Quoting: HamishI am actually kind of surprised by the amount of people with gamepads, but then I already knew that I was the odd one out for having barely ever used a console in my life, and pretty much never using one as a kid.

For me gaming has always been a keyboard and mouse affair.

I've never owned a console, but some games are simply much more enjoyable with a controller or some sort. I remember the first driving game I had on the Amiga with real 3d graphics and analog control (the title eludes me), and driving with the mouse was doable but unwieldy as heck. And now that I do pretty much all my gaming on the sofa, using a mouse and a keyboard is simply uncomfortable. Of course there are entire genres of games that I'd prefer playing with a keyboard and mouse as well. (A steam controller might bridge the gap somewhat. I hope I'll have the opportunity try one at some point.)

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Quoting: crazyg4merzIt's better to let them know though, whether they are going to fix it or not at least it shows that we care about their games. There's no such things as bombarding when the issue is really happening :)

I'm not sure this is what you mean, but bug spam is a thing. If the bug is already reported and known, only comment if you have useful information to add. Duplicate reports help no one and saying "me too" is rarely useful. But by all means, please do report a bug if it's not already on the tracker, even if you think it might be trivial and/or obvious. Just check existing reports first and follow any guidelines set by the developer.

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Quoting: GuestFor me too Talos is slower with Vulkan: 49 FPS instead of 65 FPS in OpenGL.
Nvidia 364.19, GTX 660, i5 4690K, Steam overlay disabled, 1920×1200, Xfce (no compositing).

You've got a 660 just like Nel above, and he gets much better performance using Vulkan, with a slightly older beta driver from the same series. Does the Vulkan implementation use more video memory (and you've got less than him), or maybe your settings are different somehow? Oh, or maybe you're running the game from a slower drive and their new Vulkan backend doesn't do asset/shader loading/caching/compiling as efficiently as the OpenGL backend? I also assume you might not be running Debian Jessie with an older kernel like him. The possibilites are endless. :)

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Quoting: Psycic101I've been wanting to get a racing wheel for a while now but I've been holding it off until the Formula 1 Linux release (which looks like it will be coming quite soon, as Feral have updated it's position on their release radar). Any suggestions as to which racing wheels work well with Linux. I'm keen for a mid to high range wheel.

I've been lusting after one of the better Logitech wheels for what seems like half my life, but they've always seemed a bit too expensive for an occasional desktop racer like me. It's not like I can't play and enjoy driving games with my joypad. I'd love a good wheel but I don't think It'll fit in my budget any time soon.

To answer your question, I don't know if any of the wheels have full support out of the box, but there are third party tools for Logitech wheels at least (LTWheelConf [External Link] which enable features like 900 degree rotation. So be prepared to fiddle with your system if you want it all now. Many of them have most of their features working OOTB on modern kernels though.

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Quoting: lvlarkNot sure if you should split Debian tbh. It would break the continuity of the graph, but that might not be too important. I suppose a dev would want to know which platform to focus on? When the Debian-group is split up, Arch might come out on top and that would be kinda misleading.

I agree about not splitting them up, but it would be interesting to see an additional graph in the lines of "Which Debian-based distro are you using" with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, SteamOS and "other Debian derivatives" as options. Well, anything that works on an Ubuntu LTS is pretty much guaranteed to work on Mint, but not necessarily on Debian or SteamOS. Maybe there could be another one for Arch and its derivatives, but this might be of more interest to users than developers. It's pretty hard to explicitly target a rolling release distro after all.

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Quoting: Guestwhy do they do it on github if they dont post the source code...

Why not? The service provides a rather nice bug tracker. They're not the first company to make use of github for stuff like this.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoThose requirements tells me that this release will NOT be a NATIVE Linux port, just a windows wrapped game.

If they tell you that, they are lying. ;)

Feral does "real" ports, but that doesn't automatically mean performance parity.

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Quoting: BoldosAlthough it is great to have this game within Linux portfolio too, it is hard to imagine it might - success-wise - stand a chance in front of Star Ruler 2, Stardrive 2 and, mainly, Stellaris...

That doesn't mean it'll be a failure. There's enough room on the market for all of these IMHO, and many fans of the genre will most likely buy more than one of them. Personally I'm happy to wait for final releases and reviews instead of deciding on hyperbole.

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Could we keep the islamophobia (and other prejudice) off GOL please? IS does not represent the Islamic faith. It's just a bunch of loonies and brainwashed youngsters using an extreme version of their religion as an excuse for murder and mayhem, just like others have done before in the name of other faiths and ideologies, Christians included.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAwesome thing about Tomb Raider (at least the Windows version) was when you turned on Tesselation (I think that was the option). It makes her hair look all stringy, but then it also made the framerate drop into a beautiful slide show. I wonder if they'll implement it correctly here? I actually have a system that can handle it now :D

They've promised a working implementation of the TressFX thingy. The funny thing is, they're saying that on Linux this AMD technology only works on Nvidia. :whistle:

It probably makes use of compute shaders, as the original effect used DirectCompute. Maybe there's something missing still from the brand new Mesa CS support.

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