Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: IgnisIt does not work. Hitting TPB and downloading whatever is already faster and don't require you to jump through numerous hoops. All copyright holders manage to do is to throw their own money into a black hole. Well, that and whine to pass more laws that encroach on human rights while shedding crocodile tears.

The average mom and pop consumer has never heard of The Pirate Bay, and their eyes would glaze over if you ever tried to explain the concept of a torrent to them. This is who most DRM is aimed at and not the technologically savvy gamer.

That mom or pop would just as happily buy their streaming media sans DRM without even knowing the difference, so that point is pretty much moot. It's not like it would be legal to share these copyrighted works even if they didn't include these technical roadblocks, so you'd still need to torrent them.

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Quoting: leillo1975OpenGL or Vulkan?

My money's on OpenGL, but I wouldn't mind being wrong.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoI use the https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa and the privative version of the 364.19 is NOT in my list, only the open sourced version is listed

There's only one open source driver in that screenshot of yours, and that's the nouveau entry at the top. All of those binary drivers in your list are Nvidia's proprietary (or as you say, privative) drivers. I don't speak the language, but if "código abierto" after an entry means open source, that's just a glitch of some sort with the driver manager or the ppa. You might want to file a bug. Anyway, install the 364.19 and you're good to go.

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Quoting: IlyaI somewhat miss the times when it was possible to play all the games on Linux...

Playing all games is very much possible (assuming you have enough bucks). Playing all to completion has become very much impossible, esp. when you go for 100% achievements!

You need to learn to delegate. Hire a few assistants to play for you, from a third world country maybe to keep the wages reasonable. I'm sure it's well worth the fame and fortune the 100% Linux completion rate would bestow on your glorious personage.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI think most companies are afraid that if they release something with no copy protection in place then it'll be a free-for-all, and they won't make any money.

So in effect, they think every consumer is basically an opportunistic thief with no moral scruples at all. Or maybe they only think that when they sell stuff that's artificially scarce. Bugger 'em sideways, I say. Personally I'm prepared to pay more for goods and services from companies I respect, and that doesn't include ones that treat me like a potential criminal.

Quoting: orochikyo(funny fact you never will ever own a game, movie or music, read the eula, you are renting even if you are allowed to download it to your PC)

After I read the eula, I simply ignore any bullshit that's not legal basically anywhere. In most civilized countries corporations still can't just write any old bullshit into law. They have to do it through the lobby system. :F


Okay, double rant over.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoI downloaded the 364.19 driver for Ubuntu 14.04.3... But they are the Open version, and Tomb Raider requires the privative version... Where is the privative version or this driver for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

There's no such thing as version 364.19 of the open source nouveau driver, so I'm not quite sure what you mean. Anyway, if you're having trouble, simply enable the official graphics drivers ppa by running sudo apt-add-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppain a terminal and install the package nvidia-364, then reboot your system. That's probably the safest and easiest way to install this proprietary driver on Ubuntu.

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Thanks for the nice review. Seems like a solid puzzler despite the lacklustre presentation. I'd probably have skipped it entirely based on screenies and title alone.

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Quoting: CybolicIf they use it in the second meaning here, you could indeed be controlling the environment (second third-person) instead of the little guy running around (third-person).

I think the developer (or their PR guy/gal) simply errs on the side of pretentiousness. This is clearly third-person, as in games the term simply refers to a viewpoint that isn't first-person.

Ignoring the blurb, the game looks like something I might enjoy.

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Quoting: chrisq

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Quoting: aFoxNamedMorris*fliptable* I'm not a developer, but a SysAdmin. This is one time I will say: BSD's ports system makes this so much easier. You pick your poison at configure time, and it always rebuilds from source.

aFoxNamedMorris, please meet Gentoo. Gentoo, this is aFoxNamedMorris.

And they lived happily ever after.

Or Arch.

Nah. My comment/joke was in reference to Gentoo's portage package manager, which in my experience is much closer to BSD's ports than pacman.

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Quoting: HamishGiven that we are on a PC gaming focused website, I would have thought that the amount of people who grew up with and still mostly play PC focused games, which at least were typically designed around the mouse and keyboard, would be higher. So it would have had a bigger effect on the culture.

Being one of those people, I don't think that's it. I've been gaming on computers since the mid-eighties, and I don't see myself ever owning a console or even running SteamOS, mostly due to a perceived loss of (practical) freedom and flexibility. Still I've found in the last couple of years that I very much enjoy gaming with my controller, lounging on my sofa.

I don't believe this is a betrayal of my culture in any sense of the word. Perhaps this is about different personalities; Maybe you're just conservative by nature (as opposed to politically, which is not relevant). Not that I'm much of a trend chaser either, thus far refusing to own a smart phone and having no interest in stuff like VR. Heck, even social networks and online gaming barely exist as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not much of an extrovert, so there's that.

Also, as you implied, PC games were designed around the mouse and keyboard, but I am not sure this is still true outside a few obvious genres. Maybe even game designers are increasingly of a generation that grew up holding a gamepad.

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