linux due to my ancient hardware and anemic internet connection but I highly recommend them.
 
Back on topic I was curious this morning if I could get Star Trek online to work on Wine now that they have killed DX 9/10 and run DX 11 only. I expected a ton of issues... but surprisingly with wine staging 2.15 I was able to install update and launch the game no issues other then the performance which is shit. Still it ran and everything looked right... far to slow to be playable on my hardware anyway. Still seems wines dx11 implementation has come along way the last year or so. I didn't turn on some of the lighting changes they put in, chances are they don't work... still good progress a year ago it wouldn't have even fired up. To bad more developers wouldn't switch over to vulcan though. :)
 
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While not strictly in the realm of Linux gaming (definitely UNIX though), does anyone remember this game? (Warning, large pic for clarity).

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BulletDust said:
While not strictly in the realm of Linux gaming (definitely UNIX though), does anyone remember this game? (Warning, large pic for clarity).
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First went to that house on the Apple ][e. :D

This week has had a fun amount of Zork news. In addition to the MIT Technology Review article, Ryan "icculus" Gordon has been going through an old Zork disassembly and tweeted a tidbit. Evidently the inventory weight check was comparing against a random value 0-100.
 
It's great fun!

Playing it on my C64 ATM, although this LCD monitor is shitting me. Just removed the flyback and HoT from my 1084S CRT monitor and awaiting replacements.
 
The developer behind the upcoming 2D Point and Click Neofeud is testing a Linux version and anyone who wants to help out can grab a copy of the Linux test version from this link and report any issues to this Steam thread.
 
Downloading. It comes up with an error and then bounces to Google Drive, is that normal?
 
BulletDust said:
Downloading. It comes up with an error and then bounces to Google Drive, is that normal?
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Yeah that's what happened to me. Once I was at that page I clicked on "Download" and then chose Download Anyway". One of the first things I noticed is n order to get the game to run you have to set the ags64, and the NeoFeud linux test script as executable.
 
I can't get it to download, keeps coming up with an error...

Trying again.
 
Ok, finally downloaded and got it working, but two issues:

1. The game is spanning across both monitors in a dual monitor configuration and there doesn't seem to be a settings option.
2. The music sounds odd? All screwed up like? I'm sure it's not supposed to sound the way it does.

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BulletDust said:
Ok, finally downloaded and got it working, but two issues:

1. The game is spanning across both monitors in a dual monitor configuration and there doesn't seem to be a settings option.
2. The music sounds odd? All screwed up like? I'm sure it's not supposed to sound the way it does.

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I have encountered a similar issue on some games when I used to have a dual monitor setup. Outside of unplugging one monitor while playing I would try to alter the resolution in the acsetup.cfg file that is in the data folder of the game. You can change resolution there and hopefully solve the issue if it is treating your 2 screens as one.
 
I popped my Linux gaming cherry with Mad Max tonight. This game is awesome so far.


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Also noticed about a third of my Steam library is compatible on Linux. I imagined there'd be much less, but lots of games seem to have support. More than enough to keep me busy for a while.
 
cybereality said:
Also noticed about a third of my Steam library is compatible on Linux. I imagined there'd be much less, but lots of games seem to have support. More than enough to keep me busy for a while.
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A point that Linux users keep trying to make while being told by users of other operating systems that it's a moot point as Linux doesn't run 'everything' (including the vast majority of shovelware) available on other platforms.

PC gaming is a diverse and varied passion, and if you can move away from other operating systems to enjoy the benefits of Linux and still enjoy the majority of your games, then you've just taken your first step away from the issues surrounding other operating systems.

Congratulations and enjoy! As a Mad Max gamer under Linux myself I agree, the game is awesome!
 
cybereality said:
Also noticed about a third of my Steam library is compatible on Linux. I imagined there'd be much less, but lots of games seem to have support. More than enough to keep me busy for a while.
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I kept a windows drive for gaming around for a long time. Then a few years ago when Valve got behind Linux.... I started giving games with Linux binaries priority. Then at some point I realised I only had a handful of non-linux titles in my list, and not long after I noticed the ones that where windows only tended to be the games I would play through once and never touch again anyway. Made it easy to stop worrying about the windows drive. Now I keep a windows VM for a small handful of software I need to test... or I may might not trust wine to handle without native Linux support like tax software. :) Have fun.
 
Finished Saints Row: The Third, so I just started Dungeons 2. Seems fun so far...



Also: If any of you want to try SR3, it does have a co-op mode & I have a lot of side missions to do still. Hit me up if you guys want to play.
 
Been playing Tooth and Tail today... fun little indie game.



TaT is a Pocketwatch games title they gave away Monaco not long ago when they launched TaT... I never got into Monaco but am enjoying TaT.
 
cybereality said:
Also noticed about a third of my Steam library is compatible on Linux. I imagined there'd be much less, but lots of games seem to have support. More than enough to keep me busy for a while.
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That's what has kept me on Linux. I may not have every game I want but I have way more than enough to keep me busy and as I continue to clear my backlog more games get ported over.
 
Anyone tried "Rocket League" ? Easy to learn and very, very difficult....

 
I was playing against CPU on "easy" and ended up with my first "EPIC SAVE" earlier today!

Steam price isn't bad but it's $9.87 USD on "kinguin", $9.57 on cdkeys.com and $10.75 on g2a.com

IMHO cdkeys is the most trustworthy obviously after steam..
 
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