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Latest Comments by sobkas
What are you playing this weekend?
18 Jun 2016 at 6:22 pm UTC

Dreamfall chapters, I was so busy cleaning up appdb page for Dark Souls 2, that forgotten about it.

Changes to our Survey are coming, hopefully to make it easier and better
9 May 2016 at 3:10 pm UTC

What about gamification of survey taking? Some kind of "reward" for doing them? Like a badge or something under a user icon?

Action platformer Mighty No. 9 to be released June 21st, looks like Linux support will be day 1
6 May 2016 at 7:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's the ninth release date for Mighty No.9, best to nail it this time...

The Wine Development Release 1.9.9 Is Now Available
2 May 2016 at 11:48 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlIs anyone doing regular Witcher 3 tests with the new releases of Wine? I didn't buy the game and there isn't any demo, so I have no idea how far DX11 support has progressed.
Don't buy any DX11 game until there will be an overwhelming proof that it works, because right now DX11 support is early in development.

The Wine Development Release 1.9.8 Is Now Available
15 Apr 2016 at 10:20 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TealDX11 when?
When it's done? How long it took for DX9 to mature?
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see DX11, especially when all the new Dark Souls games are released with DX11 support, but Wine developers resources are limited and it might take some time. More than I would like.

Valve shoots down Itch stores attempt to get their client on Steam
12 Apr 2016 at 7:44 pm UTC

Quoting: edoThe point answered by valve also makes sense
It would make sense if Valve put any substantial effort to manage Steam as a platform and not allow literally everyone squeez their turds into it. And there are numerous examples starting with Guise of the Wolf [External Link] and Slaughtering Grounds [External Link].

Hyper Light Drifter released, some thoughts
1 Apr 2016 at 8:21 pm UTC

I have two problems with HLD:
First, is there a way to change controller bindings? I would like to change them to more Dark Souls ones(X-health, A-interaction, B-dodge, Y-bomb, RB-sword, aiming with right stick)
Second, when choosing new abilities it would be nice be able to try them before purchase. How I'm supposed to know with one to choose when there is no description and animations next to them aren't so descriptive?

Also game is too good, need to get some sleep but still want to play!

About controller problems:
With xpad driver for xbox 360 wireless, you might need start controller(big X button, you won't miss it) before starting game otherwise there will be no js device for game to open.

Game length: at 6h I might be on 1/3 of the game or at least I was able to get 6 triangles things. Bosses are brutal, so try patience.

Amos from Itch has written a guide to distributing self-contained Linux builds
25 Mar 2016 at 2:37 pm UTC

For the launder script, there are some side cases where:
SCRIPT_DIR=$(readlink -f $0 | xargs dirname)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${SCRIPT_DIR}/lib"
cd "${SCRIPT_DIR}/bin"


$() is bash specific I think and there is absolutely nothing wrong with ``

btw. do you use
#!/bin/bash
or
#!/usr/bin/env bash

Mesa 11.1.1 available, has patches for GRID Autosport
14 Jan 2016 at 9:50 pm UTC

Does anyone experiences hard hangs with Grid Autosport?
Also can anyone test apitrace on:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93548 [External Link]
Thanks