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Latest Comments by MayeulC
Help get good looking FPS 'Squad' on Linux
19 Jan 2016 at 7:20 pm UTC

Looks nice. At first, I though it was a Squad game (KSP Developer) :D

Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port on their radar
19 Jan 2016 at 7:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Nice of them to have added Mac/Linux icons :)

Medieval II: Total War Collection released for Linux & SteamOS
18 Jan 2016 at 8:02 am UTC

Performance a bit low on a 6870 (40-60 FPS), but still very playable with radeon driver.

Feral, would it be possible for you to try out your ports on a different keyboard than qwerty (hint : azerty)? Of course, settings are broken by default, which is the norm, but when I remap my keyboard in-game to a qwerty one with a shortcut (plasma 5), the game ignores this. It seems you are using keycodes, which don't (as far as I know) change between different layouts. So, I don't really understand what you did wrong there :/
Allowing to remap keys ingame would also do, but I guess it's rather complicated.

This years GDC conference will have a very interesting Vulkan & DX12 talk from AMD
12 Jan 2016 at 9:34 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI expect NVIDIA to help with the open source NVIDIA driver for Vulkan support, since supporting Vulkan in drivers is supposed to be pretty trivial, much more-so than with OpenGL.
Well, this would require them to release their signed firmwares, which I don't think will happen anytime soon.

Rocket League will be on SteamOS & Linux before the Xbox One in February
7 Jan 2016 at 11:56 am UTC

This game always reminds me of this old map from halo 2 killtrocity mod :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVwpsjsvNkI [External Link]

(I couldn't find any other video of it, sorry).
Looking forward to it :)

AMD has announced their 14nm FinFET Polaris GPU architecture
5 Jan 2016 at 12:43 am UTC

This is going to be an interesting year for AMD, I swear it. Either hit or miss, but with 14nm Zen CPUs, GCN4 GPUs, and Vulkan, they have an explosive trio full of potential.

I expect their drivers to be a lot more efficient with vulkan, provided we get games that use the API at all. I also look forward to good open-source Vulkan drivers, which should be a thing quite shortly after the specs release. If so, one of the last advantages of closed-source drivers will be per-game shaders optimizations. And even then, I expect the new SPIR-V representation to be able to lead to even more optimized shaders.

End of the year benchmarks, GTX 760 and R7 370
27 Dec 2015 at 9:41 pm UTC

Quoting: AnxiousInfusion...
My thought exactly :-)

It's nice to see games starting to play fine on open source drivers. Especially what they did with gallium nine is really nice.

I would like to see some ports offering 9 as an option if available. Does someone knows if VP ports currently use 9 if available? (and if it is a DX 9 game)

Steam is having a whopper of a sale right now
23 Dec 2015 at 10:29 am UTC

Quoting: ElectricPrismKOTR2 is 70% off @ $3 That'll be a nice Steam TV game for meh.

Anyone recommend any good Local Multiplayers with Full Controller support? I want to collect a couple more Steam Controllers and some Local games to play w/ friends.
FORCED is a good one.
Seriour sam 3 too, but it is quite demanding.
Then, little games like MONACO or The binding of Isaac Rebirth.

I also know some others like shatter, a virus named tom, or Portal 2. L4D2 also has a splitscreen mode, but you have to access it trough the console.
Screencheat might be fun, but I didn't try it. Don't starve together might be interesting too.
Too bad I don't have my steam client near me, I have a category dedicated to those. I am fond of local multiplayer games :)

openage, an open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine
20 Dec 2015 at 12:30 am UTC

Oh man, I hope it will be compatible with Star Wars galactic battlegrounds (+clone campaigns). I LOVED this game. Much more than any age of empires.

Win an Alienware Steam Machine from Feral Interactive
20 Dec 2015 at 12:14 am UTC

Quoting: Segata SanshiroYet again, no chance of me entering since I avoid social networks like the plague. Ah well.
Well, I do have an account dedicated to this sort of things. But it's my only account on social networks.