Quoting: SslaxxLLVM, yet again proving itself to be a wonder tech.

A wondererous awesome piece of software my brain cannot understand :P. But it is cool.

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Quoting: leillo1975I think Icculus should finish a project before starting another. Sanctum 2 have a lot of bugs...

I give him credit for some of his ports. But equally some have been rushed in the past and some are just in a terrible state. I'm sure there are other guys who would happily port games to Linux and it would be healthier for the dev community as a whole to not also pile jobs on him but spread them around.

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Quoting: liamdaweMaybe I did mean Windows programmers? Having to drop to a command line is a pain for a lot of people and the quicker Linux elitists realise that the better we will all be. We have to break out of this mentality if we will ever accept windows converts.

Spread love not hate.

This is true, but the problem with linux that ties us to the command line interface is that not everyone has the same GUI!

The solution to this I can think of off the top of my head is having cross DE configuration tools (i.e. configuration tools that can be used regardless of desktop environment, like for example xrandr which unfortujnately (as faras I know) has no official GUI front end)

QT is cross de (and even cross platform) and I bet almost every linux user will have it installed.

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Quoting: DMJCOpenGL Drama summed up:
ATi/AMD hasn't put enough resources into their OpenGL drivers despite having 15-20 odd years to do so.

Game developers used to ATi/AMD having decent performance on Windows are crying about OpenGL being a mess because they're encountering all the bad things about ATi/AMD that make Linux users avoid them.

ProTip: There's nothing wrong with OpenGL, just with ATi/AMD's lack of developer manpower in getting OpenGL working correctly. Maybe if they hired some of the University of Utah guys who helped invent OpenGL and put some real resources into making a decent driver. they wouldn't be crying about it not working now.

Remember that for years Linux/Unix was a second class citizen on ATi/AMD whereas NVIDIA went out of their way to support Solaris, Mac OSX, FreeBSD and Linux. Now that the market is swinging back towards UNIX with OSX/Linux AMD's been caught out.

Too bad so sad. I'll keep running Intel and NVIDIA hardware which I know works on Linux.Now that NVIDIA is contributing to Nouveau (I suspect because their engineers had a look and realised that Nouveau is actually working and not just a joke project anymore) They probably see it as a way of developing an open source driver without infringing on any of their licensed code/trade secrets that they can't open.
Remember: In benchmarks Michael Larabel at Phoronix.com ran, the nouveau driver outperformed the NVIDIA Binary blob driver when the gpu and memory were forced to run at full speed (bypassing the reclocking issue)

As far as I know, Nvidia still isn't helping the nouveau team (they just contribute to Tegra support). On the contrary, AMD guys put effort to the open drivers.

Exactly, AMD have engineers writing code right now for the open driver and Nvidia simply released a few files detaling some parts of the GPUs.

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Quoting: FutureSutureWhy only Half-Life: Source and not Half-Life? Is it because one uses Source and the other uses Goldsrc? They look identical. The only difference is physics.

Pretty much yeah. Half-Life only gets security fixes nowadays.

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Quite frankly people, $25 is a hell of a lot cheaper than most magazines (Although I love Linux Voice <3) and so you could concider 3-4 articles a day (or about 2 pages) a worthy investment.

That makes around 60 pages a month which in turn equates to a magazine sporting 720 pages for only $25, surely thats more than enough of a reason to support GOL and Liam. And even those magazines have ads in them when you can actually morally turn them off.

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I left adblock on by accident for ages D:.
Good thing the supporter badge redeems me.

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Good news but hopefully the game will be as fully featured as the other platforms. Metro: Last Light didn't quite hit it but hopefully if it comes out at the same time there is no need to worry.

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Aplogies for not making recent events, I've been scattered all over the place recently. Shall be coming to the next events as much as possible though,

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Quoting: FTW

Quoting: Anonymousamd sucks. I hope they go out of business. I really do.

I agree with others, if they go out of bussiness, Nvidia has nothing to worry about

You're not being clear here. Are you saying you WANT them to go out of business because Nvidia have nothing to worry about or are you talking about it being an issue due to lack of competition and Nvidia have nothing to worry about.

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