Okay, tried playing a couple of online matches with D9VK and it was just unplayable. Stuttered like crazy whenever anything at all happened. Maybe it's just my mesa version or something, but honestly I can't be bothered to find out. The native version runs just fine.

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I tested RL for a bit with D9VK earlier today, and it does run smoother than native. Although the game seems to stutter horribly for a second or two any time it encounters a new shader, which is quite annoying. I'm testing on an AMD RX580, so ACO would probably help here.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI remember having a little Eliza program on my TRS-80 when I was a teenager. It would parrot back stuff you said, with little "How does it make you feel that bla?" and so forth. Incredibly simplistic, you could look at the code (in BASIC!) and see that it only had a few tricks, and yet on those rare occasions when you weren't just deliberately trying to make the results sound silly it could feel surprisingly lifelike.

A Finnish computer magazine published a localized Eliza-clone as printed C64 BASIC code in the early 80's. I had a lot of fun rewriting the lines with a friend to make the tone just slightly darker: Instead of chatting with your therapist, you had a casual conversation with your friendly executioner before he chopped your head off. I wasn't a teenager yet, but I was apparently old enough to appreciate a bit of gallows humour.

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Quoting: WendigoSounds interesting, both the name and the fact that it is about an AI remind of Josef Weizenbaums ELIZA:
link [External Link]

Either an obvious reference/homage or a really unlikely coincidence.

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Note that while 4.15 is the default kernel, 4.18 and 5.0 are supported and available in the update manager's kernels dialog.

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I wouldn't mind something like the Ace Attorney series, but the rhythm game parts in this one might just spoil the fun for me.

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Quoting: smantz0rZpeople pester devs for Linux ports all the time, but then that doesn't translate into sales when the Linux version releases.

Does that mean our purchases aren't worth it to you unless they happen right after the Linux release? I mean, I was happy when I learned that ZED was coming to Linux, and it does look great, but so do most of the other ~140 games on my wishlist. Yours is in the top ten though, and I will definitely buy it at some point in the not-too-distant future. Although I have to admit it dropped down a couple of places when I learned about the lack of focus on puzzles, as elaborate puzzles are what I think of when I hear someone mention Myst or Myst-likes.

If you meant that Linux gamers are less likely to buy something they say they will, or more likely to "pester" devs than Windows or Mac gamers, I doubt you can actually back that up with anything solid.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOne implication of this is particularly happy for me: Presumably, Mint will piggyback on this so there may be newer drivers on Mint too.

Mint, just like many other derivatives, make use of the Ubuntu core repositories directly and add their own on top, so I'd assume these drivers will be available.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh, except I just got a new computer and decided to go AMD, and my laptop has Intel. So, I guess it doesn't actually matter to me at all. But in general, not just Ubuntu but also Ubuntu derivatives may well be improved by this, so that's a Good Thing.

For your new AMD gaming box I'd suggest using the Padoka Stable PPA [External Link] for reasonably recent GPU drivers.

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Quoting: NanobangOooooo! I haven't played anything like this since 1983, when [Crush! Crumble! Chomp!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Crumble_and_Chomp!) came out for my C-64!

Raaaaaarrrrrr!!

I was reminded of a different C-64 game, namely The Movie Monster Game [External Link]. :)

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Quoting: ArdjeNice, then I might need an upgrade of my NVidia hardware too on my laptop. Oh wait...
But are they seriously going to support 3 or 4 revisions of NVidia drivers on LTS? (Mostly depends on which generation NVidia decided to stop supporting your hardware).
Or is this only for the latest generation?

I don't see how this would change anything. New major Nvidia driver versions do not replace older ones in the repositories, as they're released as new packages instead of new versions of old packages. At least everything upwards of the GeForce 8 series from 2006 have officially supported drivers available in 18.04. Older than that, you might be better off relying on Mesa, unless you want to be stuck with older kernels etc.

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