@Kujo: I have an AMD RX 480. With the current Mesa git 17.1 it is playable @ > 30 fps if you do reduce the graphics settings a bit. The driver has been tweaked a lot in the last weeks.

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Great, I am really looking forward to it!

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Great news again, Feral! I already own all your other Gnu/Linux ports and I will definitely go for this one as well (from the Feral store, not Steam) ;) Thanks!

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@Shmerl: what kind of setup are you using for programming instead of an IDE? Is it based on a text editor like vim/emacs?

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Thanks for the great interview, Liam and Simon Roth. The game looks really great. I am reluctant to buy early access titles but I'll keep a close eye on it.

In terms of IDE: I guess you have tried Eclipse. Would be interesting to know why you decided against it.

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Just compiled and installed it. Nice to see these maintenance uodates even with the next major release around the corner.

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Very nice! Thanks, gog!

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I bought Albion Online when the beta started. But haven't really played more than one hour so far ;-) I'll certainly take a closer look when the full release happens. I do like the effort they are putting into it.

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Mesa is an open source / free software graphics driver package for Linux. It includes drivers for different graphics cards from different vendors (i.e. Intel, Nvidia, AMD). The Nvidia driver in this package is called nouveau.

Mesa is an open source / free software alternative to the proprietary drivers provided by the graphics cards vendors (e.g. Nvidia's proprietary driver).

These drivers provide an API for developers to write their 3D programs. For GNU/Linux this was typically OpenGL. Recently a new API was created which aims to offer more low-level access to graphics cards features and thus potentially provide more performance. The name of this API is Vulkan. On Windows you have Direct3D as another alternative.

For Nvidia graphics cards on Linux most users go with the proprietary drivers and not Mesa. For AMD graphics cards it is the other way around. So if you have an Nvidia card you would probably want to stick to the proprietary drivers (which provide OpenGL and Vulkan btw.) and not care so much about Mesa.

I am not at all an expert on this topic, so please correct me if necessary.

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I wish they would release this game DRM free (e.g. on gog or itch.io). While I do not like DRM in general, it feels especially wrong for retro games.

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