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Latest Comments by cprn
DRM has been blown out the airlock, as X4: Foundations for Linux is now on GOG
6 Jun 2019 at 4:03 pm UTC

I personally don't like GOG but wherever the Linux games grow it's good, even if it was Epic store.

What are you clicking on this weekend? Let us know your current favourites
6 Jun 2019 at 10:46 am UTC Likes: 2

Wurm Unlimited. I don't know what's about this game. I hate it a lot... but in spirit it's so much like Ultima Online I just can't stop. I think I'm old.

I also bought whole Thief and older parts of Deus Ex series (had the newest Deus Ex already). And I'm going to play them in order. That makes me feel even older.

Session Seven, a short and free point & click adventure now has Linux support
30 May 2019 at 2:06 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'd pay a buck or two for it on Steam. I've got that kind of money.

Facepunch Studios have given an update on the future of Rust for Linux, issues with "third parties"
2 May 2019 at 10:48 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: TheBard[...] What we can expect from developers is spending some time (1% of their time because we are 1% [...]
That's not exactly accurate. A good developer understands the benefits of compiling for 2nd, 3rd and 4th platform and knows how that translates to overall architecture and stability improvements. Bugs found while building for Linux are there in builds for all other targets. What causes rendering artifacts on Linux might be responsible for slowdowns on Windows. What looks like flickering on Xbox might be just a different light colour on Mac. It doesn't translate 1% to 1%. I bet porters like Aspyr, Fanatical, Icculus and Ethan Lee reported thousands of issues in original codebase they had to work with that improved everything from load times to frames per second.

Facepunch Studios have given an update on the future of Rust for Linux, issues with "third parties"
2 May 2019 at 10:27 pm UTC

I'm a very casual player, I rarely play more than once or twice a week. I got Rust to play with my brother who lives abroad. We played for a few hours, started a base, had some fun, mostly failing at everything. We went back to continue few weeks later just to see all our stuff was gone. I know there are players without life who play 20 hours a day 7 days a week and I know it's hard to balance experience of a casual player against theirs... but those monthly resets are the most stupid "solution" devs could come up with. Stopped caring about the game as soon as I found out.

NVIDIA are continuing to work on PRIME GPU offloading, with a new GLX Extension
30 Apr 2019 at 2:49 pm UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: cprnActually, since I do have a CPU built-in AGPU that's never used and a GTX1070 that's currently my main GPU but could easily be used as a discrete one, is there any reason to use Optimus on PC? Can I somehow grab extra f/s out of it?
You could spare yourself and the environment some Watts. I doubt using both GPUs together would be worth any effort for speed.
Well, I already throttle the clocks to about 10% when I don't run anything GPU intensive to slow down the fans, etc. I don't think AGPU can beat it wattage-wise when it's downclocked like that. Might be wrong. Am I wrong? I just feel like that AGPU lies there to waste.

NVIDIA are continuing to work on PRIME GPU offloading, with a new GLX Extension
27 Apr 2019 at 8:20 am UTC

Actually, since I do have a CPU built-in AGPU that's never used and a GTX1070 that's currently my main GPU but could easily be used as a discrete one, is there any reason to use Optimus on PC? Can I somehow grab extra f/s out of it?

Valve show off their new Steam Library design and a new Events page
22 Mar 2019 at 10:41 pm UTC Likes: 3

I want VIM bindings. With modes. Can I have VIM bindings?

GameHub is another open source game launcher, giving Lutris some competition
22 Mar 2019 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

So... Both Lutris and this here GameHub are open sourced and permissive. Doesn't that mean anyone can send a pull request to Lutris with GameHub's code? And if so... Why don't they just collaborate?

The good looking beat 'em up 9 Monkeys of Shaolin still coming to Linux, releasing later this year
22 Feb 2019 at 4:43 am UTC

I was waiting for this game but hearing about "magical seals" put me off. Why does everything have to be kids stories nowadays is beyond me.