Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Earth Liberation, a surprisingly good looking traditional RTS should come to Linux
23 November 2016 at 9:44 pm UTC

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhen you said "thanks to the game store itch" I thought you meant some kind of gamer condition where you get a yen to rummage around in game stores. :D
Hey doc, got anything for this gamer itch?

You will need to update your udev rules for the Steam Controller
23 November 2016 at 8:59 pm UTC

Quoting: RedfaceThanks for the info. Could you maybe add that this is for Steam beta only for now?
Done.

A casual reminder that I rely on your funding through Patreon to stay alive
23 November 2016 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestI want to pay. I really, really want to pay. But you see I'm committed to not paying for Windows/wine/eOn games (paying people to work hard to avoid making Linux games). And so I'm conflicted about paying for a site that so supportive of them.
I get that Wine and eON are hot topics at the best of times and I don't want to end up in a big wall of text about this (as I could go on all day).

I understand everyone has things that they don't like and I fully appreciate your openness on this.

A casual reminder that I rely on your funding through Patreon to stay alive
23 November 2016 at 7:14 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: GuestIs it possible to make one-time donations?

I think Patreon allows you to cancel at any time, so you could donate for 1 month, then remove. I think. But you'd have to keep an eye on it yourself to cancel things at the right time.
Yep that works for me too :)

A casual reminder that I rely on your funding through Patreon to stay alive
23 November 2016 at 6:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestIs it possible to make one-time donations?
Not usually no, it may not seem it but it creates extra admin time (taxes and so on) to properly log individual donations than it does a lump sum from Patreon.

Thank you for the support everyone :)!

Total War: WARHAMMER released for Linux, port report and video
23 November 2016 at 3:56 pm UTC

Quoting: 0aTTHere is a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhXDhGozqA

Even with a GTX 1070 the Game can't hold the 30 fps line. For me it's a riddle why all claim it would run with 60 fps on a GTX 970. Is there a video to prof this?

I can't believe this after what I know from ATTILA. ATTILA has on my GTX 970 system a similar performance as Warhammer in the above video. And what's really crazy: Whenever the fps rate breaks sharply, the GPU utilization breaks also. This also happens when I play at the lowest level. I have a i7 6700k CPU. With other games I never witnessed such behavior.

There must be a bottle neck somewhere. I love the Total War series and will buy Warhammer anyway. But it's a little bit frustrating to know that the performance will not increase even I update to a GTX 1070.
For one thing, he's using a driver that has known performance issues. The 357 driver has some real issues it needs to be fixed. See some more info here.

Two: Here's my livestream from the release day on my 980ti where you can see it first-hand performing well https://www.twitch.tv/gamingonlinux/v/102731096 (that was with me playing it on Ultra + the overhead from livestreaming).

Earth Liberation, a surprisingly good looking traditional RTS should come to Linux
23 November 2016 at 1:38 pm UTC

Quoting: BelarriusIt's like Starcraft no?
Seems to resemble it a little, but it's hard for an RTS not to nowadays as it's so well known.

We are testing out a new open source social network for our news called 'Mastodon'
23 November 2016 at 11:06 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: crt0mega
Quoting: liamdaweIs there a way to post content to diaspora from PHP?
I don't know. Unfortunately I'm not a web dev. But there's feedDiasp. It might feel a bit clunky feeding posts via RSS to diaspora but at least it AlwaysWorks(TM). :D
Sweet will look at it after the livestream.

We are testing out a new open source social network for our news called 'Mastodon'
23 November 2016 at 10:52 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: crt0mega
Quoting: liamdaweI am looking into that right now.
Great! :)
Is there a way to post content to diaspora from PHP?

We are testing out a new open source social network for our news called 'Mastodon'
23 November 2016 at 10:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: crt0megaY not diaspora?
I am looking into that right now.