Whatever is causing the freezes, it does seem to happen more when water is present. The Water Treatment Plant map in The Reckoning is proving to be a little difficult to get through.

I could try beating the map using the Software renderer I suppose. :whistle:

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Quoting: LightkeyGot both boxes sitting behind me. Was lucky to get them through TuxGames' reseller offers. :grin:

Both of the Quake boxes I am using are actually from my twin brother's collection, and he spent a good chunk of his summer overtime pay buying them off eBay.

Some lucky devil managed to get both for around $30 from a Goodwill Auction in 2016 apparently:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/4ty0jk/quake_and_quake_2_linux_ports [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestAlmost all lockups back in the day were indeed a result of GPU drivers. Not much that can be done about it either. Took a long time before I stopped seeing it too.

Yeah, I remember all that. One positive to come out of the Steam Deck is that by Valve choosing to go all AMD it does mean they recognize all the hard work that went into making the free graphics stack as robust as it is now.

I am well into playing the second Unit of the The Reckoning and have only had the one freeze so far.

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Anybody wanting to try my shell script can download the following:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake2-glx-launch.sh [External Link]

And here is my all black Blackbox style:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/Quake [External Link]

Some information on the Big Gun map crash:
https://quake2.icculus.narkive.com/LrfU4VGF/big-gun-crash [External Link]

And my raw Quake II timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake2-timedemos.txt [External Link]

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As someone who admittedly never bought or played any of the Feral ports since they were tied to Steam, I have to wonder how much of a ripple effect Proton will have on the native games and developers I do support. I just hope that the kind of developers willing to go DRM free are also the ones most likely to see the benefits of cross-platform development.

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Quoting: HerrLangeWhere is Commander Keen?

I am assuming that the rights for that stayed with id Software, which then went to Zenimax... so talk to Microsoft?

More to the point, will Linux now get a release for Crystal Caves HD?

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Too hot to play anything that would tax my computers so I have just been playing Klondike and FreeCell through AisleRiot this weekend.

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Still holds the advantage when it comes to Icewind Dale II since Black Isle lost the original source code.

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Just as a little update, I have been too bogged down with lambing and calving to spend much time on the project, but I do intend to come back to it eventually. I still have a few levels of Scourge of Armagon to finish before I move on to anything else.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure I quite get this. So you're in charge of an immortal vampire fallen on hard times and your main objective in returning her fortunes is . . . find a better job?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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