Ignore a Paradox game for a few months, and when you come back to it, it's like you're getting a whole new game.

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Oh well, I guess the doubling and tripling in performance was too good to be true. Still, some improvement is better than no improvement. I'm just looking forward to the day when developers start using Vulkan from beginning to end so that we don't see Linux gaming performance lagging significantly behind Windows.

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Quoting: lucinosMany things I do not like on Civ5 on single player (oversimplifying turns) and make me nostalgic for older civss...

I've been playing the Civ series since Alpha Centauri, and I, personally, am not seeing any "oversimplification" of the mechanics. What I have seen is the reduction or elimination of tedious busy work -- for instance, I love the new worker mechanic in Civ 6. It seems to me you're now only asked to make the meaningful decisions rather than every decision, no matter how trivial it might be. In my opinion, this makes the game far more enjoyable.

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Quoting: TrumpDid they ever make this perform decently on AMD cards? That is the only thing holding me back from buying it.

It barely performs decently on Nvidia cards, and worryingly, the Steam forums are reporting that the spring update has decreased performance on Windows, so I don't know what that will mean for Linux.

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Train Fever was a mess from day one and was never entirely fixed even on Windows. I didn't have any confidence the developer would do any better on Transport Fever seeing how they were using the same engine.

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Any word on Vulkan support?

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Quoting: saildataAs noted before, this is likely one of the most demanding "game like" applications on Linux. I say "game like" because obviously running something like make -j8 to compile the kernel is right at 100% CPU while keras (Python library for deep learning) is extremely GPU heavy. But for stuff that's discussed on this site - it's one of the most demanding ^_^

Indeed. If you have a top-of-the-line PC and want to push it to its limits, this is the software for you.

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As someone pointed out on reddit, are we sure there's not a bug that is affecting both OpenGL and Vulkan to the same degree?

But anyway, it's a beta build, so the kinks will undoubtedly be ironed out as development moves forward.

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI had one of the older versions before Steam was a thing, never could get past crashing on take-off so I'll probably give this a miss & NPC passengers around the world heave a sigh of relief.

Do you mean a program crash, or you would crash the airplane?

If it's the latter, I'll say again, X-Plane is not an arcade game, it is a flight simulator intended for real-world pilots and flight simulator enthusiasts who enjoy a realistic experience. The software now includes some basic tutorials for "newbies", but my advice has always been that the real X-Plane manual is a pilot training handbook and operating handbook specific to the aircraft you want to fly. Basically, you're going to have to spend some time learning to fly a real airplane in order to get the most out of X-Plane.

Definitely plane crash not program crash, that's why I won't be buying this one, I spent hours & hours poring over the manual, familiarising myself with the controls only to crash the plane, so I'm not going to be a pilot.

I can't imagine why you had so much trouble. The Cessna 172 is so easy to fly that it practically takes off by itself. You ought to at least give the X-Plane 11 demo a look.

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Maybe Cities: Skylines will finally get decent performance. :dizzy:

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