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Can I get a key please


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@Skully Yes Intel has great chips, but that wasn't always the case. If AMD didn't come in and kick their but in the P4 era they would have never innovated to where they are now. You also have do your research and buy what feel is best for you. Don't just buy based on price. AMD is still working to become profitable and the PC market doesn't help that. Intel has the money and power to buy their way into computers. They can pay companies money to use their chips so their user base goes up. It's all politics.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of games people are playing lately that you need an i7 extreme to get good game play. I'm still using my Phenom II x4 low powered CPU from 5 years ago. Out performs the i5 I have in my laptop that's only a couple years old.

As far as the FX line goes, they haven't put a lot of love in that because they are focused on the APU line. HSA is where they want to be and I believe that is the right direction. Leveraging the GPU for more stuff will make their chips outperform Intel. It's just going to require time for wide spread support.

Once AMD can star to generate a consistent profit they can work to hire on more people to improve their drivers and product line. You want them to get better, then you have to support them.

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The issue that AMD still face is lack of day 1 support for new hardware in the open driver as mentioned by Liam. Intel gets around this by throwing lots of devs at it and getting the code into the Linux Kernel and Mesa months ahead of the launch of new hardware. AMD needs to do exactly what Intel is doing.

Speaking from experience, the RadeonSI driver is now good enough on Ubuntu 14.04 to play many games out of the box (tested: Killing Floor, Left 4 Dead 2 & Oil Rush with GL3.2 override) but the development code is in better shape with performance improvements, OpenGL 3.3 support and lots of bug fixes. AMD should just dump Catalyst and switch all focus on to the open driver. My guess is that many (most??) AMD Linux users don't really care about Catalyst and use the open drivers already. Having 2 drivers is just wasting already stretched resources.

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I don't see a real future for AMD at all anymore. Their cpu's well under perform while generating alot more heat and use more power. Their GPU drivers suck in Linux compared to Nvidia. And even on windows you have more issues. Currently your better off just buying the best Intel cpu and Nvidia gpu you can with the budget you have for your build.

Unless they pull something out of their butts, the fx-8350 cpu I recently/regrettably bought for my missus will be the last sale from me. I should of just got her an i3 or low i5 for same price. It would perform better for gaming and wouldn't become a room heater while sounding like a it's about to take off into the sky. I had to buy an aftermarket cooler for it and disable core boosting to shut it up, or my partner wanted me to rip it out and put her old parts back in lol.

P.S I used to be a lover of AMD's cpu's. Never liked ATI cards though, due to same issues they still suffer from with AMD.

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Read this article http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_catalyst_kernel&num=1

Basically there are no current plans to port Mantle to Linux. AMD is tossing around the idea of refactoring their Catalyst driver to hook into the FOSS driver. They would continue to enhance the FOSS driver but then allow all the extra stuff when you install their driver. It will allow them to get KMS support with the Catalyst driver so things like Wayland work.

If their plan works it would be a big boon to open source and Catalyst.

I will continue to buy AMD even if their drivers aren't the best because no matter what, when my hardware gets old I have the FOSS driver to fall back to. I don't have to worry about trying to figure out which driver to use or anything like Nvidia does with legacy drivers.

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I'll take one as well. Let's have another great title on the penguin!

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I have SteamOS installed just fine on my gigabyte brix pro.

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the open source drivers are really on par with the closed source ones so i say stay with the open source drivers,the only drawback is no open gl 4.0 support it only goes up to 3.0 for me even though the closed drivers go up to 4.3 but i seem to have issues on and off with screen flicker im not sure if thats my card or if its there drivers...it just started doing that,i even tested on windows 7 and it still does it so either its them or its my card ready to bite the dirt..i have a 5770

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My sons love this game.

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Oh wow lots of replies to sift through, this will take some time to pick people so stay tuned!

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I'd love a key for this! Thanks!

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Thank you for another great review! Even without pictures (they would help breaking the length of the text) these are outstanding articles!

p.s. I think there is a typo at the end, "sold Linux release" should be "solid Linux release"

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Godot won't let you fullscreen your game on Linux. Well aparently it could, but they disabled the ability due to alt-tab not working. I read on their bug tracker that they aren't satisfied with any of the solutions that exist for opening a fullscreen window on Linux, like sdl2.

I was really interested in the engine until I found this. I wonder how many other things I would find
that are just silently missing from the Linux side. My only hope I guess would be to modify the source to get what I wan't. Although the whole point for me was to "make a game", not code the engine.

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Quoting: fedsooh... Liam personal opinion, I thought the article on arstechnica! I expect to read Liam's opinion on GoL so I didn't even thought that it could have been a problem, I guess I agree with mirv and I see this more like an "opinion column" than "news".

AMD fanboy detected.

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Word of mouth is more powerful than what's at the top of the list on Steam's front page.

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I'd love a key. Gotta start build my Linux library to match all these Windows games I have :D

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For a more succinct idea of what the game is via the wiki entry....

Stacking is an adventure/puzzle video game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by THQ; like Double Fine's previous Costume Quest, it is a smaller title created during the development period of Brütal Legend, and was released in February 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. A Windows version was released on March 6, 2012. A Linux version was released in May 2013.

The game is based on the Russian stacking matryoshka dolls, an idea coined by Double Fine's art director, Lee Petty, who saw the dolls as a means to replace the standard player interface used in graphical adventure games. The player controls the smallest doll, Charlie Blackmore, who has the ability to stack and unstack into larger dolls and use their abilities to solve puzzles to allow Charlie to free his older siblings and put an end to child labor enforced by the antagonist, the Baron. Puzzles within the game have multiple solutions, and include additional puzzles and challenges that allow the player to explore the game's world outside of the main story.

Stacking was well received by critics and praised for its alluring appearance, humorous story, and accessible gameplay for casual players.


Sorry Hamish, just a bit pedantic for my taste. No offense intended.

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I will wait until it will be officially released on Linux. I hate to play unfinished games :P

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yea great stuff; was a nice read.

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Thanks for the review! The game has been sitting on my Steam account since the Humble Double Fine Bundle and I couldn't get around to play it thus far. It's time to change it. :-)

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Quoting: SpeedsterExcellent review, Hamish. Can't really find a single bit to quibble over ;)

Ah, I'm disappointed. :P

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Excellent review, Hamish. Can't really find a single bit to quibble over ;)

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The players who have bought the DLC(which is just new characters and a new map), can use them while playing with everyone else who have not bought it so the latter can partake in the joys being ganked by the op nauts from said DLC.

As for the main game, it is highly addicting(I have lost about 500 hours myself, despite everything).

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Wouldn't mind giving it a go and help with testing on Linux! :)

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I would like a key please! Using freshly installed Ubuntu

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The desire to use FOSS drivers goes beyond political/philosophical, try to report a kernel bug in a tainted kernel, you can't and the reasons are technical. In fact, I don't think open source is more political/philosophical than closed source, that way of thinking is a manipulation to make the former look worse in today's unprincipled society.

I think the AMD CPUs have good value for the money, compared to Intel they are slow for single-threaded loads, fast for multi-threaded. I have an FX8350 CPU, cheaper than Intel, good enough for games and better multi-threaded performance. For most current games, multi-threaded performance isn't important but that may be changing soon with the new engines versions optimized for the new game consoles.

Quoting: sherlockHowever, it seems rather unprofessional for the author of this article to express his personal opinion and satisfaction or lack thereof with a particular brand, which serves no objective purpose other than reinforcing his own buying decisions.

Read everything here as if it was editorials and you'll be fine. I understand you since I find these articles poorly reasoned for editorials, and too subjective (distracting from the main point) for news.

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oh... Liam personal opinion, I thought the article on arstechnica! I expect to read Liam's opinion on GoL so I didn't even thought that it could have been a problem, I guess I agree with mirv and I see this more like an "opinion column" than "news".

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Quoting: AnonymousThe 3D in this video irritates me.

It appears the game has _zero_ 3D during gameplay, why would the developer see the need to include bad 3D in their game trailer if its not in gameplay? It's not money is it?

Probably left over concept art or something. I guess its the same with quite a few game trailers where they will show cinematics that never appear ingame.

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The 3D in this video irritates me.

It appears the game has _zero_ 3D during gameplay, why would the developer see the need to include bad 3D in their game trailer if its not in gameplay? It's not money is it?

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Yeah sure it's unprofessional to have my opinion and thoughts in an editorial, good one.

Of course it is going to have it otherwise it would be a copy and paste of an ars article telling you to go there and how pointless that would be.

And of bloody course i'm going to back up my own buying decision, when the opposite is what happens with this bit of hardware - the poor support. My opinion and thoughts where entirely relevant to the matter at hand.

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