This "OH NOES, STEAM SURVEY SAYS LINUX PERCENTAGE IS DROPPING, DOOM AND GLOOM NOW!" stuff sure is entertaining.

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I've signed up and will probably try to come up with something, even though I'm absolutely hopeless at anything graphical. Should be able to put together something arcade-y in Godot though.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleSuch negativity. If I were a dev doing a Kickstarter reading all this, I'd probably just not bother trying to support Linux since it looks like Linux users are a bunch of cranky assholes that most likely won't support the Kickstarter to begin with.

Sorry, but we've been bitten so many times people that end up reading this article and consider backing it deserve to at least be warned. Sure, the Kickstarter looks shiny and all but there are signs here about problems we have seen in the past (developing on Windows with Unity3D expecting the port to be simple but then it turns out to be a nightmare after a couple of "simple" pieces of middleware have been thrown into the mix). I'm very sorry I cannot be a happy ball of positivity with these Kickstarter games.

If they ship, good for them and I will pick up their game, but until they do or at least show they have a working Linux pre-alpha build I'm steering the hell away.

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Okay, some pessimistic observations:

€100,000 goal

since the game is being developed with Unity we don't expect the porting process to be too painful

Though we're currently developing on Windows

who knows what will happen between now and release

we will really try to launch at the same time

At least Linux wasn't a stretch goal but I myself will steer clear of the Kickstarter, as usual.

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Well, my rig has gone completely red (it even has red RGB lighting) after my purchase of the Ryzen 7 1700. So far I'm quite happy with my redness.

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This bug seems to have only affected people running more bleeding edge Mesa (+ LLVM) setups. I personally haven't noticed anything being rendered incorrectly on my Antergos installation (Mesa 17.0.1 and LLVM 3.9.1).

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Quoting: Dea1993woow
i've a laptop with an APU A10 8700p (very similar to the A10 9600p).
my APU has 15W tdp (the version with 35TDP, is a lot more powerful), how many TDP has the 9600p that you have tested?
have you tested with DDR3 or DDR4??? what is the frequency of the ram?
for the integrated APU's GPU, the ram frequency is really important for performance.
you must give us more information

RAM frequencies were mentioned in the article. It's running 1866 MHz DDR4 and the TDP of this APU is 15W, which I think is the default for a 9600p.

And when it comes to DIMM amount, I'm pretty sure there's two sticks in there running in dual-channel. This laptop's an absolute bitch to get to the innards though, so verifying that isn't particularly easy. And for those interested in the model, this is an HP Notebook 15, the APU variant.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTIs Black Mesa a viable alternative? I'm not sure if I feel like playing a 13 years old game. If you've played those games from the very beginning it's not a problem.

I'd say it's very viable. Naturally it still doesn't have Xen but the rest of the story is in there. And from what I've heard, Xen isn't necessarily the best part of the original.

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Quoting: EhvisTorment: Tides of Numenera not your thing? Or do you not want to do that because it's more of a long term project?

Partially the fact that it would be a long term project and also partially due to the price. I'm going for a PC upgrade in near-future and 45€ is going to cut into my budget a fair bit, particularly since I already bought DiRT. Also, like you said, a fairly slow-moving RPG isn't going to work out too well in the livestream format. If it's anything like Wasteland 2, it would take me ages to complete and it's probably not something you can pick up and play, leave for a while and then jump back to, which is pretty important for a livestream.

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Quoting: hardpenguinThat was amazing :D More please!

More will definitely be made. Probably not about the rest of HL2 but when the co-optimizing of Portal 2 happens I will be sure to download the VODs for yet another video like this. Naturally these won't be happening that often since just this video required going through about 4 hours of footage and took about 2 and a half hours to edit.

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