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Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has been fully released and is officially available for Linux
23 March 2017 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: KuJoNice! Does it support cross-platform-multiplayer?
Oh yes! :)
Space Jammers, the nuts sci-fi top-down shooter is now on Steam (updated)
23 March 2017 at 9:52 pm UTC Likes: 1
Article updated.
Kona, an eerie narrative-driven adventure game is now out on Linux, it's a bit buggy
23 March 2017 at 9:12 pm UTC Likes: 1
The developers are aware of the bug and will be looking to fix it, so then I might be able to put up some real thoughts on it...
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 3
Seems reddit doesn't agree with me on this article.

Note to self: Don't read reddit.
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 12:47 pm UTC
Quoting: FredOThat is good information, thanks. I ran some benchmarks across Hitman, Deus Ex, Talos Priciple and CoH2 and saw some extra FPS in all of them with "performance" set. Particularly CoH2 took a good boost, which I'm happy about because I always thought there was fat bottleneck on my system with that game.
Good to hear it helped.

Be sure to read up on the different settings for sure though, as stated mine are only examples.
Quoting: buenaventura
Quoting: EikeIt's worth a try. I had to do it - strange enough - for Limbo to work in the correct speed. :)

How silly, it does actually reduce stuttering in Shadow Tactics, making it quite playable. When zooming out too much it is still laggy though, but I do not think I am just imagining an improvement. Will try disabling turbo as well, why not.
Glad to hear it helped as well :)
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 12:16 pm UTC
A few adjustments done to the article. Some formatting has been fixed and other bits better explained.
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 10:50 am UTC Likes: 3
I've updated to link to the Arch Wiki for the resetting bit, according to the Wiki:
QuoteDepending on the scaling driver, one of these governors will be loaded by default:
ondemand for AMD and older Intel CPU.
powersave for Intel CPUs using the intel_pstate driver (Sandy Bridge and newer).
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 10:38 am UTC
Quoting: poisond@liamdawe
Uh, powersave isn't the default governor, at least it shouldn't be. powersave will run your CPU at the minimum freq.
You want ondemand.


https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt
Well, to be sure I've updated the text to mention people to use either, thanks for the extra tip.
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 10:02 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: buenaventuraHmm, does this setting the CPU governor to performance impact games otherwise you think (like, with OpenGL on a weak CPU?).
It's not magic, it doesn't suddenly make a weak CPU any better. It's only an issue if when playing games your CPU isn't being set into high performance mode. With OpenGL games it likely always is, since they are generally heavy on the CPU.
Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
22 March 2017 at 9:25 pm UTC
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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