LinuxGameCast Weekly EP127 – 970 Memento

Daikatana goes open source! NVIDIA releases the 960, VP updates the Witcher, and GOG discovers midi-chlorians. Then Motorbike faces our CHAIRQUISITION! All this, plus your hate mail.

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Why are we using Flash in 2015?
Same reason they use rm -rf $VARIABLE/* in shell scripts?
~~The Download stats says Europe downloads a lot more than the US~~
- ~~Yet the graphic doesn’t seem to reflect that.~~
  - Looks like they fixed it!

Shadow Warrior Mac and Linux Testing
https://steamdb.info/sub/58994/history/

Additional Notes: The will of a true ninja warrior and an appreciation of Wang jokes.
Looks like it could be a decently fun FPS. Hopefully they’ll make with the keys once the linux version drops

Dying Light
http://store.steampowered.com/app/239140

Remember kids. Don’t pre-order a gorram thing!
It’s official: http://steamcommunity.com/games/239140/announcements/detail/121929834594720333
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780 / AMD Radeon™ R9 290 (2GB VRAM)
- That’s a bold claim you made. Care to back that up?

Motorbike
http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/

The sting from this was seeing Road Redemption in the “more like this” section.
I’m not sure ubuntu 10.12 is a thing. Ubuntu from a parallel universe?

InMind VR
http://store.steampowered.com/app/343740/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

It’s the occulus version of Microcosm! But with no trippy Rick Wakeman synthesizer solos
It’s cheap as free though, so if you have Rift, have at.
It looks like neat sauce but not fan of wearing shite on my head organ.

CaesarIA
http://store.steampowered.com/app/327640/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

Requires the elusive 1500 processor
That looks EXACTLY as I remember Caesar III looking like
Early access free to play. Way to do it right.
It doesn’t work very well, and by that I mean it’s barely even playable.
I didn’t have anyone living in the city yet and 2 of the vacant spots just caught fire.
When my population reached 10 people, half of them turned into Shadow citizens.
Tried several times to change resolution, game threw a buggy dialog message saying I needed to restart.
- Needless to say it didn’t work.
Good thing it’s free!

Survivor Squad
http://store.steampowered.com/app/258050/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

Door Kickers meets Left4Dead and DayZ, with rogue-like elements.
I’m getting some dead sky flashbacks

News:

960 announced
http://maxwell.nvidia.com/gtx-960
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Items/ci/27172/N/3823164311

*looks at 980* That’s adorable!
All things considered, it fits the niche left between the 750TI and the 970.
- Because there is still a $200 difference between those two.
I’m interested to see what the 950 looks like.
But I wonder…

Something about the 970 … I forget
http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/nvidias-gtx970-has-a-rather-serious-memory-allocation-bug/

Wonder if this affects Linux
Supposedly the top 500M of VRAM on the 970 is bad, causing performance hits
- They segmented the SSMs on the 970 so it would be different to the 980.
- The first segment has 3,5G and the last has the 500 Megs in question.
Hopefully it won’t be a hardware issue as everyone is describing it.
Not that I’ve played any game so far that needs all 4Gigs of VRAM, but I want to think that if the day comes, there’ll be a Driver update to work around this.
This article from TechReport specifically mentions the STRIX and I’m not happy about it!
- http://techreport.com/blog/27143/here-another-reason-the-geforce-gtx-970-is-slower-than-the-gtx-980
PCPer has a statement from NVidia saying the very same thing happens on the 980: http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue
- Which contradicts what everyone else was saying.
- And they don’t really mention the memory speed drops anywhere.
Video example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE6p5r1tYE

WINE 1.7.35
https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.7.35

Beginnings of OpenGL core profile support
DirectWire support for glyph placement
More WebM things
And another 56 bugfixes.
- Including one that now let’s you download games in Origin.
  - Why would you want to do that, I have no clue. But you can, now!

I sense a disturbance…
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_dark_forces

Well, not really. This is just a Dosbox port.
That said, it’s kind of funny that all these abandoned star wars games are finding new homes on linux systems
GOG really needs to step up and release a Desura/Steam like client.

Still witching
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2t44kb/virtual_programming_didnt_abandon_fixing_witcher/

On one hand-organ i’m glad they are still fixing their busted TECH but I genuinely hope that was the first and last time we see in on Linux.
- Ditto
Actually, apparently the Witcher 2 port is uncovering kernel bugs
- https://github.com/KillaW0lf04/The-Witcher-2-Issues/issues/89#issuecomment-70857835

John Romero’s Worst Game is now open sauce
https://bitbucket.org/DGibson/daikatana-1.3/wiki/Home

You still need the old game assets. I wonder though, who actually kept this turd?
Also includes a freebsd build for your convenience
You know, I never actually played this game. In fact growing up I had never heard of it.

Open-Sourced SS13
http://spacestation13.com/2015/01/open-sourced-ss13/
https://github.com/ss13remake/ss13remake

Supposedly an MMO for something awful goons
Basically, the dev’s can maintain the project no-mo so they’re booting it to the community
And we all know how well that turns out *cough*naturalselection2*cough*

For it is not our wisdom but the wisdom of the only true review metric. Hallowed are the Chairs.

Scale:
– Nooope

– Not sure if want

– Check it out

– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Dumb arse bike game (Motorbike)
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/343120/
Devel: baKno Games
Engine: Unity
Price: $/€ 4.99

Wazzat: A casual bike skills game full of action and real physics dynamics. Motorbike comes with 100 original tracks, thousands of online tracks and a track editor to create your own tracks and share with other players.

Makes with the working

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