Oh neat! I grabbed a copy of this for my business partner. Looks like a fully fleshed out version of a gamejam game that he made years ago. Inspired by many of those same games, but had like 10 minutes of content since it was for a jam. ;)

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I played around with this a bit over the weekend. I figured compiling Mesa on the Pi would take hours, but it was done in a few minutes. Basically all of Sascha's demos run except for ones that exceed certain hardware limits. It really puts the performance you can expect out of this into perspective though. ;) I mean don't expect to be running even older games at 1080p60 resolution now. It can barely manage a Vulkan version of GLXGears at that speed. ;) The only display I have in my office is a 4k panel so you can imagine how well it runs fullscren on that. Hehe.

That said, I'm super excited to try and support it with some of my own projects. :D

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Quoting: whizseThe legal ROM file, the rarest of Pokémon!

Oooh! I just bought the whole collection for like 8 bucks because, "why not?" I just downloaded it to check and it downloads with regular old, unencrypted ROM files you can run with whatever emulator you want. Going to load these up on my Everdrive and play some on the actual hardware then. :D Gaming on Linux -> Pshhh! Gaming on retro hardware -> :D

Do yourself a favor and grab the whole collection play them on desktop Linux, your RetroPi setup, or whatever else you have that runs Genesis games. :D

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This is probably my most played RC sim. Racing in it is a blast, and it has a decent number of tracks to try. Freestyle... meh. I can do that in real life in my backyard, and it's actually fun on a real drone. Though I do sometimes like to try it in the winter when the weather doesn't allow doing it outside.

The performance of this game (even after the update) is pretty demanding though. Even after the update it's barely playable on a brand new i7 machine with UHD graphics. (Maybe Iris would fare better?)

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Sounds quite nice indeed. If I had waited a few more months, I maybe would have gotten that instead of my Lemur Pro. Though not what I bought it for, the extra graphics oomph would be nice to have. On the other hand, I do love the absolutely stunning battery life on the Lemur.

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Oh man! This is silly, wonderful, and the games last like 5 minutes. Perfect thing to leave installed on my work computer when I need a quick break. :D

@Mnoleg Hmm. I should try that game again. I remember thinking the trailer looked so flashy and good, but the game was more awkward than satisfying.

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So I do VR development on Linux using Unity. My experience has been a bit different, and most of my issues have had to do with Unity's early support for Linux. The actual SteamVR experience has always just basically worked for me out of the box, at least on Ubuntu and Pop. Sorry you had so many issues. :dizzy: My work machine has a RX590 and my home machine a RX5700. Both have worked fine for me, though I haven't played as many games on the RX590 to know if the performance holds up.

SteamVR Home is a relatively new feature, and I've always disliked it even when running on Windows. It just takes longer to load and there doesn't seem to be any point for it to exist. Launching directly from the overlay panel (or whatever it's called, the thing that pops up when you press the steam button) is just much nicer.

Sound has... always been a little rough yeah. Since I do development, I always turned the audio switching feature off, and I kind of didn't notice it was missing under Linux. That is kind of a pain if you just wanted to play games I suppose. I'll have to try the pulse audio volume control thing. I've usually just ignored the crackling sound issue since it doesn't come up that often for me.

Unity on the other hand... I don't want this to sound like a complaint, because I'm glad they support Linux. I'm not a huge fan of Unity overall, and it's not exactly stable on other platforms either. On Linux/VR though, it's very picky. It locks up if you don't launch SteamVR before Unity, and once a day or so it just locks up anyway. The bigger problem is that multi-threaded editor support isn't enabled in Linux yet so the performance is far from ideal. I don't get motion sick easily in VR, but the in editor performance is often sub 60 fps. Anyway, I doubt my coworkers would put up with the a new set of issues though. I had plenty of issues with Windows 10, but Windows Update making my computer unbootable or unusable for development 3 times in the space of 2 months was the last straw. At least on Mac/Linux I know how to fix things, and I hadn't had any problems with Linux on my main home computer for years. The Unity issues have not made me regret anything, though I doubt my co-workers would put up with it. ;)

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I bought an Index for work, and have an RX 5700. Three hours in I'm quite satisfied! :D Had a bunch of trouble playing it yesterday, but with the beta fixes + using Proton 5.x I've played for hours without issue. There are stutters when entering new areas that I assume are shader recompilations, but other than that it been running at or above 90 hz for me.

Can't wait for the native Vulkan version. :D

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I'd be really interested to see where this ends up. The Unity editor kinda-mostly works on Linux, but in it's "preview" state is still missing some pretty big features. (ex: multi-threaded rendering, or the graphics debugger that relies on it)

VR in the Unity editor on Linux sometimes kinda-sorta works. Beyond the highly mediocre performance (editor struggles to run at 30 hz, while builds run just fine at 120 hz), it's just really unstable with regular lock ups. My current project requires restarting Unity every time I hit the play button a second time. GLX gets stuck waiting forever on a fence. I've been back to developing on Windows for the time being. Hard to blame them for not having stellar support for a niche product on a niche platform though. I'm thrilled that it works at all. :D

Hopefully the change will help clear out some of the dust and cobwebs.

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