Just when you think Feral couldn't get any more awesome for supporting us Linux gamers.

Thanks Feral!

I'm downloading now and will post Ryzen benchmarks.

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Is it possible to buy the DLC from Ferals website directly? If I go to the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past page and then Buy it only shows the season pass DLC as being available.

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Is Interactive Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy any good? Its been on my wishlist for a while and is £10.99 at the moment on Steam. It seems to have mixed Steam reviews.

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Quoting: EhvisSince they appear to have figured out why the Ryzen 7 performs relatively poorly on some games, the 4 core Ryzen 5 may actually be quite interesting for gaming. Especially if the clock can be upped a bit.

That's not really true, but its how the media have chosen to spin it. All the Ryzen chips are great for gaming, they're not poor at all. It's like saying a 6700k or even a 2500k is poor for gaming. Everyone knows that's not true. Just because its not the fastest of all for most games, the sound bite becomes "Ryzens no good for gaming" which is false, its just not the fastest, but it is by far the best bang for buck and will only improve as time goes on, BIOS matures, faster RAM speeds are tested as Ryzen is very dependant on memory speed, and software support matures.

Any well designed system would be GPU bound so testing at unrealistic resolutions to stress the CPU isn't really a real-world test. I doubt any gamer would spend a lot on a new CPU and use a slow old GPU.

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I can see both sides of the issue and it is a difficult situation.

One one side Valve is shooting themselves in the foot. Microsoft is working to close off Windows and move developers and customers to the Windows Store and they will go after Valves business, they already are. You're also buying the game and the underlying OS should be completely irrelevant in this day and age. The main benefit to switching from Windows to Linux as a gamer is that all your games come with you. If they didn't it would be an enormous barrier to people switching and Valve would lose any leverage they have over Microsoft to providing an alternative to MS cutting them out and shutting their business down.

Most companies see the underlying OS as irrelevant, Google, Amazon, Sony, Microsoft all have the policy where if you buy games/media on one platform it works across other platforms, e.g. PS4 and the Vita. Even the money hungry movie industry has relented and you get a digital film with your disk-based BluRay movie to play across platforms.

On the other hand ports cost money and take a lot of time and effort. Linux developers need to be supported or they will go out of business. Maybe an upgrade price would work but I doubt many gamers would pay it, they would say well I bought the game already so why do I have to pay again.

Hopefully its just a one-off and not a trend or it could potentially wipe out Linux as a gaming platform.

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Civ 6 has been taking up all my gaming time, I'm hugely addicted to it. I'll get back to Stellaris once the Banks and Utopia updates are released.

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It does look like its a lot of content, the update is 1.9GB

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I was interested in this but stopped following its development, Ron Gilbert calls himself "the grumpy gamer" and certainly lives up to his name, his comments on twitter put me off this game so much it went from an insta-buy title, to one to avoid!

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I'm hyped for this, I've been spending most of my gaming time playing Civ 6 so will be good to get back to Stellaris.

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Quoting: XpanderCan't wait for April statistics to see if AMD CPU share has started to rise.

i myself planning to buy one in March :)

Me too! :) The pre-release leaks and reviews look really, really promising. I think the top of the range i7 chips may still have a slight edge in single core performance but it looks like everything is pointing to AMD absolutely blowing the Intel chips out the water in price vs performance.

I'm hoping AMD shake things up a bit and make the market competitive again.

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