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Latest Comments by giamic
Persia & Macedon coming to Civilization VI with a double content pack and a big update
24 Mar 2017 at 4:38 pm UTC

Catherine de' Medici, leading France, speaks sometimes a very good Italian with Florence accent - she was originally from there. However, I'm not good enough in the history of the Italian language to know if back in the 16th century they really spoke that way.

AMD have announced 'Anvil', an MIT-licensed wrapper library for Vulkan
24 Mar 2017 at 10:50 am UTC Likes: 2

Does this mean that programming with Vulkan + anvil will reintroduce some of the overhead that one abandons when dropping openGL?

More performance improvements are on the way for Deus Ex and Tomb Raider on Mesa
3 Feb 2017 at 10:39 am UTC

Deus Ex: MD is on sale now on Steam, and I thought of picking it up. I run Ubuntu with a decent CPU (i5-6500) and a rx470 4GB, do you think that the game will run smoothly or should I wait for more mature drivers?

EDIT: I have installed mesa version 17.1.0-devel from padoka ppa.

Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics
19 Jan 2017 at 5:58 pm UTC

I was too fast rejoicing: 15 minutes into the game, it crashed badly. :D

@TacoDeBoss: cause it's such a massive improvement.

Naah, just joking. I read that previously names were increased when a new openGL version was supported. Now, with the release of Vulkan, openGL is no longer developed and mesa would be stuck to number 13 forever. So they decided to change and number according to the year of publishing, much like Ubuntu.

Mesa 17-rc1 released, it's a massive update for open source graphics
19 Jan 2017 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 4

Mesa 17 more than doubled the performance of my rig with Shadow of Mordor! With a Radeon rx470, it passed from 20 fps (regardless of the graphic quality!) to 45-50 fps at ultra quality. A big thank you to all the developers!

Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
8 Dec 2016 at 11:23 am UTC Likes: 7

Dear lelouch, your comments seem out of topic and pointless. You don't like Ubuntu. So what? If you have something else to say, please read http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html [External Link] then try again.

Ubuntu now has a community-built PPA for stable versions of Mesa
8 Dec 2016 at 9:35 am UTC Likes: 2

Thanks for sharing this information!