Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: Destroyer28.8k or 33.6k modem more likely, 56k wasn't released until 1998. Even then I didn't have one until after 2000.
I'm getting this game even though it looks more modern than what we actually had.

I thought 56k came earlier; but the dates are all jumbled up in my mind. I know I went from 14.4k, to 33.6, to 56; though I can't remember at which point we got dial-up internet; before that it was mostly for BBSs, and faxing.

I thought it was earlier as well (my guess 1996).
Wikipedia says it was Feb 1997.

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I'll get this.
Seriously!

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Quoting: Stupendous ManI actually bought it this afternoon but had to ask for a refund: I got ~12fps in the menu with a laggy mouse on lowest graphics settings (and everything up to ultra). To be honest, I didn't try different drivers to see if it helped, I just looked on the support forum to see if anyone else had had the same issue, and then asked for a refund.
Nothing was running in the background, and the system is a Ryzen 1700 with 16GB ram and a GTX660. I haven't had any issue in any other game I've tried (brand new system).

Just installed it for the very first time.

I cannot even start the game, because it's several minutes until the screen that I suppose will be the menu appears. Then the mouse and the whole system is practically stuck.

Okay, my bad. I should've read the system requirements.
It's only a Thinkpad with Haswell graphics (never got the Optimus setup to work properly on Linux).
Maybe I should not estimate the requirements by the screenshots.
I'll give it a try on Windows before asking for a refund.

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Just grabbed WftO today when it was 75 % off.

Both Dungeon Keeper are still among my favourite games.
Unfortunately Dungeons (1 & 2) were not my cup of tea.

Let's see how WftO does. :)

BTW, there wasn't a single crappy Bullfrog game, was there?
I'd play the sh*t out of a well-made spiritual Magic Carpet 2 successor.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: subSo I won't be able to play this with my Radeon 7950 on Linux? :/

That game works fine on Windows.

Likely Mesa just isn't in a state for those cards in terms of features and/or performance.

Good question.

Does RADV officially support GCN1?

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So I won't be able to play this with my Radeon 7950 on Linux? :/

That game works fine on Windows.

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Quoting: enzThe games added in a few days are supposed to have Linux support too. It's likely they've already been featured in old bundles, though.

There's been one exception to this rule: a HIB featured Giana Sisters without a Linux version and the Humble team promised the port would be added "very soon" after. It was four years ago...

I can think of at least another one.
Splot by Frozenbytes.

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Quoting: fleskRakuen is very good. One of the few games I played to completion last year.

This reminds me of the imho very sad fact, that with the sheer amount of games I buy in bundles and sales, I extremely rarely play them often or even complete them (that includes many that I actually really like).

That was different in the 90's - at least for me. I had access to only a very few new games at a time. They were expensive and I chose carefully which ones I bought. And usually I played them with lots of joy and typically completed them.

Tbh, I prefer that to that inflationary situation today.

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Quoting: michaGreat to see RAD offer Linux support now. Their tools are among the very best!

Judging by some guys who work for RAD that I know from Twitter, that's quite likely true. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: 0aTTInteresting read:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-hooray-valves-going-to-start-shipping-games-again/ [External Link]

"We've always been a little bit jealous of companies like Nintendo," Newell said. "When Miyamoto is sitting down and thinking about the next version of Zelda or Mario, he's thinking what is the controller going to look like, what sort of graphics and other capabilities. He can introduce new capabilities like motion input because he controls both of those things. And he can make the hardware look as good as possible because he's designing the software at the same time that's really going to take advantage of it. So that is something we've been jealous of, and that's something that you'll see us taking advantage of subsequently."

Erm... Does this sound like "We're going to make a console." to you, too?

No.

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