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Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By kednar, 27 November 2011 at 9:53 pm UTC
Oh, sorry! I was talking about Minecraft.

The issue is just that, the lighting is very dark even with in-game brightness at maximum.

Regards.
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By Liam Dawe, 27 November 2011 at 4:52 pm UTC
What game?

I would submit a bug report to them directly. I personally don't have any issues with brightness.
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By kednar, 27 November 2011 at 1:04 pm UTC
Worked perfectly in a ThinkPad W520 with Ubuntu 11.10.

The only issue is that the lights in the game appears darker than in other OS... even with in-game brightness at maximum.

Any idea or similar case?
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By Liam Dawe, 14 November 2011 at 10:36 pm UTC
I would suggest sometime giving Ironhide a go, Bumblebee is an old project which was forked into The Bumblebee Project and now Ironhide.
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By , 14 November 2011 at 6:33 am UTC
Congratulations on getting optimus to work. I tried bumblebee on a Dell XPS15 but had no luck getting it to work despite all the suggestions from the the developer and my own researches. The support issue was eventually closed with no resolution and the Dell has now been relegated to running Windows 7 (which it does quite well).

From now on I'm sticking with ATI. I've had a number of different ATI systems and they've all run with no problems using the propriety fglrx driver.
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By Liam Dawe, 13 November 2011 at 7:47 pm UTC
Thanks for pointing out the error but I still prefer my word :p

Ps. I am a brit so the correct way for me would be [URL='http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voila']voila[/URL] ;)

Nice to know someone actually read the article though and well enough to nit pick :D
Nvidia Optimus with Ironhide
By , 13 November 2011 at 6:56 pm UTC
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 2624"Pop the above in a text file, rename to say "minecraft_launcher" or something and make it executable and wolla an easy to use launcher to run it on your Nvidia chip!



http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voil%C3%A0
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By Bumadar, 15 November 2011 at 5:43 pm UTC
bullet candy perfect and scoregasm are similar in some ways but both are fun and run smoooooth.
irukandji (from same developer) refuses to start: Assertion 's' failed at pulse/simple.c:256, function pa_simple_free(). Aborting. aoss does not help, so I guess unlike the other 2 it wants pulse in a bad way... and pulse was the 1st thing to vanish on this install.
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By Bumadar, 13 November 2011 at 1:16 pm UTC
it is, it is :)
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By Liam Dawe, 12 November 2011 at 7:50 pm UTC
Hah your welcome :P

I had to do some fiddling as i have Optimus (damn you nvidia!) but got all the games to work great now :D, Scoregasm is pretty good!
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By Bumadar, 12 November 2011 at 6:42 pm UTC
I need to stop visiting your site..... bought it... I do love desura :)
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By Liam Dawe, 12 November 2011 at 6:31 pm UTC
I forgot all about asking him to do one, thanks for reminding me!
Indie Royale Bundle update!
By , 12 November 2011 at 6:30 pm UTC
I am still waiting for interview with Charlie's games.
Desura client may be open sourced
By Hamish, 13 November 2011 at 2:57 am UTC
I am not quite sure how they can get the dual-licensing working with the GPL. Might be best to use a license that does not have anti-linking protections in this case.

EDIT: Okay, having read this it makes more sense now:

QuoteThe lone developer of the Desura client writes about his intentions to create an open-source projectout of it under the GPLv3. Th server-side portion of the distribution platform would remain closed-up.


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxNDA
Indie Royale Bundle
By , 11 November 2011 at 12:38 pm UTC
they are not even saying they plan to add linux support later. and scoregasm is not really my type. jose
Indie Royale Bundle
By MaximB, 11 November 2011 at 8:33 am UTC
I also thought about writing about this "Indie Royal" but decided against it.
With only one Linux game in the bundle we support Windows by donating.

I even sent them a message saying what I thing about this bundle.
And yet I would be more then happy to publish about them when they offer much more Linux games in the bundle.
The Humble Voxatron Debut adds more games!
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2011 at 7:42 pm UTC
If you email Humble they will give you a key for Blocks That Matter :)
The Humble Voxatron Debut adds more games!
By Bumadar, 10 November 2011 at 6:52 pm UTC
still no desura key though :/

btw, so we have like 5 games added now, got to wonder if they all got the crappy deal like steelstorm did ? and I still don't see why they doing it like this, but that must be me. Release a full bundle and am sure people pay more then for the 1 game at start.
Minecraft 1.9 + Minecon
By Liam Dawe, 10 November 2011 at 5:38 pm UTC
Well you should join us on my server once 1.9 comes out :)
Minecraft 1.9 + Minecon
By Brandon Smith, 8 November 2011 at 7:19 pm UTC
My Minecraft love has actually kind of died down. Ever since last year when we were promised torches than ran out, and never received. Then he started going off on this other weird direction. I kinda lost my interest :/ If I find someone good to play the game with again though, I'd get back into it.
We have a G+ page!
By Liam Dawe, 9 November 2011 at 9:43 am UTC
Actually i haven't shared anything yet ;)

G+ pages are odd no way to link it to rss feeds or twitter or anything so i need to manually post everything.
We have a G+ page!
By Eddward, 8 November 2011 at 11:37 pm UTC
QuoteGaming On Linux hasn't shared anything with you.
People are more likely to share with you if you add them to your circles.


It's for members only? I'm not on G+.
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Rustybolts, 10 November 2011 at 7:04 am UTC
Cheers Hamish
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Hamish, 8 November 2011 at 5:29 pm UTC
Hey, in my opinion it would be a disservice to refer to Helena as only a platformer. ;)
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Brandon Smith, 8 November 2011 at 5:21 pm UTC
How about Helena The 3rd! On sale now at Indievania.
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Liam Dawe, 8 November 2011 at 4:07 pm UTC
Oh i thought you where being off with us haha :)

Nice list you have i think i also own all of them bar PBS which i will pick up on payday, i might do a post listing all interesting indie platformers :) (at work at the moment so cant get my games list up...typing on my phone!).

Try And Yet It Moves & King Arthurs Gold (especially this one while still a platformer its multiplayer, bit like terraria almost).
New Game: Project Black Sun
By , 8 November 2011 at 3:43 pm UTC
? I was genuinely asking what platformers I was missing. I love platformers.

I have: BEEP, BTM, Braid, Cave Story, Project Black Sun, Trine, SoR, VVVVVV, and Gish.
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Liam Dawe, 8 November 2011 at 10:10 am UTC
Keep it chilled guys :)

It was just a passing comment thats all. I love all indie games including platformers, i just personally want more of a bigger variety but as Hamish said we are still a small user base...for now!

I wouldnt feature it on gol news if i wasnt interested in it somewhat :)
New Game: Project Black Sun
By Hamish, 8 November 2011 at 7:35 am UTC
Hey, I was not beating on platformers, just that there seems to be a bit of an indie preoccupation with them.

Anyway, I just played through the first episode of the original Duke Nukem a few months ago through Dosbox. :)
New Game: Project Black Sun
By , 8 November 2011 at 6:01 am UTC
? *glances at Desura* I've got... 7 "platformer" games. Where are these plethora of platformers I'm missing? 8 if you count BEEP which isn't on Desura.

Either way, I for one love platformers/sidescrollyshooters. Maybe that's just because I grew up playing Super Metroid and Mario.
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