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Bioshock Infinite now available on Linux!

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  1. booman

    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Oh no...
    So are you going to wait for the new Nvidia driver or downgrade?
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    I will dowgrade to the latest stable, and see how that runs. I just have to search around a bit, and ask on the funtoo forums how to downgrade the graphics drviers, because I've never done that in a Gentoo like system before.

    I will definitely run a new clonezilla image of all my drives before proceeding because I've made a lot of changes since I last did an image.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Good idea, let us know if it works
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    Sure thing. Going to image my disks before I go out tomorrow because it takes a few hours then I will do the downgrade and report back if it works to run the games then.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    When you image, do you have /home on a separate partition so you only have to backup the OS?
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    I image the entire thing, even /home so I keep my user configs. I have a 180 GB SSD and a 2 TB HDD, and because of the 2 TB HDD taking an image takes at least 4-5 hours, but I like to be thorough.

    I image the disks, not the partition, so it also saves the mbr.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Wow, that is pretty fast for Clonezilla. I use it with 80GB partitions at work and it take an hour to backup, but 15 minutes to restore
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    It's not the Nvidida drivers. Unless there is a problem with the stable Nvidida driver, which is unlikely.
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    I found the reason why some game wouldn't luanch. Tested one game now, moving on to the others. What I find strange is that I used Xfs on the Manjaro install that ran Borderlands 2 a little while ago, on the same 2 TB HDD.

    http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/620695877288637183/?insideModal=1

    It's worth noting that most of my games work in my /home folder where I use XFS, but there are a few games that did not work.

    I created a EXT4 partition under 1 TB with a second library for steam, for the games that have not been ported correctly by the developers.

    Going to try to change the /home to less than 1 TB and install the problem games there again to see if that could also fix the problem.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Ok, that is strange, but maybe its causing a permissions issue.
    One thing I noticed when I started using LinSteam, some games refused to launch and I would have to open up the permissions for the executable.
    But that was over a year ago. Today games and permisisons are just fine.
    Maybe its related?
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    The issue still stands with Borderlands 2 and Bioshock Infinite.

    I will check the permissions for the game files, but that is odd considering that those games are in my home folder.

    Bioshock doesn't launch at all, but Borderlands 2 gets a window where the edges come up then the game crashes.
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    I resolved the issue. Instead of using XFS for both root and home, which seemed to be a problem for either the two games or steam together with the two games.

    Now I use ext4 on root, ext4 on home partition which is less than 1 TB now.

    I will send an e-mail to Valve asking them what the problem might be.
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    booman Grand High Exalted Mystic Emperor of Linux Gaming Staff Member

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    Ah, didn't realize you were using a format other than ext4
    Mint has LVM, but I stopped using it and now only use ext4
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    Never har any problem with XFS until these games came along.

    Roing to clone my install then set up steamos with xfs and report back to aspyr that it's not a problem only related to non steamos, but it thought I made it perfectly clear to them that I had the same issue on several distros.
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    Thanks for being so active on this problem.
    Its good to have it published online as well in case anyone else has similar symptoms.

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