Quoting: ellie_feralThis is fun.

Fiend!

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Quoting: m0nt3Nier: Automata
Nier: Automata (Japanese: ニーア オートマタ Hepburn: Nīa Ōtomata?, stylized as NieR:Automata)
And is a squenix game.

Well, if I apply my wishful thinking here, if you read "made to wade" out loud as "made to aid", then it does fit N:A, because you play an android with robots that assist you.

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Looks Shogun-y. Which is great - I would love to play that game again, although in my case it does not mean any new sales for Feral. Perhaps I'll check to see if I missed any DLCs.

Secretly I am hoping they use their Squeeeeenix connection and port Nier: Automata. We don't have many (any?) open world brawlers, and that one has been very well received.

As for the clue. Japanese tea company logo, and text that can be read out loud as "made to aid" or "maid to aid". Uhm, dunno where to go from that.

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Would love to point my Blender renders at those CUDA cores. Yummy.

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Quoting: UltraAltesBrotThat means other Feral ports seem to have been a financial success.. which is good i guess?

How many of them had a sequel ported to prove?

Total War series

And XCOM

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI am running Manjaro and have noticed on kernel 4.9 this game stutters terribly, with frame rate wildly fluctuating. I booted up with kernel 4.5 and all of a sudden it's smoother than suppository dipped in Vaseline.

I also noticed that performance got lot worse with 4.9 kernel. After digging little deeper I noticed that threads were moving between cores quite frequently. So far htop has been best tool for debugging this as it shows which core thread uses and even shows threads by default.

I made a script that locks threads to dedicated cores and that helped quite a lot. Vulkan is now pretty smooth nearly all the time.

I uploaded the script to GitHub: https://github.com/anzah1/task-affinity-balancer

Cool beans. Will give it a shot.

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I am running Manjaro and have noticed on kernel 4.9 this game stutters terribly, with frame rate wildly fluctuating. I booted up with kernel 4.5 and all of a sudden it's smoother than suppository dipped in Vaseline.

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Guys/gals ... it's not an all or nothing question.

Of course nobody wants to re-buy all their games again on Linux if they already have them on Windows and in 99% of cases developers don't expect you to, but in some cases it makes more sense for the porter to do that, as with the stated example "Arma: Cold War Assault".

Anyhoo, I'm done.

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There used to be some horrible myths about Linux and gaming going around... you know them well, things like "too many distributions to support" and "nobody plays games on Linux" - that sort of thing.

One of these myths was always "Linux users just want everything for free". Our support of Humble Indie Bundle debunked this one fast, but now I'm starting to think there's something to this. Maybe these people were right.

Porting games to Linux costs money. You should jump at opportunities to support your porters financially so they can keep on doing it. If there's nobody doing Linux ports, WE GET NO LINUX PORTS.

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Quoting: LeopardHahhaha,i can kill your argument over Feral with one sentence.

You killed nothing.

When a company licenses a port from a publisher, like Feral and Aspyr do, they don't get any money from the Windows sales. So, you wonder why these companies still honour the Steamplay system?.. easy:

When Feral chooses an older game to port, like "Dawn of War II" or "Total War: Shogun 2", these tend to be games with DLCs available. So there's a fairly good chance that someone with a game already on Windows might show additional support by picking up a DLC or two, or maybe to pick up a DLC so they have something new to enjoy with the game they already own.

Anyway, this is not an all out or all in situation. In cases where a game is ported from day 1, I see no reason to charge separately. In other cases it's quite necessary to charge again if the porter hopes to actually recoup the money/effort they spent porting it. It's not about "greed".

Basically, in a nutshell: Read Liam's article again, slowly.

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