Quoting: GustyGhost

Quoting: hummer010I still don't get the Bristol Ridge decision. Raven Ridge seems like a much better choice. I might be willing to actually buy it if it was Raven Ridge...

I had to jump through flaming hoops and drag my rear through a thousand miles of glass shards to get my hands on a Raven Ridge (35W). To the latest of my knowledge, OEMs aren't able to get 35W RR in volume still which is why there haven't been (m)any prebuilts with it yet. I suppose Atari could raise the thermal envelope for the VCS to get current batches of Raven Ridge but they probably want it to be as silent as possible.

Oh and I almost forgot!: Raven Ridge (any TDP) is still unstable on Linux with AMDGPU. It is prone to hard lockups which require force reset and, to add insult to injury, Raven Ridge Linux systems often need to be booted several times before successfully bringing up a graphical session. It doesn't matter if you have kernel 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, AMDGPU is simply incomplete for Raven Ridge as of right now.

So I can understand their decision to go with Bristol Ridge. It is still a fast chip.

That hasn't been my recent experience with Raven Ridge (I've got an HP Envy x360 with a 2500u). I don't think I've had a lockup since I started using 4.18. I'm rolling my own kernel to get the touchscreen working, but I haven't made any changes specific to Ryzen or Vega. I never had to boot multiple times to get a graphical session, ever.

I'll admit, the early days with this laptop were rather frustrating. Especially since my primary reason for buying this laptop was all the talk about how great the AMDGPU driver was.

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Thanks for another recommendation of a game I can play with my kid! This one, I don't have, so it's always great to find something new.

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I still don't get the Bristol Ridge decision. Raven Ridge seems like a much better choice. I might be willing to actually buy it if it was Raven Ridge...

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Thanks for the reminder Liam! My son and I had played this once a couple years ago, and then forgot about it. We picked it up again last night, and had a blast. It truly is a riot of a coop game!

"You grab the shields"
"Watch the walls, watch the walls!"
"No, no, the top guns, the top guns!"
"No, you drive, I'll man the guns"
"Check the map, I'll get these guys"

And then my wife pipes in "What are you guys doing?!?"

I suspect we'll be back at it again tonight!

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This is friggen cool!!!

I decided to go with Age of Empires II for my first test - somehow it seemed fitting to run a Microsoft game first :)

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Quoting: PlintslîchoIt's now official: Mimimi Productions (the team that created Shadow Tactics) is working on Desperados III.

https://desperadosgame.com/ [External Link]

The alpha screenshots already look amazing!

I hope they will release this game on Linux as well.
If so, this is going to be a day one purchase.

Totally insta-buy! Shadow Tactics is F'in awesome!

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I haven't played it yet, but I already own it on Steam. I'm not sure if it was an error, but I got it from Humble for $4.04 (after my monthly 10% discount), which was cheap enough to lure me away from GOG.

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Quoting: g000hAnyone get a spare Dirt Rally key - I'm interested, and have plenty of other keys to swap it for.

PM Sent

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Motorsport Manager has been on my wishlist for a long time, so I'll be getting the BTA for sure!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: tuubiI'm severely allergic to this backlight nonsense,

You know, I used to feel the same way, and then I bought a laptop with backlit keys. I liked the backlit keys enough that my next laptop had to have 'em.

Can you actually buy a reasonably high-end (business) laptop without a backlit kb these days? I've used a couple, but they didn't change my mind about desktop keyboard backlights being just pointless bling. Not quite as pointless as cooling fan LEDs, but still.

Fair point on the desktop part. I don't have a desktop though, just a laptop.

I pretty regularly wind up using my laptop in the dark, so I like having the backlit keys. They default to off, and I only turn them on if it's dark. Whenever I try and use my wife's laptop in the dark, I'm frustrated by the lack of backlit keys, especially since I'm not as familiar with her keyboard.

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