Month: October 2012

Get Crossover for free (only for today)

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Hurry up guys! CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications on your Linux computer. Your applications integrate seamlessly into Ubuntu; just click and run. No rebooting, no switching to a virtual machine, and no Windows Operating System license required! CrossOver lets you run many applications such as Microsoft Office and Quicken. It also … Read more

How to speed up Unity Gaming Performance

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It is widely known that Ubuntu 12.10 has a major problem with Unity and gaming performance. In case you haven’t noticed, there is dramatic regression in performance compared to other Desktop environments. Doing the math or so, Unity costs about 10% in frame rate performance drop when running a game. Well, that doesn’t sound really nice … Read more

“Ubuntu Game Developers” team created

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A new team has been created in the Launchpad, called “Ubuntu Game Developers“. Consisted of the best technicians and having Canonical’s Daniel von Vugt as an owner, this team clearly suggests Canonical’s weighty attitude towards its gaming. Its purposes are yet to be known, however, we assume that this team will be finding and providing solutions to … Read more

The Steam for Linux Beta Survey is Out!

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The Steam for Linux limited public beta survey is now online! You can find it here: http://www.valvesoftware.com/linuxsurvey.php Over the next few days, Valve will be processing the responses. Shortly afterwards, they will notify selected participants individually and kick off the limited beta. For the latest news and announcements about Steam for Linux, stay tuned. Too … Read more

Team Fortress 2 Beta in Linux

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Valve, you tease us so. Team Fortress 2 has just updated with the following hit from CDR-2 Parser today. Guess what ? The new Team Fortress PC Game will be available for Linux. New players receive any weapons that are currently undergoing testing, certain promotional items that their Steam account is entitled to, and other items that may be … Read more

How to fix your AMD Graphics in Ubuntu 12.10 (updated)

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The last week or so has been one of transition for AMD’s Catalyst driver, especially for those you have a quite old Radeon GPU. Alongside the launch of Ubuntu 12.10 – that comes with new xorg 1.13 and breaks the fglrx (aka Catalyst 12.9) – AMD has also drop the support for Radeon HD 4000, HD 3000 or HD 2000 graphics cards, forcing a broken upgrade up to Quantal 12.10. On the development side of things, this problem is not 100% percent related to Ubuntu 12.10, but it comes with the new version of xorg 1.13 that is included in Quantal, meaning that you need to downgrade xorg down to 1.12.  So for the time being there is no AMD Legacy support with X-Server 1.13, and you need to downgrade. Capping this off, the solution comes from inside the root of the problem, thus AMD’s driver team has launched a new driver for these outdated GPU models, called Catalyst Legacy.

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What is VSync? Should I enable it?

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When it comes to game settings, it’s true that Linux gamers are not as experienced as Windows guys. Oh, you don’t believe me ? Okay then, please raise your hand if you know the above terms: AA, MSAA, AF, Vsync, Tessellation. Just in case you are not sure what’s about, I strongly recommend you to … Read more

How to install nVIDIA 310.14 drivers, major changes

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NVIDIA has released a new (beta) Linux graphics drivers for Linux community. The latest beta nVIDIA 310.14 driver is now available for download. This time nVIDIA comes with some new major changes, such as fixing (at laaaast) the Youtube-blue-face bug caused Adobe Flash and libvdpau. Next to that, VDPAU is optimized for significant improvement in moving … Read more