Unfortunately they also broke the game at least under Fedora (missing libsndio library) and don't respond to bug reports.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: ripperHave you seen what https://flattr.com has done with Flattr 2.0?

Last time I used flattr, we had them up for quite a long time and they paid out like £10 once during that time. It just wasn't worth it. The problem with all these smaller payment systems is that we need to hit the threshold on each of them to get a payment, plus I then need to add in the time expense for dealing with taxes for each additional revenue stream and it can get a little messy.

Yes, I understand. However, if we don't give these smaller systems a chance, they can never grow. It seems to me that they tried hard to have the whole functionality hassle-free for both the creator and the reader with Flattr 2.0. And I quite like their system, it's much better than Patreon - you have a single pool of money that is distributed proportionally how much you use different websites. You don't need to keep track whether you still visit some site or still want to support that particular person, if you stop going there (and start going somewhere else), the person stops receiving money (and somebody else starts). Is including these smaller revenue streams in tax return that much work? By the way, GOL already receives flattrs from me on each my visit since last month - they're just nullified because GOL owner is not registered.

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Have you seen what https://flattr.com has done with Flattr 2.0? All you need to do is to create an account and register the domain, and that's it (edit: actually, you also need to add a meta tag to html headers). You'll automatically receive flattrs from people having the browser extension installed and visiting GOL (and also your YouTube videos if you configure that in your account). No need to mess around with buttons or anything. Would you consider setting up the account and letting people to fund you this way as well?

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Quoting: johndoe86xYes, that is a bad situation, but have the Mesa drivers not drastically improved even on the 270X as of late? A year ago, Penguin Recordings did a comparison video of the 260X on Ubuntu and Windows in Dota 2. While it wasn't on par with Windows it had vastly improved since its inception. Is the 270X just that much of a bastard card?

If you use recent enough drivers (a modern distribution) the performance is close enough to Windows performance. Of course some games are just crappy ports, in that case it's not the driver's fault.

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Aaaand it's available on GOG :P
https://www.gog.com/news/release_steamworld_dig_2

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Aaaand it's available on GOG :P
https://www.gog.com/news/release_steamworld_dig_2

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: ripperThere is no bulletproof method, since you're setting only the default. Any app can still ignore it and implement its own logic. This might be better with Wayland.

Yeah, that's a really good point. What's odd though is that Liam is having trouble with DOTA2, but it works okay for me. Similarly, MayeulC noted above that there are issues with Payday2, but again, I'm alright. It's just so inconsistent. Maybe you're right about Wayland, but that still feels years away (for Nvidia people at least).

In general, it's better to have your primary screen on the left side. Apps which override the default behavior usually use the monitor with 0,0 coordinates. This might explain some of the differences (different people have primary monitor placed differently).

Quoting: scaineMaybe you're right about Wayland, but that still feels years away (for Nvidia people at least).

Pick a vendor with better drivers next time :) But Wayland has its share of problems, you're not missing much yet, especially for a gaming use case.

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The screenshots should be below the headline, not above. This is very confusing.

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There is no bulletproof method, since you're setting only the default. Any app can still ignore it and implement its own logic. This might be better with Wayland.

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Quoting: rkfg

Quoting: WendigoI haven't played it for over two years.
Last time I tried, it took over 10 minutes to even load a game and crashed so often that it took me three attempts to even complete the tutorial of one fraction.
Are those problems fixed by now?

According to your PC specs, you only have 2 Gb of VRAM, try to set Texture Handling to 1-1.5 Gb. Most of the crashes I experienced are because of that.

That depends. If he uses opensource AMD drivers, the problems were caused by NS2 running out of 32-bit memory space. That is resolved with Mesa 17.1 with shader caching. The first load after new NS2 update or new Mesa drivers might take a long time (several minutes), and might have 32bit memory problems (that's why NS2 devs push to convert it to 64bit). But all future load times are much faster (e.g. 30 seconds) and the memory issues no longer occur, at least in my case.

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