The results in Phoronix are totally encouraging on the Linux side. Vega performance compared to Nvidia is better than on Windows. I'm probably getting one Vega 56 in a couple of months, once the third party coolers are available. It will be THE card to get considering price, power consumption and performance on Linux.

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I hope they keep this behavior for SteamOS, because I believe it can cause problems on a conventional distro were users are costumed in changing video drivers all the time.

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A laptop with that kind of hardware is as good as his cooling capacity. Too bad they didn't have more photos of the back of the unity or the internals.
Since this must be a OEM part, it must not have to be too hard to find a review of a Windows machine from another vendor.

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It can be just coincidence...

https://www.google.com.br/maps/@51.4461962,-0.1049399,3a,42.1y,275.77h,91.72t/data= [External Link]!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sQyFqbwv0o9P96VpLpQuygQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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From a security point of view, I don't like that approach, using external resources (outside of your network) to play the game.

But this is a thing that I miss in certain types of modern games, using your phone as a asset. Some Dead Rising game make use of your phone. Your character in the game receives a call and you answer it with you physical phone, I find that pretty cool. At a time in the game you get screwed and you receive a sarcastic call from the perpetrator. That must be at the same time cool and infuriating.

I can imagine a ton of other ways to make a smartphone a special controller/tool for games, too bad so little developers put some effort on it.

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Quoting: GuestI've played tomb raider and shadow of mordor with a controller for like 3-4 hours each but it was an unpleasant experience. But when I've switched back to kb+m the games became so easy that I needed to increase the difficulty. I'm playing hollow knight, dreamfall chapters and life is strange and some platformers with a controller and they feel ok. Everything else is terrible. However, the trackpad seems promising but I'm not sure about it and I don't want more unused hardware around :P

Actually, it was a third person view game (Batman:AA) that made me buy a Xbox 360 controller, seven years ago. When escaping from Killer Crock on the sewers, the game changed the view to a angle that made impossible to control with a keyboard, using the A and S keys to run at a diagonal angle, that did not align with the path. I keep dying all the time, so I bought a controller and things became much more easy.

Latter, when doing the challenges, trying to beat 20 to 30 henchmen, it was a million times easier to do the combos in a controller than with the mouse/keyboard.

Today, I only use the mouse when things become a lot hairier in a FPS, otherwise is controller only. I became so good using it after a few months, that playing L4D2 in the Death's Door mutation (if you hit the floor you die, no medkits are available) became a reality. And if you played it, you now how hardcore it is.

The only friend I have that did not liked the SC, was the one that keep trying using the right touchpad like a analog stick. I keep telling him to use it like a trackball, then he got mad and give it up. Latter, he tried it again and became less enraged by taking my advice, but still thought that it takes too much effort to be proficient in one.

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Quoting: GuestAnyone playing tw:warhammer, hollow knight, tomb raider etc. with it? What is your experience? Is it easier to set the vertical and horizontal camera angle with it compared to an xbox-like controller? I'd problems with controllers at 3rd person action games and I'm interested if the sc could solve that.

I find it great for Tomb Raider like games. But I warn you: the first five minutes using it will be very confusing and uncomfortable. Just relax and be patient. After you are over the steep learning curve (a few days to a week), you will find it a nice tool for the job of playing certain types of games.

And if you find yourself feeling handicapped in some games for using it, remember that the PC platform allows you to use just what you like for whatever game you are playing, a luxury not available on the consoles.

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I bought it after this and it's fun, but the return to the start of the levels is not. The developers lost a opportunity here to make a insanely fun game because of that.

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Hum, looks like Feral are getting sloppy. It was removed from the cover of this magazine:

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Ah, now I remembered Search and Rescue, that had a Linux version but later became Windows only. It was a non violent game, were you needed to rescue people under difficult conditions. Too bad that style of game never became mainstream.

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