I got tired of accidentally browsing games from publishers with a track record of shutting down always-online titles and making them unplayable. So I built a simple tool:
I was looking around for parts when I stumbled upon the HP Omen 16L. With an RX 9060 XT, an AMD Ryzen 5, 1TB SSD and 16 Gigs of RAM it looks quite capable and it costs just 999,- EUR.
This month we received the new SpacemiT K3 board. Since its inception, felix86 wasn’t able to run on any of the out-of-order execution hardware, such as the SiFive P550 or the SOPHON SG2042. The former has no vector support, the latter has XTheadVector support. While initially there was consideration for supporting hardware without RVV 1.0 or hardware with XTheadVector, ultimately the decision was that we should instead focus on the future of RISC-V consumer hardware which will have RVV 1.0 due to it being mandatory in the RVA23 profile.
Coming from the business side of gaming - this Valve Linux VRAM fix story is genuinely interesting to me, but not for the technical reason.
A Valve engineer quietly drops a kernel patch, and suddenly a 4GB GPU that was practically unusable in modern games goes from 14 to 41 FPS in Alan Wake II.
No press release. No marketing. Just a fix that triples performance for budget GPU users.
From a growth perspective, that’s a massive retained audience - people who were about to give up on PC gaming because their hardware couldn’t keep up.
Question for the devs here: how much do you think about low-VRAM users when optimizing your games? Is it even feasible at an indie level, or is that something only studios with Valve-level resources can realistically address?
Portal 2: Community Edition (P2:CE) is a community-maintained version of Portal 2 that significantly enhances the way you make and play content, offering new capabilities such as a brand-new scripting system, an improved Hammer map editor and significantly increased limits over the original game.
Al Lowe is an American software developer who started making games in the early eighties. His is mostly known for the Leisure Suit Larry games, created with Sierra, but he is also a musical man who loves playing his sax and still plays with his model trains. He has also created lots of other games for Sierra, not only the Larry series.
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