Obviously this wouldn't be a problem if people just stuck to Linux and Linux games. Shame on those that have bought Windows games! /s

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Quoting: LeopardYou're right ,it is not entertaining but that is a fact and one of logical reasons about this lack of some games and cancelled ports or Linux version promised but cancelled Kickstarter games.

I'm serious, it's very entertaining. People like you only look at the percentage in the end and never wonder about the total user base and then you go on massive crusades telling everyone how bad (you think) the situation is.

Also, those failed Kickstarters have existed for a while now and I would attribute those to blatant greed and incompetence rather than current Linux percentage in the hardware survey. And, if you want, you can check our wiki page for ports that have gone MIA or been cancelled. It's a fairly short list.

Meanwhile, in the real life, we are getting more ports than we have ever before and a number of those are major titles. And if we talk about games that are actually being played right now, we have a fair chunk of the top games. Last I checked it was actually a vast majority. At the same time we are seeing impressive improvements to our driver stack and, at least in terms of GOL, we are constantly seeing more traffic and our social media platforms keep growing in terms of member/follower numbers.

Don't think for a second that Linux is in worse shape than it was a year or two ago.

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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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