Month: July 2026

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Linux Performance – Does it Float My Boat?

Robert Lohr1 Comment

JAARRRR, Mateys!

Fine, I’ll stop with that. But you’d better ready yourself for a metaphorical mutiny. Now, somehow Hardware Unboxed sneakily boarded my pirate-pun galleon and raided its treasure chest full of allegories for their GPU benchmark video. So, if I happen to parrot one of theirs, it’s sort of by accident. Captain Morgan forbade me from memorizing them, and I’m not double-checking their video just to avoid looking like a filthy privateer. Their exhaustive Black Flag GPU benchmark intro is full of quips that I now have to Sailor’s Jig around.

Thanks, Steve!

You should watch it, though, to find out the baseline performance of your GPU. But: Chances are you probably already did. So, after you finished my analysis, please tell me whose pirate jokes you preferred.

With that out of the way, ahoi to another Linux performance analysis.

Let’s find out how the remake of the darling of Assassin’s Creed games runs on Linux. Does it float my boat, or is it a drunken sailor? And how does it stack up against Windows 11?

Grab your favorite beverage as long as it’s rum, and then let’s go on a quest for ships.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 – A Thin Line Between Love & Hate

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I don’t even really know where to start with this one. My intention is not to write a classic review (for a classic RPG) that covers the individual aspects of the game. You know, story, characters, progression, combat, all that juicy stuff. I’ve shifted away from this format in an attempt to focus on how a game affects me, how it makes me feel. Take Wall World, for example. This little indie gem got its hooks into me so hard that I couldn’t stop playing – a feeling I hadn’t experienced in a long while. But how do you do that for a game so expansive and so beloved as Baldur’s Gate 3? Because I do have feelings, though a hot take they might be and very different from Wall World, and I don’t just want to blurt them out. I’d like to weave a narrative, encase you in a web of connected threads. Threads that convey my feelings, my experience, starting with the honeymoon phase, covering the disagreements and fights between me and the game, and, finally, the reunion.

Thing is: I’m not much of an author, so… I’ll have to wing it. I just hope you fail a perception check and actually come out convinced of the opposite.

I also have a German version of this video.

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