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Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
10 Jan 2017 at 8:40 am UTC

Quoting: chimpyHave you enabled beta build for Linux in the properties tag? That gave me a bit more performance.
I bought it on GOG, so I'm not sure how I would get that beta linux build :O

Quoting: ShmerlIt's very good for me on max settings (RX 480 / Mesa 13.0.2). What hardware and Mesa version do you use? Also, remember to always keep ubersampling disabled.
Granted, 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). However some games work quite fine - I play Mirror's Edge with Wine (gallium staging) quite OK for example. I use the drivers from padoka ppa, glxinfo says "OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 13.1.0-devel - padoka PPA".

Mesa patched to help render The Witcher 2 correctly on radeonsi
9 Jan 2017 at 2:36 pm UTC

Performance for me in witcher 2 is just horrendous even on absolute bottom settings. I wonder if this patch will help? Is it already in padoka ppa?

Long War 2 mod announced for XCOM 2
5 Jan 2017 at 6:13 pm UTC

I am curious about this, but I do not think my computer is good enough for XCOM 2 really. RadeonSI drivers on a GCN 1.1 southern islands card, laptop, 8gb RAM. It's like the minimum almost, but meh. I wish!

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
3 Jan 2017 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

I am so happy that I can play games with an open source driver!

The awesome itch store is also having a big sale, with some real indie gems going cheap
27 Dec 2016 at 6:18 pm UTC

Urban Pirate, recently released for linux, is 50% off!

Wild Terra Online, another MMO with Linux support in Early Access is now on Steam
21 Dec 2016 at 3:14 pm UTC

I like the look of it, reminds me of Age of Empires 2 :D Is it very grindy? I hate crafting man, most stupid game idea of recent times.

Earth Liberation, the indie RTS that looks pretty good confirmed for Linux
21 Dec 2016 at 10:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTI'd also say it looks quite impressive! You can not expect a Starcraft II clone with the exact same quality from a team with much less monetary resources.

If the game is out of early access and if it's considered to be good at that time it's an instabuy!
That's what I mean, why try to copy sc2 with a fraction of the budget? Do something original instead, like Offworld Trading Company [External Link], I wish that would be ported to linux.

Earth Liberation, the indie RTS that looks pretty good confirmed for Linux
20 Dec 2016 at 9:41 am UTC

What makes this stand out in any way? It looks like a crappy alpha build of sc2. And that trailer, man, I am staying AWAY from this game :P I'm sure their intentions are good anyhow!

The open source itch games client has been updated yet again
19 Dec 2016 at 7:38 am UTC

Awesome, I especially like this:

- Add support for Twine games
- Correctly remember save data for all HTML games

Perfect.

Urban Pirate, a turn-based, urban crime simulation is coming to Linux
15 Dec 2016 at 2:31 pm UTC

Yay, I just asked the developer about this yesterday, and they were friendly - I told them I would tell GoL about it, but I guess you beat me to it! :D I will buy this, looks very fun. The soundtrack is awesome.