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Latest Comments by Ardje
The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2
5 Jul 2017 at 1:51 pm UTC

Quoting: STiATWell, they're right. But it was back the days
Actually back in the days was 2000 or so...
I still have my first $230 quake the offering, official release for linux.
I have my original X3 box with compressed shirt in the shape of an X, signed by the CEO of Linux Game Publishing.
Back to that: I still have 20+ official linux game boxes and elite boxes for anyone caring to come and collect. See: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ArdvanBreemen/posts/Cs9EVrH5MED [External Link]
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Most of them with official licenses.

Anyway: the salt seemed to start when steam came to linux and linux gaming became "mainstream".

The Witcher 3 didn't come to Linux likely as a result of the user-backlash from The Witcher 2
5 Jul 2017 at 1:44 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: liamdaweWe aren't better than others, that's just not looking outside the circle there.

Still, that's my opinion, as your post is yours and opinions are welcome here :)
If I look at the ark bugs, I can confirm we are just as salty as any other community.
We have a lot of self entitled brats that never ever learned the meaning of respect.
I used to think we are better, but no, I had to revise that. I know *we* are better, but the developer won't see the difference between *we* and *them* 8-D.
So yes, we are a self-entitled bunch of salt bags spewing vile threats. I read phoronix yesterday, and I just closed it. The systemd mud slinging pro and contra are pretty bad.
I hope someday we learn to respect the software houses, and be nice to them.
Working with some single person companies, I can confirm these vile threats and salt is just a common human trait. Most humans seem somehow seem to feel entitled for $10k of work after paying $10. They usually also know exactly how you should do your work and never understand why things cost a lot of money and time. That's from a non-computing area.
So yes, this is exactly the same. We are humans, and I am ashamed of that.

NVIDIA 384.47 beta driver released, includes a fix for newer Feral titles
30 Jun 2017 at 11:48 am UTC Likes: 1

At least 381.22 already fixed vulkan for me on a zotac sn970. Took a while before vulkan really worked.

EVERSPACE seems to be having more issues with Unreal Engine again with Linux support
29 Jun 2017 at 10:34 am UTC Likes: 6

I hope my patronage of yaakuro https://www.patreon.com/ue4linux [External Link] has some positive effects. UE looks like a good engine with a nice open developer setup. But when there are no (community) people working on the linux part of the engine, it doesn't really matter.

Valve's Knuckles VR controller looks pretty decent, dev kits going out
22 Jun 2017 at 9:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: meggerman
Quoting: liamdaweValve stated they couldn't provide us with one and HTC never replied
That really is piss poor considering GOL's online presence. Not even replying is just rude.
Valve themselves or developers from valve actually do arrange vr headsets for those they deem productive, like those that (help) developing vr (applications) on/for linux and do not have the means themselves.
Valve developers are very helpful and they deserve at least some respect.
I don't know about HTC, but for them it will be request nr. n1000.
At the current state I don't think it is interesting for valve to promote the VR on steamos yet, as they are still developing on RADV and hoping nvidia will follow. Next thing is that every linux user will be buying a htc vive and then the shit hits the fans because they all will demand something and feel betrayed and whatever consumers think these days.
So I can understand valve too.

Trying the experimental GCN 1.0 support in AMDGPU
19 Jun 2017 at 7:14 pm UTC

Purple line on the left side and otherwise a strange color can be due to outputing HDMI to a DVI panel. I've seen a lot of panels with arm systems that needed a forced DVI output to get correct color and sync.

The big SteamOS update that drops AMDGPU-PRO in favour of Mesa has left beta
16 Jun 2017 at 1:27 pm UTC

Quoting: ZapporI guess SteamOS uses RADV now then? Did SteamOS have Vulkan support before?
Steamos had vulkan support in the previous release: it was nvidia driver release 367 something.
It was incapable of handling vulkan on any steam machine though...
The worst part about this news is that I missed it, and I packaged 381.09 for steamos myself and gave it a higher precedence than valves repo, so I never noticed that steamos *stable* released a newer nvidia driver version: 381.22, which fixes all vulkan problems on steam machines.

ARK: Survival Evolved release date revealed, plus new free map
16 Jun 2017 at 9:34 am UTC Likes: 1

WC has fixed the oslist property on ragnarok, so we can now install and run it:
https://steamdb.info/app/642250/history/ [External Link]
Fixed 11 hours ago.
Now I still need to work before I can test it :-(

Steam Direct launches as Valve gave the greenlight to many of the remaining 3,400 games left
15 Jun 2017 at 10:50 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheRiddickGone are the days of botnets green-lighting terrible games from terrible developers, hopefully...

Guess the bots will focus now on posting fake reviews, however I think there are some conditions to that also?
I think you can grade reviews. Oh wait... review grade bot...
/me sighs.
Edit: what if grading and review importance get biased by the steam level a user has?
Certainly a bot wouldn't have a steam level of 10.

ARK: Survival Evolved release date revealed, plus new free map
13 Jun 2017 at 7:56 pm UTC

About ragnarok again: the forgot to set the platforms for the dlc... So it only works on legacy windows, not all windows/mac/linux