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Typoman: Revised released for Linux, a puzzle platformer with some word puzzling mixed in
13 Feb 2017 at 12:24 pm UTC

It feels a lot like Limbo, which isn't a bad thing, i quite enjoyed it for the short time i played.
pretty nice couch game i think.

as always my video spam also(Gameplay video):

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Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
9 Feb 2017 at 3:49 pm UTC

i just ran my CPU with GTX 1070 against the recent phoronix tests with celeron, pentium, i3 to i7 and i have to say :D AMD is pretty bad, beating celeron by small margin and thats 4.5ghz while celeron is 2.9ghz, singlthreaded games i guess :)

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1702092-TA-1702083RI26 [External Link]

Bioshock Infinite and Portal test did not run somehow.

Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
9 Feb 2017 at 2:47 pm UTC

Quoting: m2mg2I think they listed similar minimums on some of their other games. I have an FX 8350 and haven't had issues with Mad Max, Tomb Raider or Deus Ex MD. I do have a GTX 980 so maybe that makes up for the cpu a little? IDK
really? Deus Ex MD runs good? i have places where fps drops down to 25, which is unacceptable.. no matter how low u put my settings.. and i have GTX 1070. Same with Mad Max, rare places, some camps where looking at some specific angles fps tanks to 19-25fps, while other than that its mostly 70+ FPS

Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
9 Feb 2017 at 2:38 pm UTC

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Xpanderpatiently waiting for ryzen also :)
The thing that is worrying about Ryzen is that in comparisons (at this point leaked, so not definitive), 8 core Ryzen CPUs are paired as competitive to 4 core Intel CPUs. If this turns out to be true, then that doesn't bode well for Ryzen single core performance. This may throw a big wrench into the gaming side of things until such a time where everything is properly designed around Vulkan/multi-core.
if the price is correct i take more cores every time over less cores :) specially considering vulkan that will take care of those and my pc is not only for gaming also :)

on their presentation though they compared against 8 core 16 thread intel afaik and it was close.. it was skylake though but kaby lake is zero IPC gain anyway, just higher clocks.

it thik why they compare against 4 core intel is because the pricerange will be same

Feral Interactive have released the HITMAN system requirements for Linux, NVIDIA & AMD supported
9 Feb 2017 at 12:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: rick01457
Quoting: XpanderMy cpu is minimum.. ohh damn it :D
I'm in the same boat as you. Th 8350 was pretty sweet a few years ago but i'm really hoping Ryzen is all that it's promised to be, and soon.
yeah, it was quite decent, sadly under linux its a bit worse because opengl isnt really threaded enough and singlecore perf sucks on those CPUs.. under windows this CPU can still deliver somewhat with DX11.
Vulkan will change things a bit.. few vulkan titles that are available atm show that this CPU can still deliver.

patiently waiting for ryzen also :)

Croteam say all Serious Sam games are on their way to Linux with Vulkan, also VR on Linux teaser from Valve
8 Feb 2017 at 4:58 pm UTC

Quoting: PixelPi
Quoting: XpanderCroteam FTW! They were the firs to start testing Vulkan in their game also and its now pretty solid and i'm getting huge performance gains with vulkan in Talos, almost 2x perf vs opengl
With an AMD card or Nvidia?
Nvidia ofc.
AMD should get their shit togheter with their drivers before i buy their GPUS. I dont want to deal with this works, but that doesnd, this needs mesa this, that needs mesa that and this perfoms shit on that.

Croteam say all Serious Sam games are on their way to Linux with Vulkan, also VR on Linux teaser from Valve
8 Feb 2017 at 10:05 am UTC Likes: 5

Croteam FTW! They were the firs to start testing Vulkan in their game also and its now pretty solid and i'm getting huge performance gains with vulkan in Talos, almost 2x perf vs opengl

Can't wait to playe First/Second Encounter HD versions!

DiRT Rally system requirements revealed ahead of the Linux release next month, NVIDIA & AMD supported
6 Feb 2017 at 2:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

4770 as recommended cpu.. that means my FX-8320@4,5ghz wont have nice time cranking everything to max?

Ryzen is not far away though :D

Mesa developer Marek is looking to finally sort out threaded GL dispatch
6 Feb 2017 at 2:02 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SamsaiNvidia had their threaded optimizations disabled by default for a good while too before they were confident enough in shipping that as a default feature (which I think they did some time ago, but I might be wrong). It makes sense that this would be disabled until people can properly optimize it and evaluate its effects in various scenarios. I also read that it can be enabled with an environmental variable, just like Nvidia's thing, so people who want to try and squeeze some performance out of games can do so without it needing to be enabled always.
nvidia enabled it quite recently with 378.09 and from my testing it doesnt seem to work well. It said to be enabled automatically if it gains performance and it disables itself when theres no perf gain but i cant see that happening.

running ARK without it yields 25-40 fps and that nvidia "automatic glthreaded" doesnt seem to turn on. when i foce it with __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 i get 40-80fps in ARK