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Wondering if DarkSouls3 will receive a 30% ribbon...haha

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Yes good news for laptops and low power usage consumers. However 5.5TFOPS is almost half of what the 1080 card will offer, so be aware of that. (performance per watt, I think NVIDIA win in that respect, but at 180TDP)

Also even tho the Linux drivers are getting better under Linux, they still have a long way to go. I use WARTHUNDER for my testing, when that game is playable at 50-60fps at 4k with AMD hardware, I will be excited. (ATM it can only achieve that with everything turned off, it looks like Mario 64)

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I switched from NVIDIA a long time ago. If performance isn't your primary criteria (it happens, I'm the proof of it ;)), I strongly encourage to buy AMD. Just for the pleasure of seeing your machine booting up with a pretty good GPU acceleration without having anything to install, or even configure. But maybe it's something that only rings bells to the old Linux veterans like me ;)

As for Intel, I switched to AMD a year ago and I'm fairly happy with it. But here, the main reason was simply the price. Intel's good CPUs are ludicrously expensive, so I looked at AMD's offer and there I find that the quality/price ratio is better.

I'm actually looking for a new AMD GPU that might fit in my case. Since Polaris GPUs seem to dissipate less heat, will the card be a bit smaller too?

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You can buy it DRM-free on GoG.com as well, and it's even cheaper.

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geometry wars 3 and polycromatic probably

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great news but im not really into the hype .. i want to see some real benchmarks and their linux driver support is still lacking and vulkan is still quite young.

amd zen however seems interesting..but again.. i wont buy into hype.. if the 40+% better IPC versus bulldozer is true and i can get my hands on 8c/16t with a reasonable ~300€ pricetag. then im all for it

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Quoting: MagamoShame in some ways that I hadn't noticed postings of the tournament earlier, I used to be a big old school CnC fan, and have been enjoying OpenRA for a while. I'll have fun watching this later though.

What's stopping you from trying to enter anyway? :) At this point I have 2 FFA matches that need a playdate I can fit one more player in either without a problem.

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As long as it keeps Nvidia in check and AMD some fighting space, we are good.

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Quoting: seven... if the linux support is good....

i left amd cpu and gpu behind me years ago and my life only got better, that said is not healthy for the market with one brand monoplizing the shit out of said market. so i aplaud their efforts

This is why I am hoping Polaris and Zen are both as good as they currently sound, but only time will tell.

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... if the linux support is good....

i left amd cpu and gpu behind me years ago and my life only got better, that said is not healthy for the market with one brand monoplizing the shit out of said market. so i aplaud their efforts

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Good to know! Still only Intel Iris Pro will benefit from this featues: Any OpenGL >=4.x will need a lot of performance.

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Thanks a lot, Igalia (Galician Company)

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-- My Wallet

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Quoting: NouserHaswell supports OpenGL 4.3 on Windows, yet OpenGL 4.0 is limited to Broadwell and up on Mesa at the moment. I hope they plan to extend the support to older generations in future releases.

Somewhere I read that some features of intel HD that are available on Broadwell and above now and on Ivy Bridgy and Haswell but only on Windows, will be available on Haswell and Ivy Bridge on Linux but only with Linux kernel 4.7. So there I am still hoping.

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Haswell supports OpenGL 4.3 on Windows, yet OpenGL 4.0 is limited to Broadwell and up on Mesa at the moment. I hope they plan to extend the support to older generations in future releases.

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Something tells me Valve does it on purpose. In any case, http://whenisthenextsteamsale.com/ was estimating the exact same date, so I don't think this comes as a biiiiig surprise. :)

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Quoting: toorApparently this game is pretty shitty

Metacritic average seems fairly low but Steam reviews are mostly positive. Some of the bad reviews are referencing technical issues one would hope are resolved at this point and most of the reviews aren't from particularly well-known sources.

I watched a little of this being streamed when it was new and it seemed intriguing at least.

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Well, it has a demo, so I will at least take a look at it :)

EDIT: the demo is only windows/mac at the moment…

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Apparently this game is pretty shitty

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Rust survival mechanics are awesome then DOTA2 of course some times Tomb Raider Witcher 2 and finally Wine+Diablo3 Heroes of the Storm + Sniper :ghost warrior 2

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Shame in some ways that I hadn't noticed postings of the tournament earlier, I used to be a big old school CnC fan, and have been enjoying OpenRA for a while. I'll have fun watching this later though.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: tusharkant15This forces Triple Buffering so the performance does take a hit

Triple buffering is supposed to improve performance compared to double buffering. Well, the framerate should improve, not the latency.

i think the issue where it takes the hit is where game itself has triplebuffer enabled as well.
some games get really jumpy framerate when thats in xorg.. thats with my experience.

just ForceCompositionPipline fixes all tearing for me and no need to use other tweaks.

Did you try to disable your compositor while running games ?

I know the auto-detection doesn't work well since lot of games now play in a borderless window. It's hard for them to detect fullscreen and then auto-disable compositor, and that's what I experienced when I switched from XFCE (without compositor) to KDE (with compositor) 2 years ago. So I chose to do it by myself when needed.

KDE provides a shortcut key to disable it manually, default is Ctrl+Alt+F12 iirc, and can be changed to any key you want (I personally use Pause key). While compositor doesn't hit performance on "low demanding" games, it can cripple fps on "high demanding" games like Feral or Aspyr ones. So I press my "magic key" to improve FPS. :P

To be honest I hardly believe triple buffer may hit performance, since its very benefit is to improve performance and provide steady FPS, at the cost of a larger usage of VRAM. Your problem should come from somewhere else.
See Nvidia documentation or simply Wikipedia article.

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Hi there, is it possible to get these weekly recaps as Email? It would be perfectly for me, since there are so much posts and articles here on unknown indie games that do not interest me much and even on patches of games, that you quickly get lost if searching only for the very substantial news/articles.
(I still deem some articles here not substantial, but its way better and the viewcount and sorted by view - please switch the order - is REALLY helpful imo.)

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: nifker

Quoting: FUltra

Quoting: nifker1. Any special reason why would you support Unity3D?
2. Everyones acting like X11 is the past and is really buggy and slow - but really most don't have real problems with X11 and if there are problems let us fix them or rewrite parts if neccesarry.

But X11 is the past and is really buggy (try for example to create a 100% no-one-can-bypass screen saver lock for X11). More to the point is that the devs behind X11 is the same devs that are creating Wayland.

The only sad thing with these nice changes to Unity3D is that AFAIK Unity3D is statically linked to each game and does not exist as a shared resource in for example Steam so for this new version to be used games have to be updated one by one(?).

As I said stop creating new projects and help existing - for me it is "I WILL NEVER STOP USING X11" unless I'll see dwm for Wayland which I guess won't happen and Wayland needs to be cross-platform like other Unix-software.
Anyway who says it is the past and is buggy - Really who needs screenssavers thats like Im not at my desk but I need something running at my screen.

Sorry mate, but really that ship has sailed. Yes, X11 has done yeoman service over many years, but as FUltra said, the people making Wayland are the X11 people. It's coming and that's that. And X11 has/creates a whole bunch of security problems, which don't matter to me sitting at my desktop but matter plenty overall. And X11 ultimately just has too many concepts built deep into it which are at odds with how graphics are done now. It just does not, at its core, do things the way modern graphics work, and that creates bottlenecks and limits capability. For a long time the advantages of maturity outweighed that, but the people who developed X11 seem to pretty much all agree that time is past. They could "just update" X11 but for that to work it would have to be a distinction without a difference--the name is about all that would be left.

Wayland has been slow, but it is arriving. And maybe Mir I guess, wtf Canonical and their Not Invented Here syndrome.

So why would I switch - I have no problems and I will probably never have problems. I mean why would I switch to something that says it better but wouldnt benefit for me. So no Wayland wm no Wayland for me.

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I don't have much time to play at the moment, but I've been playing Armello natively, Stardew Valley and Clannad in wine. Also found some time for Final Fantasy X on the PS4.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI didn't realize this series had so many games. I tried playing 5089 on the Vive, still haven't figured out HOW to play the game, but it seemed pretty cool. Will have to play it some more once HTC/Valve fix SteamVR for Linux.

It is REALLY fun once you know how to play it as the progression in the game feels awesome. I used to play the first one and slowly upgrade my gear to higher gear and doing quests for NPCs. A good game honestly just puts people off by the learning curve and graphics.

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Quoting: jnriversStellaris @ 17 hours. Picked fight I couldn't win, surrendering terms were the emancipation of all my systems except home base. Tried re-conquering my lost systems only to get b****-slapped. Crawled back like a beat dog claiming systems none of the other empires would touch. Game is way too addictive for me : )

Sounds similar to my first game, strangely similar :D

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Finished Batman AA, Spec OPS and Tomb Raider

Now I'm busy with:

1 - Shadow Warrior
2 - Victor Vran
3 - Saints Row the third and IV ( 2 crashes often)

:)

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Stellaris @ 17 hours. Picked fight I couldn't win, surrendering terms were the emancipation of all my systems except home base. Tried re-conquering my lost systems only to get b****-slapped. Crawled back like a beat dog claiming systems none of the other empires would touch. Game is way too addictive for me : )

DOOM on the PS4! Considering the mountain of expectations of this game, they really did well. The gameplay is really refreshing, it's downright furious. Constant homage to the originals with state of the art graphics and a metal soundtrack. Hell yeah.

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I think I've gotten to the point where they just need to fix the paste buffer stuff in Wayland and I can switch to that, and I always thought one of the things Wayland was supposed to fix is this issue with screen tearing.

That said, I'm not getting a whole lot of tearing right now using Debian Sid on my 55" screen. I haven't done much to the configuration either, beyond installing the nVidia drivers. I really need to fix my laptop though so I can actually USE the nVidia side of things. What would have been nice is if they could come up with a chipset that had a really nice powersaving mode so we wouldn't need this PRIME/Optimus nonsense in the first place! Maybe their 10x0 cards will?

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