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but your enemy evolves too, unleashing horrors like “The Creep”

Oh, is this the surprise prequel to the Creeper World games?

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This is getting serious. 💣

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With how things are going on Earth right now. I'm rooting for Mars. lol

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Can't imagine my 6800xt being considered maintenance only. Thank god for Mesa

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This used to run like absolute dog ass and needed severe tweaking to even hit 30 fps at all. Is there a preset now to avoid the console commands haxxoring?

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I'm looking for somebody(ies) to sell me on Northgard. I bought it a couple years ago and started playing through it but it felt... shallow? Like there was a direct "when this external event happens, this is the single thing you need to do in response" gameplay loop. It just didn't feel especially strategic to me. Am I missing something? Does it deserve another chance? If so, how much time investment is required to get to satisfying gameplay?

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Back in 2019, Puppy Games made this [free to Linux users](https://puppygames001.itch.io/basingstoke/devlog/70568/basingstoke-is-now-free-for-linux) on itch.io.

However, I notice that this no longer seems to be the case as when I went to re-install the game, they now want some money!

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For the reference, I linked it in the other thread, but if you are curious, here are places in Mesa and dxvk/vkd3d-proton that deal with game specific fixes:

* radeonsi (OpenGL) and non radv Vulkan: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-mesa-defaults.conf
* radv (Vulkan): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/util/00-radv-defaults.conf
* dxvk: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/src/util/config/config.cpp#L21
* vkd3d-proton: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/blob/master/libs/vkd3d/device.c#L541

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Agree with others: it's wild to me that the 6800xt will now be considered in "maintenance mode" on windows machines. I used that card right up until recently and it's still perfectly capable of running anything at all on 1440p ultrawide at high settings. I even ran Avowed this year on it which is a shitty ue5 engine game (the engine being shitty, not the game lol, the game is great) and it ran 60fps on high. Which is incredible!

That's some pretty shitty behavior by AMD. But I am still glad we've got Mesa on linux!

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thanks for the heads up about denuvo. completely lost interest in this now.

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But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Everything. The current branch (580) has Maxwell support. They've said that they'll drop pre-Turing from the next branch, though, whenever that happens, after which 580 will be a legacy branch.

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I bought this game because of Embark's Linux support for The Finals and that game still works great and also, I want to support and encourage more AA and AA devs/publishers to do the same. I seem to remember Embark saying that they do hear us Linux gamers and will do their level best (I don't know if they actually used the word 'commit') to keeping the game running on Linux. It will be a shame if they're forced to cut Linux out, but I'm hoping that if their purely competitive shooter works on Linux after all these years, they can find a way to keep it running on Linux for a PvPvE game. fingers crossed

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I bought this, but I also run Windows for some games. I really enjoyed the server slam, but man this game is stress.

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My GTX 1060 is still a perfectly serviceable 1080p gaming card for reasonable settings on a lot of games. I do not like the fact that companies just get to decide when I don't get to keep using my hardware how I want. My iPhone 13 worked as good as most phones up until I decided to trade it in 4+ years later for a 17 Pro. My soundbar keeps doing its job for as long as I want it to. My TV does not stop playing shows and movies 10 years later. The core function of any product should continue to be supported indefinitely for it's core functions. The real issue here is that these companies have R&D and marketing strategies that have created markets where some products are replaced too frequently only for the purpose of revenue. My fridge is 10 years old and still keeps my food cold. I had a 40-year VW Beetle that I drove to work every day for 10 years. It was up to me to sacrifice my safety and modern amenities for a cheap way to commute.

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Used to play these with my little kids after turning on the no gib mode and just blasted flowers out of everything.

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Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

But what kind of support? Do they add new features or are they only fixing bugs?

Because AMD says that "RX 5000 and RX 6000 series are indeed going into 'maintenance mode'.", which means they’ll continue to maintain it, just not add new features.

And when they created FSR, it was supported on a lot of GPUs that didn’t had big drivers update anymore at the time, so I don’t think it’s a big deal.

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Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

Nvidia currently supports Maxwell, from 2014.

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As I'm not much into extration games, and I'm not feeling safe with purchasing this without an official statement from the publisher... I'll pass on this one. We've seen games working, even with official anti-cheat support for Linux, just to have Linux support removed later.

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Crazy that they would drop support for products that are only 2 years old, RDNA2 is from 2020 and some RDNA2 products lower in the stack are from 2023,such as the relatively unknown Radeon RX 6550S and Radeon RX 6550M and some China variants of the 6750. Nvidia still fully supports Turing in their Windows/Linux drivers and that's from 2018

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It needs to change and have the source of data available. Right now it's basically a huge data anonymising machine that can verbatim memorise and spit out someone else's work, but can't tell you where it got it from.
The "references" they generate are just things that look like whatever they made up.

Look at the Kurzgesagt video on AI slop for reference.

For me it's that the data they feed into these opensource licensed models is still suspect. How do we know the data was sourced in respect to their license? Much "free" information is provided on a free for personal use, but not business use, basis. How much of their costs have they externalised and not cared about? Did they include wikipedia content without citing wikipedia as the source? That's against the wikipedia license, for example.

It's not just a privacy issue, it's also an ethical issue.

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Yeah, they lost a sale here, thanks to Denuvo. I never played the originals, but would love to have given this a try.

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For those who are (understandably) anti-DRM, the store page says that this release has Denuvo Anti-Tamper. This can cause problems if switching between Proton versions too many times.

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huh the first comment snaps are great more secure way of doin and distributin software. sandboxed too

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After getting into Old World (Linux native on Steam!), I can never go back to Civ... The careful thought put into the design just is not comparable to Civ anymore. It is also updated almost monthly with balance, UI and modding support. For flashy features like sci-fi setting or magic and heroes, I would consider other 4Xs, but for the core Civ-like experience, this is it for me...
The last few months they've even been organizing the 2025 community tournament, which is an open tournament in a 1V1 format which has been followed and commentated by community members on Youtube/Twitch.
Truly the best in this format of games right now...

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The best thing one can do for performance on ununtu is to get rid of snaps.

The snaps version of microsoft edit was reported (by omgubuntu) to take 5 seconds to start on modern system.

This is simply not true anymore and you need to update your sources. It was true maybe 5 years ago but today the difference between native packages, flatpaks and snaps are negligible if we talk about startups after the first-time launch. Canonical has made very [nice](https://ubuntu.com/blog/snap-speed-improvements-with-new-compression-algorithm) [changes](https://ubuntu.com/blog/snap-startup-time-improvements) to snaps over the years.

In reality this article has very little to do with snaps. I would be very pleased with this change if I was still on Ubuntu.

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and the new Bazaar is a joy, especially with those new pride progress bars emoji

Just updated and oh my god their is so many pride flag I love this so much.

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@chickenb00
Its been effectively no issues on the Linux side their is a KDE bug where sometimes when switching from tablet to laptop mode the cursor doesn't come back and requires a reset. That may have been fixed in this update as I can't trigger it anymore. I have scaling set to 125% and have had only one program not play nice with the scaling (fuzzy text and large curser). No other issues I can think of with the software.

As for the laptop itself I have the i5-1334U version and I got separately 48gb of Crucial ram first boot took some time and scared me. The laptop is loud so I almost always have it in powersave mode because of this. I wish the battery life was a bit longer tho I've not tried it out and about as I've been stuck at home so maybe when I go back to school or work it will be fine. I don't think this is a framework/linux issues as other laptop I've used on windows or linux the microphone can't be set to more then 30-40% volume or it will always be static. Those are my only complaints really compared to my last laptop I had since 2018 the screen is much better on the framework and way more repairable. All the expansion cards I've got have no issue Ethernet, SD card, and HDMI just work.

Everyone I've shown my laptop to really likes it. My dad loves how repairable it is as me and him used to run a computer repair store. My mom likes it since it reduces waist and the need to get a whole new laptop. My sister is jealous that I have a pink/blue laptop. And my uncle/god father who works on cars in his free time loves it for how repairable and modular it is.

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@Persephone The Sheep
How do you like your Framework 12? And it's been a good experience using Linux and bazzite?

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Been using Bazzite on my Framework 12 since I've got it and it has cause no issues just a little weird to get a VPN on it.

I've also installed it on a old office PC my aunt got rid of since it couldn't update to windows 11 so I made a living room PC. Had some spare Graphics cards and power supplies from me and my friends upgrading. Started with a RX 580 4GB but the case would trap hot air in the bottom so I switch to my Vega 56 just now which has a flow though cooler and it doesn't trap the air. Only issue is that HDR colors in game mode are wrong but the living room TV doesn't have HDR so thats not an issue.

I'm surprised at how well Sandy Bridge holds up the i5-2320 gets 60fps or close to it in alot of games. Stellar blade 50-60 fps Digimon Story Time Stranger 60 fps Monster hunter Rise 50-60fps Scarlet nexus 60-100 fps. Also the LADV CPU scheduler helps a lot on this CPU.

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Hell, this is actually pretty notable in my eyes as I think it'd be the first time we'd get one of the Resident Evil remakes bundled with its original counterpart, even though this one is also pretty different from the rest.

I gave these a spin on the Steam Deck so I'll give you a heads up, VSync messed up cutscenes so I turned it off and used the regular framerate cap, and I also got the FPS Fix for 0 that's listed on the pcgamingwiki to get it to stick to 60FPS, though you can also just play at 30 if you want, this will require a DLL override. These issues seem common for the port overall though, so no specific Linux issues as far as my about half an hour of initial play is concerned.

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