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Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York for Linux is now uncertain
12 Dec 2019 at 11:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Baemir
Quoting: Lord_PhoenixI don't know, to be honest, this is barely a mobile game, so will anyone miss it if it won't make it to the platform?
That's one way to look at it. The way I see it, it's worrying that even some Visual Novels refuse to make Linux ports now. These are the simplest games you can make, in technical terms. And yet here we are. It seems our community is seen as so tiny and irrelevant that we're not deserving of even the slightest effort from the devs.
Macs don't get a port either. And their market share is substantially higher.

Cyberpunk side-scrolling stealth shooter Contract Work arrives on Linux this month
13 Nov 2019 at 12:48 pm UTC

Planned release date June 2013.

I noticed you have a pretty aggressive release date. Can you actually finish the game by then?

Yes! Most of the heavy technology work is already done, and HTML5/Impact makes updating quick and easy. In addition, after Contract Work goes live I can easily add additional content and features. I'm very confident that Contract Work will be available for everyone to play starting June 2013.
He's only 6 1/2 years late...

The Linux port of Shadow of Mordor from Feral Interactive has gained a Vulkan Beta, a massive difference
17 Oct 2019 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

Not bad indeed. Here on a GTX1060 with 2560x1440 display and "very high" settings the framerates went from 60/83/40 to 90/126/59. 50% plus - now that's what I call a "noticable difference".

Richard Stallman has resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT
17 Sep 2019 at 1:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: kaiman
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
But even that lacks the context of the whole, without the original source, so take it with a grain of salt.
Are we talking about a 17-year-old girl and a 70+-year-old geezer? And this is supposed to be the "most plausible scenario" in RMS imagination? Yes, there might be cases where a young girl presents herself as willing under such circumstances. But I would call them "most implausible".

Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support
11 Sep 2019 at 11:12 pm UTC

Another one found a solution:

http://support.primatelabs.com/discussions/geekbench/36264-vulkan-not-available-on-linux-mint-latest-padoka-ppa-mesa-and-amd-gpus [External Link]

Makes you wonder, how the developers tested their own benchmark. Doesn't work OTOB on Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora...

Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support
11 Sep 2019 at 7:29 am UTC

Quoting: 0ttman
Quoting: TuxeeNo luck with the Vulkan benchmarks.

It says

$./geekbench5 --compute-list
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

CUDA
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
OpenCL
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


Just to be sure:

$ vulkaninfo 
==========
VULKANINFO
==========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.101


Any idea what to do about that?
I ran this command for Vulkan "./geekbench_x86_64 --compute vulkan"
As stated: Doesn't work.

$ ./geekbench_x86_64 --compute vulkan
Error: Compute API 'Vulkan' is not available.
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

Usage:

  ./geekbench_x86_64 [ options ]

Options:

  ...
  --compute [API]           run the Compute benchmark
                              API can be one of: CUDA, OpenCL (default)
  ...

Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support
10 Sep 2019 at 6:17 pm UTC

No luck with the Vulkan benchmarks.

It says

$./geekbench5 --compute-list
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

CUDA
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
OpenCL
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB


Just to be sure:

$ vulkaninfo 
==========
VULKANINFO
==========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.101


Any idea what to do about that?

A look at how Steam Play is doing, based on the ProtonDB reports from July
6 Aug 2019 at 1:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: EikeSo, BTW and IMHO, having to set environment variables would be gold, not platinum.
Something not all submitters appear to honour. I see a lot of platinum reports that still mention a specific setting. So I expect the realistic number of platinums to be lower in favour of gold.
OTOH there are enough gold ratings which don't request tweaks (or report annoyances where it is unclear whether they occur on Windows as well). Gold quotes taken from games I would all rate as platinum:

"Disabling Esync isn't strictly necessary but it does make the main menu animations run a bit smoother. Both the main game and snapmaps work."

"Runs fine without any tweaks but suffers from mildly annoying stuttering. I'm sure there is a fix but I've just dealt with it."

"I reduced the resolution in order to be playable on my old laptop."

"Full playthrough"

"Works really well apart from slight stutter when starting a level."

"Worked perfectly except resolution which was 4:3 but would probably be fixable with minor tweaks." (ann: all Steam screenshots show that Fieldrunners IS 4:3.)
...

The next Humble Monthly is out, with two more interesting early unlock games
5 Jul 2019 at 6:32 pm UTC

Quoting: g000hI grabbed the (just ended) July Subscription and very happy that I did:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (early reveal) - should work fine on Proton
Not "should". It works flawlessly.

Love is dead - Windows
So far again no problems with Proton.