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Btw I'm only 11 and might be missing something completely. But when i had win 7 on my samsung R870 ( intel i3 and nvidia GeForce GT 330M ) games like Team fortress 2 ran really smooth, but when i've downloaded and installed on ubuntu and ubuntu studio, the game runs fairly smooth for about 15mins...

I am an intermediate android programmer, I am already familiar with the development process. However, I have an idea for a new game (much life flappy birds), and wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions as to where or how I would get started. I did some research and found some software other ...

i'm new in this Ubuntu world. I'm trying out ubuntu 13.10, and my goal is to customize it as far as i'm comfortable with. But now i'm at a breaking point: I'm a gamer, and i really want ubuntu to fulfill my gaming expectancies (taking away the few titles that are out there for ubuntu), since i'm ...

I've noticed a problem with my Ubuntu 13.10 installation, where games will stutter when I run them windowed and with my second monitor on. Let me elaborate. I have one game running natively, Starbound. This game will constantly stutter - like it has low FPS, although my pc is more than powerful ...

I have an issue with Adobe Scout. It does not listen (doesn't start a new session like it should) for a SWF loaded by another (main) SWF. The SWFs have advanced telemetry enabled and the setup is correct as described in http://www.adobe.com/devnet/scout/articles/adobe-scout-getting-started .html....

Hi there I hope I've used the right tag if not can you suggest another one please. Anyway I'm currently still a beginner with Ubuntu and I'm having problems with jstest-gtk. I've installed jstest-gtk and I've managed to setup my afterglow Xbox 360 wired controller how I want, however when I go t...

Okay, so I'm very new here, so bare with me. I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongside windows 7 on my old Toshiba Satellite L505D-GS6000. from what i remember, this computer performed pretty fairly on the same game (Garry's Mod) in windows. I installed steam, then installed Garry's Mod, and s...

So i have wanted to do this for quite some time now, but after using Linux Mint Olivia (15), which has given me WiFi & sound issues, I am sceptical but still eager to try this out, although I dont really want to format if it is not reliable So I have been wondering, I have downloaded Ubuntu 13.0...

I am trying to launch GameMaker Studio on my system using wine however every time I try to launch the application in the terminal this is what I get; jackjokezz@ubuntu:~/.wine/drive_c/users/jackjokezz/GameMaker-Studio$ wine GameMaker-Studio.exe fixme:thread:SetThreadStackGuarantee (0x32fc68): st...

I am trying to get the name of the current song playing I can get something that does that but I cannot get it to update real time so when the song is finished it will display the next song that will be playing. Would I do this with Ajax requests? could be an option just worried that it might w...

Many games today are prereleased in an alpha/beta state and instantly overwhelmed by "hackers" downloading programs manipulating the game itself to become overpowered. I guess they make injections into certain memory addresses in runtime but I have no clue of how to go about to create a program ...

I just tried Rust for the first time and it striked me how many users that uses hacks as they play. I'm a decent programmer but lack knowledge regarding network communication at this level, I wonder if someone can answer how this works and give me some technical pointers? The more specific the ...

There are some games which I would like to download on Ubuntu, for example Need for Speed and Call of Duty. However, being relatively new to Ubuntu,I am not exactly sure of how to download such packages on Ubuntu. Can somebody please instruct me on this ?

We are planning phase to create online gaming solution. Currently we are discussing architecture to be implemented. Some key points that solution/architecture must possess: Confirmed data delivery Scalable architecture with Load Balancing Easy way to add more server as the load increases. Onlin...

I am using Enter E-GPV gamepad for playing FIFA 13 on Windows 7.I opted to buy this as I did not have any previous experience of using gamepad and this was having the highest available user rating and the cheapest best option available. I am having a problem while playing the game. I cannot perfo...

I want to install Buzz Light Year in Ubuntu but there is only a version for Windows. Can I install it in Ubuntu somehow?

Bitoomba was established in early 2013, it is known for having a cryptocurrency online casino that accepts Bitcoin and Litecoin. Bitoomba uses a Bitoomba Software and runs an RNG for all games offered in the website. All transactions are clear and depositing and withdrawing are instant. With th...

I am searching for a simple question but unfortunatly I dont know what I am doing wrong. I want a Sprite to move to point B turn around and move back to Point A. Over and over again. But my Sprite walks to Point B and goes no further. Please Help me. public void update(float delta) { if(sta...

as the title states. While i play video games i like to have Pandora playing in the background. The main problem i'm having is that any of the larger sounds(spikes in volume) in the game lower my music volume so low i can't hear it. this is super annoying. I am running windows 8.1 with a MSI ...

I have recently switched from Window's 7 to Ubuntu 12.04(Precise Pangolin). I have a decent list of steam games from my old OS, and have installed the latest version of Wine. Based on the test list I should be able to play most of them, but when I try to install them through the steam client the ...

I downloaded the linux version of the game Quintet on a machine with Ubuntu 13.10, but now I don't know how to start the program. The main file is simply named Quintet.x86. Double clicking does nothing. The terminal does not recognize it as a command. In properties, the button "Allow executing fi...

I am new to linux in general ( ive just tried it years ago) and as I've seen it for first time - i loved it! The best OS for me but there was a little problem - I am a gamer since i remember myself. But now I am sick n tired of Windows and want to start using only linux (till now I used it dual b...

Is this site http://www.latestgames2.com is save and secure for browsing and downloading games and software please answer this question quickly i want to download some game demos from there.

Pretty much as the title suggests, are there any wired (gaming) controllers that "just work" or natively support Ubuntu "out-of-the-box"? Having spent plenty of time fighting (ongoing) battles with Ubuntu, it'd be nice to have something that is natively supported or "just works" for a change... ...

Weather im running Dota 2 or Skyrim ill be playing fine then bam it will freeze up in the case of skyrim it will freeze for a few seconds then ussually allow me to continue playing but in the case of dota 2 it will completly crash IDK why and its really annoying cause it was not doing this 3 days...

Trying to install Catlateral Damage using the usual extracting and installing commands on the terminal, but it keeps tossing me annoying errors. Probably missing something obvious. Both the archive and the file are on my desktop. Note: the file created by extracting the archive starts out named t...

So, this is what is happening, i've downloaded a game that is supposed to run in playOnLinux perfectly, however, when i'm trying to play, it gives me an error "Shader Version 3.0 is not supported", it does not matter if i configure the lowest settings or not, it gives me the same error, my graphi...

It's great news that Steam supports Linux, and will surely help with gaming on Linux. I've heard that Ubuntu is the distro that Steam officially supports, so it follows that you'd have the best Steam experience on Ubuntu. My question is this: Would any of the differences that make Lubuntu what ...

Specifically, is it possible for a desktop with a decent graphics card (say suitable for Eve Online combat at laptop resolution), to provide remote play to a laptop on wifi or 4G? I took a run at this about a decade ago but found VNC delivered a black rectangle for any OpenGL. Have things chan...

I recently built one of those newfangled AMD Kaveri systems, but am having a little trouble setting it up for dual graphics/Crossfire. Here is the hardware list: Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty FM2A88X+ Killer (Updated to BIOS v1.8) CPU: A10-7850K GPU: GIGABYTE GV-R725O5-2GI Radeon R7 250 2GB 128-...

I am having very bad FPS on DOTA 2 native. I am using: Ubuntu 13.10 for X64 bit systems AMD FX-6300 CPU 8GB DDR3 - 1600MHZ Radeon 7770 GHZ Edition with 14.1 Beta Drivers What I have tried up so far: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS - same problem AMD 13.12 Catalyst - same problem Source Drivers - same pro...

It's this game: http://www.catlateraldamage.com/play It's a .tar.gz file; and doesn't contain any Installation files. Need some help. Thanks in advance!

After one of CCC updating (I don't remember what version from, one of 13.11 betas) stopped working crossfire. Now I use latest beta CCC 14.1 and can't enable crossfire because crossfire option as you can see below is missing and second adapter is "disabled". Second adapter is actually working bec...

I've been trying to get the game Victoria 2 to work on Play on Linux for a few days now, but I keep encountering an error message saying "Runtime Error (at -1.0) Cannot Import dll:C:\users\username\Temp\is-M7FI1.tmp\isskin.dll" I've looked up this problem before, and one answer I found was to ...

I have no experience with gaming on PC, but want to buy my daughter laptop. She wants to play Minecraft and Sims 3. I found some page, but it says I need "2.4 GHz" CPU. Which is usually not an option. It also says that it should be P4, so I guess it's older CPU, so I can use something slower (in ...

How to decrease lagging in gaming? Does buying new router helps? I want to play games, and download games in the meanwhile. I don't understand how can game lag if it only uses for example 5% of my maximum bandwidth, and I limit my other downloads to for example 50% or less. There is still 45% or...

How do you install a game from a zip file? I downloaded gems from the Ubuntu software centre and they offered a free download it came as a zip file how do you install it?

Now, to define, Llanfair is a stopwatch esque program, used by speed runners, which is found Here . The program is available as a Windows download, as well as a .Jar file for use on all other Operating Systems. I went ahead and installed JDK Java Runtime 7 from the Software centre, set the Execut...

I have an HP Envy with 12 GB memory, 1 TB hard drive and an i7 processor, with completely updated drivers. when playing games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Skyrim, the video and audio lag in sync with each other, with about one frame per second and the audio plays slowly with rapid clicks. t...

I can install and get League running on 12.04 and 13.10, but I get 2-5 fps, the screen is mostly black (I can see just the HUD and player and enemy health bars, the rest is black/silhouettes) and my menus are red boxes that are hard to see. How do I fix this? I installed both through a .sh boot f...

I Really want to switch to linux but i own a crap ton of windows games. and i would want to play them on my machine. is there anyway possible to play the newest titles on said ubuntu machine? like what code would i need and how do i implement it.

I play Diablo 2 LoD and need to use the Alt-key quite often. It doesn't work ingame and if I press it 2 or 3 times the game minimizes and the Unity search function comes up. How can I disable this behaviour? I don't know if this is what the guy was describing but in the guide I followed to insta...

I have the case, with the fans and the old motherboard. But i want to know what motherboard i could use in it.(i only have the old motherboard in it, nothing else.)

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and I am trying to run Steam (Windows) through PlayOnLinux. I get it to start, I log in, steam sends me an e-mail with a code to register with my computer, I type it in, and steam crashes. It does this every time I try to log in. I am new to Linux, so please dumb this do...

I'd want a Windows emulator that works the same way as DOSbox, I mean DOXbox doesn't open any .exe, you have to mount files into it ,Wine for example opens any .exe , and I think that's not safe,I only want to emulate some games. Thanks.

I have analyzed my pc performance by speezy. I wanted to show you the pic but its saying I need 10 reputations to post a pic. I am cpy pasting the whole thing. Just go through. Operating System -------> Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit CPU -------> AMD Athlon 7750 57 °C Kuma 65nm Techn...

I want to install a game that looks really fun, called Tremulous, but when I run the installer it says: /usr/local/bin/tremulous: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'm new to Linux, so I don't really know what this m...

I have this unknown filetype called .gfx (used in a computer game) which I'm pretty certain contain uncompressed flat images (possible .bmp or .png) but I'm not sure how to extract, export or unpack those images. I've tried things like 7zip, MultiExtractor and so forth without any success. The ...

I have started a game in new xserver like this:xinit /path/to/the/game/executable -- :1. This starts the game in new xserver and the game has sound. However it stops the sound in the :0 xserver. What I would like is to play music in the first xserver as well as hear the game on the second xserver...

Basically, I'm trying to compare a bunch of savegames to find where some values are stored. First of all, it's a rogue-like interpreted in WinGlulxe. I'm dealing with almost 100% binary save files here, pretty much a direct dump from RAM with a header. I can't just Cheat Engine the game memory t...