I put this game on hold until a performance patch was released. Lo and behold, a 500+ MB update for Tomb Raider today! Hopefully now big, open levels won't drop below ~25 fps. And hopefully TressFX hair effect doesn't turn into blocky Lego at certain camera angles.

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Quoting: LinasEven if it powerful enough to run games, what exactly could you run on it? A few open-source games maybe. Gaming on ARM CPU on Linux is so niche that it's not even quantifiable. A low power i386 CPU would have made this way more useful.

There are plenty of made-for-ARM games out there though I'm not sure the difficulty involved or the likelyhood of any of those getting ported to true Linux. I agree with you that an x86 would have been better but it's a shame that gaming in general is so tied to what is essentially the "Microsoft Windows of the hardware world". I wish x86 wasn't so patent encumbered. I am also keeping a very close eye on RISC-V.

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Ew, flash player. Is there another place we can see your work?

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Everyone is so focused on the literal planet that we've forgotten to consider the possibility that it could mean God of War.

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Quoting: SnowdrakeWell, the ps4 is basically a PC (and don't forget that ps4's operating system, "Orbis OS", is a modified BSD) so running any modern pc operating system shouldn't be a problem. (I believe, the trickiest part should be installing and getting the boot loader to actually work)

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I understand where you're coming from and why you say that, sure it employs x86 and whatnot, but unless something follows the IBM compatible open PC architecture, it is *not* basically a PC.

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Quoting: SamsaiThe code is open so just start porting it to Vulkan. :P

You're going to have to start by porting Irrlicht [External Link] to Vulkan.

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I follow Minetest development fairly closely and it is frustrating to watch a project that is clearly a Minecraft clone be inhibited by developers who want very badly for it "not to be like Minecraft". So what we're left with is a husk game that has no goals or challenges, and leaves content out in order to appease a group who can never agree on a clear direction for the project. Luckily, they are talented and built a robust Lua API so there are plenty of mods which add things most of us would normally expect from a Minecraft clone. For the uninitiated, Minetest by default does not have mobs, farming/hunger or circuitry(redstone).

But of course, it also has things by default that Minecraft doesn't such as locked chests and much larger world height/depth so don't let me dissuade you from trying it out.

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Wasn't there a project in the works that would essentially act as a translation layer for Vulkan API --> Metal API? Back when Vulkan was released I remember somebody talking about this.

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Quoting: KimyrielleYeah, absolutely this. Monopolies are bad. But Linux users already know that! :D

Even if we have a healthy marketplace with competition between AMD/Nvidia or between Intel/AMD for CPU it's still only two. A duopoly! And don't point to VIA or Matrox, there are only two companies competing in either CPU and GPU which produce respectable, high performance parts worthy of desktop + gaming. Patents and licensing deals have removed freedom and choice from the x86 ecosystem and we're all worse off because of it.

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Quoting: chrisqWhy are there so many articles about this unreleased game?
It looks truly medicore, I don't get why it is getting all this attention here.

That is how I felt about The Original Divine Sin or whatever it's called. There were so many articles posted about it that I eventually came to despise that game. It kept getting delayed I think, causing the excess of articles.

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