Someone should write an open-source engine for warcraft 1 and 2!

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Quoting: NezchanProbably going to hold off until tomorrow before I get anything, the client's sluggish as hell right now.

But I'm thinking Arcanum, which is at a temptingly low price of less than CDN $2, and maybe Psychroma, which looks intriguing.

I see Northard, which I was interested in a while ago, is super cheap but I'm also seeing a lot of recent bad reviews, concentrating on bugs and the devs focusing on multiplayer and making paid tribes instead. Lots of people saying that's wrecking the balance. I'm interested in a single player experience, so it's not looking good.

I played Northgard two years ago (single player), it's really fun. The campaign is not very long, but the "conquest" game mode has a lot of replay value. There are a good number of clans in the base game already that would let you play conquests for a long time. I did end up buying 2 or 3 extra clans on discount, just to get more conquests out of them!

Don't what exactly might have happened these days, but the complaints of "devs make paid clans" and "balance" had been there back then too, didn't stop me from sinking many hours in the game.

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Quoting: jordicomaWhat does this mean for glsl? Is khronos abandoning it?
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Depending on what you mean by abandon, yes and no.

GLSL hasn't been evolving for many years already, Vulkan is satisfied with SPIR-V no matter the source. glslang (the reference compiler) _is_ being maintained though.

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: The ArticleI imagine most of you gaming are likely at least on the 560 series

That being said, I'm surprised that GOL does not collect the driver version along with the rest of its user statistics ...

Probably because that changes too frequently, I for one am not going to remember to check every update and come update my stats here.

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Must definitely be AI, that's "revolutionary" these days

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Anyone knows how to have a convenient get-the-latest-nvidia-driver setup on Debian? On Ubuntu, they had something in the settings to choose the latest driver. In Debian, the nvidia driver is always waaay behind.

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I made the mistake of starting to play this game a few months ago, it's damn good and damn gorgeous, and freaking scary entering every new biome.

Now I entered Ashland just last week, and it looks like I'll be done before the last biome is out. How can I survive the wait? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualWhat is ownership?

You don't know? Please read the manual!

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Quoting: robvvand the only issue I've had is with GPU accelerated rendering, which seems to be a bit unstable.

This is a gross understatement. In my experience, Steam is literally the only app on Linux that may cause a total desktop freeze (no matter on which DE, X.org or Wayland) after which I can do nothing but hard reboot my PC. The only workaround to it is disabling hardware acceleration in Steam.

Also, how about the fact that Steam context menu contents are 95% of the time unclickable. This is an issue since the big ui redesign update and it still hasn't been fixed after more than a year or two. You have to click sometimes dozens of times until game properties finally opens for example.

Oh, and also how Steam was already slow to launch on Linux and since the big ui update it's even slower. And many more annoyances..

I mean don't get me wrong, I have endless grattitude towards Valve for everything they've put into Linux, but you honestly have to admit that when it comes to the Steam client itself on Linux, it's a POS and the forever unfixed issues with it makes them look lazy.

Steam has an option to remove the fancy animations IIRC, so you can speed it up. Maybe without that you also wouldn't have a problem with GPU acceleration, so even more speed up with it.

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Quoting: pbWhich one do you think it is?
1. Corporate cost-cutting
2. Preparing for a future antitrust (look, we're so open!)
3. Actually caring about open standards

It's actually option 4. HLSL is not popular anymore, it's a desparate act to try and save it.

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