Quoting: EKRboiAwesome to hear it is out of EA and working well. I'm pretty sure this is right up my alley so I will be snatching this up as soon as I get home!

Finally got home and got this up and running about an hour ago. It runs well and I'm enjoying it so far. I had the controls set to action at first but I ended up switching to mouse movement. I probably could have adjusted to WASD movement and mouse attacks, but this game just begs to be a click fest IMO.

I have all of the settings cranked up and it mostly maintains 60fps but some of the "special effects" tend to tank the frame rate enough to force it down to 30fps for a bit due to using vsync. Even with only one of my 970's working in Linux it still plays @ 5760x1080 really well since it's not exactly a graphically demanding game. I loaded it @ 1920x1080 just to see if maybe the frame rates didn't tank on some of those "special effects" but it is exactly the same as the wider res. I need to get some sleep but when I play tomorrow I'll try changing the CPU governor from "powersave" to "performance" while playing it to see if that helps any since I noticed this games doesn't push my CPU into higher clocks too often.

Quoting: melkemindIn case you haven't noticed, the voice of Victor Vran is the same voice as The Witcher. You're welcome. :)

It is isn't it! I thought the voice sounded familiar!

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Awesome to hear it is out of EA and working well. I'm pretty sure this is right up my alley so I will be snatching this up as soon as I get home!

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Odd concept.. will be interesting to see how it plays out. Seems like a terrible idea to me. Why would you build in a mechanism to limit sales? What happens when it is a sleeper hit and they end up missing out on millions of sales? It will get cracked and released to the wild so people will still play it they will just not get paid for it. Seems kind of gimmicky to me.. but I'm interested to keep an eye on it just to see how it goes.

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I don't know if I would like this game or not but if the price is right, it runs well and it isn't a VP port I may just have to pick it up to show support.

Quoting: AryvandaarI've played this with Oculus Rift.

Brave soul. :P

A buddy of mine just informed me yesterday that a guy he works with took a DK2 + $$ in exchange for some work thinking his laptop would handle it (it doesn't). I told him to find out if he wants to sell it and for how much if he does. I've got my fingers crossed he doesn't want to deal with trying to sell it on ebay or craigslist and will take next to nothing for it (like $150ish). At the very least I told him to get him to bring it over to my place so we can all try it out. My rig will certainly handle it and I've never tried anything like it so I'm kinda excited. Hopefully I'm not one of those people it makes nauseous.

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That was a massive hit in responses! Out of curiosity, why wasn't it posted to reddit?

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YAY! Thanks to everyone who keeps this place moving along and cheers to Liam for managing to keep it all together.

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Quoting: nitroflow

Quoting: EKRboithe only problem... not being able to share the good food and drinks. :D

Unless you own a microsoft surface table :P

Hahaha. Something tells me I won't own something like that for a very long time. :(

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You know, as someone who likes to get some friends around the table and play some cards or a board game (I'm a total hustler @ Monopoly) and grill up some good food and have some drinks and have a good time I can appreciate what they did here... the only problem... not being able to share the good food and drinks. :D

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Quoting: CrashWith a similar core clock, 384 vs 224 GB/s memory bandwidth, a 512-bit vs 256-bit memory interface, double the GDDR5, and about 50% more cores, I'm having a hard time justifying the 970 which is similarly priced. Maybe I'm wrong, though, and real world performance will prove the 970. Any thoughts?

Other than the FuryX which does cost more than the 970. The AMD 300 series are mostly re-branded SKU's from the 200 series with minor clock tweaks and some with more VRAM than their older cousin, there is nothing really new happening there. They eat more power than Nvidia's Maxwell and there seems to be far more problems with AMD GPUs + gaming on Linux compared to Nvidia. You also can't compare the number of Nvidia cores to number of AMD/GCN cores since they are too different. Plus if you are only doing 1080p gaming the memory bandwidth is of no real concern.

As for the FuryX, pretty much most of the articles/reviews of FuryX that I've read still point to the 980ti as being the better buy at the same $650 price. In most games the 980Ti has a slight edge over Fury (nothing really to make a fuss over IMO) but what the 980ti does have is 2 more GB of VRAM and it overclocks like a beast and with ease. I think the highest achieved stable OC on a FuryX I saw in a review was 75mhz over stock which is nothing. There are going to be Fury and Fury nano however, they will be cut down FuryX chips and will be cheaper, those could really be interesting if priced right and may be quite a bit faster than a 970.

In the end if gaming on Linux is your goal no matter if AMD did have a technically better price/performance GPU I would always suggest Nvidia over AMD for drivers alone.

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Quoting: sarmadDoes anyone know how powerful the Alienware Steam Machine GPU is? We know it's a custom GTX 860m GPU, but what's custom about this? What did they get nVidia to modify in it? Wikipedia states that this GPU rangs in power from 1.2 TFLOPS to 1.8. Where in this range is the Alienware gpu sitting?

I wouldn't mind an answer on that as well out of curiosity. A PS4 pushes roughly 1.8 tflops so it is in the same ballpark, not bad at all, but not great. Certainly playable, especially if you can deal with 30fps if you like to keep some eye candy in recent games. A Nvidia GTX980 pushes roughly 5 tflops so an 860m is roughly 1/3 as powerful as it.

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