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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Linux system requirements revealed, Nvidia only for now
2 Nov 2016 at 3:56 pm UTC
EDIT: pfffft it was already answered. It was only a few comments when I typed the reply :-)
2 Nov 2016 at 3:56 pm UTC
Quoting: wleoncioI wonder how those specs are defined.I got a feeling it's defined on what spec can run the game at a reasonably stable 60 fps rate.
EDIT: pfffft it was already answered. It was only a few comments when I typed the reply :-)
Unity working towards more multithreading and better Vulkan support soon
2 Nov 2016 at 11:24 am UTC
2 Nov 2016 at 11:24 am UTC
I'm more and more convinced that Unity is the game engine for the future. They've come a very long way in relatively short timespan, and from what I've seen from colleagues who do work with Unity the editor is really very well made, from a developer perspective.
Bohemia Interactive formally announce 'Ylands', will support Linux later
2 Nov 2016 at 11:17 am UTC Likes: 10
2 Nov 2016 at 11:17 am UTC Likes: 10
Cue the complaints about the use of the term "PC", in five, four, three...
Linux gamers are sweet-talking Aspyr Media again
1 Nov 2016 at 7:01 pm UTC
1 Nov 2016 at 7:01 pm UTC
There's SO many games I'd like to see more than civ6... Fallout, gta, mass effect,... Hear me, Aspyr? :-)
The Steam 2016 Halloween sale has some nice Linux games for cheap
28 Oct 2016 at 7:13 pm UTC
28 Oct 2016 at 7:13 pm UTC
Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMy store page is properly filtering Linux-only titles ever since adding it to preferences. I wonder why it doesn't work for so many other people.Me too, all of a sudden. I think they've fixed it quite recently.
Why Linux games often perform worse than on Windows
27 Oct 2016 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 4
Dude, this is not just a small part. It is a major part. As a rule of thumb, ports always perform lesser than the game on the platform it were developed. Ports are, generally speaking, not something we want (it's just that for us Linux gamers currently the only realistic alternative is much worse: Wrappers).
A good example there is the PS3. It was issues related to ports that Playstation struggled with for the better part of its first years. The games were developed for Xbox and then ported to Playstation, and it caused so much trouble and nearly always games performing better on Xbox, with fewer issues. Or Windows games ported to consoles. Or the other way around.
We don't really want ports. We want games designed for our platform during development.
27 Oct 2016 at 4:03 pm UTC Likes: 4
A small part of the blame also lies in games that are ported from Windows to Linux after the original release.
Dude, this is not just a small part. It is a major part. As a rule of thumb, ports always perform lesser than the game on the platform it were developed. Ports are, generally speaking, not something we want (it's just that for us Linux gamers currently the only realistic alternative is much worse: Wrappers).
A good example there is the PS3. It was issues related to ports that Playstation struggled with for the better part of its first years. The games were developed for Xbox and then ported to Playstation, and it caused so much trouble and nearly always games performing better on Xbox, with fewer issues. Or Windows games ported to consoles. Or the other way around.
We don't really want ports. We want games designed for our platform during development.
Game porter Ethan Lee has done a write-up of the recent SteamDevDays
27 Oct 2016 at 10:55 am UTC
27 Oct 2016 at 10:55 am UTC
Quoting: AnxiousInfusionDoes anybody else have issues with Rocket League crashing + crashes permanently muting the game for all eternity? Maybe I should finally kill off my use of fglrx at this point?Never had this happen to me on a regular Ubuntu Gnome system. In my experience this is probably the best port we got today. Right up there with Divinity: Original Sin, who also were an excellent port.
Looks like Mojang will be supporting the new Minecraft launcher on Linux
26 Oct 2016 at 3:55 pm UTC
26 Oct 2016 at 3:55 pm UTC
Those who dig Minecraft really should check out 7 Ways To Die - they got much in common. A group of buddies and I have set up a server and are so totally living the life of post apocalyptic survivors.
Heck, this game even scratch my Fallout itch.
Heck, this game even scratch my Fallout itch.
'Tether' a very promising UE4 first-person adventure game will be coming to Linux
25 Oct 2016 at 1:15 pm UTC Likes: 2
It would be a catastrophy to replace that with an amateur recording of various languages, recorded in subpar studios :D
But yeah, text translations would be sweet.
25 Oct 2016 at 1:15 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Comandante oardoEnglish only... :|I assume you now mean subtext translations? Cause not everyone are professional actors like the one who did the voice for this trailer obviously is.
A lot of people will want do the traslations for free.. Myself included.
It would be a catastrophy to replace that with an amateur recording of various languages, recorded in subpar studios :D
But yeah, text translations would be sweet.
Speculation: A recent Mesa commit hints at a possible Batman: Arkham Origins Linux port (update: no it isn't)
20 Oct 2016 at 4:03 pm UTC
20 Oct 2016 at 4:03 pm UTC
Ah damn, it's Arkham CITY I thought of - not Origins. Then I stand corrected - it was Arkham City I thought was the best of them. :)
But it should not be a huge surprse it was wrapped, imo, due to the improvement percentage that matches the other wrapped game.
But it should not be a huge surprse it was wrapped, imo, due to the improvement percentage that matches the other wrapped game.