Quoting: GuestFunny that they ported the lesser known and played Codemasters title (Dirt 3 is much better imo), which has the same engine, and basically just the gamemodes are different. Both titles has the same problems for me: after alt-tab, certain keys don't work in game. Quality port can kiss my ass.

Instead of Showdown, buy FlatOut 2 on GOG, turn music volume to maximum and enjoy the carnage. Runs better, has better atmosphere and silly gamemodes too.

The game seems kinda limited (very small tracks), but it is fun. I have no problem alt-tabbing and stuff, after turning unneccesary graphics down, it runs super smooth and looks very pretty to my eyes.

I'm gonna look at trying burnout paradise with wine, I am really curious about that game! Seems quite a creative idea.

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I have to second the previous remarks about DiRT Showdown being a good port - it performs very well on my pretty mediocre hardware, with foss radeon driver no less. Nice! I'd forgotten that I kinda like racing game's actually, used to love the Burnout series.

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Quoting: badberVery good news, I just hope the early access version I tried isn't indicative of the system requirements for the final version because that one probably wouldn't run on an Intel integrated GPU which I may be interested in playing this with.

In any case, I anticipate playing this right away. I was very convinced by the writing in the EA version.

Yeah I hope that they dont do a pillars of eternity and put in useless 3D models staggering my computer + endless loading screens between every transition, because that just ruins the game. I LOVE Planescape: Torment and I want this very much, IF it is playable.

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There is also an EXCELLENT (IMO) humble bundle going on - the Overwhelmingly Positive Bundle [External Link]; Pony Island for free, Day of the tentacle on the next tier, and for 10 dollars you get VA-11 Hall-A - those three games are just great.

Also, you can get XCOM2 for 12 dollars when you subscribe to the monthly bundle (for the first time) - and ten percent off that if you bought the Overwhel... bundle first. And then, 10% off in the humble store (where there is a winter sale going on, oh right that is the topic here). Sick deals! If I had 100 dollars I could probably own like all of the games in the world :P

Edit: OH, and you can select Free Software Foundation or Free Software Conservancy as your charity of choice.

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Above all I feel that AMD is preferable since you can run FOSS drivers. With NVIDIA, the foss driver will (it seems) always be pretty crap.

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Quoting: ripperYou probably already know this, but there's a LowSpecGamer channel on YouTube that contains useful tricks how to make new games run on very slow systems. For Witcher 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67H6WuMtnQ [External Link]

Thats a nice tip, I did not know about that channel! I have now utterly butchered my witcher 2 (max texture settings=100) and it now occupies only a ninth of my screen (the resolution is so low, dunno how to get it to fill the screen), and it is still kinda stuttery and awkward .___. not worth the trouble getting back into the story really. But that channel is nice, thanks!

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoJust a reminder. On Mint you should also let the system update its kernels (which they officially not really recommend), cause there were a lot of fixes for the radeon and amdgpu driver.

You can also install even newer, supported kernels through the update manager's Linux-kernels dialog. Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04.1) has up to 4.8.0 in the standard repos. For 4.9.0 you need a PPA.

Do you have a ppa for ubuntu 16.04 for the latest kernel? I have tried installing it before (manually sort of) but it seems to have some bug with my wifi card (it just does not work). But I would like to try again. It would be nice with a ppa with a new kernel with amdgpu-for-gcn1.1 flags enabled.

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Quoting: ShmerlWell, turn it off you can. But it sounds close to minimum requirements.

I did turn everything possible off, as in I played at 800x600, all draw distances minimum, EVERY SETTING minimum including all the ones in config files, and it was playable until the dwarwen city, but that place is just too full off useless fires and shiny stuff :<

Edit: what I mean is, I would like games to include options to remove most graphical effects. I do not care about lighting moving around, shiny handles on swords etc. in almost any game, I just need some decent framerates to suspend disbelief a bit. Shaky framerates just ruins everything. I feel that game developers waste a lot of energy making pretty graphics - that energy could have gone into making a great game instead! But alas, I guess I am the minority.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: buenaventuraGranted, my hardware is not particularly good (laptop with quad core 2.4ghz, 8gb RAM), this is my GPU:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (rev 05) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

It's GCN 1.1 I hear, but clearly not very good (1GB VRAM it says on the sticker).

Witcher 2 is pretty demanding. So no surprise it doesn't perform well on your GPU. You surely need to upgrade.

*grumble grumble* I don't get games these days, why all the shiny crap, I would be happy with witcher text-only-mode :( Just let me turn of all the stuff until it flows ;)

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How cool, go go!

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