Quoting: libgradev@edddeduck_feral Don't suppose any of the issues linked here could be causing the 'super bright lights and hair' rendering issues I'm seeing with Mesa git? Happens in (at least) Deus Ex and Mad Max... In Deus Ex, with high profile, the whole main menu background is white and, regardless of profile, hair rendering is broken (white).

I built it again today and it's still happening.

Had a good dig around on the Bug Tracker but the only similar issue I found was affecting Hitman.

Will report, just thought I'd mention it here in case anyone else had seen it.

Deux Ex white menu problem is when you activate a light effect (Volumetric Lightning I guess). It get activated in any settings above minimum. If you set the graphics in ultra but disable the said effect, the white go away, but the hair problem persist. I'm using a RX470 with Padoka's bleeding edge PPA, BTW.

Another one is the Tress FX hair in Tomb Raider, when you activate it and restart the game, Lara's hair is missing. Witch is shame, because it was working very well right before the bug, with little performance degradation.

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What is the model of your laptop? A lot of recent AMD mobile APUs were restricted to only 15W setups and tiny batteries, witch didn't help at all to compete with Intel equipped models.

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The best parts for me are that you finally can refuel in more than one spot in big gas stations, the weight stations gizmo and that now you can lock the differential. How many times I got to call assistance while trying to go off road to explore some cracks in the invisible road walls...

Quoting: MikeLove this game! And it actually runs better on Linux than on Windows for me.

I envy you. That is not my experience at all. I got about half the fps I have in Windows DX9 mode.

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I liked the trailer, but I have got my share of burns for buying a game because of a nice trailer. Remember MegaSphere? I saw that here in GOL, it have a striking launch trailer too, bought the game and the thing is yet to be finished, with mediocre gamepad support.

Don't get me wrong, I want this game to succeed, but after the Might Nº 9 fiasco and a bunch of early access games that were never finished, I will only pay for one of these after a nice review of the 1.0 version.

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I hope they have better controls than the Trials series. Although good, they are to much difficult to the point of being frustrating.

Lets hope too the gamepad support to be top notch. This is not the type of game you want to try your luck with a keyboard.

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Overall Linux distros hardware support is pretty good these days, but is not perfect. I have seen some laptops with unsupported hardware, like network devices or function keys on the keyboard. Those can be a bitch to make work, or not work at all because of lack of drivers.

Bleeding edge models of laptops can be problematic too. Ask anyone who bought the first Dell XPS 13, for example. It didn't work 100% in the first few months. I believe even Michael at Phoronix did have problems when he bought some famous new laptop a few years ago.

Enterprise models from Lenovo and Dell tend to work fine down the road, first, because they do sell some models with Linux themselves, second, a lot of hardware developers use then as personal machines.

The good thing about companies like System 76 is that you can buy anything from then with closed eyes, knowing everything will work out of the box from day one, something you can't say about vendors without official Linux support.

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For those using Ubuntu and its derivatives, Padoka's PPA for Mesa stable releases is available:

https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa [External Link]

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I envy you, because I'm not a fan of the Playstation stile position os the analog stick on the Steam Controller.

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Quoting: no_information_hereI still have no idea what the left touchpad on the Steam controller is actually any good for.

I use it very little too. But I heard some people saying they managed to ditch the analog stick and use the two touchpads exclusively.

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Quoting: MajGuanoSurround sound works. 5.1 only. The channels are correctly mapped. Good job Aspyr!

I wish more games do that right too.

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