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Latest Comments by Calinou
AMID EVIL, DUSK and many other greats can be found in the Fanatical Shooter Bundle
18 Jul 2025 at 1:53 pm UTC Likes: 3

Thanks for sharing, I got Dusk + Amid Evil along with The Ascent and Hellbound :)

lsfg-vk aims to bring Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux
8 Jul 2025 at 3:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

Some older games have SERIOUS engine issues and simply don't even run well at 4k on 5090
Serious Engine games actually run very well on modern high-end PCs, in my experience. :P

...I'll see myself out.

ScummVM announces support for Another World (Out of This World)
7 Jul 2025 at 6:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

Talk about scope creep. Now they're adding action adventures?
Crusader: No Remorse already runs with ScummVM (with some enhancements compared to the original), so it's not the first time we see ScummVM run games that aren't point & click games.

POSTAL 2 Redux announced, a full remake of the unhinged classic
12 Jun 2025 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

so you can raise hell on the D Bus
Just your average day in FreeDesktop land. :P

NVIDIA stable driver 575.57.08 released for Linux
3 Jun 2025 at 12:40 am UTC

Added support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion. See the "NVIDIA Smooth Motion" chapter in the README for details.
It begins... We finally have some form of universal (i.e. non-game-specific) framegen on Linux :)

I wish it supported more than 2X though, given I have a 240 Hz monitor now.

Ace shooter Selaco gets improved performance and a spiced-up randomizer mode
3 Jun 2025 at 12:35 am UTC

DIT: found out reading more of the Readme, it is forked from Ultimate Doom Builder which uses frameworks. though wondering why they didn't go with slade since slade is more cross-platform?
Ultimate Doom Builder (and GZDoom Builder before it) support more advanced features than SLADE does. People are also more used to its workflow in the Doom community.

SLADE is a good choice if you're starting out with Doom mapping with a mostly-vanilla feature set, but most award-winning maps are made with Ultimate Doom Builder. Selaco in particular uses a lot of advanced features, many of which aren't supported by SLADE.

For what it's worth, Ultimate Doom Builder runs pretty well in WINE nowadays.

Putting Team Fortress 2 inside Half-Life 2, Lambda Fortress is coming to Steam
27 May 2025 at 10:24 pm UTC Likes: 3

I'm guessing the hacker/cheater problem with the official tf2 is doing okay nowadays
It's not too bad these days (especially on community servers where it's rarely been an issue in the first place).

Sonic Rumble from SEGA gets indefinitely delayed to add more features
30 Apr 2025 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm getting my Sonic fix from Godot of all things now.
Is that Sonic Colors Ultimate or something else? I'm curious :)

Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' is out now
18 Apr 2025 at 2:12 pm UTC

Like you can do with Flathub, but which no-one actually does, because FlatHub is convenient.
It's quite common for nightly builds to be distributed as self-contained `.flatpak` files, as Flathub does not allow uploading nightly builds to it.

4A Games are giving away Metro 2033 Redux free for 48 hours
14 Apr 2025 at 10:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

@Calinou, cannot Linux version's settings be forced with config, cfg, ini, autoexec, etc edit?
I haven't tried, but I assume the reason graphics options are limited is that they had to reimplement their rendering engine in OpenGL from scratch. This was the era before you could easily abstract to D3D12/Vulkan/Metal after all. Since it was arguably too much work to cater to the highest graphics settings with features like tesselation, they focused on low graphics settings. Therefore, if you tried to edit configuration files, you would probably either get the same visuals as low settings, or broken visuals.

Feral ports don't have this issue nearly as badly in comparison (even though they also use OpenGL), because they wrote their own FeralGL translation layer. This way, the game's existing renderer barely needs to be touched to work. MangoHud will detect FeralGL and display it on its overlay next to the FPS counter (same for most other wrappers like Valve's ToGL).