On a side note. Quite interesting read when it comes to Valve.

https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless-industry-politics/?utm_content=buffer537a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

So far I'm a big supporter of them and grateful for what they did for Linux.
Yet, if that's even remotely true then I'm deeply disappointed by the mismatch
between what they want people believe how they are working and what it is really like.

No wonder we probably won't see any great games anymore from them,
when people are now working in such a hostile environment.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Whoooa. Great!

It's also on Steam for the very same low price.
Installing Linux version right now (Steam).

EDIT: Starts and seems to run fine.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: rea987

Quoting: ripperDoes this have the same improvements as the Enhanced Edition, i.e. higher resolutions and mouselook?

Yeah, I would like to give this a go but I need proper mouselook feature. Has anyone tried it? I ask it, because the GIF doesn't look like a native mouse look.

Looks like it:

https://twitter.com/cuddigan/status/1006789909267537920

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: SamsaiI built it quickly and got it to work. Keep in mind that the game wants the System Shock Enhanced Edition files to function. I loaded it up with Classic edition files and that just yielded some segfaults. So, to play you need to download the Enhanced Edition, innoextract the Windows installer and copy the app/res folder to where-ever you built Shockolate. Still seems a bit crashy and on Arch at least there isn't any sound (didn't build my own SDL2 stuff) but it renders pretty smoothly at least.

Thanks!

That sounds very promising.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: ArdjeI've heard a developer say that the only reason he also has mac as a platform is because it is so easy to generate the mac version. As for money it wasn't worth any hassle. Now I don't know what he said about the linux version, as I was playing edeejay at the same time.

I think this could be seriously problematic. This affects indie devs not using one of the big engines, that include Linux targets. If it is not possible anymore to at least more or less cover Mac+Linux with the same effort, than the little Linux alone market share won't cut it for many devs, I'm afraid.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

So can AMD ship their own OpenCL implementation?

Isn't NVidia providing CUDA on macOS?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: noxHm, I find that kind of scary. Microsoft pushing their "no vulkan allowed" storefront, and no opengl on mac.

"no vulkan allowed" storefront.

You mean Vulkan API apps are not allowed on the Microsoft store?
Really? Can you please point me to a source?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Meanwhile all Lead-Rendering-Engine bigwigs on Twitter like:

"C'mon it's so straightforward to add an abstraction layer for rendering backends - it's the way to go, anyways."

:D

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I guess the latency strongly depends on the hardware configuration and encoding capabilities that are available and used.

For my Haswell notebook the lag is noticeable under Windows 10 and quite horrible on Linux.

This isn't a big issue for strategy games but FPS, racing games and platformers don't work well for me.

What's your experience?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

How does encoding the picture with very low latency work?
Does it require some hardware encoding support to work well?

Edit: Never mind it's listed in the Steam configuration.
Didn't use streaming so far.

For whatever reason the Android app cannot find my Linux Steam client...

View this comment - View article - View full comments