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Indie Game Review: Donut County

Tyson O'Ham — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:11:50 +0000

We’re experiencing a glut of fast-paced action adventure titles in the indie genre at present. Each new release presents iterative takes on games like Castelvania, The Souls franchise, and stylish action games like DMC. While it’s nice to see a revival of a genre I adore, I’ve been spoilt for choice and wandered into the [...]

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Benchmark Almost Any 3D App On Linux With Bugle

Tyson O'Ham — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:16:02 +0000

Linux Gaming and 3d accelerated productivity have come a long way in the past few years. Steam and GoG host thousands of Linux native titles, and things like computer vision and deep learning are mainstays for Linux GPGPU. Practically every render farm runs it, and serious commercial software like Nuke, Davinci Resolve, and Autodesk Maya [...]

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Next Up Hero Shows Promise with Interesting New Mechanics

Kyle Brennan — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:18:11 +0000

Next Up Hero is a Steam Early Access game brought to you by the talented folks at Digital Continue. Slash, shoot, and revive your way to victory in this top-down action game. And with a launch price of $19.99, it’s clear why everyone’s talking about it. Read Also: Why We Recommend the GT 710 [...]

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Fix for Threadripper PCI Passthrough Submitted to Linux Kernel

Ryan El Kochta — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:15:30 +0000

AMD's Threadripper platform has proven buggy and problematic for Passthrough VMs. Luckily, Geoffrey McRae, known by his username gnif, recently submitted a fix to the Linux kernel developers for the company's HEDT flagship. When the patch lands downstream, TR will be uniquely poised as a powerful virtualization platform, as the highest-end Threadripper currently available sports [...]

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Announcing the Looking Glass Public Release

Kyle Brennan — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:45:11 +0000

The highly anticipated headless VFIO package, Looking Glass, was released early tonight at 4:30 PM PST. Originally set for a Thursday, December 14 release date. The creator, Geoffrey McRae, decided to "Give everyone a little surprise" and push the 251 commits to GitHub a few hours early. Included in the repository is code for both [...]

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NVIDIA Confirms Linux Driver Performance Regression

Ryan El Kochta — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 01:24:12 +0000

A performance-tanking NVIDIA Linux driver regression was recently discovered in "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided." Read also: Critical Ryzen Update Lands in Linux Kernel NVIDIA DevTalk forums user HeavyHDX observed a 27% framerate drop between the 375.82 and 387.34 drivers. The poster later shared VRAM usage, showing the 387.34 drivers using over 30% more VRAM than the [...]

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