GTX 760 2GB

Hollow Point
OpenGL: 49
Vulkan: 86

Stronghold - Tyrant
OpenGL: 22
Vulkan: 32

Cutscene - Hope, Glory, and Dog is Dead
OpenGL: 49
Vulkan: 72

Cutscene - Landmover
OpenGL: 55
Vulkan: 80

Impressive. Most impressive.

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I'm not sure what you mean by "ultralight planes", but there is a selection of general aviation aircraft, including the legendary Cessna 172 which is small and easy to fly. But this isn't a video game, it's a flight simulator, so you have to know something about real aircraft operation to get the most out of it. To that end, X-Plane 11 does, for the first time in the series, include some basic flying tutorials.

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Holy crap, are you really seeing a double and TRIPLE performance increase? Wow! I might be able to turn on some of the advanced effects I had disabled.

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I bought into the beta as a Christmas gift to myself and have really enjoyed flying. The software was in pretty good shape even back in December, and it got better with each beta release. Anybody who is familiar with X-Plane knows that the sim will be continually improved over the next several years and that the "Point Zero" version is just the baseline. They're still planning to release one last patch for version 10 (the previous version of X-Plane), so they support their software like few other developers. Plus X-Plane is just a great piece of software engineering.

I fly using a CH Products Eclipse Yoke, and it's a great experience.

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: Mountain ManGoG has had a Linux version of Planescape Torment for some time. It's a Wine wrapper, but it works perfectly.

Couldn't you technically install it with GOG installer and then load the files into GemRB ?

Probably. I've never used GemRB.

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Quoting: finaldestI may just (for the very first time) request a steam refund.

Last I checked, I still have the game in my library, and I do enjoy playing it, but I may ask for a refund out of principle because dropping a previously supported platform is unconscionable. I can somewhat understand not releasing future expansion packs for Linux and Mac, but dropping support entirely? There's no excuse for that. The question is, will Valve give refunds? Because a lot of us are obviously well past the 2-hours/7-days time limit.

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Quoting: qptain NemoNice. I hope that means Steam.

Quoting: Mountain ManGoG has had a Linux version of Planescape Torment for some time. It's a Wine wrapper, but it works perfectly.

Your mileage may vary as they say, but I definitely wouldn't call that perfectly. It's been a while but when I tried it it was pretty bad with the game taking over the entire desktop preventing alt+tabbing or something along those lines. Playing P:T using GemRB is much, much better if you ask me (which you can still do using your GOG copy of course). But hopefully this upcoming release will make all this moot regardless.

Well, "it works perfectly" in the sense that it runs without any slowdowns, crashes, etc.

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Quoting: EikeI never even had heard about Planescape: Torment until 2016. I wonder if I should fetch it. Heard great things.

For role players, it's arguably the best cRPG ever made. I say "for role players" because it has some shortcomings as a video game, but it is an outstanding RPG.

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GoG has had a Linux version of Planescape Torment for some time. It's a Wine wrapper, but it works perfectly.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI think it'd be great if laptop / desktop manufacturers could go back to the good old days of not supplying an OS with the computer, so that we could put whatever we want onto it.

They stopped doing that because Microsoft used to charge manufacturers for a Windows license even if they shipped without Windows.

It ultimately doesn't matter because it's easy enough to wipe the drive and install whatever you want.

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