Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI know is a necro thread but..
Mad Max is super cheap right now on Bundlestars.

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/mad-max [External Link]

Too bad Bundle Stars keys register as Windows sales, no matter what platform you play on. And besides, Steam's Winter Sale starts in a couple of days, I wouldn't be surprised if Mad Max was included and just as cheap. I can wait.

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Quoting: MightyTrollzorI am aware that this is not violating any copyright law (as long as sony doesn't patent any game mechanics of the wipeout series) but it wouldn't be the first time a publisher claims rights to some independent artists work, getting the artist to remove said work because they can't afford a lawsuit from a publisher which in turn has more than enough money for a ton of lawyers and legal expenses.

Sadly this is true. Having been at the receiving end of a ridiculous trademark claim (thankfully cleared with a single response from our own lawyer, "only" costing us a couple of hundred euros), I know the system is broken. I don't think you can actually patent game mechanics however.

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Quoting: SketchStickI was under the impression that Epic Games does very little work on Unreal Engine's Linux support. That the vast majority of fixes were contributed by the community? If that's the case, I don't think waiting on them is going to help much.

This might be a general bug related to their OpenGL backend, not something Linux specific. These backends are written and supported by Epic themselves I think.

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Great stuff. The notification system is shaping up nicely.

I do think it's a bit unnecessary to get two notifications every time I'm quoted. One for the quote and another for the reply if I'm subscribed to the thread. (I usually am.)

Could you prevent the reply notification to any user who was quoted, as they've already been notified?

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Quoting: MightyTrollzorIt is really fun if you like Wipeout since it plays exactly the same as the old wipeout titles. I hope this game won't get copyright striked by sony now that it is on steam

Very similar or even pretty much exactly the same gameplay isn't a copyright violation, as long as no art or IP is copied directly from the original. I understand all art, tracks, names and such are original in this game.

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I'm really curious about Black Mesa, I'll have to check that out. I will do my best to skip the ARMA parts though. Oddly, my year in the army didn't leave me hungry for more, real or fake.

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Quoting: DuckeenieWhy would you assume a reply to someone else would be about you?

Because I was in a hurry and skimmed it. I did edit the post after I saw my mistake. Sorry for the noise.

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Quoting: DuckeenieHope you will consider publishing your findings. :)

If you're talking about mine, I'm sorry to say I didn't bother saving the results after my informal tests. They were done on impulse and I didn't think there was anything useful to report. Basically everything I tested performed within a percentage point or two of each other in the few real-world tests I did, and my Xfce installation was running a tweaked Compton as the compositor so not exactly OOTB. There might have been slightly bigger variation on my work desktop with the Intel Haswell iGPU than my i7 / Nvidia gaming box, but I'd never game on the work machine anyway. I only did it on both systems because it was easy (had a spare SSD with all the desktops installed and configured) and I was curious.

EDIT: Of course you were talking to Samsai, not me.

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Quoting: Samsai

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Quoting: DuckeenieWhich is why I used the other link in the first instance... The point is two independent tests show that XFCE is slower when gaming.

And a quick googling will produce tests where it isn't. In my own tests on my systems against Mate and a couple of others left Xfce somewhere in the middle with insignificantly small differences overall (on my hardware at least), so I saw no reason to ditch the DE I'm most comfortable with.

It's likely that the performance disparity is not nearly as apparent on stronger hardware. Phoronix seems to have used Intel integrated graphics while the other test used Radeon R7 integrated.

Quite possibly one of the reasons these reports might not be representative. Also the reason why I added the "on my hardware" qualifier to my own test results.

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Quoting: Duckeenie

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Quoting: DuckeenieI loved XFCE until I found out it was the slowest desktop for gaming even with compositing off.

Source [External Link]

That benchmark is far from scientific though. Seems like every single test gets conflicting results.

Don't know why you say conflicting results, XFCE comes last in every single test. Scientific or not without counter-evidence it stands. :P

Phronix did similar tests too. [External Link]

The Phoronix test uses Ubuntu's default settings with the compositors enabled.

Which is why I used the other link in the first instance... The point is two independent tests show that XFCE is slower when gaming.

And a quick googling will produce tests where it isn't. In my own tests on my systems against Mate and a couple of others left Xfce somewhere in the middle with insignificantly small differences overall (on my hardware at least), so I saw no reason to ditch the DE I'm most comfortable with.

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