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Latest Comments by Avehicle7887
Are you ready for some more Tyranny? Something is being teased for tomorrow
12 Jun 2017 at 4:38 pm UTC

This is the game I vowed to never buy thanks to GOG's lack of upgrade paths, which are present on Steam.

Wine 2.10 released, nothing massive this time around
12 Jun 2017 at 11:43 am UTC

Quoting: coesetaPath of Exile sounds good. Thought about playing it again just yesterday :)

Hope they optimize gw2 again which is a pain since 2.2 staging.
2.0 staging is by far the best for GW2, anything past that is a massive performance drop. Best thing to do is use 2.0 for GW2 and newer versions for everything else.

As for PoE, the fix they mention has been fixed many versions ago, I've been playing it at 1920x1080 since 1.9 Wine series. :-)

GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support
31 May 2017 at 6:19 am UTC

Quoting: Megazell
Quoting: Avehicle7887
Quoting: iplaygameswearingatuxCould anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
I wrote a slightly detailed guide how to make them work in MAME, you can find the link here [External Link] (links to gog.com forums)
That guides seems really complicated. I have the HB versions and I just dump the neogeo.zip and the game.zips and they work as is. Were GOG versions altered?
Can you please upload a screenshot of what's inside the neogeo.zip in the HB version? If they're altered I wouldn't as I don't own the HB version.

GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support
31 May 2017 at 12:14 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: iplaygameswearingatuxCould anyone please confirm whether the games are playable in MAME?
I wrote a slightly detailed guide how to make them work in MAME, you can find the link here [External Link] (links to gog.com forums)

GOG adds a bunch of NEO GEO classics, some have Linux support
30 May 2017 at 9:17 pm UTC Likes: 5

It is worth adding that despite there's no Linux icon, the Metal Slug games also come with Mac and Linux installers.

There's a small note in each of the Metal Slug game pages:

"Please note: macOS and Linux versions are provided as unsupported bonus content."

I can only guess unsupported means that if these versions don't work, support may not be able to help you if you run into a problem. For the record I bought all 4 and tested them and besides the well known stuttering from the DotEmu port, the games run fine and are perfectly playable on Linux.

Stardock CEO asking to see interest in Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation on Linux with Vulkan
27 May 2017 at 10:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Should this happen, I hope they will provide it to GOG. This bad trend of not providing Linux ports to GOG has to stop (Looking at you Deep Silver).

Reus finally updated for Linux bringing it out of Beta, now properly supported
21 May 2017 at 6:44 pm UTC

It's been so long that this game has been released that I forgot there was going to be a Linux version. Better late than never, which means I will buy it if released on GOG, I'm glad they finally got around to finish it.

Seems the Linux version of Cossacks 3 is not a myth, as I now have access
18 May 2017 at 6:20 am UTC

Quoting: UnixOutlawI've been hanging out for this for like forever... Original Cossacks, and Napoleonic Wars were the only reason I had Wine a few desktops ago (Ubuntu 14.04, 15.04 and elementary freya and Ubuntu 15.10)... Best RTS ever! Wine recently broke a 16.04 install (dependency hell) so I gave up... To play this Natively would be a dream come true!
You got me curious, which of the 2 Ubuntu 16.04 broke?

AMD Ryzen 9 'Threadripper' announced with up to 16 cores
17 May 2017 at 11:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

With the i9 incoming, it looks like the battle for CPU supremacy will shift on who can pack the most cores in 1 die. Over the years I have seen very little improvements in Single core performance since Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen i-Series). I think AMD are very much on balance with price/performance, got no regrets with my 1700X, those 8 cores are truly a multitasking boon.

Serious Sam Fusion 2017 now has benchmark modes and more, here's some quick tests
17 May 2017 at 7:06 pm UTC Likes: 5

I wish Croteam would just release their games on GOG already, this is the kind of company I wish to support but can't due to DRM. Other than that I can only say, rock on Vulkan, these graphs are simply mind blowing and the API is great for low spec hardware.