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If any one could give me some advice on how this runs on AMD FX processors. I was thinking about picking this game up, but under the requirements AMD processors are not listed. I just want to make sure I wont regret purchasing this.

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Pretty weak list, Liam :P

Here's mine:
Lifetime stats
Lets you know how well have performed over the course of the game time.

international voices pack
More voices including Russian and Polish for that immersion.

evac all
Gets all units in the evac area out with a single click.

show me the skills
Lets you know what soldiers have which skills when deploying without having to go into the bio.

blackmarket usage
Lets you know if the items you're selling still have any other use.

new countries
Who doesn't want Czech and Peruvian recruits?

stop wasting my time
Skips over obligatory cutscenes and dialog in missions. As well as weapon pauses and speeds up movement animations.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI often get the impression that developers list Linux as a "stretch goal" not because they're actually interested in making a Linux version but because they know it will attract more donations.

I think that it depends more on the company and its planning, than in it being a stretch goal or included in the base goal.

Pillars of Eternity had Linux as stretch goal and they released it on day one, on the other hand Divinity Original Sin had it listed as a main platform and everyone knows what happened, the original game wasn't even released on Linux, only a delayed enhanced edition.

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The one thing that irks me with the demo?
The damned pipe-swinging animation. Nobody but nobody swings a pipe like that!

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For non-BFG Doom3, there's also 'dhewm3'. Check out: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3

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Quoting: soulsourceActually they are contemplating the removal of multilib, and supporting 32bit only through Snap/Flatpak/Virtual Machines.

Quoting: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-June/016661.html18.10+:
* Stop providing i386 port
* Run legacy i386 only application in snaps / containers / virtual machines

So terrible... just... no....

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Quoting: boltronics

Quoting: Seegras

Quoting: boltronicsRemind me again why we still have i386? Oh yeah, because of the original EeePC ...

... which I use about once every week ;). But I'm running Debian on it. In fact, I run Debian everywhere except on my cellphone.

I've upgraded through three other laptops since then. And yes I do still use the EeePC - as a Shairport server (running Debian). But that's not the sort of thing I'd use Ubuntu for. I doubt the 800x480 screen is even compatible with a lot of modern software. Any kind of production server that's i386-only is surely out of warranty by now.

Incidentally, I ran a Debian derivative on my phone for years - the N900. Sadly it broke a few times, and it got too slow to load any kind of complex web-page so it had to go. But installing Python apps via apt-get on a phone with a hardware keyboard was so good.

I love(d?) my N900, and wish that I could put Maemo on my Note 4. I've been really tempted to pick up the Neo900, but unfortunately by the time it's actually released, the hardware will be 4 years old...

More on topic, I'd be okay with Canonical dropping 64bit install disks as well. Since that'd leave us with no Ubunut, and I'd be okay with that.

Seriously, how much work does it actually take to create a i386 installer? They mostly just repackage Debian's stuff and modify it with Unity as the desktop with their very basic installer anyhow, which I believe is written in a non-architecture dependent language. I started following Ubuntu since it was first announced and tried the betas. But they've steered so far off course of their original intent (make a Debian based distribution with the latest Gnome, and a 6 month release schedule to follow that). Now they've really gone off the deep end with snap and Unity is terrible. In fact that's probably why the survey... they figure Unity will soon take more than 4GB of ram to run...

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Is this the same Swiftshader from Transgaming?

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Im getting this one, when its on gog and Linux, no doubt at all.

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I have played it for a bit. The levels are boring and too easy, save for a few really unfair/frustrating segments that involve instadeath. Boss fights suck because of the huge health bars and the need to do the dash move on them to stop them from regaining health - sometimes you just can't reach them. Speaking of the dash, it works well but I wouldn't have made it such a central gameplay element. You basically have to use it on all the enemies. Also, the voice acting is Sonic level bad. It's not the worst game ever by any stretch of the imagination, but it feels kinda pointless when things like Shovel Knight exist.

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Quoting: Mountain ManXCOM 2 was a Day 1 release. Why wouldn't Firaxis do the same with Civ VI? I suppose it doesn't really matter to me because I see no reason at all to prefer Civ VI over Civ V with its expansions, and I really don't like VI's cartoon aesthetic. Besides, the Civilization series just feels a bit shallow after getting hooked on Paradox's ridiculously deep and complex grand strategy games.

Feral did the XCOM ports. Aspyr did the Civ ports. Different companies, different workflows, different codebases, different schedules.

The ports of XCOM: EU and Civ V were released years after the original Windows release.

XCOM2 had a day-one release, but it also had some graphical problems. I'm not sure to what extent they've been patched-up yet. Quality of the game itself aside, I'd say their port of XCOM2 wasn't quite as good as XCOM: EU, which was pretty-much flawless.

IIRC, Aspyr had hoped to do same-day release for Civ BE, but weren't quite able to pull it off, and it ended up being a couple months late. Aspyr did a better job of porting Civ BE than they did with Civ V. The complete lack of anti-aliasing in the Linux version of Civ V was a pretty glaring flaw, but this was fixed in BE along with other graphical improvements. In general, BE was much closer to feature-parity with Windows than Civ V was.

If it's not a day-one release, I wouldn't expect it to be more than a couple months behind. If it's a little late, don't sweat it. They're just trying to polish it up for us. Having a same-day port done by an external porter sounds like a really hard task. You're always a little bit behind the original developers, but still have to hit their schedule. The most feasable way to do this would be to delay the Windows release in order to give the porting house time to catch up. Given what a small market segment we are, it wouldn't make economic sense for Firaxis to miss the holiday-season sales bonanza just because a 3rd-party port to was running a little bit late.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismThis thread will probably sink since it's not pinned or anything or there's no link on the homepage.

It's listed in the featured section at the top, which is on a rotation.

I will add an announcement to it above the news.

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I have a 7850 and the performance with a gallium nine patched wine are in most cases it nails every dx9 games that you throw at it!

with some mesa improvements it can definitely be on par with nvidia on Linux for the native games, and i also think that a lot of penguins would likely prefer open than closed source..

I'm also looking for VCE implementation on Linux, nvidia's NVENC is a godsend when recording gameplay

go AMD

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Quoting: KryukoItaliaunixcomI'm trying to update but i'm still to v2.70 and 355 nvidia drivers... =/

You have to install the steamos-beta-repo package and update. I would not, since it actually softbricked a bunch of folks on the main thread on Steam Universe.

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For the user who made the Doom 3 comments, there is always rbdoom3bfg available in he Ubuntu 16.04 repos or playdeb.net. There were talks about Vulkan for this project, but it's been on hold: https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG/issues/317

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Quoting: pete910Any one else have issues with phoronix, it's worse than when we was using 14400 kpbs modem for me, timed out a good few times now.

Yeah it happened to me earlier as well. My guess is a lot of people trying to read that review.

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That might be England's special trait even?

"Cannot join alliances. Has a 15% chance per turn to break every other agreement for no apparent reason."

:p

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Wow that looks pretty interesting indeed. We need to have some more feedback on compatibility/stability though. But as of now, it's the most interesting option for my next upgrade.

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Quoting: Mountain ManXCOM 2 was a Day 1 release. Why wouldn't Firaxis do the same with Civ VI? I suppose it doesn't really matter to me because I see no reason at all to prefer Civ VI over Civ V with its expansions, and I really don't like VI's cartoon aesthetic. Besides, the Civilization series just feels a bit shallow after getting hooked on Paradox's ridiculously deep and complex grand strategy games.

I feel pretty similar, although the art style doesn't particularly bother me. While this looks like a quite decent game I already have Civ V and all its expansions, and don't really feel the need for a new version yet (though I like that VI is keeping the archaeology, that was a fun addition in V). Discovering Paradox's grand strategy games two years ago hasn't helped me either. Though having been a fan of the Civ series since Civ III, I might pick it up after release when it goes on sale, or when a major expansion comes out.

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Quoting: PUN

Quoting: InspectorGidgetAMD is definitely looking more appealing as time goes on.

However, I must have misunderstood something. I though that if a game used Vulkan, we would just have it on Linux too... But that obviously isn't the case with DOOM.

Maybe their are planing a secret unannounced release :D

...Something like SteamOS official support for dual GPUs? :)

Edit: Oups! Sorry. I mixed this news with the 2.83 beta release of SteamOS and Liam's concern for a major SteamOS update... Still dual AMD GPUs on SteamOS would be great.

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Quoting: Psycic101I'm guessing England won't be part of the EU in Civ VI either? :P

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There's always a silver lining :D

OT: I'm not sure I'm a fan of the new art-style

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Any one else have issues with phoronix, it's worse than when we was using 14400 kpbs modem for me, timed out a good few times now.

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Quoting: Psycic101I'm guessing England won't be part of the EU in Civ VI either? :P

(I'm from the UK if some still don't know this)

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Actually they are contemplating the removal of multilib, and supporting 32bit only through Snap/Flatpak/Virtual Machines.

Quoting: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2016-June/016661.html18.10+:
* Stop providing i386 port
* Run legacy i386 only application in snaps / containers / virtual machines

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I'm guessing England won't be part of the EU in Civ VI either? :P

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: hardpenguinIf they drop 32 bit repos, it will be a disaster. The gaming industry still ships 32 bit-only applications. Wine is 32 bit only for 32 bit Windows software (because it's not an emulator).

If you want to run games on Linux, you cannot drop 32 bit software.

And no, it is not possible to ship the 64 bit version in every possible case.

Not to mention, that Windows and macOS are going to support 32 bit applications for years to come!

I think you're misunderstanding what is actually being discussed. Go to the survey page itself, and you'll find this disclaimer: "Running i386 (multiarch) software on amd64 will continue to work and is not part of the current survey."

So they're not contemplating dropping support for 32-bit software, only support for 32-bit operating systems.

Alright! I couldn't find this information in a hurry. Thanks a lot!

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Quoting: GoboIt is really sad that id never got around to officially port Doom 3 and Rage, so I doubt they will port the new Doom as well. I was wishing for the spirit of John Carmack to carry on at id, making them release source for example. And as pointed out yet again in this video: Vulkan support is enabled already, so the graphics department is most likely not the driving factor that keeps them from supporting other platforms.

ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/doom3/linux/
Official doom3 support from id. Sadly you are right in Rage (and doom3 BFG edition).

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Quoting: EhvisPlatforms as a stretch goal is a weird idea. You can't support the stretch goal individually, but if the project is funded without making the stretch goal, you can't get your money back either. Of course, that the case with every stretch goal, but in this case you're effectively left with nothing.

One could do what I am doing. If the stretch goal isn't reached by the last day I can cancel my pledge and not pay a dime. However until then they are $30 closer to that stretch goal with my pledge.

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In my opinion 32 bit support should have died back in 2005. We have had 64 bit CPUs and operating systems for ages but they haven't killed off support yet. Think of the progress that could have been made elsewhere if resources and money weren't allocated to 32 bit support ?

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I am liking what I see about the RX 480. I am going to be selling my GTX 960 for one. I am waiting for the aftermarket cards to come out though. I don't buy those crappy reference blower cards for Nvidia or AMD. Waiting for an XFX DD version, an Asus Strix version, an MSI Twin Frozr or an MSI Lightning version. Hopefully I don't have to wait long.

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