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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
A Story About My Uncle looks like it might finally arrive on Linux soon
2 May 2017 at 12:41 pm UTC

Quoting: AryvandaarThis looks interesting. Have you played it?
Nope, as it's not on Linux yet.

Dota 2 has massive changes to matchmaking that should give better games
1 May 2017 at 8:52 pm UTC Likes: 1

Oh wow, you guys are still going? :D *ducks for cover*

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues has another major update for RPG fans
1 May 2017 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: razing32I've been following this for a while but have not seen positive notes on the steam reviews.
Even from people playing quite a bit.

Have you played this Liam ?
Do you plan to do an in-depth review ?
I gave it some recent impressions here. Likely waiting a while before doing so again to see how it changes.

Mech combat game Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps is now in Beta for Linux, very promising
1 May 2017 at 1:19 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Beta VersionDoes/will it have a single-player story mode?
Seems so, yes. Currently it has two single player battles to try out.

Mesa 17.0.5 is available now with plenty of fixes
1 May 2017 at 10:47 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickNot sure howto get this on Manjaro, think I just have to wait a few days until someone tests it and pushes it as update.
Since Manjaro is a rolling distro, it will come in the form of regular updates.

Dawn of War III looks like it might come to Linux
30 Apr 2017 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SpiteSo many "if it comes out it's insta buy" comments and they are worrisome to me. I mean I understand that you guys want to support linux as a gaming platform and developers who port their games to it but this kind of mindset is a little stupid. I mean, that's how preorder culture came to be.

We should not buy crap games or crap ports just because devs decided to release on linux. I'm not saying that it will be either of these 2 things, I just wanted to put it out there
What on earth are you on about. The pre-order mindset and buying it if it comes to Linux are two entirely different things. One is buying something that doesn't exist, the other is people specifically waiting to buy it and waiting for it on their choice platform.

Mesa 17.1 will use a set 1GB size for the shader cache
28 Apr 2017 at 7:22 pm UTC

Quoting: opera
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: operaNot sure if GOL really needs to cover that kind of low level implementation details of graphics drivers.
I agree that the scope of driver functions is very interesting but the actual size of particular driver cache is a little too deep from my point of view.
We have covered stuff like this plenty of times in the past and you're the first to make a complaint about it. Usually, people appreciate it.
May be read my post again. That was not my point.
I was complaining about a news that covers a low level implementation detail that concerns more a developer. As a gamer it has no big impact whether the cache size is a relative value of 10%, 5% or an absolut value of 1 gb. It's just a small configuration issue. It works either way.
On the other hand I appreciate news about Mesa implementing new features (like the news in the past) because these increase an actual feature set which has a much higher impact.
Like I said, we have covered details like this plenty of times in the past.

I understand what you're saying, but GOL has a big reach, currently LifeOnLinux (or "LOL) does not, so for now it's still suited for here.

Mesa 17.1 will use a set 1GB size for the shader cache
28 Apr 2017 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: operaNot sure if GOL really needs to cover that kind of low level implementation details of graphics drivers.
I agree that the scope of driver functions is very interesting but the actual size of particular driver cache is a little too deep from my point of view.
We have covered stuff like this plenty of times in the past and you're the first to make a complaint about it. Usually, people appreciate it.

OpenRA has a new release with HiDPI font rendering, more Dune 2000 missions and more
25 Apr 2017 at 5:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: heidi.wengerThis and OpenLara are great, didn't know of neither before
And that's why I'm here :)