Quoting: 14I might have to get one of these trains games. I have 0. The graphics in this one are purdy.

I'm looking at getting this one too... I'm waiting for it to go on sale; I was unsure about the title during the last steam sale. Right now I am wondering if Humble will have a "end of summer" sale around labor day weekend like they did last year.

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My gaming laptop is a beast. Yes, it was expensive. Yes it is heavy compared to other laptops. (7lbs/3.2kg + power brick)

My earlier post explained why I need/desire a laptop over a desktop. It essentially lets me bring my laptop to my clients to show them demos. It also allows me to visit relatives and continue to be productive and work while away; as well as feed my gaming addiction while away.

My specs are outlined on my profile (updated today only to change to open source driver now that I am using AMD). And yes, they are higher than specs already mentioned in the comments from this article (both desktop as well as laptop.) And while the specs of my laptop can give me a huge e-peen rating, I really don't care. I buy high end when I get it because it lasts longer and means I do not need to replace it as soon; as long as it handles all my gaming and development needs.

I do not know what my benchmark rating is... I have not installed any benchmark utility on a computer since well before I completely dropped windows over 10 years ago. I know I can have a virtual machine(s) running servers in the background while playing my games at the same time. I care that my computer handles what I throw at it, not whether or not a number derived from a test of implied performance based on bs datapoints is higher than someone else's number. I may be on top now, but my laptop was bought less than one month ago... next year I will not be on top (realistically, next month.) I care that it does what I want it to, not that I paid more than someone I never met over the internet.

Yes, my laptop is classified as gaming/desktop replacement. Yes it is heavier. I don't care that the laptop is heavy... even with the powerbrick it is only about 10lbs/4.5kg. As my handle implies, I am 6'11" (2.11m) tall; what part of that laptop weight seems to be a burden... honestly, even a normal sized wimp shouldn't have a problem carrying that much weight around.

Again, I am a serious gamer. I DON'T GIVE A DAMN HOW OTHER PEOPLE DEFINE THAT. In order, the 3 games I have spent the most time on have been Rimworld, Factorio, and Prison Architect for a total of 3600 hours according to steam. If that isn't proof of gaming addiction, I am not sure what is; not to mention the other games I play. Being a serious gamer doesn't mean that I need to have to play the flavor of the month first person shooter, or require a certain OS/platform. Hell, I can be a serious gamer playing Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, or creeper world... and no one should care whether I get 5900 or 6000 frames per second playing those games; it really doesn't matter.

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Quoting: GuestLaptops are expensive portable toys, no serious gamer uses them. All that I know who had a gaming laptop are using a desktop computer now.

I use my laptop for gaming. I use it for work, and I use it for casual surfing of the internet. Not a big surprise, I am using it to write this comment right now. I do have 3 "Desktop" computers right now as well... Admittedly, the youngest of which is 3 years old, so my current and prior laptop are both more powerful.

The fact is, my laptop works best for me. For work, it means that I can bring it with me to a client's location or even a cafe if we meet for lunch. As a developer, gaming laptops have the power I need to run multiple virtual machines, and a display with the resolution that I like when coding. In addition, the graphics card means I can attached 2 additional displays for 3 total monitors without any problems. I also find that gaming laptops usually have a decent keyboard as well.

When I visit relatives, especially for the holidays, I tend to stay a week or two. (one time I even stayed a full month.) Having a good gaming/work laptop is essential. Without a laptop, I would have to lug a full sized desktop, keyboard, and monitor to my relatives... and then hope they have the space to actually set it up (and seeing how I go during the holidays, space is a premium both in my car trunk and their houses.) Otherwise, I would not be able to do any work or gaming and have to borrow time on their computers when they aren't using them. (resulting in me needing to leave in a day or two, which is inconvenient due to the time and distance it requires to get to my relatives.)

Now, I consider myself a serious gamer... but your idea of serious gamer is obviously different than mine. And before you try to convince me that somehow your definition of serious gamer is the only correct definition, think of all the windows gamers that refuse to think that gaming on linux is even possible, or the console players that refuse to acknowledge PC gaming at all... Any self serving definition of serious gamer is just as wrong as the others regardless of your preferred platform.

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My laptop with an optimus card fried less than 1 month ago... And yes, I believe that it had to do with having the GPU set to nVidia 100% of the time.

Thanks to driver installation hell I was finally at the point where I bought a AMD Ryzen 7/Radeon RX580 laptop to replace it. Admittedly, the last laptop was the 2nd I had with an optimus and it was not as bad as drivers with the 1st one back in early 2013, but why deal with the extra hassle if you do not need to.

With AMD working much better with linux now than it was previously, nVidia might be starting to see the light that a few lost sales in the future will start adding up. They are probably trying prevent this from happening.

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Quoting: liberodark

Quoting: stretch611

According to the Steam page, it should release in either September or October.

The trailer said November 20th. ( https://youtu.be/wxO9h7pZ79M?t=72 [External Link] )

In 20 November 2014 :D LOL

"Kingdom Rush: ORIGINS! Available for mobile Nov 20th, 2014"

I guess I might be better informed if I actually read some of the comments below youtube vids. (like the summary text) :P

Well, to quote a famous US icon of mine... D'oh !!!

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According to the Steam page, it should release in either September or October.

The trailer said November 20th. ( https://youtu.be/wxO9h7pZ79M?t=72 [External Link] )

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I'll have to play this... Got it in a humble monthly and really have not touched it.

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My system was changed to 396 sfter I upgraded to Mint19. However, Rimworld failed to play nice (did not start) with 396, so I changed to 390 and everything has been stable. (Currently 390.48)

Rimworld uses OpenGL, but I am not sure if its specific problem is one of those listed in the changelog.

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Quoting: ElvanexI've recently been super addicted to RimWorld. :) I'd been trying to avoid it until 1.0 was released, but I finally gave in and started a game in beta 18. For anyone on the hook on this buying this game, let me assure you that it is totally beyond worth it. :) It's one of my top 5 favorite games of all time!

Rimworld 1.0 is currently in testing... You can access this through the beta tab in steam.

It is quite stable, no crashes for me at all... But they are still adjusting the balance.

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I'm playing Dungeons and Dragons. With 5 friends through www.roll20.net.

Not a computer RPG, but with an actual DM.

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