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Debian Linux is planning a gaming-focused event online in November
6 Oct 2020 at 5:04 pm UTC Likes: 1
I must admit, I chickened out and made a fresh install. Interestingly though, it there appears to be plans to make crossgrading an easier and supported upgrade path in Debian.
6 Oct 2020 at 5:04 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: EikeNice!Quoting: whizseRight, but can Windows do the i386 > amd64 transition? Debian can [External Link] :tongue:How I love having old stuff lurking somewhere on the disk. :D
(It's very much a work in progress, and not for the faint of heart, but it is possible.)
I had my Debian up for some 10 years in 2010 and wanted to keep it, so this is how I've done it back then:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xMn9B_LxJmcJ:https://v13.gr/2008/10/09/debian-i386-to-amd64-conversion/+&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk [External Link]
I must admit, I chickened out and made a fresh install. Interestingly though, it there appears to be plans to make crossgrading an easier and supported upgrade path in Debian.
Debian Linux is planning a gaming-focused event online in November
6 Oct 2020 at 2:27 pm UTC
(It's very much a work in progress, and not for the faint of heart, but it is possible.)
6 Oct 2020 at 2:27 pm UTC
Quoting: elmapulits possible:Right, but can Windows do the i386 > amd64 transition? Debian can [External Link] :tongue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE [External Link]
from windows 1.0 to windows 8.
i'm not sure if you can update from this 8 to an 10, but you're being spoiled too much at that point ;)
(It's very much a work in progress, and not for the faint of heart, but it is possible.)
Crusader Kings III is quite a joy to learn, even if you're not particularly smart
5 Oct 2020 at 4:34 pm UTC
https://github.com/micolous/sdl-fakeqwerty [External Link]
(Though I would suggest carfully peruseing the source code before LD_PRELOADing random stuff of Github!)
5 Oct 2020 at 4:34 pm UTC
Quoting: gojulI stopped at the tutorial. Try to play it with an AZERTY keyboard and you'll understand. WASD on that kind of keyboard is not exactly convenient, and there's no way to remap the keys as of now. Sooo... waiting until a newer patch.Possibly of interest?
https://github.com/micolous/sdl-fakeqwerty [External Link]
(Though I would suggest carfully peruseing the source code before LD_PRELOADing random stuff of Github!)
Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release
3 Oct 2020 at 9:45 pm UTC
3 Oct 2020 at 9:45 pm UTC
Quoting: UnixOutlawI recently bought Blade Runner from Gog, thinking it was something "recent" (it wasn't 'recent'), anyway I downloaded the Linux version anyway, and it wouldn't run - then I figured out - "it's just a ScummvM game", so I can probably figure how to run it in ScummVM, but haven't gotten around to that yet...As long as the installer runs and you can locate the game data it shouldn't be harder than installing the ScummVM package in your distro and use "Add Game".
Played Monkey Island 1 via ScummVM on my NTC PocketChip (single core ARM 512 RAM) a couple years back and that ran perfectly...
Debian Linux is planning a gaming-focused event online in November
3 Oct 2020 at 7:50 pm UTC
You want unstable, possibly with Mesa packages from experimental if you're interested in in rc-releases.
Backporting Mesa to stable would be difficult. You would need backports for drm, llvm, and the kernel too.
Actually scratch that. I had no idea the kernel was already in backports. I guess backporting Mesa too wouldn't be too much work if somebody was interested in doing that.
3 Oct 2020 at 7:50 pm UTC
Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).
(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).
Backporting Mesa to stable would be difficult. You would need backports for drm, llvm, and the kernel too.
Actually scratch that. I had no idea the kernel was already in backports. I guess backporting Mesa too wouldn't be too much work if somebody was interested in doing that.
Check out the first gameplay from Amnesia: Rebirth
2 Oct 2020 at 7:37 pm UTC Likes: 5
2 Oct 2020 at 7:37 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: vipor29a game you don't want to be turning the lights off on.i made that mistake with the first game and almost destroyed my monitor.sed 's/monitor/underwear/g'
Episodic horror novel Scarlet Hollow sees a free first episode, Kickstarter soon for more
2 Oct 2020 at 7:35 pm UTC
2 Oct 2020 at 7:35 pm UTC
art of rally strips down the furious sport into a serene top-down experience
1 Oct 2020 at 9:58 am UTC
I haven't followed Mesa development that closely as of late, so I wrongly assumed the ACO compiler was used for OpenGL too.
1 Oct 2020 at 9:58 am UTC
Quoting: x_wingUnfortunately I think this Mesa patch won't fix the OpenGL issue. It's definitely forcing an ACO compiler fix (i.e. Vulkan), not to mention that this patch is probably the same as adding this config for radv driver in dri.rc:You're right
<application name="art of rally" executable="artofrally.exe">
<option name="radv_enable_mrt_output_nan_fixup" value="true" />
</application>
I haven't followed Mesa development that closely as of late, so I wrongly assumed the ACO compiler was used for OpenGL too.
art of rally strips down the furious sport into a serene top-down experience
30 Sep 2020 at 8:11 pm UTC
For now I just set anti alias to "taa".
30 Sep 2020 at 8:11 pm UTC
Quoting: x_wingDoes this patch only fix the issue with Proton/DXVK?Good question. I haven't actually tried the Mesa patch yet since it supposedly caused other glitches. But I assumed it would work in both cases?
For now I just set anti alias to "taa".
SkateBIRD gets a demo for Tokyo Game Show 2020 try it now
30 Sep 2020 at 4:57 pm UTC
30 Sep 2020 at 4:57 pm UTC
Discussion with the developer here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/971030/discussions/0/2841165820094122371/ [External Link]
I'll wait for the full release and the possible engine upgrade to see if it needs a quirk in Mesa or not.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/971030/discussions/0/2841165820094122371/ [External Link]
I'll wait for the full release and the possible engine upgrade to see if it needs a quirk in Mesa or not.
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