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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Time Ruiner: The Game? Does Straub get a cut?

But seriously, looks nice. I'm rarely into shooters, but if it's got a nice story and a balanced difficulty curve to go with the pretty visuals, I'm in.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWhy is this site so anti AMD? I find that almost no1 mentions performance numbers with AMD cards here? They do have a Vulkan driver out, it works only on Kernel4.2 thought.

So post your performance numbers or ask someone with suitable hardware to post them. Liam runs Nvidia hardware—just like the majority of us—as it generally works best for Linux gaming at this point. That doesn't make this site anti anything. You're reading the wrong blog if you expect wide hardware coverage in every test.

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Quoting: WurmphlegmSo then what happens to people who all pledged for physical items?

Kickstarter's not a shop. There are no guarantees of getting what you paid for, physical or digital.

Quoting: Ignis@Storminator16, lawyers are fine but slow. It's not like you can't do both.

Lawyers and lawsuits are also damned expensive. If this guy is telling the truth, of course that Scott character deserves to get sued, but this is real life, not Matlock. You need money to get justice. And lots of time like you said.

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