Reminds me a bit about the second era Alien Breed and the two Shadowgrounds (which have Linux versions) games. Will instabuy once they release!

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At least with "safe mode" there is now an actual chance to take a closer look at the enemy designs. Frictional must be the game devs that spends the most amount of design into creatures that will never be displayed (either due to the character getting instakill or the environment being pitch black).

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Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: F.UltraIf only they could fix it so that we AMD users can open doors without experiencing black outs.

If you would have read the bug report you would know that the patch fixes exactly "this" problem.

facepalm :), however the Mesa patch is only a workaround, if you look at the bug report the version of Unity used makes some wrong calls.

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If only they could fix it so that we AMD users can open doors without experiencing black outs.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: stretch611By helping AMD, Intel keeps regulators off its back by avoiding being labeled a monopoly. (While the current US administration is unlikely to care about monopolies, the EU does tend to take a stronger stance against them, and of course there is a lot of CPUs sold in the EU.)

I don't think so. It's not forbidden not to have competitors - it's forbidden to abuse the powers that come with it.

Or more to the point, you are not allowed to use your monopoly in order to gain traction in other markets. Now consider that Intel could be accused of doing just that with them integrating GPU:s in their CPU:s i.e. And Intel also creates motherboards, motherboard chips, NICs and so on so it's in their best interest to not have a monopoly or a monopoly like situation.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: LinasAnybody brave enough to try it on AMD and post the results here, so I can make a risk-free purchase? ;)

Works flawless for me on my RX480 and Mesa 17.2.2

Unfortunately I hadn't tested as far as that first door where everyone else get stuck when I wrote the above. It breaks for me there as well. I wonder if any of the mesa devs would accept a steam gift of this game in order to see why it breaks on mesa at that point?! If so I have no problem providing that.

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Quoting: Luke_NukemFrom Ryan's blog:

Here's what you need to know about Nightdive: instead of shipping this in DOSBox or something, they rewrote the assembly to be portable, 64-bit clean C++11. Nightdive is hardcore like you wouldn't _believe_.

Holy shit! That's crazy... Sure, assembly is bare metal fast, if you're able to produce better code than a compiler can. Which I guess in the mid 90's probably wasn't unheard of.

Yes back in 1994 it was not problem to outperform a compiler by far. Also you basically targeted the 80486 or first Pentium processors and they contained very little of the "magic" that compilers are far more better to utilize. Since then processors have increased in complexity and compilers have gained tremendous optimizations.

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Quoting: LinasAnybody brave enough to try it on AMD and post the results here, so I can make a risk-free purchase? ;)

Works flawless for me on my RX480 and Mesa 17.2.2

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Quoting: razing32

Quoting: GuestI have never played any similar horror game but it can be a fun game.

Have you tried Lone Survivor ?

EDIT : I could swear this had linux support but cannot find any trace on GOG/Steam

AFAIK Lone Survivor was only released for linux in a Humble Bundle (that's how I got hold of it anyway).

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Quoting: razing32I don't get the Steve Balmer quote tbh :huh:

Also kinda sad this game is so broken at release and so far from what GTA was .

View video on youtube.com

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