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Quoting: EmazzaThey might have patents implementations that they have to work around (because they have integrated them under NDA) and specific optimizations for games, basically loads of secret sauces they don't want to open yet...

Patents implementations yeah (I'm guessing relating to the graphics cards themselves and the manufacturers of those graphics cards?), but specific optimizations for games? They're not charging for these drivers are they? So why not open them (if the latter reason is the only reason), unless they're planning to charge for them in the future?

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Quoting: GoldpawGood to see an initiative like this! Still, I won't personally be using it unless they reimplement ALSA-support in their browser.

Dude, it was never removed, it's just not enabled by default. It's only a compile option away.
ac_add_options --enable-alsa
ac_add_options --disable-pulseaudio

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Quoting: GoldpawI'm not going to change this, install pulseaudio or start having to enable/disable Jack every time I need to hear something in a browser. That would seriously cripple my workflow.

Pulseaudio can be run as a Jack client: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_through_JACK

This is kinda bloaty and stupid, but Pulseaudio is rather small on memory. Every non-Jack application will work perfectly fine this way. Jack applications still have low latency through Jack directly.

And if it works, it aint stupid. :)

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Quoting: CybolicIf only it ran at anywhere near acceptable framerates on my 3440x1440 screen, I'd love to jump on multiplayer but it's unfortunately a bit of a slideshow currently.

Uh-oh. This may apply to me too then.

I'm curious - what FPS are you seeing?

About 12 FPS with everything on low/ultra low/off and bloom turned off and 5 FPS with bloom on. This is on a GTX 970 OC where Total War Warhammer runs fluidly so there's definitely something up with the game.

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Great to see that they still put a lot of effort into the game. Hope they will finally fix the annoying game crashes on Linux!

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It will be good if they upgrade Tomb Raider, Life is Strange, Mad Max, Deus Ex Mankind divided and Hitman to Vulkan...

And if they port Bioshock 1 and 2 to Linux like they did with the Mac versions, and release them as separated games, I will buy them again...

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Quoting: AryvandaarThere are plenty of unity games that don't have Linux support.

Right, I imagine that you still need to make some testing to see if everything works with the Linux release (maybe some devs don't want to bore with that). But for this game, it would be a shame with all the hacking/command-line stuff to have no release on Linux!

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FYI, they expect full release on April 5th (from a post on March 10th): http://steamcommunity.com/games/raceonline/announcements/detail/539709093894523861

QuoteWe can happily say that the game is almost finished and it will be released early next month on Wednesday 5th of April.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTI'd just ignore them completely until they have some kind of clarification how there sales are counted.

In all fairness it really shouldn't be up to a user to deal with this. We know they don't have keys that let Feral get paid. Again, this is only an external porter problem. All others are fair-game as far as I care.

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Quoting: JudasIscariotProvided all goes well in the next couple of days, we may have a few more Linux versions :)

First The Whispered World Special Edition, then the possibility of a few more coming to Linux. Please be Chains of Satinav, Memoria and The Night of the Rabbit. I would love to be able to enjoy those with Linux builds.

Well anyway, a Massive Thank You to all those involved in porting this. :D

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI think it'd be great if laptop / desktop manufacturers could go back to the good old days of not supplying an OS with the computer, so that we could put whatever we want onto it.

They stopped doing that because Microsoft used to charge manufacturers for a Windows license even if they shipped without Windows.

It ultimately doesn't matter because it's easy enough to wipe the drive and install whatever you want.

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Metal is lame being Apple only, and Apple are lame in not supporting Vulkan. That's about it.

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Quoting: ShmerlMuch better, than the lame attempt by Apple to base a similar thing on Mantle.

Metal by itself is awesome, nothing lame here.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTI'd just ignore them completely until they have some kind of clarification how there sales are counted.

Hey, don't confuse me man, I already have a cup of coffee ready and browsing their Linux games. :S:

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I only played a little on it so far. I really like the aesthetics.

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Quoting: alien2003The worst first person shooter ever

I don't like the beatles or the rollings stones, but saying they're the worst bands ever would be plain stupid :S:

The rolling stones are great, though. :(

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Quoting: malek69

Quoting: ShmerlNot much visible improvement in TW3.

TW3 don't have any one patch.
Same as mine under 2.3

Not sure what you mean. There was some new work on DX11, but TW3 still has graphics defects, like in 2.3.

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Spoiler, click me

For those of you who play No Man's Sky via Wine and you are using the GOG version, the online features started working under Wine Staging so you should see your GOG user name in NMS and get achievements.

Spoilered so the "no tux, no bux" folks don't have to read it :P

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just my 2 cents..... about the supported games by Mesa, (I have a rx460, but no long ago a 260x)
Grid Autosport, works flawlessly tested also on 260x never had any crash.(mesa 12,13 and 17)
Company of heroes 2, works flawlessly only tested on rx460.(mesa 13 and 17)
Tomb Raider, some random crashes, might be some problem with mesa 17, but nevertheless 100% playable finished it not so long ago, there was a performance regression on Mesa 13 but seams fixed on 17.
Shadow of mordor, haven't played it that much but seams ok with mesa 17.
Dirt Rally, works flawlessly on low-medium settings, not one single crash, there are some performance improvements with mesa git.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, never had any crash with mesa 17.

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Quoting: ShmerlNot much visible improvement in TW3.

TW3 don't have any one patch.
Same as mine under 2.3

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: JudasIscariotThat one's a wee bit beyond my pay grade :P Points for effort, though :D

Thanks for your efforts at any rate! You're making penguins happy.
Had to try, though. :-)

Provided all goes well in the next couple of days, we may have a few more Linux versions :)

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Quoting: neowiz73I really appreciate the work Feral have been doing, they have become a great addition to gaming on Linux as a whole. I hope they continue to do such great work which will help give Linux some sort of standards as far as the gaming community goes. this will undoubtedly become a huge help for all distros that want to support the gaming side of Linux.

Wow thanks!

Quoting: neowiz73it looks like MESA could use a new feature for an on-disk-shader-cache :)

That's already in progress and in testing for Mesa 17.1 - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e3a01a5d1b019e7b00218ba526874f4c77ea8bee

Liam reported on this here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/the-mesa-glsl-shader-cache-is-now-enabled-by-default.9241

\o/

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI think it'd be great if laptop / desktop manufacturers could go back to the good old days of not supplying an OS with the computer, so that we could put whatever we want onto it.

What does hinder you to do so? You can easily deploy whatever OS you oh-so desire! (;

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I'd just ignore them completely until they have some kind of clarification how there sales are counted.

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I really appreciate the work Feral have been doing, they have become a great addition to gaming on Linux as a whole. I hope they continue to do such great work which will help give Linux some sort of standards as far as the gaming community goes. this will undoubtedly become a huge help for all distros that want to support the gaming side of Linux.
it looks like MESA could use a new feature for an on-disk-shader-cache :)

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Quoting: JudasIscariotThat one's a wee bit beyond my pay grade :P Points for effort, though :D

Thanks for your efforts at any rate! You're making penguins happy.
Had to try, though. :-)

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'm torn about Bundle Stars, I used to buy a lot from them (good prices) but since I found out that all sales count as Windows sales...

Technically, I think that really only matters for external porters.

That's how probably it is, in fact there is just a Windows icon on titles such as Shadow of Mordor, Borderlands 2, Mad Max, etc..
While many other are listed with a Linux icon (Saints Row, etc..).

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Thanks a lot Feral for you hard work!
It's certainly appreciated <3

Can't wait for your next (Vulkan?) port (RotR? ;))

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dubigrasuI'm torn about Bundle Stars, I used to buy a lot from them (good prices) but since I found out that all sales count as Windows sales...

Technically, I think that really only matters for external porters.

I'm still pretty sure developers will be able to see key activation's from Linux.

There was a comment some time ago that Bundle Stars only had Windows keys for Feral's games, so don't buy theirs, all others should be fair game.

Hey, that's great, thank you for clarifications :)
(checks wallet)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: JudasIscariot

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe Linux download is not yet available on GOG...

That's going to be rectified shortly, we just got done preparing it :)


edit: and now it's added :)

It seems you forgot to add Witcher 3 for Linux as well, could you fix that, please? ;)

That one's a wee bit beyond my pay grade :P Points for effort, though :D

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Quoting: dubigrasuI'm torn about Bundle Stars, I used to buy a lot from them (good prices) but since I found out that all sales count as Windows sales...

Technically, I think that really only matters for external porters.

I'm still pretty sure developers will be able to see key activation's from Linux.

There was a comment some time ago that Bundle Stars only had Windows keys for Feral's games, so don't buy theirs, all others should be fair game.

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