LinuxGameCast Weekly EP174 – Sriracha Novella

Street Fighter 5 is headed to SteamOS! SMACH Z nopes, VALVe gets sued, and AMD sees red. All this, plus your hate mail!

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Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steamy Control
http://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements/detail/38642823797920591

Pretty much does what it says on the tin. Plug in your steam controller, enter big picture mode and set a name for your controller
All in all it’s a good idea, especially with couch co-op being a thing with the steamboxen
However I’m curious how input handling works when you have two of those fuckers plugged in.

Le sued
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/262203/French_consumer_group_sues_Valve_over_Steam_policies.php

I’m surprised VALVe disallows digital resale $ince they could charge a $mall fee and make all the monies.
Oh WAIT! That’s because you are buying a license to play the game.

A lot of people really do fail to understand this. This is one of the main perils of digital distribution

Everything else those cheese eating surrender monkeys want is legit.
The claiming ownership of user content bit is straight out of Ubuntu’s playbook. That’s pretty fucking sketchy.
I’m pretty sure the steam wallet thing is par for the course with XBLA bucks. Correct me if I’m wrong on that

You what now?
http://www.capcom-unity.com/street_fighter/blog/2015/12/17/announcing-steam-os-support-for-sfv

Sort of Called it. I will say, for arcade cabinets, linux sure makes a lot of sense

Think this has more to do /w Unreal Engine 4 vs. arcade cabinets.

For sure. I was just mentioning a fringe benefit of this

Also…THE FUTURE IS NOW!
Part of me is all \:D/ /w a healthy dose of ಠ_ಠ for a $59.99 title that ships /w $29.99 day one DLC.
That caught me off guard!
Of course we’re going to have to repurchase super street fighter 5 turbo ex-machina cocksmasher 3d deluxe edition with knuckles every year now
Difficulty: Working in 3-5 Mortal Kombat references… each.

Not only did they nerf the new gun they introduced…
http://www.pcgamer.com/valve-rolls-back-csgo-rifle-and-pistol-changes

They’ve gone back and de-nerfed everything!
But perhaps worse than that, the game now segfaults under 10 minutes of actual playtime.

Zombiecraft 13
http://7daystodie.com/alpha-13-status-and-release-notes/

Hovers around 30/50 and looks slightly better?
Object pop-in is beyond jarring.
Crashed twice on my end with an “out of memory exception”

Can you say Memory Leak?

Volvox
http://store.steampowered.com/app/392600/

Dev sent us keys
So world of Goo with triangles
Unity screen of nope so don’t bother plugging in a controlla.

Hipster Wizard
http://store.steampowered.com/app/375520/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

Doesn’t even need a graphics adapter.
the weeb is strong with this one
Also looks like they ripped some assets from IWBTG
Honestly, it’s just another hipster pixel platformer on linux. It’s harmless though, and priced to sell

WAT?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/299090/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

So it’s a ‘Cosplay Maker’ /w ‘5 female romance options’
The character sprites look familiar. They seem to be using the same templates as every shitty android developer does when making the “artwork” for their Play store pages.
The game title is very misleading.

Honey, I picked up a little dress up game for you.

News:

Crimson Edition 15.12
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86_64

“Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.19)” and “Distributions supported: Ubuntu 15.10”
Something something 15.10 something something 4.2 kernel.

AMD is talkin’ some good shit
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Announces-GPUOpen-Open-Sourced-Gaming-Development

But that’s the same shit they’ve been saying for years.

I’m pretty sure those are the same slides they used at XDC earlier this year

Actually, the slides are from AMD’s RTG Sonoma Summit last week.
~~The slides are~~, but it’s the whole schpiel about open-saucing all the things that’s relevant here.

Their graphics drivers under Linux are still atrocious in both support and performance.
DirectX 12, a competing low level API, that will have much wider reach than Mantle or Vulkan

lolwut
Senor Shrout, are you telling me that a locked down, platform specific API will have much wider reach than an open standard based one that runs on everything?

I’ll wait for AMD’s GPU driver to actually show up in the kernel upstream before putting any stock in what they say.
Aaaaand i’m pretty sure that NVIDIA is already sending the first cheques for developers to not implement this.

^ I’m kinda half-joking

That said, we’re a bunch of NVIDIA loving fanbois and you can’t trust us!

~~Summer~~ NVIDIA, get your shit together
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3wxvy9/nvidia_hardware_encoder_for_video_recording_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3u0jne/nvenc_test_on_arch_linux/

I first tinkered /w nvenc in 2014 but it was slightly less than useless.
This post reminded me of it and after an hour of doing it the Venn way (same as the wrong way, only faster) I broke down and looked up the install guide.
This “guide” from last month falls apart while trying to apply the ffmpeg_NVIDIA_gpu_acceleration.patch to the current git.
AND it tells people to do a system wide install of ffmpeg? Are you FK mothering high?
Granted, I took a kid’s-glove approach to installing this (using the PPA drivers) since it’s on our production boxen and yes, I know it’s available in the AUR ARCH!11!

Ubuntu and Fedora repos also exist.

GG Aaron from NVIDIA is trying to help out.
That said, this should be a fk mothering checkbox in the NVIDIA control panel.
Frenchie deservers a bite sized Snickers for getting it to work.

Called it
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smachteam/smach-z-the-first-handheld-steam-machine/posts/1445260

“Everybody expect to see SMACH Z working in an encapsulated prototype and it’s something that we can’t offer just now”

Awww, did that screen hooked up to a video source not fool people?

“We think we‘d need to give more info about the final SoC and we can’t do it now. We’re going to discuss the matter with AMD.”

You want to deliver OpenGL games, on Linux, with AMD hardware.
I can see the discussion.

SMACH Z: We need you to improve your Linux drivers.
AMD: We, have Linux drivers?

Much to the shock of no one
I mean, no actual prototype, an unfitting software stack and a dubious target market, Why would you expect anything but failure?
This may have been a good thing.
I honestly don’t think that campaign would have succeeded.

The 500 people-organs that backed this should be rounded up and put down.
We don’t need them reproducing.

Also, when doing gaming console kickstarters never forget the Ouya.

Compress
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/12/16/announcing-unitys-new-data-compression-team/

You might remember Rich from such shitty blog posts as http://richg42.blogspot.ru/2014/11/state-of-linux-gaming.html
Still, he’s not talking about linux gaming here. He’s going to be working on ensuring that unity games memory footprints are as small as possible.

Open Age
https://github.com/SFTtech/openage

Incoming cease and desist from Microsoft in 3…2…1…

By the way, you can totally purchase Age of empires on Xbox live as of this C&D

Flippy vote
http://flippfly.com/vote/

Guys behind Race the Sun are letting people download and play their prototypes.
Linux builds are available, makes sense since they’re all Unity games.
They’re doing this to let the community choose which of their prototypes will be turned into a full game.
The first round of votes will go on for a month, give or take.

Wesnoth 1.13.2
http://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?t=43342

This is the last release to be using SDL < 2. This is a good thing, sort of.

Should have switched much sooner IMO

Brand new water animations, better error reporting tools, and fixes for windows users who will never play this game ever because steam

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Yarr
http://slexy.org/view/s2i8ZGASEx
https://www.youtube.com/user/ModernTalkingCentral

So, your argument is that we should judge games based on their potential instead of what they actually do?
That’s like saying you should consider burning your arms off with a blowtorch not because it will hurt like hell, but because of the relief you feel when your nervous system finally shuts down.
A more appropriate analogy would be that he’s making the argument that you shouldn’t judge a dog turd for the shit that it is, but for the $20 bill that might be hidden underneath it

I say it’s more appropriate because these kinds of people seem to have shit for brains.

SMACH
http://slexy.org/view/s2oyQSMuqu

Power management on Linux isn’t currently close to power management on windows. I had to do some HAX to get it close.
Throw AMD GPUs into the mix with their drivers and…I dunno
My netbook has a 61whr battery, with a single core 1.2GHz processor and a 1024×600 screen.

I’ve said my piece about 1366×768, but what the fuck is even with that resolution

It idles in and around 6W. In theory it would be able to idle for 10h, real use I get less than 4.
I doubt even with the new sauce, a 1080p displayed quad core apu will be able to last for 5 hours on a 40whr battery. Not even idling.
Guess who has a X86_64 tablet /w integrated graphics running a seven inch 1080p 720P 800P IPS display? (I got to give that little fkr props. That screen looks tits for being 800P)
That little FKR will nope its 7,000 mAh battery in 5 hrs while sleeping.