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Questions tagged [games]

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games directory?

On a standard filesystem, we have: /usr/games /usr/lib/games /usr/local/games /usr/share/games /var/games /var/lib/games Is this a joke, or is there some history behind this? What is it for? Why do we have separate and specialized directories for…
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What does Ritchie's 1979 PDP-11 `/usr/games/bcd` do?

I recently tried the simh emulator pdp11. The disk image I used can be found on the internet, and instructions for booting it are here. Presumably it belonged to Dennis Ritchie, as the username is "dmr". In the /usr/games folder are about 20 games…
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CPU temperatures in linux: throttling or wrong reading?

Using a Lenovo Legion Y520 with i7-7700HQ (base clock 2.8Ghz) and GTX 1050. I'm getting CPU overheating warnings in linux and it's affecting my performance in games (found in Payday 2 and CS:GO). I've never had problems in Windows. This is what I…
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How can I get Mumble's overlay working?

Mumble and Team Fortress 2 (TF2) both work fine for me individually, but I cannot get mumble-overlay working, either independently or within TF2. I've tried putting the following launch options into TF2's properties in Steam, none of which have…
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Can I develop Windows, macOS, and Linux software or a game on one Linux distribution?

I'm new in here and I still don't have a lot of experience and knowledge about Linux and software development. I was thinking to start learning software and game development and I am currently building a PC in order to do that. I want to develop…
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No volume control in Nexuiz fullscreen mode

While playing Nexuiz on my Ubuntu in fullscreen mode the volume control buttons on my laptop don't work at all, externally after minimizing the game increasing/decreasing the sound solves the problem but there is no in-game vol control? Also when on…
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How can I install steam on Fedora 28+

I'm trying to figure out how to install Steam on my Fedora 28 laptop. I found these instructions but it's unclear to me whether I need to use the negativo17 repo to install Steam or if there's some other method.
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Is changing the priority of a game's process to realtime bad for the CPU?

On Windows I have frequently changed the priority of a games process to 'high' or 'realtime' to get a performance boost. This has never resulted in any problems with my hardware. I was thinking that maybe I could do this on Linux using the chrt…
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Why do I get "Permission Denied" errors even though I have group permission?

I'm trying to run a game called "Dofus", in Manjaro Linux. I've installed it with packer, that put it under /opt/ankama folder. This folder ownership (and for every file inside it) is root user, and games group. As instructed by the installing…
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How do I install minecraft Forge?

I've downloaded minecraft via the PPA & want to use mods, the only mods I can find need Forge to run, on Microsoft doing so is easy, anyone know how to on Linux? (I prefer to do it via terminal) (I'll add info or change info as I get responses) (I'm…
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Linux: Current correct/recommended use of games-group?

What is currently considered the correct/recommended/best-practice use of the games-group... As a "device group" for game-ports and joy-sticks, unassociated with the games-user (except for being one of the many groups the game-user probably would…
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Civilization IV turns into a black screen after revealing map

I'm running Linux Mint 19 on a laptop Gateway NV51M and I have installed Civilization iv on Steam using Proton. The game runs out of box. But after I (or the PC) build Stonehenge wonder (Important: this wonder centers the map). The screen turns into…
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How to change default permissions of files created by a process?

I'm running a game server (unreal tournament 2004) on Centos 6 x86. I use a sh script to start it in a background process. This process (game server) creates different files (demos, logs) and they all come with 0600 permission by default. I have to…
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How to change the default "fullscreen" monitor?

I have to monitors, one attached to my Nvidia graphics card using HDMI, the other one using VGA (using a DVI-VGA adapter). Most fullscreen games (that even recognizes that there are two monitors) uses the secondary monitor. The primary monitor is…
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Host a chess game locally

I want to play chess with my friend, both of us use the xboard chessboard. We don't often have access to internet connection and we want to play chess using two different computers; the game should be hosted locally. Any ideas how to accomplish…
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