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Feral Interactive have released a new teaser for a Linux & Mac port to come
8 Apr 2017 at 11:55 am UTC Likes: 1
Well I've just about done Hitman to death so I'm ready for Shadow Warrior 2 or another Tomb Raider. Bring it on Feral :D
Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME
7 Apr 2017 at 9:40 am UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: BeamboomIt's all about the editorial balance. It's nice to find "something else" here, just to spice things up, as long as we doesn't feel it goes at the expense of gaming news.
Agreed. I'm very happy to have the occasional non-gaming article, there's no need to be too strict about it. Something like this is big news and impacts people's desktops (not mine I should add) and running of games ultimately.

Good news for Wayland but a shame for those losing a job.
Ballistic Overkill is one Unity title that may see an update with Vulkan
1 Apr 2017 at 11:59 am UTC
@silmeth - I wondered what the hell you were talking about, then I noticed the header bar at the top! :D
Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
30 Mar 2017 at 3:19 pm UTC Likes: 2
Wow, those numbers are incredible. Just my luck that I recently uninstalled Mad Max after finishing it... oh, what's that? "Downloading" :)

Oops, forgot to say "Thank you Feral"!
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 3:57 pm UTC
Quoting: Cybolic
Quoting: HailToTheGrail
Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?
You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.
No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/
I've always set 'performance' for gaming. I have an i7 and just use an alias along the lines of 'sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance' with the corresponding allowance in sudoers - '/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g performance', so no password entering every time. Plus the same for 'powersave'.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past DLC now supports Linux & SteamOS
17 Mar 2017 at 11:15 am UTC
Cheers Feral, will be picking this up for sure :) I finished the main game a while back but have kept it installed for "just one more go"... now I feel justified!
2Dark released without a Linux version despite promising it during crowdfunding
13 Mar 2017 at 10:40 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: NaughtyDeveloperI guess people could ask for a refund? Because they advertised a feature they did not deliver?
Worth a try... didn't work for me with Carmageddon though, I was totally ignored - along with many, many others. It really is unacceptable.
Mad Max is currently 50% off on the Feral Store
10 Mar 2017 at 4:24 pm UTC
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: darkszluf
Quoting: tuubiMad Max gave me ~90 entertaining hours of gameplay. Easily worth the price. Go grab it already.
how many times did you played trough it? i've got 50 hours and that's 2 and a half of playtrough of mine.
Once, but I'm one of those weird people who just can't help but thoroughly explore every nook and cranny. Also beat every racing challenge and whatnot.
91 hours here and totally in sync with you regarding the exploring. I take my time and immerse myself. Loved the game, fantastic.
A look at how much RAM you might need as a Linux gamer
6 Mar 2017 at 10:28 am UTC
I must be the odd one out around here :P Whenever I game I close everything running, which is usually only browser and email (Pale Moon and FossaMail) anyway unless I've been doing something specific.

I have 16GB and give 14G to /dev/shm as I use this extensively for working in RAM (compiling, temporary storage, video/audio conversion, ripping DVDs etc, etc). I don't use a DE or swap and like to keep memory freed up. I may just be a little OCD about it!
Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet
27 Feb 2017 at 4:52 pm UTC
I absolutely loved Shadow Of Mordor and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Linux port of this one.