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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Feb 2017 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: RTherenRyzen?
Be interesting, though not out in time for this end month stats.

I know of at least one that's pre ordered :whistle:

Mesa now has a shader cache in Mesa-git for r600/radeonsi
22 Feb 2017 at 11:49 pm UTC

I think this will help with rocket league too iirc

SteamVR for Linux is now officially in Beta
22 Feb 2017 at 12:06 am UTC Likes: 3

Nice to see radv included , as in that Valve is targeting the oss driver. I know they have employed people to help with the oss driver.
It will help devs also code towards a open/standard driver rather than a prop driver that does some unknown tricks/hacks.

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
17 Feb 2017 at 12:43 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: pete910
Quoting: edddeduck_feral
Quoting: GuestI’d love to play this but Steam-only + additional always online DRM means I’ll wait for a huge sale if I ever buy it.
There is no always online requirement for HITMAN. See the opening section from Liam's review for more details.

"To get the elephant in the room out of the way first: The game does have an online requirement for certain features, these are extras and do not affect the main single-player story, which does not require you to be online."
My saves didn't work until I was connected to the hitman servers so I would have to call that an always on to be fair.
I don't class loading a previous save game as a extra/special feature.

Unless there's a setting I've missed that disables it.
I did test this and I tested it again then to be certain, it works fine for me. The game does nag you, telling you the save was made while being online, but I had no trouble loading it while offline.
Just refuses me, states I need to be online, no other options.

I'll give it another go later.

Edit:

Wonder if it's because I was connected to their server when I first started ? Thus not saved locally

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
17 Feb 2017 at 9:21 am UTC

Quoting: edddeduck_feral
Quoting: GuestI’d love to play this but Steam-only + additional always online DRM means I’ll wait for a huge sale if I ever buy it.
There is no always online requirement for HITMAN. See the opening section from Liam's review for more details.

"To get the elephant in the room out of the way first: The game does have an online requirement for certain features, these are extras and do not affect the main single-player story, which does not require you to be online."
My saves didn't work until I was connected to the hitman servers so I would have to call that an always on to be fair.
I don't class loading a previous save game as a extra/special feature.

Unless there's a setting I've missed that disables it.

Quoting: ageresWhat about performance on AMD CPUs? Once again my FX-8350 is in the minimum settings and only Intel is in the max settings.


I'll let you know in a few weeks and I'll compare it against my current 4790k ;)

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
17 Feb 2017 at 9:09 am UTC

Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: pete910Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN [External Link]
Try this and see what happens :)
            <key name="IndirectX">
                <key name="Direct3D">
                        <value name="UseVulkan" type="integer">1</value>
Quoting: linux_gamer
Quoting: dubigrasu
Quoting: pete910Interesting :D

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=newshttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN_item&px=Vulkan-Signs-HITMAN [External Link]
Try this and see what happens :)
            <key name="IndirectX">
                <key name="Direct3D">
                        <value name="UseVulkan" type="integer">1</value>
Has anyone tried VK_INSTANCE_LAYERS=VK_LAYER_LUNARG_standard_validation?
I will give both a try later :)

We now have an official Ballistic Overkill server
5 Feb 2017 at 11:51 pm UTC

Well, had a few good rounds with you all tonight ! :D

Hate them damn grenadiers.......

We now have an official Ballistic Overkill server
5 Feb 2017 at 9:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

What!, Why not "Liam's **** hole server" ..... :whistle:

They proved to be rather popular :P

Come watch the first episode of 'The Council of Linux Gamers'
5 Feb 2017 at 3:28 pm UTC Likes: 3

Nope, Don't know any of them :P