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Latest Comments by ronnoc
Open your wallets, there's some great Linux games on sale right now
19 Oct 2017 at 8:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

Worms Reloaded is definitely worth 4 of your local currency ;)

The RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs now has a shader cache in Mesa, plus more Mesa news
13 Oct 2017 at 8:00 pm UTC

Quoting: Brisse
Quoting: LinasRunning a risk of looking like a total noob, but how do you install RADV? Does it come with Mesa?
On Ubuntu you have to install the package 'mesa-vulkan-drivers'
Also risking sounding like a noob - but I did not know this. Why would someone *not* want to install RADV?

Road Redemption, the spiritual successor to Road Rash is now officially released
6 Oct 2017 at 5:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

Great game that's an absolute blast to play with the benefit of playing for 15 mins to take a quick break or go as deep as you wanna go. The procedurally-generated tracks are a real plus for the game as there's no memorization necessary - only carnage. Other's, yours, the environment, and the carnage likely and unintentionally leveled at your controller :woot:

Super Blood Hockey is now officially out for Linux
11 Sep 2017 at 2:02 am UTC

Excellent!! Picking this one up for sure.

Some thoughts on Axis Football 2017
6 Sep 2017 at 5:53 pm UTC

Quoting: melkemindThere are plenty of good features from Madden they could imitate. The annual release of a full-priced game is not one of them.
Is $19.99 US considered "full price"? How could it be when AAA sports titles are all $69.99? Far less than half-price seems like a lot less than full-price to me.

Some thoughts on Axis Football 2017
1 Sep 2017 at 5:14 pm UTC Likes: 1

Like the commenter above, I bought the game to play occasionally (when a full NFL player / uniform mod comes out), but mostly to support the developers. And it's not just Linux players doing so. A read of the discussions on Steam note that many players are doing the same on Win as well.

It's already a decent game for the price, and considering Madden costs $69.95US on any supported platform currently, I look at the purchase as a way to get a great American football game on Linux in the long run. Also, on the official website forums there is already a full NCAA college mod that nearly has every NCAA team included, for free! So in a way, it's like getting NCAA football on console, as well as Madden. For $20. Quite a deal IMHO. Also, mods are encouraged and I'd suspect many many more throughout the year, including real-world roster updates.

As for the author's comments about being early access as opposed to an annual purchase, I do not agree here. So many things change season to season in football that an annual 'release' seems to me more appropriate. Just my 2-cents.

City builder 'Hearthlands' updated with a small campaign mode and other nice fixes
19 Jul 2017 at 5:08 am UTC

Another update for this great sim a few days ago. Really enjoying it. If you like these types of games, this one's a must-have on Linux IMHO.

Steam just keeps growing according to a presentation Valve did recently, UI update is coming
5 Jul 2017 at 3:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: qptain Nemo
I hope they finally add the ability for a curator to edit the blurb of their recommendation, stupid to not have an edit function.
You can. You have to go to your group, the curator tab, then click on the recommendation there and then you'll have an option to edit it. And yeah, it's not the simplest most obvious way.
Bah! Removed that line, but yeah that's not very convenient I completely overlooked that, as I was on the "store" styled page for it. Quite a nuisance.
Isn't China a huge market for Linux as well though? IIRC they had their own distro that's pretty popular in that country.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
27 Mar 2017 at 7:27 pm UTC

AMD 8370 proc here running RadeonSI. I can't successfully run any of the above scripts, as I do not have that folder structure on my system (KDE Neon). My '/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/' folder is empty.