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Latest Comments by Xpander
Tomes of Mephistopheles updates
15 Feb 2012 at 11:11 am UTC

well im fine with the blood stuff on player character also.
but from the video it seemed to come from 1 placeonly and on the center of screen
would be better if its spurting out from the places u got hit or when it just flys out after a hit(like spiting) but not all the time:D

Tomes of Mephistopheles updates
14 Feb 2012 at 8:39 pm UTC

seems nice.
except the blood effect.
thats a bit weird:=)

also..i kind a forgot..thats darkplaces engine atm right?
and there was some talk about converting it to unigine?..
or that was some other game:D

Indie Royale includes Lume for Linux
10 Feb 2012 at 6:22 pm UTC

im with Hamish on thisone. Alltho i buy some windows games also and play them with wine.
This still is not a good sign for me.. i better buy it with full price off the desura than supporting the devs who dont make linux ports of their games.
specially those small indie games which allready have mac port and dont have linux port.

"UFO: Alien Invasion" developers' interview
7 Feb 2012 at 7:56 pm UTC

ohh it is in desura...
guess i have been blind :D

"UFO: Alien Invasion" developers' interview
7 Feb 2012 at 1:00 pm UTC

nice interview.
hope this game comest to desura soon. so i can have all my stuff in one place.

The Humble Bundle for Android!
2 Feb 2012 at 9:12 pm UTC

the bundle is fine.. edge is pretty fun actually(nice music and stuff)
anomaly is quite interesting also but terrible voice acting turns me off somehow.
world of goo is know to everybody, just a perfect game.
and osmos is known to everybody also, really nice relaxing game(alltho not so relaxing sometimes when u get hit by bigger ones :D)

The Humble Bundle for Android!
2 Feb 2012 at 8:25 am UTC

if i remember correct i tryed swapbuffer tweak, with no improvement in minecraft but that was longer time ago than my lastest with open source drivers.
i expected the opensource drivers work out of the box to be honest, like they advertise it (out of the box linux experience)
checking around all kinds of benchmarks seems that gallium drivers are still far far behind from prop in terms of performance.
and according to phoronix, swapbuffer tweak is done in most tests. also i heard that bigger resolution kills the open source drivers since they depend more on a cpu somehow. Also u have to compile the stuff ur own with the s3tc patch if u want to make more games work.
naah im fine that it works for some people. but for me those drivers have allways been 5 years behind. even opengl support is still 2.1? or now lately some 3.x features also, while i enjoy opengl 4.1 and 4.2 features quite a while.

I have nothing against those drivers and against people who using them. But its sad to see that people complain that this and this runs crap and this wont run at all.. good example is all kinds of Oil Rush topics. people complain that it doesnt run on open source drivers and it was waste of money. yet the official requirements say clearly that you need proprietary drivers.
people starting to complain thats what i dont like about it. you are not forced to use those drivers if u have a decent nvidia/amd card.
thats one of the reasons why i think there are not much triple A games on linux(not the main problem tho). cuz the foss drivers arent there yet and probably wont be for the near future.

in the end of all of it. use what u want. but dont limit urself only for foss if you want to use something that doesnt work well with it.

ideed sry for stealing the topic here :)
too bad that my english is not so good to go in for more detailed discussion, but hope you got some point. We can go to private messages if you want to kill some of my thoughts :)

The Humble Bundle for Android!
1 Feb 2012 at 8:02 pm UTC

i didnt want to start long debat here about the drivers here but it happened anyway :D
priorities are different i guess then. for me the MLAA is not the real AA, it just makes stuff blurry and its more of a afterefect than real an AA.
Its good to see that you are getting so good framerate. that means the drivers have been matured (last time i tryed was 2 months ago).
but the games i own or like to play wont run good... i use wine a lot(im not limiting myself only for all the free or native linux stuff). few examples what i play are Minecraft, Oilrush, Dead Island, Warhammer Online, Wrath Of Heroes, Deus Ex Human Revolution, GTA IV, Fallen Earth, Fallout 3 and NV and so on.. with all 128x1024 resolution and maxed graphical settings or nearly maxed without any framerate issues with nvidia proprietary drivers. while with opensource drivers most of them doesnt even run at all.

u probably want to ask why the hell im using Linux if i want to play those games?.
Answer is simple.. Linux is freedom of choice... its higly configurable and stable. Yet i dont limit myself only for opensource/free stuff.
Im still a Gamer and im Dualboot hater.. so i want to play all my games on my prefered destkop.

hope that explains.
people are just different. i want to get max out of my hardware..rather than wait for years to get something to work and by that time my hardware is old allready.

The Humble Bundle for Android!
1 Feb 2012 at 6:15 pm UTC

well i have tryed open source drivers serveral times with my ati 5770 and with gtx560 Ti.... performance is just terrible.
yes the desktop stuff works fine..but games run really really bad and gaming through wine is even more impossible.
i got like 20 fps max with minecraft with opensource drivers 10-15 fps in HoN/Savage2 15 fps in Doom3 and so on (all games at lowest graphical settings).
while with proprietary drivers i get 200+ in minecraft, 75+ in HoN/Savage2 annd 50+ in Doom3 and all games at max graphical settings

its just not worth to use them if u dont get the power of ur hardware..not to mention th broken power management of open source drivers no Anti Aliasing support and so on.

proof is all around the internets also
just one example of it: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_80_r300r600&num=4 [External Link]

about screenshots... dunno from where u checked..but it looks pretty damn good for an indie game.
specially the lightning and shadows.

The Humble Bundle for Android!
1 Feb 2012 at 12:39 pm UTC

Anomaly is quite nice yes. graphics are really nice and gameplay is pretty interesting also. it feels a bit like AAA title indeed.
just the voice acting and script are pretty bad imo. but its an indie, so its not bad if u put it that way. runs smooth without problems(at least using with proprietary nvidia drivers. 290.10). probably doesnt run that good with open source drivers. Well Gamers wont use open source drivers anyway i think, cuz u get 3-4x less performance and missing some features with those drivers.