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GOL Asks: What Game Are You Looking Forward To Playing?
17 Sep 2015 at 2:17 pm UTC
17 Sep 2015 at 2:17 pm UTC
Quoting: SirBubblesI know that the Witcher 3 is on the GamingOnLinux's release schedule for November, but is that actually confirmed?It's been marketed as a future SteamOS title, but I don't remember anything resembling an official announcement with regards to the release date. I guess official Steam Machines launch date is as good a guess as any, if a bit optimistic.
The Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 PRO Rev.2 Is Cheap & Fantastic AMD CPU Cooler
16 Sep 2015 at 8:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
16 Sep 2015 at 8:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
I made the mistake of buying a rather expensive Noctua cooler for my work machine a few years back, and now I'm hopelessly in love with them. (Please don't tell my wife.) Their heat sinks and fans are pure gold. Well not actually made of pure gold but copper, aluminium, plastic and whatnot. Still, you know what I mean.
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I've had my share of hits and misses in the cooling department in the almost two decades since I built my first rig as a teen, although back then the coolers were all crap. Some were made of copper, but that just made them slightly heavier and more expensive crap.
One shiny blue sink with a tiny little fan - appropriately shaped like a jet engine - that sat on one of my early Athlons (or might have been a K6-2 or something) was so extraordinarily loud I was positively scarred for life. And so were our neighbours. It sounded like a vacuum cleaner trying desperately to reach earth orbit.
I won't even speak of my unfortunate but repeated missteps into the world of overclocking, let alone the subsequent hasty exits from said world with my tail between my legs, the remains of a handful of expensive components serving as smouldering proof of my shameful failure.
One shiny blue sink with a tiny little fan - appropriately shaped like a jet engine - that sat on one of my early Athlons (or might have been a K6-2 or something) was so extraordinarily loud I was positively scarred for life. And so were our neighbours. It sounded like a vacuum cleaner trying desperately to reach earth orbit.
I won't even speak of my unfortunate but repeated missteps into the world of overclocking, let alone the subsequent hasty exits from said world with my tail between my legs, the remains of a handful of expensive components serving as smouldering proof of my shameful failure.
Steam Controller Demo From Pax Prime With Valve Talking About It
16 Sep 2015 at 10:28 am UTC
Personally I use a wired controller because I've never been bothered by the cable, even on the sofa.
16 Sep 2015 at 10:28 am UTC
Quoting: neffoWHO only classifies wireless radiation as "possibly carsinogenic" pending further research into it's long-term effects, so no worries I guess. I wonder if it's even possible to meaningfully reduce the radiation we are exposed to in an urban environment...Quoting: ShmerlI like a wired option. Too much radiation isn't needed. And good point about batteries waste others already brought above.A tin-foil hat shouldn't affect the controller. All good.
Personally I use a wired controller because I've never been bothered by the cable, even on the sofa.
Don't Count On Any EA Frostbite Powered Games On Linux
15 Sep 2015 at 8:45 pm UTC Likes: 2
Now let's get back to work and argue statistics and numbers until big business learns to love the penguin.
15 Sep 2015 at 8:45 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: liamdaweYes, we are one whole percent. One one-hundredth of 'em all. One of every hundred gamers out there is a penguin. Who'da thunk that'd ever happen just a few short years back. Not EA, that's for sure.Quoting: tuubiWe are the 1%, not the 0.01% ;)Quoting: oldrocker99Currently, the total concurrent Steam users is ~7.85 million. Even if it's only 1%, 1% of 7, 850,000 is 785,000 or 863,500 if 1.1% and 1,020,500 if 1.3%.You better check that math, good man. :) 7 580 000 * 0.01 = 75 800.
Now let's get back to work and argue statistics and numbers until big business learns to love the penguin.
Don't Count On Any EA Frostbite Powered Games On Linux
15 Sep 2015 at 3:05 pm UTC Likes: 1
15 Sep 2015 at 3:05 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: oldrocker99Currently, the total concurrent Steam users is ~7.85 million. Even if it's only 1%, 1% of 7, 850,000 is 785,000 or 863,500 if 1.1% and 1,020,500 if 1.3%.You better check that math, good man. :) 7 580 000 * 0.01 = 75 800.
Looks Like Grid Autosport Could See A Linux Release Soon
13 Sep 2015 at 8:43 am UTC Likes: 1
In any case the wrapper itself isn't a problem, but it does mean that Linux support is an afterthought, not a priority. It also makes it next to impossible to fix platform specific bugs. You have to hack around them in the wrapper, and you just try doing that when the original code you cannot see, let alone debug, does something weird that just happens to work on Windows.
I still think wrappers are a good way to bring older Windows games to Linux. Better a wrapper than nothing. And a good wrapper is better than a bad native port. In the end, only the end result matters for gamers.
13 Sep 2015 at 8:43 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: maodzedunHow is a wrapper a problem if you get the same performance?We'll need to see more than one game performing the same as on Windows before we can conclude that eon is perfect. Arma 3 seems very bad at utilizing your cpu & gpu resources on windows according to reports, which might have given VP an opportunity here.
In any case the wrapper itself isn't a problem, but it does mean that Linux support is an afterthought, not a priority. It also makes it next to impossible to fix platform specific bugs. You have to hack around them in the wrapper, and you just try doing that when the original code you cannot see, let alone debug, does something weird that just happens to work on Windows.
I still think wrappers are a good way to bring older Windows games to Linux. Better a wrapper than nothing. And a good wrapper is better than a bad native port. In the end, only the end result matters for gamers.
Looks Like Grid Autosport Could See A Linux Release Soon
12 Sep 2015 at 8:36 pm UTC
12 Sep 2015 at 8:36 pm UTC
Quoting: evergreenI only hope my logitech momo race will be supported on it..Recent Linux kernels support most Logitech wheels, but Linux games rarely do. SDL2 provides a force feedback (or haptic) API, so it's up to the developer/porter to make use of it. I wonder if the Showdown port or the native Euro Truck Simulator 2 support force feedback at all on Linux.
Looks Like Grid Autosport Could See A Linux Release Soon
12 Sep 2015 at 3:32 pm UTC
12 Sep 2015 at 3:32 pm UTC
Quoting: SabunOr was it simply VP being pre-occupied with Showdown so Codemasters decided on Feral for this? Regardless, I'm excited!Could be the other way around. I'm sure a native port always takes a lot more time in development and QA than a wrap job, unless you're building the wrapper from scratch.
Looks Like Grid Autosport Could See A Linux Release Soon
12 Sep 2015 at 12:17 pm UTC
12 Sep 2015 at 12:17 pm UTC
I played this for a few hours on a friend's ps3 a year or so back, and had plenty of fun. I'm sure it's not the most realistic simulator out there, but in my opinion that's a point in the game's favour. There are other options for people who prefer realism to enjoyment. Not that this one is anywhere near as arcadey as Showdown and it's ilk.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown Free Weekend & XCOM 2 Available For Pre-Order For Day-1 Release
12 Sep 2015 at 10:40 am UTC
Wouldn't work if you didn't have to log in every time you play though, which means GOG Galaxy will never follow suit.
12 Sep 2015 at 10:40 am UTC
Quoting: wojtek88Valve did a very clever move when they decided to give players "free weekends" with games. I'm sure it generates huge income - better or similar to demo versions I guess.Personally I prefer a demo, but I guess this type of malarkey comes with the subscription mindset. Not Valve's invention AFAIK.
Wouldn't work if you didn't have to log in every time you play though, which means GOG Galaxy will never follow suit.
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