Quoting: GrimfistSadly they do not support Vulkan, would really like to see a good Vulkan Benchmark for Linux.

Just ran it yesterday evening on 1080p extreme preset. My machine got only 1100-somthing score, whereas HexDSLs machine (nearly exact same hardware, same gpu, same driver) got over 1500. Only difference so far was, he uses Antergos and I still use Ubuntu 16.04. So maybe this was another coffin nail for Ubuntu.

I doubt it has anything to do with your choice of distro. Every benchmark I was able to find shows that Ubuntu and Antergos have essentially identical performance. No doubt your issue lies elsewhere.

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Quoting: EgonautWhile the performance is much better with the Vulkan renderer, it's still heavily single core bound. I have around 100-140 FPS in the actual game (Ultra @1080p) but when I'm driving around the FPS drops very often below 60 FPS. When the FPS drops, always one core is at 100% load and GPU load goes down.

I don't expect any magical fix for this, since it's still a port and there will be always down sides. But instead of trying to get the max FPS more upwards, maybe Feral could try to get the load more balanced on threads, if possible. If I could have stable 60 FPS I would be more happy as with 100+FPS and drops below 60 :)

Well, it is still beta, so I suspect there's more optimization to come.

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Quoting: KohriasI wish these companies would be sued for this. It still sounds like fraud to me.

I agree. Lack of accountability is the biggest problem with crowd funding.

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Am I the only one who is annoyed by and subsequently doesn't give a crap about these "teasers"? If you have something to announce then just announce it.

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I think once I get some more cash to spend, I'll be giving a bunch of it to Paradox. Crusader Kings II, Europa Universalis IV, Hearts of Iron IV, and Stellaris all have juicy new content that I want to buy!

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Question: Is there any interest in me doing a separate site to cover general Linux news?

In my case, no. There are already dozens of tech sites out there covering Linux news. Stick with your niche.

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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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