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Latest Comments by Liam Dawe
Some small site updates tonight
26 Mar 2017 at 9:46 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Psycic101Great feature. Any chance you can alphabetise the list grouped by time zone so it's easier to find the correct city?
Done. It was sorted by the UTC offset, but I agree sorting by name is better for normal people to find where they are :)

Join us for the Portal 2 co-op livestream tonight at 20:30 UTC
25 Mar 2017 at 8:44 pm UTC

Portal 2 co-op is broken AGAIN, so we are moving to Day of Infamy.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Mar 2017 at 8:03 pm UTC

Update: I've upped the monitor picker to 10, I'm a little curious if people really use anything more than 3 or 4 on the main machine.

Also, actually noted on the page it is for your main machine.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Mar 2017 at 6:12 pm UTC

Quoting: fagnerlnI changed my distro/DE from Ubuntu/Unity to Mint/MATE, but for some reason in this article still showing my old distro and my new DE (Ubuntu/MATE)
Are you 100% sure, as that should be 100% impossible. They get the data from the exact same source.

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
23 Mar 2017 at 10:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: AlveKattDirt rally is 60% off on Bundlestars. I might get it, because it makes it affordable.

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/dirt-rally-game [External Link]
Quoting: liamdaweThere was a comment some time ago that Bundle Stars only had Windows keys for Feral's games, so don't buy theirs, all others should be fair game.
The store page claims it has Linux support, is that an outright lie?
The choice is ultimately yours, personally though, I wouldn't buy a Feral game from there since last we heard directly from Feral is that Bundle Stars keys won't let them get paid. Again though, that's only for Feral games and the final choice is yours.

Day of Infamy, the WWII FPS has been fully released and is officially available for Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 10:21 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: KuJoNice! Does it support cross-platform-multiplayer?
Oh yes! :)

Kona, an eerie narrative-driven adventure game is now out on Linux, it's a bit buggy
23 Mar 2017 at 9:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

The developers are aware of the bug and will be looking to fix it, so then I might be able to put up some real thoughts on it...

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 3

Seems reddit [External Link] doesn't agree with me on this article.

Note to self: Don't read reddit.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 12:47 pm UTC

Quoting: FredOThat is good information, thanks. I ran some benchmarks across Hitman, Deus Ex, Talos Priciple and CoH2 and saw some extra FPS in all of them with "performance" set. Particularly CoH2 took a good boost, which I'm happy about because I always thought there was fat bottleneck on my system with that game.
Good to hear it helped.

Be sure to read up on the different settings for sure though, as stated mine are only examples.
Quoting: buenaventura
Quoting: EikeIt's worth a try. I had to do it - strange enough - for Limbo to work in the correct speed. :)
How silly, it does actually reduce stuttering in Shadow Tactics, making it quite playable. When zooming out too much it is still laggy though, but I do not think I am just imagining an improvement. Will try disabling turbo as well, why not.
Glad to hear it helped as well :)