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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Indivisible, the action RPG platformer from the creator of Skullgirls is out now
8 Oct 2019 at 4:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TobiSGDI don't get it. The trailer looks like turn-based combat, the Steam page says real-time combat. Liam, please enlighten me!
Kinda blurrs the lines.

The Blender team have secured even more funding, this time from NVIDIA
8 Oct 2019 at 9:33 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: titiAnd I hope all this money does not put pressure on them so that we get new features in windows only one day :S:
I would be surprised, given how Blender is used on Linux in big productions. Was big news years ago. Disney, Pixar and so on all use it.

The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
8 Oct 2019 at 8:55 am UTC

Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

OpenGL:
vsync on: 40 FPS
vsync off: 50 FPS

Vulkan:
vsync on: 60 FPS (monitor max Hz)
vsync off: 85 FPS

Good job Fun Pumps! :D
Yeah, it works now and doesn't seem pink. For me though, the game repeatedly sucks all my RAM away on the first few loads and locks my PC up. Experimental for a reason eh.

Co-op puzzle game We Were Here Together launching on October 10th (updated)
8 Oct 2019 at 8:40 am UTC

Update: A few days before release Linux was removed from Steam. On their Discord, they said it was a mix of "technical difficulties" and "the previous entries didn't do well enough on Linux". A real shame.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has a big update available with major Linux issues (updated)
7 Oct 2019 at 10:32 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: subSorry, but if we have any self respect, a game that only works on GPUs by one company should be boycotted these days. (In this case after years!)

On Windows nobody would give the developer a pass on that, right?
They're bound by the proprietary middleware Coherent UI and they have no real control over it. They've been trying to get it working for some time. They didn't just choose to not support AMD, they can't just flick a "support AMD GPU" switch.

Planetary Annihilation: TITANS has a big update available with major Linux issues (updated)
7 Oct 2019 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 3

Update: They have reverted the Linux version to use Coherent UI 2.5.9.3. This now at least enables it to run with NVIDIA as good as normal. Nice to see a quick fix. Hopefully the next time it will get a little more testing.

The Swords of Ditto is a much better and more interesting game with Mormo's Curse
7 Oct 2019 at 7:12 pm UTC

Quoting: bacattaI got it in the last humble bundle and can't run it natively. Only with Proton, and i'm not alone: https://steamcommunity.com/app/619780/discussions/0/1628538005520458693/ [External Link]
Interesting. Does the libsteam_api.so exist in the game's folder anywhere?

Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news
7 Oct 2019 at 3:16 pm UTC

Quoting: Alm888
Will you be trying it out?
Will I?
Well, I am not even allowed to (remember, only US and some selected few countries are elegible).
As I understand it, next year they will be expanding the regions so you might eventually I guess.

Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news
7 Oct 2019 at 3:03 pm UTC

Quoting: ShabbyX
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: ShabbyXIronically, the disadvantage of Linux with Stadia is that chrome doesn't support hardware acceleration in video decoding, so Linux will have a (slightly) higher latency than windows...
What's the latest on this, I'm a bit out of touch since I use Firefox.
The latest is what I just said?
*sigh* let me be a lot more specific then: What is the latest on getting the code accepted into Chromium/Chrome to enable it the same as it is on Windows?

Alen Ladavac, co-founder of Croteam has left to join the Google Stadia team, plus other Stadia news
7 Oct 2019 at 2:28 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ShabbyXIronically, the disadvantage of Linux with Stadia is that chrome doesn't support hardware acceleration in video decoding, so Linux will have a (slightly) higher latency than windows...
What's the latest on this, I'm a bit out of touch since I use Firefox.