Tag Archives: Gaming

Benchmark: Overclocked Richland A10-6800K APU on Fedora 22 with AMD Catalyst/fglrx 15.7

Posted on September 8, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

I just thought I’d report that, on a machine with the following specs: Richland 4.1 GHz A10-6800K APU [GPU Overclocked to 1050 MHz, Standard Voltage] Corsair H80 Cooling System Fedora 22 KDE Spin Kernel Version: 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 AMD Catalyst/fglrx Driver Version … Continue reading →

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Installing ZSNES in Fedora 20

Posted on June 20, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Oh man, RPM Fusion has a zsnes v 1.51 package (and that’s the latest version available).  It’s incredibly easy to install – just add the rpmfusion-free repository to your system (if you haven’t already) and execute sudo yum install zsnes. … Continue reading →

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Epic Games Is Making a Completely Free Unreal Tournament (for Linux!)!!!

Posted on May 9, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Oh man, this was totally unexpected (by me).  I heard that they were going to make an announcement about Unreal Tournament but I didn’t expect them to go even further than TF2 in making the software open and free.  That’s … Continue reading →

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Valve-Sponsored Mesa Work Improves Linux Game Loading Times

Posted on May 7, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY4MjA Yay!  Now maybe TF2 won’t take 30 seconds to load (as I previously complained)!

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