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I am on 367.45 driver on my main gaming rig. I've had no visual tearing but this is due to using Compton on Ubuntu Mate 16.10 64 bit with some startup settings enabled.

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Quoting: cybikAaaaaaaaaaaand I sunk about 21 hours in 3 days in this game. Damn it.

A demo? 21 hours? I'm almost afraid to give it a proper go myself.

Well the demo itself is only the start of the game, BUT at the end of the demo's contents, they say you can import your demo savegame into the full game.

So I'm grinding levels and some of my weapons as well.

I blame https://twitter.com/nomnomnami/

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt seems as if in a low-key nuts-and-bolts sort of way, Valve is paying more attention to Linux again just lately.

Yeah, but I think that's always been Volvo's plan, they've always played the long game. I also think this is why it wasn't advertised or pushed as much as it could of been. Perhaps to allow them to have time to do things like this (release tools, fix AMD, fix client etc)

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libstrangle seems really great, thank you!

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Quoting: ArdjeStill have to play wasteland 2 though :-(. So many games, so little time.

These damn 1st world problems!

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I needed 39 hours until the credits (rock 'n') rolled. A great game and plenty to check out outside of the main story.

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Quoting: 0aTTFor Mumble you will need a server, of course. But for everything else you will also need a server. For mail, homepage, wiki, blog, jabber, nginx and simply everything else you do online.

Granted, but that doesn't address my complaint that I don't know how to set up a server, let alone maintain it. (And I've found scant "how-to" set up Murmur written for the clueless, such as me.) There seems to me to be a vast difference between "needing" to use a server and setting up and maintaining a server to use it. I'm rarely (by which I think I mean "never") required to set up and maintain servers for anything I do online.

Quoting: 0aTTThumb rule: Only use services if there are indispensable advantages. Valuable services are e.g.: Steam, Twitch, GitHub and some more.

I agree. And Discord offers me one such "indispensable advantage:" I myself don't have to set up and maintain a server to use it. THAT feature alone marks Discord as a very "Valuable service" indeed!

Quoting: 0aTT... at the end of your life you will not have saved time.

Au contraire mon ami! Look at all the time I've already saved using servers set up and maintained by others, Discord not least among them!

Quoting: 0aTTHow do they earn their money?

However they do it, it's more ethical than Microsoft, Halliburton, Union Carbide, AT&T, Chase Manhattan ... or countless other bottom-line feeders lurking in the murky waters of international capitalism.

Discord, probably collects data to sell. So be it. I use the internet; I'm going to leave a data trail. But I do what I can to minimize my trail by using duckduckgo instead of Google; subscribing to a reputable VPN service; using Firefox with a host of privacy add-ons, and clearing session cookies, LSOs, and history upon closing; and regularly testing my system with tools such as doileak.com and DNS leak test

I don't need people telling me to use open-source software, I need open-source people telling people like me --- normal, non-technically-minded people --- how to use their software. Until then I'll make do with what tools are avalable to me.

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Does the update will work also on Tesla card like Nvidia 820m?

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Nice! I have put about 60 hours in it already and still did not finish the game. Thanks to devs and publisher!

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Quoting: MaokeiLook at everything else nvidia does pretty much everything is proprietary gsync, drivers, tools, etc It's part of their strategy to not share anything allow nothing to benefit anyone else than nvidia. And lock customers into their ecosystem.

This has been pretty much everyone's strategy in the past. Market leaders tend to resist change, even if this ultimately tends to lead to their downfall. Even Nvidia will adapt as soon as they start losing market share. They're all in it for the money. Different strategies, same goal.

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Quoting: erlaanWe should start to send TUX to every company that not supporting linux. To like Arenanet, blizzard, Dice(CEO is for linux support but they are under EA..) I was thinking of starting to send a tux/month to a company. If all do that they will get alot of tuxes on the office to remind them that linux is importent!

it will not work...
we need to send penguin's to specialized magazines. they are the guys who manage the public opinion.
whith that, we can speedup the change of the market porcent.

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Quoting: ZlopezI don't know why the NVIDIA doesn't help with open source driver and use they own proprietary driver.

Look at everything else nvidia does pretty much everything is proprietary gsync, drivers, tools, etc It's part of their strategy to not share anything allow nothing to benefit anyone else than nvidia. And lock customers into their ecosystem.

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I won't tell you what my most anticipated game of 2017 is (it's a secret), but I will tell you it wasn't two games I so eagerly anticipated in 2016: Homefront and Shadow Warrior 2. Darksiders taught me that once a game fails to materialize on (or even around) it's stated release date, I best cease to anticipate it.

Quite a few nominees were new to me, but a little duckduckgoing quickly remedied that. I'm particularly keen to try out The Dark Mod. I'd never heard of that one before.

I was a bit saddened that my favorite gaming related FOSS project --- sc-controller --- wasn't a nominee, though I suppose that's because it's written in Python. Ah well, we all have our favorite shouda-rans, I'm sure.

;)

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Quoting: liamdaweSorry about that, have adjusted it to only show that button on the one you voted for.

Theoretically, I might just have remembered - but not in my age! ;)

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Quoting: EikeI get a "remove vote" button for every game in a category I already voted in.
So there is no way to look up what I actaually voted for?

Sorry about that, have adjusted it to only show that button on the one you voted for.

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I don't know why the NVIDIA doesn't help with open source driver and use they own proprietary driver.

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I get a "remove vote" button for every game in a category I already voted in.
So there is no way to look up what I actaually voted for?

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This gets harder and harder to do each year. Spoilt for choice!

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Surprisingly, the hardest part for me was all the games I haven't played. Or heard of.

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That's cool. It sucks when content is otherwise unavailable to us, just because we didn't get a day one edition on Linux.

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Quoting: HamishYou are mistaken, at least when it comes to the source code releases.

I stand corrected. Thank you. Here's hoping that more developers follow his lead.

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Now stable distro's mesa packages will look even more out of date.

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OMG I'm so jaded. I saw the headline:
Pixel Princess Blitz, a roguelike sandbox action RPG that plans Linux support is on Kickstarter
and without missing a beat the voice in my head read it as:
Pixel Princess Blitz, a roguelike sandbox action RPG and the devs have heard of Linux.
Lol, I guess that's about all the excitement I can muster anymore about promises and plans (let's call them what they are: rumors) of Linux releases-yet-unborn.

All the same, though. I do appreciate hearing the rumors nonetheless! And, yeah. It does look like a fun game. Thanks for the heads up, Liam!

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If a GPLV3 project includes GPLV2+ files, the project as a whole is GPLV3. You can however reuse the GPLV2+ files in other GPLV2 projects.

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Darn, I forgot to apply EDuke32 for "favourite FOSS project". Well...

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very good

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Great news.

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Yes, an awesome game. Played it a lot :D

In Germany it was known as "Bleifuss Fun" (Bleifuss = Leadfoot)

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Quoting: [email protected]An important point to note is that if you enable FCP, you might want to disable in game vsync. You'll encounter performance hits that can be pretty massive. In game vsync is no longer necessary.

Not quite right, on contrary, you may waste GPU/CPU cycles trying to render more frames than the monitor would allow; if the game has no vsync logic enabled, it is probably completely unaware of the monitor refresh rate, so it will render as fast as it can, and that could lead to jerkyness because the couple [compositor+monitor refresh] is not synced to game frames.

Indeed, one thing i noticed with compositors that do vsync (*AND* vsync is disabled in games) is that motion is jerky/jumpy in games (it is still smooth in movies because the fps is limited by the movie itself).

The workaround for that is:
Given "C" a compositor that provides a working vsync (nvidia forcefullcompositionpipeline, kwin with tearing prevention on, compton with vsync enabled and so on):

* If the game provides a working vsync, enable it and disable "C"

*If the game provides a non working vsync, enable it and leave "C" enabled; this is needed because even if you got tearing with the Game's non-working vsync option turned on, it will still be useful, because it limits the framerate to the monitor refresh rate; this helps "C" to stay in sync with the frames -> provide a smooth gameplay.

I've tested that on trine 2 and grid autsport.

My current setup is as follows:
Desktop Use:
- KDE/Plasma, compositor enabled but with "tearing prevention" disabled
- ForceFullCompositionPipeline enabled.
- vsync disabled in mpv (framerate is limited anyway by the movie)

Gaming:
- KDE/Plasma compositor completely disabled (to gain some fps)
but with frame limiter set to 75 (because my monitor uses 75hz).
Do that in ~/.config/kwinrc, add MaxFPS=75 in the "[Compositing]" section.
- Vsync option in game enabled
- If the games has a working vsync -> ForceFullCompositionPipeline disabled.
- If the games has a non-working vsync -> ForceFullCompositionPipeline enabled.

All the switches are bound to shortcuts alt-shift-f12 and alt-shift-f11
alt-shift-f12 comes with kdekwin and completely disables the compositor
alt-shift-f11 is bound to the following:
> cat ~/scripts/nvidia.compositionpipeline.switch.sh 
#!/bin/bash
killall aosd_cat
if nvidia-settings -t -q CurrentMetaMode|grep 'ForceCompositionPipeline=On' &>/dev/null ; then
    ~/scripts/nvidia.compositionpipeline.disable.sh &
    echo "FFCP=OFF" | aosd_cat -n "Sans Bold 15"  -x 0 -y 0 -p 0 -t 0 -b 255 -s 255 -d 10 -R yellow  -u 5000 &
    echo "FFCP=OFF" | aosd_cat -n "Sans Bold 15"  -x 0 -y 0 -p 2 -t 0 -b 255 -s 255 -d 10 -R yellow  -u 5000 &
        else
    ~/scripts/nvidia.compositionpipeline.enable.sh &
    echo "FFCP=ON" | aosd_cat -n "Sans Bold 15"   -x 0 -y 0 -p 0 -t 0 -b 255 -s 255 -d 10 -R "#99ccff"  -u 5000 &
    echo "FFCP=ON" | aosd_cat -n "Sans Bold 15"   -x 0 -y 0 -p 2 -t 0 -b 255 -s 255 -d 10 -R "#99ccff"  -u 5000 &
fi
###########
> cat ~/scripts/nvidia.compositionpipeline.disable.sh 
#!/bin/bash
sh -c "nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode=\"$(nvidia-settings -t -q CurrentMetaMode |tr -d "\n"|sed 's/.*:://'|sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//'|sed "s/CompositionPipeline=On/CompositionPipeline=Off/g")\""
###########
> cat ~/scripts/nvidia.compositionpipeline.enable.sh 
#/bin/bash
sh -c "nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode=\"$(nvidia-settings -t -q CurrentMetaMode |tr -d "\n"|sed 's/ViewPortIn=/ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On, ViewPortIn=/g'|sed 's/.*:://'|sed 's/^ *//;s/ *$//')\""
Hitting a shortcut is faster than opening the nvidia's control panel, and the aosd_cat command is useful because it show the current FFCP (ForceFullCompositionPipeline) state.

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Not an easy vote! These are the best in each category already!

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