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Latest Comments by Shmerl
A review of point-and-click adventure Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, now on Steam
23 Mar 2016 at 1:18 am UTC Likes: 1

Sounds like a good game, buy why is it Steam only? I'll contact developers about it.

Nvidia 364.12 released for Linux with official Vulkan, Mir & Wayland support
22 Mar 2016 at 12:43 am UTC Likes: 2

Great. Wayland time is getting closer. Now I'll wait for KWin / KDE Plasma developers to release stable Wayland support.

Unity game engine 5.4 beta is out, developers working on performance
15 Mar 2016 at 10:23 pm UTC

What about Vulkan in Unity? How far away in the future is it? Unity developers are in the Vulkan working group if I understood correctly.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn't look like it will come to Linux any time soon
15 Mar 2016 at 3:36 pm UTC

Vulkan support in CryEngine will come later, so don't expect it to happen too soon.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn't look like it will come to Linux any time soon
15 Mar 2016 at 12:48 am UTC Likes: 3

About Cry Engine. I've heard Chris Roberts mentioning, that current Linux support in it is quite poor and they basically will need to work on it to make it acceptable (and they'll be doing it implementing Vulkan backend). So probably Kingdom Come: Deliverance developers were bitten by this issue and realized they don't have resources like Star Citizen to pull it off. Yeah, too bad for backers I suppose. What they have to do however is to clearly explain what is going on, instead of giving some vague "for technical reasons". And to be fair - they should offer refunds really.

Once Start Citizen effort will break through, if Crytek aren't stupid they'll integrate Vulkan support in the engine as first class.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance doesn't look like it will come to Linux any time soon
14 Mar 2016 at 8:10 pm UTC Likes: 3

How do they explain this technical impossibility exactly? Cry Engine limitations?

On a side note, I expect Cry Engine to get Vulkan support with Star Citizen release.

How big is Linux gaming? Some estimates
14 Mar 2016 at 4:38 pm UTC

@ricki42: Thanks for posting this! It's somewhat annoying to hear all the time that Linux gaming isn't growing or didn't change for the better. It's simply untrue and anyone who paid attention can see how much it changed in just a few recent years.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition patch out now for Linux
11 Mar 2016 at 9:15 pm UTC

I bought it recently on GOG (when they had a discount for it for the first time), but didn't have a chance to play it yet. Still busy with first playthrough of KoTOR games :)

GOL has been updated, few new bits to be aware of
10 Mar 2016 at 3:55 pm UTC

Quoting: adolsonGitLab is excellent! I use them as well. Free private repos FTW!
Not just that. They are FOSS and you can run your own instance where you want.

Qt Company joins Khronos Group and promotes Vulkan
6 Mar 2016 at 8:09 pm UTC

That's unavoidable. Compositing will be a requirement for Wayland for instance. You can do compositing all on the CPU - but it's expensive.