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The RTS 'Forged Battalion' is not coming to Linux, despite reports saying it will
22 Dec 2017 at 9:59 am UTC
That game really could finally ease my need for a good RTS in Linux :-).
22 Dec 2017 at 9:59 am UTC
Quoting: pete910Still waiting on what Oxide/Stardock are doing regards Ashes tbh. :(This. No news in two month. I'd like to know what's making the port hard, having the engine running in Vulkan already. Would be interesting to know.
That game really could finally ease my need for a good RTS in Linux :-).
The 'Linux Steam Integration' project from Solus has an updated release with Snap package support
22 Dec 2017 at 1:08 am UTC
Solus ships a newer stack, which newer games require. Especially on LTS or similar, that can help a lot (and ye, that is shipped in the snap).
LSI drops out some libraries known to make issues replacing them with certain other versions of libraries which are known to work.
LSI works around known game bugs (as ark: survival evolved water bug, unity blacks screen bug and more).
I personally think LSI should not be required. It shows, it is, because either game devs don't care or Valve is reluctant to update their software stack which would fix known issues.
It is nice that the guys of Solus, or in this case Ikey is putting a lot of effort in making the gaming experience better and easier Linux, creating a stack/snap which game devs could rely on. We'll see if it's picked up or not, meanwhile we're left with the workarounds LSI can do for us.
22 Dec 2017 at 1:08 am UTC
Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?It's pretty simple:
Solus ships a newer stack, which newer games require. Especially on LTS or similar, that can help a lot (and ye, that is shipped in the snap).
LSI drops out some libraries known to make issues replacing them with certain other versions of libraries which are known to work.
LSI works around known game bugs (as ark: survival evolved water bug, unity blacks screen bug and more).
I personally think LSI should not be required. It shows, it is, because either game devs don't care or Valve is reluctant to update their software stack which would fix known issues.
It is nice that the guys of Solus, or in this case Ikey is putting a lot of effort in making the gaming experience better and easier Linux, creating a stack/snap which game devs could rely on. We'll see if it's picked up or not, meanwhile we're left with the workarounds LSI can do for us.
Wine 3.0 RC2 is officially available with bug fixes for Fallout 4, Far Cry 2 & 3 and more
22 Dec 2017 at 12:59 am UTC
22 Dec 2017 at 12:59 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlHmh. Sometimes it makes performance better, but badly hurts other stuff. Like talking of the 1.12.1 WoW client, where light sources seem to be fucked up in gallium-nine. If you "move down" the camera to be closer to the floor, it adjusts the light sources with the camera instead sticking on the character. Which .. hardly ever can be right ;-).Quoting: TheSHEEEPIs there any reason to go with "official" wine instead of wine-staging? I always use the latter and never had any problems.Not every fix in Wine staging works well for some games. Some actually make things worse.
The developer of strategy game 'TINY METAL' has said Linux is a 'priority'
21 Dec 2017 at 2:04 pm UTC
21 Dec 2017 at 2:04 pm UTC
Hmh, turn based. Not so sure yet. I miss good old RTS.
The latest development report for the open source RTS '0 A.D.' shows progress is good
21 Dec 2017 at 10:57 am UTC
21 Dec 2017 at 10:57 am UTC
It's pretty fun to play in multiplayer already. Even when I don't see it finalized any time soon, it's a very nice game for some fun with friends.
The Libretro Team and other emulators are being ripped off by companies trying to make a quick buck
21 Dec 2017 at 10:06 am UTC
21 Dec 2017 at 10:06 am UTC
I know the pain. I lately made one of our software vendors aware that they're not allowed to use certain things in their product without opensourcing the changes made under the very same license.
They were not even aware of that, nor did they bother initially. In the end they gave way, and rewrote the whole product from scratch themselves without the license violations.
They were not even aware of that, nor did they bother initially. In the end they gave way, and rewrote the whole product from scratch themselves without the license violations.
A lot later than expected, but the open-world pirate RPG 'Tempest' is now in Beta for Linux
6 Dec 2017 at 8:27 am UTC
6 Dec 2017 at 8:27 am UTC
Can you ask if AMD/Mesa is supported? I Ican't find any information on this. I'll probably give it a shot on AMD anyway, but it's christmas and I don't have money to throw out of the window right now :D.
Feral Interactive continues to contribute to Mesa as one of its developers gets commit privileges
14 Nov 2017 at 11:05 am UTC Likes: 2
14 Nov 2017 at 11:05 am UTC Likes: 2
This is certainly a sign that they plan working Vulkan only for Linux ports in future. I like that, because on my hardware the Vulkan ports were better playable, and even with OGL in Mesa moving forward / improving a lot, Vulkan will very likely be our future in gaming.
Space Pirates And Zombies 2 releases in full with great Linux support
13 Nov 2017 at 11:32 am UTC
13 Nov 2017 at 11:32 am UTC
Certainly a game I could like.
Anyone tried it on AMDGPU?
Anyone tried it on AMDGPU?
SteamOS is still alive with a new Beta, although it's a rather uninteresting one
10 Nov 2017 at 1:34 am UTC
10 Nov 2017 at 1:34 am UTC
We've seen sinking work on mesa / Hakzsam too, sadly.
- Discord is about to require age verification for everyone
- KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak
- New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS
- Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler
- GE-Proton 10-30 released with fixes for Arknights Endfield and the EA app
- > See more over 30 days here
How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck