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Latest Comments by Avehicle7887
Girl Genius - Adventures In Castle Heterodyne gets fully funded
5 Oct 2020 at 9:32 pm UTC

Quoting: flesk
Quoting: Avehicle7887I lost credibility in this dev, not only World to the West is outdated on GOG, I sent them an email to notify them of the incident and I've been given no reply whatsoever.

Unfortunately I don't think about buying this one until they update their previous game.
I asked a developer about this on their Discord server, and he said he thinks GOG is only missing some Windows-only controller fixes. What sort of issues does the game have on GOG? If it's the missing gamepad glyphs, that's an issue on Steam too, and I know they were looking into it recently.
Thanks for doing that, I gave a quick look at the changelog and it's a bit more than just controller fixes:



If it was just a controller fix, they wouldn't bother updating the Mac version too. Anyhow even though I'm disappointed, as a fan of their games and customer, I'd be happy if they'd just update the game and treat everyone equally.

Would you mind going the extra mile and forward this information to them (the screenshot of their own changelog)? It would be appreciated.

Girl Genius - Adventures In Castle Heterodyne gets fully funded
5 Oct 2020 at 11:03 am UTC Likes: 1

I lost credibility in this dev, not only World to the West is outdated on GOG, I sent them an email to notify them of the incident and I've been given no reply whatsoever.

Unfortunately I don't think about buying this one until they update their previous game.

NVIDIA delays launch of GeForce RTX 3070 until end of October
5 Oct 2020 at 10:29 am UTC

29th October eh, sounds fishy considering AMD's RDNA 2 will be announced a day earlier.:whistle:

Debian Linux is planning a gaming-focused event online in November
4 Oct 2020 at 2:04 pm UTC

Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).

(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).
A bleeding edge Mesa would be appreciated in the Stable release, it's one the key areas which needs improving, Fortunately with a little tinkering it's possible to use latest Mesa on Stable without turning it into a frankendebian. Below is my Debian 9 system from 2017 running Mesa 20.1.9. Many of the required updated packages have been compiled from source.

My system has a lot of customization under the hood so an OS upgrade was not possible, had to find a way to upgrade Mesa without breaking everything else. Just a few months more until Debian 11 and I'll start clean again.


Check out the first gameplay from Amnesia: Rebirth
3 Oct 2020 at 11:22 am UTC Likes: 2

This will be a tough one for me to play through, I get scared shitless with scary games and no chance I'll play them during the day or with lights on. Must go for the full experience:tongue:

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now
30 Sep 2020 at 8:18 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: Avehicle7887If you can compile the kernel yourself, adding fsync is just 1 patch away: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg/blob/e95ea2a75d489bbd5eb402fcf402e9d42d2e1b5c/linux58-tkg/linux58-tkg-patches/0007-v5.8-fsync.patch [External Link]
How is the progress of accepting that upstream?
Last I read about it were those articles:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Syscall-User-Redirection-V4 [External Link]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Futex2-System-Call-RFC [External Link]

Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu
29 Sep 2020 at 1:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Up to 16GB LPDDR4x
A high end laptop with non upgradeable memory, if I was in the market for a laptop this certainly wouldn't be it.
AFAIK LPDDR is always soldered.
Unfortunately yes.

Which is why I find buying a laptop these days has become a bit of a challenge, because you either get a laptop with soldered ram + 1 expansion slot or worst case scenario even just 1 slot. 2 Slots are pretty common in gaming laptops but common ones 400~500 euros can be difficult.

Lenovo announce the sleek ThinkPad X1 Nano that ships with Ubuntu
29 Sep 2020 at 12:36 pm UTC Likes: 4

Up to 16GB LPDDR4x
A high end laptop with non upgradeable memory, if I was in the market for a laptop this certainly wouldn't be it.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now
29 Sep 2020 at 12:29 pm UTC

Quoting: scaineI thought ACO needed a specific kernel to work? Or was that fsync?
If you can compile the kernel yourself, adding fsync is just 1 patch away: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg/blob/e95ea2a75d489bbd5eb402fcf402e9d42d2e1b5c/linux58-tkg/linux58-tkg-patches/0007-v5.8-fsync.patch [External Link]

Play more classics including one from 1976 with a new ScummVM release
28 Sep 2020 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 5

I never used ScummVM since most games are not my type, Ultima 8 though that's hard one to pass up and I've played it to death on my old 486, so I'll give this a shot :grin:

EDIT:
Source code compiled fine, we have lift off!