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Ballistic Overkill is one Unity title that may see an update with Vulkan
1 April 2017 at 11:59 am UTC

@silmeth - I wondered what the hell you were talking about, then I noticed the header bar at the top! :D

Mad Max meets Vulkan in a new fully public beta for Linux, benchmarks and OpenGL vs Vulkan comparisons
30 March 2017 at 3:19 pm UTC Likes: 2

Wow, those numbers are incredible. Just my luck that I recently uninstalled Mad Max after finishing it... oh, what's that? "Downloading" :)

Oops, forgot to say "Thank you Feral"!

You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 March 2017 at 3:57 pm UTC

Quoting: Cybolic
Quoting: HailToTheGrail
Quoting: CybolicI wish there was a way to not have to put in my password on every change, maybe someone knows how to work around that?

You could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then: chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.

No go on my Arch system. I've also tried editing the sudoers config file with visudo and using sudo instead, but that still asks for a password :/

I've always set 'performance' for gaming. I have an i7 and just use an alias along the lines of 'sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance' with the corresponding allowance in sudoers - '/usr/bin/cpupower frequency-set -g performance', so no password entering every time. Plus the same for 'powersave'.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past DLC now supports Linux & SteamOS
17 March 2017 at 11:15 am UTC

Cheers Feral, will be picking this up for sure :) I finished the main game a while back but have kept it installed for "just one more go"... now I feel justified!

2Dark released without a Linux version despite promising it during crowdfunding
13 March 2017 at 10:40 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NaughtyDeveloperI guess people could ask for a refund? Because they advertised a feature they did not deliver?

Worth a try... didn't work for me with Carmageddon though, I was totally ignored - along with many, many others. It really is unacceptable.

Mad Max is currently 50% off on the Feral Store
10 March 2017 at 4:24 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: darkszluf
Quoting: tuubiMad Max gave me ~90 entertaining hours of gameplay. Easily worth the price. Go grab it already.

how many times did you played trough it? i've got 50 hours and that's 2 and a half of playtrough of mine.
Once, but I'm one of those weird people who just can't help but thoroughly explore every nook and cranny. Also beat every racing challenge and whatnot.

91 hours here and totally in sync with you regarding the exploring. I take my time and immerse myself. Loved the game, fantastic.

A look at how much RAM you might need as a Linux gamer
6 March 2017 at 10:28 am UTC

I must be the odd one out around here :P Whenever I game I close everything running, which is usually only browser and email (Pale Moon and FossaMail) anyway unless I've been doing something specific.

I have 16GB and give 14G to /dev/shm as I use this extensively for working in RAM (compiling, temporary storage, video/audio conversion, ripping DVDs etc, etc). I don't use a DE or swap and like to keep memory freed up. I may just be a little OCD about it!

Shadow of War, a sequel to Shadow of Mordor announced, no word on Linux yet
27 February 2017 at 4:52 pm UTC

I absolutely loved Shadow Of Mordor and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the Linux port of this one.

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
18 February 2017 at 11:27 am UTC

Quoting: EgonautThe game runs so poorly, I can't even get stable 40 FPS @1080p on lowest settings. My GTX 970 is at 100% load all the time, it's incredible. And yes, with lowest settings I mean everything on low or off till the game looks awful, still bad performance (SSAA is at 1.0). I have the latest drivers (378.13) installed.

I'm running a 970 with 378.13 and I have a solid 60+ fps on the training mission at medium to high settings. My CPU is an i7-4790k. You've got a problem elsewhere by the sounds of it.