vicklemos: Hi GOG!
Nope, not an urgent demand or anything, just curiosity: why there's no linux tarball for Among the Sleep?
I truly believe that's the first time I see this, regarding a linux title.
The thing is that I'll test this baby on 2 different machines, and one of these is specially slow these days, so gog installers are "hiccuping" there :P
And the tarballs you guys provide, yummy, they're so convenient and great. Love 'em!

Thanks!

shmerl: Can you please also add Linux to the list of platforms here? https://www.gog.com/indie

Being listed as "other" doesn't look serious.

MoonSong: I would like to "report a bug" on Linux

I use Linux Mint 17.03:
All the GoG installers for linux create a window way wider than my current monitor, Probably because the installer uses the desktop resolution as a reference rather than the current monitor resolution.
As a suggestion, probably the maximum width of the installer could be limited to 1024 pixels;

I don't have this problem when I install things on my laptop or when I use only one screen.

MoonSong: I would like to "report a bug" on Linux

I use Linux Mint 17.03:
All the GoG installers for linux create a window way wider than my current monitor, Probably because the installer uses the desktop resolution as a reference rather than the current monitor resolution.
As a suggestion, probably the maximum width of the installer could be limited to 1024 pixels;

I don't have this problem when I install things on my laptop or when I use only one screen.

DrYaboll: The currently is "Active gaming media sale" which includes La Mulana.

This game recently received a Linux port, yet it is still not up on GOG.

Is it coming? Or is it another game I screwed myself over by buying it on GOG instead of Steam?

DrYaboll: So, any updates on that?

king_mosiah: Having issues trying getting The Real Texas running in Manjaro (Gnome).

(therealtexas:5249): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(therealtexas:5249): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
support/gog_com.shlib: line 94: 5249 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./"${bin_64}"

Ganni1987: I've been hammering at this for a few weeks now already, so bear with me:

Earlier this year Trine 3 received an update for which introduced a massive performance hit on Linux, after a couple of months they fixed this (amongst other issues), more or less 5 months have passed since then and both GOG and Humble Bundle DRM-Free gamers still haven't received this patch, the game is technically broken as it stands.

If anyone has a few minutes to take a look and leave a message that the GOG version should be updated, then maybe there's a slim chance they'll finally do it, you can find the link here: http://www.frozenbyte.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=27509

Ganni1987: Personally I prefer them as they are since I can extract them without running the installer. However If binary mode would still allow me to do that then it's ok for me. :-)

Ganni1987: (May seem off topic): What I would really like to see from the Linux side is the Linux versions of games that are otherwise available on Humble/Steam. A few examples: Dust, Limbo, Dying Light, Master of Orion....etc. Most of these games have came without a Linux version on GOG and there's was no given reason as to why. Does GOG even ask for these versions when they're about to release a game they know it has a Linux version?

shmerl: They modified it. So making a repo for their version is a good idea.

shmerl: Yeah, I noticed that (and version that GOG use is older than the current one, but even the current one is still wrong). I'm kind of surprised it wasn't fixed upstream yet.

Ganni1987: Can anyone please try to run Screamer 2 on 64bit DosBox? The game crashes soon after I start a race, strangely it happens only with the 64bit version. The game works perfect under 32bit dosbox with same distro (Mint 17.3).

shmerl: For those interested in building Mesa from source, I made a guide here.

shmerl: Did anyone manage to run Lords of Xulima? Not only it crashes on startup on XFS (seems to be the same old and obnoxious LFS lacking bug in a growing list of 32-bit only games), but it also segfaults even when workaround is used (smaller or non XFS partition). Sounds like a major mess.

Given that I got it as a bonus for Torment: Tides of Numenera, I'm not that upset, but the game is rather unplayable in the current form.

I also noticed this:

Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.

shmerl: Oh, I'd blame it on developers, not on the game ;) They should learn something about Large File Support. See

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_file_support
* [url=http://users.suse.com/~aj/linux_lfs.html]http://users.suse.com/~aj/linux_lfs.html[/url] (see Using LFS there).

And the fact that on Linux, when they build 32-bit programs, LFS is not enabled by default. Compiler has to be instructed to switch it on. For instance, for GCC you need to compile with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

To be clear, lack of LFS doesn't just affect files larger than 2GB. It also affects using partitions larger than certain size (which hits XFS more than most).

The problem is complicated by the fact that different filesystems work inconsistently, when LFS is not enabled and the program runs on 64-bit system. The fact that it works on EXT4 more often than on XFS just obscures the problem, and developers think that's how it's supposed to be. Nothing of the sort. They simply are doing an incorrect assumption. So it's not a problem of XFS, it's a problem of developers having no clue about the topic.

And as a responsible distributor, you can ask your QA team to have a routine test, whether the binary is built with LFS or not. Run any incoming 32-bit game on 2TB XFS partition, and if it borks, inform developers about this issue. Educate them. It's much more effective when coming from you, than from us, users who are hit by this obnoxious issue. Even better, ask them to provide 64-bit version to avoid this whole mess.

Given how many game developers are still making this same mistake over and over (including Obsidian in recent Tyranny, who still didn't fix it until now), I'd say such QA check is a must for you.