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KING Art may be doing a Kickstarter for RTS 'Iron Harvest', they're asking for feedback
27 Jan 2018 at 10:53 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestThe linux community is important to them, but they never fixed the broken Book of unwritten tales… go figure.
I played through all three of those games, and don't recall any issues; what was broken for you?

On a side note, it's worth mentioning that these guys consistently deliver their Kickstarter projects on time, which is extremely rare! This game does look cool, but if the minimum pledge is ~$40, I'll probably pass... I have way too big of a backlog to fork out that much for a game I probably won't get around to for a long time. :-/

The Linux 2017 GOTY Awards are now over, here's the winners
23 Jan 2018 at 7:11 am UTC

Quoting: BeamboomBut as for those categories that requires every nominee to have been played - we better leave that to the one guy amongst us who has.
Nothing against Liam and his opinions, but I think it's better to have input from all of the "editorial staff" to balance things out.

GOG have a little sale on again, time to get some cheap games
9 Jan 2018 at 7:08 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: GustyGhostIs there somewhere one can purchase motivation to play all of these cheap games that I've bought?
Can someone please tell me how I can get paid to play all of these games I've bought, so I can quit my job and dedicate my life to gaming? :P

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
28 Dec 2017 at 5:45 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjenVidia seems to want to be friendly toward the FOSS people
Other than Tegra, it's been mostly lip service... don't forget they used to have a (heavily obfuscated) open source nv driver, which they completely abandoned.

Quoting: slaapliedjeDoes AMD even have the firegl drivers anymore?
fglrx is called Catalyst now (the driver package was never separate). I don't think they ever really figured out how to compete with the Quadro line; they were also trying out "FireHD" for a while, targeting "high-end" multi-display users - the same market Matrox was trying to sell into at the end of their run...

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28 Dec 2017 at 5:37 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeReason I stopped using AMD is because they'd deprecate support in their closed source driver way quicker on older cards than nVidia does, and the open source driver was never up to the same performance.

Plus there was a time (I haven't checked lately) when their catalyst driver wouldn't work with the newer xorg or kernels for 8 months. Maybe the open source drivers are much better performance wise now, but they have been historically pretty crap.
Those were the reasons I switched a few years back; the closed source driver was never very good. The open source driver has improved by leaps and bounds the last couple years, and I was quite happy when AMD announced they were moving to the hybrid model (crappy proprietary modules for those who really want/need them, but all will [eventually] run on top of the open source bits).

As others have mentioned, the power consumption / performance ratio is a bit behind on the hardware side; we'll see how the next generation from both vendors compares. At least AMD is much more competitive than previously, for both GPUs and CPUs!

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
27 Dec 2017 at 6:49 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedjeThough to be fair, the Opteron system that I had worked great for many years.
Ironically, Nvidia made some of the best AMD motherboard chipsets (nForce).

The Libretro Team and other emulators are being ripped off by companies trying to make a quick buck
21 Dec 2017 at 6:45 am UTC

Quoting: GuestI've even been contacted by companies asking me to port the latest version of Stella to RetroArch so they can use it in their product!
I hope you quote them a tidy sum, with the understanding that everyone else gets to use it, too.

Disney's The Lion King & The Jungle Book now have Linux support on Steam
21 Dec 2017 at 6:39 am UTC

Quoting: qptain NemoLands of Lore 1
I still have that one in the original shrink wrap - never did get around to trying it (I have soooo many games with nowhere near enough time). Is it really good?

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth - Book 2 'Sowing the Wind' is now out
21 Dec 2017 at 6:36 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Joeyboots80I love Adventure games
Daedalic has been providing a fairly steady stream of great adventure games, gotta love it.