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Latest Comments by Xpander
Kona, an eerie narrative-driven adventure game is now out on Linux, it's a bit buggy
23 Mar 2017 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

it is much more than Firewatch, but at the same time you don't have dialog choices in KONA.
its a story-line you just follow through, but theres loot, simple crafting (combining items) and weapons in this game.

think of it like The Long Dark with storymode

Kona, an eerie narrative-driven adventure game is now out on Linux, it's a bit buggy
23 Mar 2017 at 3:12 pm UTC Likes: 1

i did not have this issue. but i didnt use saves i think.

this is another unity game done right in terms of performance.

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 10:53 am UTC Likes: 2

i have always used my keyboard macro buttons for forcing ondemand or performance. even with opengl it helped with the microstutering

my script is like that:

pkexec cpupower frequency-set -g performance && notify-send "Performance Mode" "Cpu clocks set to perfromance mode" -t 2000 -i messagebox_info

and other one for the ondemand mode also. pkexec is for polkit rule to not have to use root.

AMD have announced Ryzen 5 will launch in April
16 Mar 2017 at 10:56 am UTC Likes: 4

Rocking a Ryzen 7, very happy with my purchase. Gamers will be happy with the R5, im quite sure. It probably wont reach to the levels of Kaby Lake performance, but for budget gamers i believe it will be an amazing product.

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
10 Mar 2017 at 2:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Dirt Rally mostly. Best game ever :D so amazing with the wheel.. Finland is my favourite



Some ARK as well, not too much but its working incredibly smooth on my Ryzen :)

OBS Studio livestreaming and recording application updated, plenty of bug fixes
7 Mar 2017 at 6:28 pm UTC

Quoting: 0aTTUpdating OBS is a pain, because of NVENC we have to recompile and install OBS/ffmpeg manually. With these few changes is seems really not worthwhile. Still using version 15.

But thank you for reporting this.
depends what distro you use.. Arch for example has nvenc included in default ffmpeg. not hard at all.

A look at how much RAM you might need as a Linux gamer
6 Mar 2017 at 5:08 am UTC Likes: 3

And if some people are like me who has Browser with 40 tabs constantly opened which may take 6-7GB itself, then yeah 8GB aint cut it. I sometimes run out of 16GB even.. i probably need 32 :)

Start your engines as DiRT Rally is now on Linux, port report & review
2 Mar 2017 at 4:29 pm UTC Likes: 2

And Below Spec CPU video

View video on youtube.com

its actually playable on high settings with 40+ fps most of the time with some dips down to 35 when not recording.
OBS was making this a lot worse though, because i added my SJCAM M10 into it as well.

Menus are super slow on this CPU though.

Seems to be pretty good port from feral.

Cant wait to get my Ryzen stuff already and run it at max :)

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
26 Feb 2017 at 9:21 am UTC

Quoting: MintedGamer
Quoting: XpanderCan't wait for April statistics to see if AMD CPU share has started to rise.

i myself planning to buy one in March :)
Me too! :) The pre-release leaks and reviews look really, really promising. I think the top of the range i7 chips may still have a slight edge in single core performance but it looks like everything is pointing to AMD absolutely blowing the Intel chips out the water in price vs performance.

I'm hoping AMD shake things up a bit and make the market competitive again.
Actually i have to buy it on the Launch now or even pre-order :)

i managed to kill my current shitty montherboard. VRMs died :D damn that OC was too much for this board.



Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Feb 2017 at 9:07 am UTC Likes: 3

Can't wait for April statistics to see if AMD CPU share has started to rise.

i myself planning to buy one in March :)