Re: steam games

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach gmail com> wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2013, 15:34 -0800 schrieb Sriram Ramkrishna:

> So, I've started playing games on Steam and started filing bugs on the
> limited number of games that I own.

Can you point us to the corresponding reports?

Certainly, the first one I filed is this one:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693551

It's basically a bug report against Trine 2.  If you mouse over to the bottom in a number of screens the mouse pointer is grabbed by the desktop, and the game reports that it is paused.

I applied a recent patch to mutter, but it hasn't helped.  The game is somewhat playable, but it can go at any time.

The other one I haven't filed yet, but it relates to a problem with shell/mutter grabbing a screen and minimizing it, forcing you to go to overview to get the next screen.  It's mildly annoying, but it doesn't affect game play.  I suddenly can't recall the game, but it is a Valve game using the Source engine.

But there is a lot of other games out there and it would be helpful for others to test and see what we are up against.

I found it a surprisingly smooth experience given its early stage.
I have however spotted one issue: Adjusting the master volume in-game
via the corresponding multimedia keys results in green screen
flickering. This is due to the speaker icon fading in and moments later
out. Not sure if GNOME can play along nicely here.

You should file a bug for tracking purposes.  It's important that we get the games experience right and doing QA'ing is important.  This is why I was so excited about the continuous test builds.  Because I think we want to get new images out there for people to test so that we can improve the quality.

sri

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Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach gmail com>