Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI hope that the delay of LIS: Before the storm is due to the addition of a VULKAN support.

I'm thinking it's probably Unity bugs, but could also be Vulkan I guess.

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Yea I'm interested, but I haven't spent much time with it due to some issues. After the last update it constantly crashes a few minutes in so it's basically unplayable for me now. Earlier versions worked alright though, but the foliage texture flickering with mesa has always annoyed me and takes most of the fun out of it. Multiplayer compatibility has been another thing that takes the fun out of it. Once it works, is up to date and allows us to spend time on populated servers I'll definetly start playing again. Clocked >1400h playing and modding the game before I ditched Windows, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the game, but it seems to have changed a lot since then.

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Please Feral, make this game come to macOS and Linux, and don't forget about Captain Spirit as well :)

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It's a bit of a shame that 1.84 is just around the corner for Windows users. I'm willing to bet they release it next thursday, so if you want to play in a crowded multiplayer-environment, you better do it now while you can. Nice to see they keep updating the ports though. I hope it releases without the experimental tag one day.

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And while they are updating older games, what about Wayland support? GNOME on x.org hasn't even been working for me after x.org 1.20 update earlier this year. I've had lots of problems with games running through xwayland. RotTR for example freezes at the splash screen before I even get to the main menu. Lots of games have huge frame-rate issues when using xwayland. I think the only game that runs well for me right now is Borderlands 2.

Edit; Okay, I just tried CoH2 for the first time in a while and it runs very well through xwayland.

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Never had any problems, but it's nice to not have to see that popup about unsupported graphics every time I launch it :)

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Quoting: lucifertdarkWhich order should I play them in once this one arrives? I have the original & haven't played past deciding whether to save the bully from a paint shower or just let it happen.

Yea, go back and finish the original first. And if you haven't gotten past Victoria on the stairs yet then you haven't seen anything really, so you are in for a good rollercoaster once things starts unfolding :)

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAbout the kernel, according to Ubuntu Sysinfo, this is what I have 4.4.0-121-generic (#145~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 16 18:40:43 UTC 2018)

Feature wise, that's a kernel from fall 2015 [External Link] but with current security fixes. That's probably fine for a Haswell system but wouldn't work well on more modern hardware. I don't think the kernel is to blame for your segfaults though. That's probably the fault of some userspace components, but that means upgrading your distro is the solution either way.

Bionic Beaver is running on Linux 4.15 which has already had 18 point releases and should be pretty stable by now. I actually upgraded a Haswell based laptop from 17.10 to 18.04 a few days ago and it's running fine. Yesterday I did the same upgrade on an even older laptop and it's running fine as well. 17.10 had some issues, but there was so much that was new in 17.10 and it was basically an experiment to get things right for 18.04, and it seems they did manage to get it right this time. They reverted Wayland back to x.org which fixes a lot of issues, so they are actually being quite conservative with Bionic and treating it like an LTS should be treated.

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Quoting: donbastianoJust upgrade to 18.04 (Unity desktop) but the game still doesn't start, it crashes with signal 6 ("System does not support 3D API required by this Game!" ) after the Feral launcher said the graphic card or the driver is not supported. I think I have problem with vulkan, does anyone know what can I check?

Mesa: 18.0.0-rc5
Radeon RX 570 Series (POLARIS10 / DRM 3.23.0 / 4.15.0-20-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)

Running vulkaninfo

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.70
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
/build/vulkan-Kbdbga/vulkan-1.1.70+dfsg1/demos/vulkaninfo.c:768: failed with VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

Are you sure you have the mesa vulkan drivers installed?
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: g000hOff Topic:

One thing I have been doing and intending to do more of, in the future - When installing the Linux distro, I use LVM to chop the file-system up into separate volumes, and I set up the home directory on its own volume, and I also leave free space in the Volume Group, for adding more Logical Volumes later.

By doing this, I can add multiple distros onto the same machine, with each one potentially using the same Swap volume and Home directory volume.

I'm not sure this is a good plan. Lots of appliction configurations lie in the home directory somewhere. While applications should be able to cope when you're changing to a newer version, accessing them from a distro with an older version may lead to trouble.

Yep. I've run into trouble before when copying my home folder between different computers running different distros. Solved it by removing all configuration files in the home folder, but that might not always be desirable.

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