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On the usual sites I monitor nobody so far is reporting problems but they were not particularly quick when the same thing happened a little more than a month ago. I'll do my little test on the weekend and will post the result, but of course after Daerandin's report there is little doubt that...

I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice here. I am a casual gamer (which means very bad) so I don't need to go online to play. Out of caution now I disable networking when I play games, so the Steam client can't get updated. Does it make sense to try testing the new Steam update...

Booman, I just wanted to let you know that New Vegas is still on sale on Steam, but only for a few hours! I would gladly post some pics, but I haven't even started Fallout 3 yet, which I installed some time ago following the guide you posted here. Right now I have at least 50 new games (well...

Well, I said I would not upgrade POL but, launching a long overdue update of my system, I found out that now my version is 4.2.2! (I had not checked which programs might be changed). I don't see anything different, it certainly works because I tried installing Fallout New Vegas and there was...

On the PlayOnLinux website I was not able to find an announcement, let alone the changelog. Do you guys know anything about what's new with the 4.2.2. version? Personally I will not upgrade until I find a compelling reason to do so.

As I wrote, all the credit must go the the guy who uploaded the POL prefix. Anyway I found out also that on Steam you can buy Pinball FX2, which is a sci-fi, fantasy, hi-tech evolution of this game and which works flawlessly on PlayOnLinux basically out of the box. Pinball FX2 can be tried as...

What Operating System(s) are you going to install on that PC, and will you use it also for some gaming? If the main (or only) OS will be a Linux distro, I completely agree with ThunderRD's opinion that an Nvidia graphic card is at the moment clearly the best option by far.

Future Pinball is a pinball simulator which allows to create and play tables, as they say on their site, in True real time 3D. The feeling is very realistic and some of the user created tables are perfect reproduction of the best machines ever manufactured. Problem is, I was never able to get...

Why do I feel like a complete noob now? I had completely forgotten about that option in Wine configuration: I am so spoiled by POL that I don't usually check all the possibilities offered by Wine, which I used to do when I was using the vanilla version of the program years ago. So thank you...

Hi Booman, I am bumping this old thread to let you know that on my system the installation of UT3 was not as trouble-free as on yours. First of all, I should emphasize that I really didn't need POL to play UT3. I had installed it using Crossover: the performance at first was not spectacular...

Apparently some testers don't like SteamOS or at least the limited choice of games and have already installed Windows on their Steam Machine. On this thread from reddit/r/steam many people say this was to be expected, but I must admit I was disappointed. If this becomes a trend, once the boxes...

Could be wrong, but I believe that Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which is not only supported far longer than the other releases, but supposedly is also more stable. The Mint guys probably think that without backporting recent features, their Maya release would be hopelessly outdated and...

On my second (and much older) desktop I use, among others, Crunchbang which is based on Debian 7 and despite operating only with a Window Manager (Openbox) and without a full Desktop Environment, I think the performance of games in POL is only marginally (if at all) better than XFCE, LXDE or...

IMHO it makes sense only as the OS of the Steam Machine; with such a configuration on a separate partition you would be forced to dual-boot with another Linux OS for most other non gaming activities. Personally I would install Steam OS on my main PC only if there is a significance performance...

So far I haven't been able to see reports of people managing to do that. Anyway, here is a screenshot and a Youtube video from the guys at reddit.com/r/steam!

From what I can understand you can't dual boot with SteamOS because the only way to install it is by having the installer FORMAT YOUR HARD DRIVE. Basically it's a system restore image, not a ISO with system files. So unless someone has a spare PC (or at least a spare hard disk) which meets...

Thanks for the info. Did you buy the game?

Do you know how this website works? On their FAQ they say, to access a game, "a unique url will be displayed after your purchase - click this to access your game. The unique link will also be sent in an email to the email address you provided during checkout, so make sure you keep that email...

Booman, since you can't move these last posts I would like to add that, if you are looking for stability, the Ubuntu-X team PPA is probably better. I also advise against the manual installation of the driver: even if things go well, you are going to face problems with a kernel upgrade, which...

Do you mean Unity, the Canonical developed shell of Gnome 3? I really dislike it, but it is very easy to install Gnome Shell (my favorite) or another DE like XFCE, KDE or LXDe, not to mention the alternative of directly switching to Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, ElementaryOS and who knows how...