Saturday, July 28, 2012

Precise Pangolin Patrols Paragon!

Captain Nighttime exacts dark justice once again, thanks to Ubuntu 12.04!
The game runs like a champ (40 fps open world; 85 fps instances) on the "Recommended" graphics setting with vertical sync off on my low-power-consumption Ubuntu box (uses only 246 watts, monitor included).

Ubuntu's screen capture app makes getting shots of ID badges and the costume creator child's play (something I struggled with in Windows).

The only tricky part of installing was figuring out how to get XML::Simple installed (Perl, Wine, Wget and Xdelta all either came with Precise or were available in the Software Center). Turns out one command line did it:


sudo apt-get install libxml-simple-perl


Oh, and as you can see, I'm finally playing in High Definition. Nice.


Windows? Where we're going we don't need Windows!