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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Minecraft 1.5 pre release is out!
7 Mar 2013 at 7:52 pm UTC

I will no doubt dabble in it again at some point in the future, it was pretty good to kill time on :D

Counter Strike: Condition Zero officially released for Linux, more on the way!
7 Mar 2013 at 11:28 am UTC

I agree my most wanted title is probably CS:GO to have a real this generation FPS on Linux that isn't TF2, then DOTA2 is next on my personal list.

Torment: Tides of Numenera announced on Kickstarter
6 Mar 2013 at 6:52 pm UTC

It's sad as I used to love Chris Taylor when he worked on Total Annihilation & Supreme Commander 1, when it go to Supreme Commander 2 I lost a lot of love for him.

Thankfully we have uber and Planetary Annihilation coming this year :)

Torment: Tides of Numenera announced on Kickstarter
6 Mar 2013 at 6:40 pm UTC

Holy crap Linux is really getting some excellent games!

Strike Suit Zero is still on it's way to Linux!
6 Mar 2013 at 2:52 pm UTC

Yeah Patch 3 that adds variable difficulties and cockpit views and more, very cool!

Steams February stats are out, Linux rises again to over 2%
4 Mar 2013 at 7:06 pm UTC

Quoting: Anonymousstill not many games not available on linux. Number might increase as the list grows.
Games attract people but games don't come with out the people...

Jonathan Blow on Linux users buying games and The Witness
2 Mar 2013 at 4:08 pm UTC

This annoyed me more now since I found out, Braid has been a top 10 selling app in the Ubuntu Software Centre for 16 consecutive months now yet he still says this?

Steams February stats are out, Linux rises again to over 2%
2 Mar 2013 at 11:41 am UTC

Quoting: s_dWorld domination is great and all, but honestly, I'll be satisfied just being taken seriously... let's hope that's where this is all going
Indeed I hope the same at least Valve is taking us seriously!

ANOMALY 2 announced with Linux support!
28 Feb 2013 at 6:22 pm UTC

Quoting: Dis@liamdawe Which games are those exactly? I have 18 games installed on steam alone and the only one that fails to run is Anomaly:Warzone Earth . In any case i'd expect the devs to at least reach out to AMD and not a we don't know how to fix it reply. Additionally the game also fails to start on Intel drivers. When you keep in mind that the game actually runs on mobile phones that is not ok imo. 

In any case, while Catalyst still has quite a bit of catching up to do compared to Nvidia it is no longer the unusable mess it was a couple of years ago
I used to be a catalyst user for many years and only changed in the last 2 ish months to Nvidia just FYI.

For one thing one of the recent AMD beta update drivers couldn't even load Steam at one point. They never seem to release change logs when they do a Linux drivers anymore (What are they hiding?!).

I don't have a list to hand of games that don't work or worked poorly since I am now an Nvidia user and a happy one too, things could have changed since I last used AMD but even 2~ months ago it wasn't great.

ANOMALY 2 announced with Linux support!
28 Feb 2013 at 3:57 pm UTC

Quoting: avarisclariI won't be buying it. I have good reason. They have terrible CS. http://steamcommunity.com/app/91200/discussions/0/864959088378262156/#p2 [External Link]
What I got from reading all of this is not bad developers but bad AMD catalyst drivers - AMD drivers cause issues for lots of games I see it all the time.

The admin of the official forum stated they are working to sort the bug but don't want to give an eta to make people annoyed if they miss it - fair enough.