Looks interesting, I will give it a try when a Linux version will come available. Maybe we (Gaming On Linux members) will run our own server. But keep in mind it is more a simulation than a game. But I really like the idea that you really have to care about your environment instead of mindless cutting down every tree, killing every animal, etc. :D

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Off topic, but this I need to write: thank you for your work @liamdawe and @ everybody else, please keep in mind to like articles on gamingonlinux, too (not only the comments). Some people could feel a little bit sad if their articles are "unliked".
I have felt myself a little bit sad to see only a few likes on my posts on a social media platform (I mean not gamingonlinux) but got more than 2000 followers (yeah it is hard to click on like and help to support me to reach more people ... and not to earn any money only to ... whatever, you do not need to know :D)

Like articles of liamdawe and the others, if you like the articles to show some kind of support, please. (I just seen I have forgotten myself to do this here, to click on the little heart)

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Quoting: seguleh...Some of my coworkers have Macs at home, and they complains they have too weak Macs for gaming, but they don't want to buy Windows PC (they just hate Windows :)). ...

In fact the so called "Macs" you can buy nowerdays are "Windows" Pc (x86/Amd64 Pc) with an Apple OS, the true Mac already died a long time ago (own CPU, etc.).

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: devlandOpenGL has feature parity with DirectX, and that includes multithreading.

In fact OpenGL 4.5 seems to have features DX11 does not. Your comment about multithreading is also basically true, but the implementation is different enough that an engine designed with D3D in mind won't be able to take advantage without some serious refactoring. It also requires equally serious OpenGL expertise, and that's pretty rare in the industry.

Curious, why has one of the major features of Vulkan been touted as multithreading, if OpenGL already had it? As far as I knew, OpenGL didn't really do it, which is why Vulkan can spread things across your cores nicely.

We've seen plenty of videos showing this, where OpenGL is locked down to one core.

Multithreading is possible with OpenGL, but it is hard to code correctly and to prevent overheating. Maybe that is the reason why one of the major features of Vulkan is multithreading (more simple to use and more efficient than with OpenGL?). But I am not an expert in this, I just have read some stuff about multithreading with OpenGL.

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Nice, very nice. Thank you @liamdawe finally a solution to solve the screentearing which works for me.

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Happy Birthday!

And here an old but nice Linux commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSeImqbV30s [External Link]
just thought about after reading comments here :)

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Top 10 things Microsoft loves and hates about open source

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2299185/software/top-10-things-microsoft-loves-and-hates-about-open-source.html [External Link]

And I am sure that Microsoft hates STEAM cause of SteamOS but
Gaming performance on Valve's SteamOS can't keep up with Windows
http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/16/9743148/steam-machine-steamos-performance-gaming-valve-windows-linux [External Link]

but Ubuntu 14.10 VS Windows 8.1 : Metro Last Light Redux Benchmark with a GTX 680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeG417uwNoE [External Link]

If games are optimized for OpenGL and Linux instead of a "crappy" port from Windows DX3D then games running better on linux. I really hope more and more people will switch to linux then the gaming industry and other, too will make better and native "stuff" for Linux.
But sadly is that there is still a myth going around that linux is not easy to install and you need to learn too much, etc. but it is not true at least ubuntu / linux mint is really simple to install and userfriendly.
I have switched to ubuntu at end of the year 2013 and now using linux mint and still happy and not missing windows any time. It is only sad that some games I can not play ( if the game is not a native linux game or at least working with wine then it is a no go :) but also it is sad that I can not fly to the moon and still I am living and be happy most of time :D

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Quoting: Halifax

Quoting: metro2033fanboyIf that ever happens, Ill go full PS4,PS5 and STEAM indies

goVEGAN

Completely off-topic, but I was 100% vegan for 1 year and 2 months.

Learned a lot, like how to make main courses that tasted good without meat or dairy, where to find good tofu in town. But one word of warning for heavy all-day coffee drinkers like myself, it hampered with my ability to absorb elemental (plant) iron - more than my vitamin C intake was making up for.

Now I'm a partial vegan, I still make all my vegan dishes, and I can go pure vegan for a 1-5 days on occasion. But I also swear by sardines and herring added to that, along with skim milk and eggs. And once in a great while going full "suicide by food" mode with brats/pizza/bacon etc - mainly out with friends.

I am vegetarian but not far away to become 100% vegan.

Something you should know:
1. 21,000,000 dairy calves are slaughtered for veal or cheap beef every year globally. (1)
2. Like all mammals, cows must give birth in order to make milk. Like human mothers, they carry their babies for nine months, then begin to lactate for the sole purpose of nourishing their young.
3. Due to extensive genetic manipulation, today’s dairy cows produce up to 12 times more milk than they would naturally produce to feed a calf. (2)
...
http://freefromharm.org/dairyfacts/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Comandante oardoIs this related with the Trusted Execution Technology of most intel CPUs?

Maybe, most members of this TCPA have their own names for trusted computing.

BTW The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB; codenamed Palladium[1] and also known as Trusted Windows[2])
...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computing_Base [External Link]

DRM - Digital rights management and trusted computing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing [External Link]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management [External Link]

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Not explicit Microsoft against Steam but an earlier attempt of MS against competition (Open Source Software and Hardware) disguised as making computing more trustworthy (not sure if true but IMO some stuff nice to know).

TCPA "Trusted Computing Platform Alliance" (first known name)

The Trusted Computing Group is a group formed by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and Microsoft to implement Trusted Computing concepts across personal computers.
... (Microsoft the only OS developer founding member of this alliance, ok IBM had developed OS2, so far I know but OS2 is good as dead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Group [External Link]

Video: Against TCPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5z7hqwxBR4 [External Link]

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