Quoting: docofkultI have been contemplating doing a retro build for some time specifically for playing the Loki games. However, besides some dabbeling with Red Hat around the turn of the century, most of my Linux knowledge have been gained after Ubuntu came around. My initial idea is to do a close to contempary build with a contemporary OS as to not have to fight issues like described in the article. Hardware will likely be Pentium III and a 3dfx graphics card. Not too sure about which sound cards actually had good support at the time. I would appreciate any suggestions as to which OS to go with and any sound card recommendations.

SB Live 5.1 with emu10k1 chipset worked miracles back then. So much pain saved thanks to beeing able to open it "exclusively" multiple times. Do not confuse with the emu10k tho. That was garbage :D

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Those were the days :D

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Quoting: EikeNot everybody changed their computer yesterday, and Intel was better for decades.

^-- This.

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Well, the feature list for my recent Coffee-Lake is also impressive already:

• cpu_meltdown


• spectre_v1


• spectre_v2


• spec_store_bypass


• l1tf


• mds


• swapgs


• taa


• itlb_multihit

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: beko

Quoting: TheRiddickI think like thousand people have got this virus (probably more) now and only ~26 confirmed deaths so far. Nature is going to need to do a HELL of allot better then that to wipe us out!

Let's come back to this statement in ~10 yrs to do the math.

A fair point, but remember SARS (which was also a coronavirus)? The initial panic was very similar, then it all just sort of... fizzled out. Maybe this one's tougher or something, but I'll begin to worry when people I know are catching it.

I doubt we'll have to deal with just one soon. Also there's this climate catastrophe that _already happened_. It's downwards from here - that's what science tells us and I'd wager it's the optimistic version :(

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Quoting: TheRiddickI think like thousand people have got this virus (probably more) now and only ~26 confirmed deaths so far. Nature is going to need to do a HELL of allot better then that to wipe us out!

Let's come back to this statement in ~10 yrs to do the math.

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Look what rolled in today (Version 27560 (December 19)):

* Added train editing feature
* Added cargo load ratio feature
* Added Set line - New line feature

Source [External Link]

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Build in pause mode seems to help a lot because in that case FPS drops don't matter much.
…and that AA is really killing FPS for me. Without I manage to keep my ~60 (vsync). Still fiddling with my config. Somewhat sorry that they didn't manage Vulkan :(

Gameplay wise it's nice. Played flawless for >6h now. They really polished track construction and once you get used to the new UI (and hotkeys) it's really smooth. Modular stations are fun. That dreaded "track is blocked" is gone. Can now build even with trains on the track. That is really awesome since it drove me up the walls with TF1 _a lot_. Also a clear indicator where some collision is.

Hope some missing features like auto-replace will be (re-)added soon.

Price is a sour spot. I understand that this is a niche game.

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Much soldiering, very wow :woot:

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Quoting: juliotuxI'm beta testing the game, native on Linux, and the support is great! Much less problems than the final TF1 version!

I will not lie. First time I pre-ordered any game since the TW3 debacle. This comment helped a lot.

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