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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Oct 2017 at 8:22 pm UTC

Quoting: eridanired123Apparently [bRyzen has been a success for AMD[/b], trends show that users are slowly changing their preferences (very slowly). In the GPU department, behaviour is quite similar. Screw you nVidia!

I expect AMD GPUs adoption rate to accelerate next year, if AMD will sort out availability issues. Mesa is close to getting ahead of Nvidia blob in most aspects (Vulkan still needs stronger push).

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Oct 2017 at 8:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

@liamdawe: in the trends section, color bars above the graphs (map) are a bit hard to read, because they just show a thin color outline around a gray rectangle. It would be way more readable as solid color.

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
25 Oct 2017 at 5:39 pm UTC

Quoting: Janhttps://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/news/aspyr_ver%C3%B6ffentlicht_heute_die_linux_version_des_cyber_punk_horror_titels_observer

They asked Aspyr. Answer: Observer Linux is Steam only. WTF?!?
That's just stupid:

The game is now released and at Steam for download with almost 8 GB ready. Unfortunately the game needs a steam connection when entering the menu. As Aspyr told us on demand, the Linux version will not be available at GOG, although the game is available there for Windows and OS X.
Why can't Aspyr make a GOG release? Needing Steam connection is just bunk. Windows version doesn't need it somehow.

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
25 Oct 2017 at 5:16 pm UTC

Quoting: JanGerman Linux gaming site Holarse is claiming Observer for Linux (and Mac) won‘t come to GOG at all! This would mean the only DRM-free version is for Windows users only. Oh, the irony.
Can you link to the source please?

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
25 Oct 2017 at 1:59 am UTC

By the way, why is it missing Linux release on GOG? Does it have any multiplayer features that would rely on Galaxy?

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
24 Oct 2017 at 7:41 pm UTC

Looks like the game is using Unreal Engine 4, so possibly those issues are related to problems UE4 had with older Mesa (which are resolved with recent one). I agree, this lack of details from developers is not helping at all.

It's kind of strange though, that developers needed a porting company for UE based game.

EVERSPACE expansion released, will work on Linux soon and it's coming to GOG
24 Oct 2017 at 7:32 pm UTC Likes: 2

Great news indeed! Looking forward to playing it.

Get ready to become a neural detective as 'Observer' is now on Linux, AMD not supported
24 Oct 2017 at 7:30 pm UTC Likes: 4

Did they describe the problem they had with AMD? Not supporting it today is pretty fishy. As usual, they should have filed Mesa bugs. I don't see any that mention Observer title.

Wine Staging 2.19 is now available with more D3D11 work
24 Oct 2017 at 6:06 pm UTC

Quoting: throghWell? For a "dead" project PlayOnLinux releases even continous new versions of WINE, static built. But hey, the "dead" seems to live longer?
When was the last time the code itself updated? It's using GTK2, and seems to be frozen. Their effort to rewrite it in Qt is stalled as well I think. Forums are mostly deserted. I suspect the development has ceased altogether.

Wine Staging 2.19 is now available with more D3D11 work
23 Oct 2017 at 8:36 pm UTC

Lately I wrote a few scripts, which manage Wine prefixes and allow using different Wine versions. Kind of what PlayOnLinux does, but just in shell. And winetricks can be used in combination with that to install extra components. POL looks stalled if not dead project, so that prompted me to make something custom. Though I usually make a launcher script for each title semi-manually.