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Yeah I saw that. Rather than engage in the poo-flinging that goes on on "Windows vs Linux" forums, I would love to know exactly why it runs faster. Is it the drivers? The game itsself? The kernel?

its due to directx being crap. also reading the link about win8 being awful for pc's in general maybe the reason behind the shift to linux

But there are just SOOO many factors to consider. 3D desktop enabled? Number of processes running in the background? etc. I think it would be good if they ran this test on a system average Joe is likely to use and see how much boost it still gets them.

The author did attempt a TDM mission but found the process too complex compared to Rune (which he is familiar with). As far as I'm concerned, this amounts to free promotion because any time someone sees a new Thief mod, they search for other Thief mods. TDM is the top result in Google search for "Thief Mod".

Doesn't stuff like this deserve a thread rather than being buried in the status updates?

Promising! These guys should be working on T4

Lose copyright? No

from whats said in the rules of googles summer of code its says that any code produced and submitted to google during the competition becomes copyrighted to one of the companies doing the moderation of the competition.

Only if the particular project requires it as a part of submission. Many projects don't. http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#who_owns

Instead of the text highlight image it changes to the alt text.

Weird, all of the text bits look the same to me.

Back to normal for me. I'm calling this a caching issue on my end.

cool.

Funny I was taking a walk last night and looked up and the moon was stunning! I just stopped and gazed at it for a long time. I didn't know this effect, but that would explain it.

Wasn't there a famous sci-fi story where a scientist sees a beautiful moon and realizes that the Sun has gone supernova on the other side of the Earth?

i'm not sure how i feel about AI being knocked out rather than killed by a 200lb crate being dumped on them from 20 feet.

Gotta be better than the current "Hey!" or whatever

The "no kill when crate drops on them from above" is to avoid the unf. situation that if you drop anything on them, they might die and on Expert this would lead to the player never trying to knock them out out of fear of killing them accidentily.

That heart is 850 years old. I hope they can get it back.

I just hope this is for a bizarre cult ritual and not just profit motive.

Perhaps they should check the vistor books for any Thomas Porter's, William Steele's, Corbin's, Farrel's, or so help us, Garret's. Also, stealing a heart?

#2984 seems to indicate Win XP is the problem, so you can do it in Win Vista+

Serpentine fixed it, so it should work on windows, now. Not sure about Linux, tho.

Glad to hear. It would easy things if Alt+Tab would work.

WTF is goin on hir novadays? This is the first time that it's so hard, isn't it?

I guess the captcha got broken a couple days ago.

Whoa - seriously? I've not kept up with the modding community at large - didn't realise that the Desura thing was like that.

TDM will always be a longshot to win stuff like this. I doubt Thief ever won popularity contests either. We're a niche market, for better or worse.

Apparently the ModDB editors are in our niche

I was just shopping for a new laptop and was down to 2 choices, and the one I picked had an Intel Core i3, which beats the other's AMD A8-3500M.

Unless your Intel laptop has a decent (ededicated) GPU built in, this might not have been the wisest choice. While the AMD's CPU part may be inferior to the i3, the APU's GPU part is *way* superior.

It has an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 GPU. I think that counts as dedicated & decent. I mostly play just older games anyway, and the better CPU makes me happier for like making music, audio & video editing, etc.

I'll go with 4.8 Gbps for now (10x USB 2.0).

5 Gbps is the spec, minus overhead of course which will get you close to 550 MB/s

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Profile feed makes me very happy. Too bad we lost all that other stuff we said.