That kind of reminds me a little bit of Warcraft 3. Could just be the aesthetics on the base "buildings" though. Neat concept and nice article.

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For anything a little demanding I use my GeForce GT 630M with 2GB VRAM and Nvidia 331.38 driver. I haven't had to tweak anything either, other than to choose between integrated and dedicated graphics. That's true, but I'd be a bit bummed if I had severe issues with something I really wanted to play though.

Did you try playing the beta demo to see if you had any issues with that?

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I've heard others mention such issues with Unity but I can't say I've experienced it myself. I haven't played KSP, Shadowrun Returns or Wastelands 2 but I've played Rochard, Gone Home and The Fall without noticing that. I've gotten some pretty bad frame rate drops at certain points in The Last Tinker and Monochroma but since I do most of my gaming on a 2 year old mid-range laptop I figured that was to be expected.

Do you know if it's an issue that's specific to certain kinds of GPUs and Linux or is it a more widespread issue? Could be that it's just not very noticeable on my rig. Either way I hope it's something that gets fixed in the near future since there's so many neat games coming out these days that are built in Unity.

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Nice. I was thinking about covering this tonight but I'm glad you beat me to it.

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Quoting: GuestDoes it break alt-tab and grab the mouse like Blackwell Legacy?
(I was also stuck reading a letter in Blackwell… no way to get out.)

Sorry for the late reply. It does do that when I run the game with my integrated Intel GPU. However I do not have that issue when I set it to run with my GeForce GT 630M. I remember having the same issue with The Shivah but didn't think to check for it or mention it in the article, so thanks for pointing it out.

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Quoting: zirlo

Quoting: Brian LinuxHope you guys make this available for later viewing

http://www.twitch.tv/gamingonlinux/b/576735171

Thanks. It's 1h48m though and I have a hard time hearing everything that's being said, so some kind of written summary would still be nice.

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I won't be able to get online until much later. :( Will you update this article with a summary later?

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Quoting: aLjust to make a note, in gog seems to be a little cheaper

GOG looks a bit more expensive to me, but I'm in the Euro region. The Humble version comes with the soundtrack and the GOG version with a poster as bonus, so it also depends a bit on which bonus you prefer I guess.

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Quoting: HadBabits

Quoting: flesk

Quoting: HadBabitsI haven't really bought much from GOG, since there's not much of a selection. I was hoping to see Dungeon Keeper or the Thief series, but no sight of them yet.

Do you mean these games?

http://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper
http://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper_2
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_gold
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_2_the_metal_age
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_3

Well, yes, but for Linux :P

Ah, I completely misinterpreted your post. :S: Yeah, they all run on DOSBox it seems, so they probably just need to renegotiate their distribution deals with the publishers.

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Quoting: HadBabitsI haven't really bought much from GOG, since there's not much of a selection. I was hoping to see Dungeon Keeper or the Thief series, but no sight of them yet.

Do you mean these games?

http://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper
http://www.gog.com/game/dungeon_keeper_2
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_gold
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_2_the_metal_age
http://www.gog.com/game/thief_3

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