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AMD has the highest quarterly revenue since 2005, Zen 3 is design complete
30 Oct 2019 at 2:02 pm UTC

Revenue was up to $1.80 billion, up 9% from the same quarter last year
Net income was at $120 million up from $102 million a year ago
This is great, but...
Intels net income ($6.0B in Q3 2019) is still several times larger than AMDs whole revenue...!

There's tons now on sale for Linux gamers so let's take a look
30 Oct 2019 at 1:12 pm UTC

Don't know if there are enough such games, but I gave it a try:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/wiki/Hidden_Linux_ports_on_Steam
Please add what you're aware of.

There's tons now on sale for Linux gamers so let's take a look
30 Oct 2019 at 1:11 pm UTC

Quoting: g000hI also chose Downfall, assuming that I'd play it with Proton, but pleased to say that it also seems to have an unofficial Linux build.
They say they took the native build "offline" [External Link] in favour of Proton...?

Comedy cosmic horror adventure Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure is now out
30 Oct 2019 at 8:25 am UTC Likes: 2

Gibbous had a big update [External Link]:
* Main caracter's voiceovers re-recorded
* Hand-painted update to 21:9 ("carefully hand-painting hundreds of layers for tens of backgrounds")
* Borked Russian translation redone from scratch
* New translation to Brazilian Portuguese
* Steam trading cards

NVIDIA announce the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the GeForce 1650 SUPER
29 Oct 2019 at 2:49 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: TheSHEEEPThese graphics cards numbers are just confusing, at least to people like me, who upgrade their rig maybe once every 2-3 years, and then just care about "is this better? yes/no".
You'd think a higher number is downright better - but it just isn't.
The rule of thumb I internalised is:
* First digits but last two (9 of 970, 10 of 1060, 16 of 1650) is the generation.
* Last two digits is the class inside the generation (the higher, the better).
I don't know if it's still the case, but I used to compare the speed of one generation newer, one class below, like 970 has about the potential of 1060.

Don't believe me without checking actual performance benchmarks.

There's tons now on sale for Linux gamers so let's take a look
29 Oct 2019 at 11:28 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: g000hThere are probably numerous other "Windows only" titles which I'd be more willing to buy if I knew they had a hidden, working Linux build.
This sounds like a good GoL wiki page topic...

I could add Silent Age:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/352520 [External Link]

Valve ends Counter-Strike: Global Offensive container key trading and selling
29 Oct 2019 at 10:32 am UTC

Quoting: TheSHEEEP“Players can no longer avoid damage with an invalid player name”?
How did that even work?
When you lookup the player by name and don't find it in some list due to a very broken name?
Strange bug indeed. :D

Some repect to people playing around with such stuff and finding out.
None to those exploiting it afterwards, though.

Sweet puzzle platformer In The Shadows has a big two year anniversary update
28 Oct 2019 at 11:55 am UTC

I just had bought it (due to GoL recommendation) some days before the update, played an hour or so into it - and it's a nice game!

Odds and ends, the Linux and gaming Sunday Section
28 Oct 2019 at 9:12 am UTC Likes: 1

Half OT: I remember there's been patent claims for the usual progress bar. Does anybody know how this ended?

NVIDIA have released a new Vulkan Beta Driver 435.27.02
27 Oct 2019 at 7:59 pm UTC

Quoting: chui2chIs there a good guide somewhere on installing the NVIDIA driver using the run file?
I'm never using anything that's not at least in Debian experimental:

https://packages.debian.org/de/experimental/nvidia-driver [External Link]