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Diablo on Linux levels up again with a new devilutionX release
9 March 2020 at 11:44 am UTC

It is very nice indeed. Some games have annoying characteristics that a project like this can fix. What I wouldn't do for a Super EF-2000 project like this. Or "No One Lives Forever 2"? I cry only remembering it.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty
7 March 2020 at 11:57 am UTC

I would advise anyone on Linux to avoid buying it right now. not only it has disabled Multi-core Rendering (a big performance enhancer), but it crashes after you change options on the Video advance menu. These problems were there since early betas and none were corrected, so do not give your money to developers who treat us like this.

Ambitious Half-Life remake Black Mesa is now officially available and it's a beauty
7 March 2020 at 2:42 am UTC

Multicore Rendering is disabled on the video settings? What is this, 2004? My performance is crap for a game in such ancient engine. Other Valve games play way better than this.

Valve has banned tens of thousands of Dota 2 accounts as they tweak their smurf detection
12 February 2020 at 5:09 pm UTC Likes: 8

This kind of thing is why I completely avoid competitive multiplayer and play cooperative ones only with friends. Too much frustration for the fun you get.

Recently a old friend confessed to us in a reunion that he is a red handed cheater. His excuse is not even that he sucks (I know for sure he isn't bad), but because other people blatantly do it. So if he want to have the least amount of fun in a match, he has to do it too...

I abandoned CS a long time ago on the Source days, because of too many people cheating. And there are servers that didn't even allow voting to kick a player. So **ck that ***t, my time is better spent on single player games, where if I die, I know is because of me, not some low life cheater.

You can now easily control the AMD Wraith Prism RGB colouring on Linux with CM-RGB
3 January 2020 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quotescript of displaying CPU utilization with the ring LED's

Now someone finally did something useful with RGB LEDs on a PC!

Atari VCS going through 'Engineering Validation Testing' on the road to release
10 December 2019 at 5:41 pm UTC

Just a small nit pick: the CPU is a R1606G, not RG1606. For a moment I thought they changed it, but is just a typing error from their PR staff.

I really wish they do well, but I continue to think this CPU is under-powered for modern indie games. There is quad-core embedded CPUs that AMD can offer (the V-series), too bad they chose one of the cheapest ones. For the $200/300 they are asking for it, is very tempting to simply build one yourself with a better and upgradable AMD APU.

Horizon Chase Turbo gets a free Rookie Series DLC for the younger or newer racer
4 December 2019 at 7:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI love this game. I almost sold my house for it.^_^ But my parents decided it would be better for me to buy this game with cold cash!Of course I'm joking:) But I as I said I love this game because it reminds me of top gear, which was published in snes long ago.Oh those were the days. We played top gear with my friend many hours every day. We were totally fascinated by this game at that time. That's why I like Horizon Chase Turbo game cause I'm still a fan of Top Gear:)

Is not a coincidence it reminds you of Top Gear, since it was made as a homage for it. Even the original composer made a couple of the original music remixed for it.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 heads to the Black Sea with the next DLC release on December 5
30 November 2019 at 2:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Patola
Quoting: GuestThe problem with this "game" is there is no goal. So nothing to do really.
The game is amazing, which does not mean it is perfect, far from it. I until resent the developer's decision to not make the trucks get damaged, dirty or even deliver smoke to not "damage" the public image of the licensed truck brands.

It may be that they didn't have a choice on that. All it takes is only one truck manufacturer to say "here is your license, but make our trucks look good, or else", for them to avoid letting the truck receive damage or dirt. It used be exist a mod to create damage, but it ceased do be developed. AFAIK.

And they are not alone on that. Other games like Gran Turismo also did not show damage on cars because some manufacturers like Ferrari didn't allow it.

PS: E ae Patola, lembro de vc dos tempos do BR-Linux.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 heads to the Black Sea with the next DLC release on December 5
30 November 2019 at 1:54 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubiMy biggest gripe with the graphics is the lack of functioning AA. The game (and ATS too) lets me pick SMAA, but the setting has no effect that I can see. And no matter how much I bump the internal resolution, there's aliasing and moiré effects all over the place.

Despite all this, I love these truck sims to bits. Perfect games to relax with.

These games are notorious for aliasing problems, even on Windows. My solution used to be running the game at 400% scale, at last AMD cards, didn't get a big performance penalty. But since about 1.33 that was not a option anymore, with big performance loss.

The last updates on ATS (1.36) got the SMAA functioning more or less properly, so a combination of 200% scaling and SMAA on high is giving good results to me (on a RX570) so far.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 heads to the Black Sea with the next DLC release on December 5
30 November 2019 at 1:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: The_AquabatToo bad that the game still runs on OpenGL they updated the windows version to DirectX 11 but no Vulkan update.
Quoting: leillo1975
Quoting: The_AquabatToo bad that the game still runs on OpenGL they updated the windows version to DirectX 11 but no Vulkan update.

It's a shame that devs choose DX11 as API instead Vulkan. I can't understand that being a multiplatform game (Linux, Windows and Mac) they do this. I'm certainly worried that they have made this decision concerning Linux support.

While they didn't say anything about upping the OpenGL version, is very clear to me that something is changing on the Linux version, on ATS, that got the 1.36 update. Performance definitively got a uplift. Is not Vulkan, but they did not forgot Linux, that is for sure.

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