This one have a Mario 64 vibe in it. I will give it a try for sure.

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Whiny kids and cheaters, were the reasons I gave up on competitive multiplayer more than a decade ago. Valve is not the only one with this problem, unfortunately. I have a friend who is a unrepentant cheater and he find other cheaters even on soccer games, which in turn, is his excuse to also use cheats. Heck, even on games where there is not competitive multiplayer, there are cheaters on the scoreboards...

I happily migrated to coop multiplayer, particularly L4D2, where I have been very happy over the years. Not totally clean of cheaters, but a much better place thanks to Steam friends and self-hosting servers.

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Intel have a uphill battle in the driver front. Most game developers simply don't debug their games on Intel GPUs, so lots of games are simply broken. It would take a lot of money spent the Nvidia way, to convince studios to support one more vendor on the costly debug stage. If with only 2 vendors we still get lots of broken games, that need day-one drivers to work, things will be even uglier on the Intel side.

Saja will have a uncomfortable talk with the money people inside Intel, to convince them on game sponsorships, after all the money being spent on the new discrete GPUs.

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I'm another one without latency issues with a DS4. Managed to finish Cyber Shadow (a notorious rage quit game) with it, for example.

The only Bluetooth issue for me, is that the Xbone controller stopped working via BT after that security issue (with BT) was fixed. But it works fine with the original MS wireless adapter.

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I hope this one is not a "hardcore" game. After finishing Cyber Shadow and Dead Cells in a roll, I'm looking for something less masochistic, with a descent difficult curve that will not cause ulcers in average players like me.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: M@GOidFor example, to draw a simple line you had to hold the Alt(?) key plus the left mouse button. What is the need for that? Why not simply use the left mouse button like literally any other drawing program?

You mean a straight line? Yeah, you click on a spot using one of the drawing/painting tools, then hold shift and click another spot. Ctrl constrains the angle. Without the modifier(s) you're drawing in freehand mode. I guess what you want is a separate line tool. Both get the job done, IMHO.

Quoting: M@GOidWhile not exactly in the same category, the Krita painting program achieved a successful funding campaign. If I had to guess, they probably where much willing to give their users what they want.

Krita is awesome for digital painting and drawing, but it doesn't come close for image manipulation. At least not yet. It simply has a different focus.

I edit my photos with Darktable and grab Krita if I want to doodle something, but there are tasks where GIMP is the best tool for the job on Linux.

Yes a strait line. Gimp is(was) full of those shenanigans, so I chose to abandon it for other stuff since it was a bit of a overkill for what I need. Not saying it was bad or anything, but it can got frustrating pretty fast if you come from other programs. Too bad the fork(s) that tried to fix the name and the UI never achieved much success.

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What I heard in the past about Gimp is that their developers are not, or at least were not, too fond on external contributions. Some even said they were difficult to work with.

The Gimp interface always generated complains. I remember trying to use it about 15 years ago for a simple drawing, and getting really frustrated. For example, to draw a simple line you had to hold the Alt(?) key plus the left mouse button. What is the need for that? Why not simply use the left mouse button like literally any other drawing program? So I learned to work with the much more limited Kolourpaint and never looked back.

While not exactly in the same category, the Krita painting program achieved a successful funding campaign. If I had to guess, they probably where much willing to give their users what they want.

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I believe FSR will do to DLSS the same thing Freesync did to G-Sync. It will become the industry standard and eventually Nvidia will be forced to officially support it too.

It will be "good enough" in up-scaling the image and most people will not see the differences, like MP3 and FLAC. The difference is there, but most gamers will not care.

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Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: M@GOidI remember playing this, back when Steam on Linux wasn't even a rumor. It was a option from Counter Strike, but had more realistic weapons manipulation and you could escalate things. So it was a more realistic CS, but since it wasn't mainstream like the Valve game, it didn't have cheaters in every server.

It was sad when the development stopped and the servers became empty. I enjoyed it very much.

I think you're talking about Urban Terror, which is also a freeware FPS available natively for Linux (AssaultCube doesn't have ledge grabbing/vaulting).

Well I don't know for real. But I don't think it was Urban Terror, because I remember it being based on the Enemy Territory engine, and UT is based on Quake 3 engine.

EDIT:
It was True Combat: Elite. Just found it after looking for Enemy Territory mods. It needed the the full ET game, them you could apply the mod to it to play.

http://www.truecombat.net/

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Quoting: GuestWhy do they insist on putting USB 2 ports on computers? It’s so annoying, I never know if I am plugging into a USB 2 or 3 port. Is USB 3 so much more expensive?

Of course USB 3 is more expensive. USB 3 is blue, unless your hardware manufacturer is too cool for blue on their computers.

Also, USB3 is a overkill for, dare I say, the majority of USB peripherals out there. The greater bandwidth is most useful for storage and video (but not all) peripherals. Most of the rest, like keyboards, mice, soundcards, gaming peripherals in general, will work fine even squeezed in a 10 port USB2 HUB, like the one I use here.

So USB2 have its place. Otherwise manufactures would had ditched it long ago.

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