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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Dungeon Defenders developers Trendy need help updating the Linux version
18 June 2016 at 5:50 pm UTC

Well, looks like my tweet got through to them, trendy just "liked" it and then sent a message with icculus tagged to get in touch with them.

Want to build a DRM free theme park? Parkitect is now on GOG with Linux support
18 June 2016 at 2:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EhvisThe DRM free is not actually something that has to do with the GOG release. It was always DRM free via their website (through the Humble store). Which also gives you the option of activating it on Steam as well.
I am well aware of this, this is simply a shout out to the GOG release. Like we usually do for GOG.

An update on Insurgency: Sandstorm, Day of Infamy and competitive play for Insurgency
18 June 2016 at 8:20 am UTC

Quoting: Baemir
QuoteWe aren't exactly short on FPS games on Linux now

This is news to me, lol.
Arma 3
Bioshock Infinite
Borderlands 2/TPS
Black Ice
Ballistic Overload
Insurgency
CS:GO
CS: Source
Nuclear Dawn
Natural Selection 2
Ziggurat
Payday 2
Serious Sam 3

There's a bunch off the top of my head :)

An update on Insurgency: Sandstorm, Day of Infamy and competitive play for Insurgency
17 June 2016 at 11:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: glidder"much bugger maps" :P
Shh you saw nothing.

Broforce now available DRM free on GOG, it's amazing, bro
17 June 2016 at 7:31 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: wleoncioGOG is really trying to empty everyone's wallet before Steam. I like this competition. :)

Sadly I've actually held off buying some things because of convenience: I prefer DRM-free, but GOG hasn't released Galaxy for GNU/Linux. Real competition might start (for GNU/Linux) if GOG would actually do that.
I do have to echo this, it's one reason I've been looking at itch a lot more recently, their client is really slick and it's getting a major update soon too. Still, the itch client won't be at the level of GOG Galaxy when it releases I'm sure.

Quoting: JudasIscariotHey Liam,

Thanks for the write-up :) Sorry about the delay with the Linux version but rest assured, we did not want to delay it but we wanted to make sure everyone would get a good and playable game in their hands :)
No worries, I do appreciate that GOG make sure the Linux releases actually work properly, it's a major point in the stores favour.

Here's my own Linux OpenGL vs Vulkan test for Dota 2, not much difference for me
17 June 2016 at 6:09 pm UTC

[quote=J]
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: J
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: STiATWhat kind of compositor does Cinnamon use?
...

Any editorial coming up on that?
Security issues with Mint and their terribly security policy, that's the biggest thing. But this article isn't really for discussing that ;)

hence my question on the editorial - it would be good to help to get some non-directly gaming related things to discussed here? (I find it more personal than some of the mass forums)
I didn't even see you asked about an editorial heh, sorry. Not exactly the best fit for a front page article on here I don't think, best left to the forum for now.

Here's my own Linux OpenGL vs Vulkan test for Dota 2, not much difference for me
16 June 2016 at 8:11 pm UTC

Quoting: J
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: STiATWhat kind of compositor does Cinnamon use?
Muffin, a fork of Gnome's Mutter.

To be fair, I turned off the compositor for fullscreen applications (in general settings) and the 4K results for Vulkan were even worse.

I don't think Cinnamon is good for testing at all. I will reserve that final judgement for when I get Ubuntu back on though.

Bar your view that cinnamon is a hog any reasons to switch? what desktop will you use?

Any editorial coming up on that?
Security issues with Mint and their terribly security policy, that's the biggest thing. But this article isn't really for discussing that ;)

Want to benchmark Dota 2 on Linux? Here's how to do it
16 June 2016 at 5:40 pm UTC

Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: Xpanderi just cant make the benchmark work.. using the script, no errors in terminal, all launches fine but game is just waiting in the main menu and doing nothing.

adding all this crap into launch options - game is waiting in the main menu doing nothing

adding -console or +con_enable 1 - makes the game go to main menu but i cant find the key to bring up the console, tried like all the keys on my keyboard

What exact folder is your demo file in?

What keyboard layout do you have?

ok the benchmark.dem file had to be in

/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/game/dota

not in

/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/game
Yep, correct. Not sure why I missed the "dota" on the end must have been a copy paste fail somewhere for me, guide updated.

Want to benchmark Dota 2 on Linux? Here's how to do it
16 June 2016 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

Guide updated, as requested (and it does make some sense) the first demo linked to is the current one Phoronix is using.

All code bits and the script code are updated to reflect you need to change the demo file name yourself.

Want to benchmark Dota 2 on Linux? Here's how to do it
16 June 2016 at 5:20 pm UTC

Quoting: Xpanderi just cant make the benchmark work.. using the script, no errors in terminal, all launches fine but game is just waiting in the main menu and doing nothing.

adding all this crap into launch options - game is waiting in the main menu doing nothing

adding -console or +con_enable 1 - makes the game go to main menu but i cant find the key to bring up the console, tried like all the keys on my keyboard

What exact folder is your demo file in?

What keyboard layout do you have?