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Stellaris releasing today with day 1 Linux support, here’s my review, livestream later with key giveaway!
14 May 2016 at 2:16 am UTC

There is a 1440p and 4k scaling mod on the workshop now (be sure to get the menu fix also). You do need to edit the settings.txt to get it to work correctly. Better then nothing.

I have finally found a way to sort out screen tearing on Nvidia with Linux
13 May 2016 at 9:28 pm UTC

I tried to use Mutter on my 390x, causes the screen to wobble uncontrollably. Went back to Compton with GPU Acceleration, problem went away.

I have finally found a way to sort out screen tearing on Nvidia with Linux
13 May 2016 at 2:16 am UTC

I remember having a issue with tearing with my 980GTX when I had it, when enabling vsync it would murder the FPS. This will come in handy if I get a 1080 card later next month. Hopefully I can keep most games at 4k resolutions.

Honestly NVIDIA should really integrate all these functions into their control panel and not force people to fiddle around with scripts and config files...

Stellaris releasing today with day 1 Linux support, here’s my review, livestream later with key giveaway!
10 May 2016 at 12:10 am UTC

No 4k UI support? yikes, I haven't had the chance to try the game but that needs to be fixed.

OpenApoc, the open source engine for X-COM: Apocalypse shows impressive progress
9 May 2016 at 9:11 am UTC

Its a shame the game never got completed to its full extent, it was quite a novel idea back in the day having a whole city to protect and every building being a possible mission point, then the Alien city as the enemy.

I wasn't overly keen on the real-time combat as it became difficult to manage at times, I think it would have been better to have real-time UNTIL you encountered enemy then it went to turn based for easier management.

Feral Interactive officially confirm F1 2015 is coming to Linux
8 May 2016 at 8:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Feral should port Skyrim then/or Fallout4... just saying.

Stellaris preview on Linux, now available to watch on our Youtube
7 May 2016 at 5:45 am UTC

Just bought this on greenmangaming, they have a %25 off coupon "SPACE25", I got the NOVA edition.

Check out this new Shadow Warrior 2 gameplay video, coming to Linux & SteamOS
30 Apr 2016 at 3:31 am UTC

If you have AMD and want good performance and 4k capabilities then Vulkan will pretty much be the only way to obtain it for future games under Linux.

To put in perspective the real world performance of a AMD R9 390x and a older but nice looking game called Warthunder, with AMDGPU drivers (this is their main ones) I get 20-30fps on low-medium settings at 3840x2160 resolution, It also fails to render some effects like grass. NOW when I had my GTX980 I got 55-80fps on HIGH-MAX graphics settings with grass no problems at 4k! (that's like 9months ago now).

Benchmarks have shown that AMD cards can keep up with NVIDIA cards when it comes to Vulkan performance (requires yet to be fully release AMDGPU-PRO driver), so unless AMD does some MAJOR changes to their OpenGL driver framework then I doubt even their 22-24TeraFlop Polaris cards will do well with OpenGL for many games I play (which all seem to not work well with AMD drivers) -TO LIST A FEW-> Ark/ARMA3/Warthunder/ShadowOfM

If your interested in running finely optimized benchmarks like OpenArena/Tesseract/Xonotic/GPUTest then the AMDGPU drivers will do reasonably well.

PS. Shadow Warrior 1 runs OK at 4k with AMD hardware, hopefully SW2 is also just as good but I won't hold my breath!

Testing The Talos Principle OpenGL vs Vulkan again, now that Valve have fixed the Steam Overlay
20 Apr 2016 at 9:49 am UTC

Why is this site so anti AMD? I find that almost no1 mentions performance numbers with AMD cards here? They do have a Vulkan driver out, it works only on Kernel4.2 thought.

Dambuster reconfirm Linux is planned for Homefront: The Revolution, after Windows
15 Apr 2016 at 4:51 am UTC

Really I don't mind these games coming to Linux, be nice if COD and other such games came to Linux also (officially) because the more people we get using Linux the more effort will go into porting games over and making it a more enjoyable platform.

Linux still gets hugely trashed today for not having enough users to be viable, being way too hard to use etc etc....