Latest Comments by STiAT
Wine 3.0 RC3 is now available, brings even more bug fixes
22 December 2017 at 10:50 pm UTC Likes: 3

Too many linux games I didn't play through yet to bother with wine :D.

AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver
22 December 2017 at 2:20 pm UTC

Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: STiATHmh, I don't see anything released ... am I missing the source code? There is none visible for me in the repo.

Seeing the PAL code though.
From the Telegram Group chat, the AMDVLK is just info. The xgl repo is the vulkan api implementation that works with the PAL code.

Ahh, ye, looks good. I'll start digging :-).

AMD have now officially open-sourced their 'AMDVLK' Linux Vulkan driver
22 December 2017 at 12:50 pm UTC

Hmh, I don't see anything released ... am I missing the source code? There is none visible for me in the repo.

Seeing the PAL code though.

The RTS 'Forged Battalion' is not coming to Linux, despite reports saying it will
22 December 2017 at 9:59 am UTC

Quoting: pete910Still waiting on what Oxide/Stardock are doing regards Ashes tbh. :(

This. No news in two month. I'd like to know what's making the port hard, having the engine running in Vulkan already. Would be interesting to know.
That game really could finally ease my need for a good RTS in Linux :-).

The 'Linux Steam Integration' project from Solus has an updated release with Snap package support
22 December 2017 at 1:08 am UTC

Quoting: lucifertdarkWhy not use it as it was intended by Valve & stop messing about with Snap & Flatpack?

It's pretty simple:
Solus ships a newer stack, which newer games require. Especially on LTS or similar, that can help a lot (and ye, that is shipped in the snap).
LSI drops out some libraries known to make issues replacing them with certain other versions of libraries which are known to work.
LSI works around known game bugs (as ark: survival evolved water bug, unity blacks screen bug and more).

I personally think LSI should not be required. It shows, it is, because either game devs don't care or Valve is reluctant to update their software stack which would fix known issues.

It is nice that the guys of Solus, or in this case Ikey is putting a lot of effort in making the gaming experience better and easier Linux, creating a stack/snap which game devs could rely on. We'll see if it's picked up or not, meanwhile we're left with the workarounds LSI can do for us.

Wine 3.0 RC2 is officially available with bug fixes for Fallout 4, Far Cry 2 & 3 and more
22 December 2017 at 12:59 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: TheSHEEEPIs there any reason to go with "official" wine instead of wine-staging? I always use the latter and never had any problems.

Not every fix in Wine staging works well for some games. Some actually make things worse.

Hmh. Sometimes it makes performance better, but badly hurts other stuff. Like talking of the 1.12.1 WoW client, where light sources seem to be fucked up in gallium-nine. If you "move down" the camera to be closer to the floor, it adjusts the light sources with the camera instead sticking on the character. Which .. hardly ever can be right ;-).

The developer of strategy game 'TINY METAL' has said Linux is a 'priority'
21 December 2017 at 2:04 pm UTC

Hmh, turn based. Not so sure yet. I miss good old RTS.

The latest development report for the open source RTS '0 A.D.' shows progress is good
21 December 2017 at 10:57 am UTC

It's pretty fun to play in multiplayer already. Even when I don't see it finalized any time soon, it's a very nice game for some fun with friends.

The Libretro Team and other emulators are being ripped off by companies trying to make a quick buck
21 December 2017 at 10:06 am UTC

I know the pain. I lately made one of our software vendors aware that they're not allowed to use certain things in their product without opensourcing the changes made under the very same license.

They were not even aware of that, nor did they bother initially. In the end they gave way, and rewrote the whole product from scratch themselves without the license violations.

A lot later than expected, but the open-world pirate RPG 'Tempest' is now in Beta for Linux
6 December 2017 at 8:27 am UTC

Can you ask if AMD/Mesa is supported? I Ican't find any information on this. I'll probably give it a shot on AMD anyway, but it's christmas and I don't have money to throw out of the window right now :D.