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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 February 2017 at 1:04 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderCan't wait for April statistics to see if AMD CPU share has started to rise.

i myself planning to buy one in March :)

No in begins dont change much because main buyers are FX actual users, this users are amd actual cpu market share

However when appears ryzen 6 core + ht (someplace around april to june), ryzen 4 core + ht (after june) and ryzen based apus after H2 2017 maybe stay more interesting

Another potential buyers stay in users needs heavy multitasking case blender, 3dmax, some adobe programas and others

In before cited case ryzen appears very interesting because this apps use correctly core quantity compared with gaming (in gaming is more common use higher ipc with higher frecuencies)

Without forget pc cost is more cheaper than similar solution on intel (socket 2011v3)

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
20 February 2017 at 3:19 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestWorking fine here ,I just checked it.

The profile is GL Threaded Optimizations and you put in the value 0 then save that as a profile.

Then make a new rule for process ADVGame and use that profile for it.

Don't forget to save it also. Other than that don't know what else to tell you.

In last test works without create profile, only needs add this to launch parameters in steam

Quote__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0

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System Specs Used in Test

Nvidia Drivers 378.13 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 x64 - Kernel 4.8.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

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Wine 2.2 released with even more Shader Model 5 instructions and work towards Direct3D command stream
18 February 2017 at 12:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

In this wine version need for speed most wanted allow change settings in game without crash

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Another interesting title is codename outbreak, in this wine version works (in test cinematics dont, cinematics folder must be renamed)

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However first chapter is possible played but when try second chapter appears many graphic bugs

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
17 February 2017 at 1:13 am UTC

In other issue lego jurassic world x64 DX11 works with this drivers in wine 2.1 staging (no csmt)

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However dont have lego jurassic world DX9 performance (used same graphic options for DX9 and DX11 tests), without forget some problem related with audio

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
16 February 2017 at 11:30 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI made a forum post about this.

The solution is to create a profile to disable the optimizations that the driver introduces.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2534/page=2

Thanks

In my case game dont crash with profile but still in black, sound works without issues

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NVIDIA 378.13 stable driver released
16 February 2017 at 4:10 pm UTC

This driver version works ok with wine 2.1 (in some titles appears improvement)

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However deadfall adventures native try begins but menu appears in black, after this game crash (works correctly in 375)

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Interview with Aspyr Media about porting Civilization VI to Linux and other interesting questions
10 February 2017 at 1:33 pm UTC

Thanks to aspyr for borderlands and others

However maybe can add PhysX support for borderlands 2

In older games: Kotor I maybe good and see them have star wars force unleashed if can give to linux maybe good (3rd person action games are needed in linux)

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DiRT Rally system requirements revealed ahead of the Linux release next month, NVIDIA & AMD supported
6 February 2017 at 3:34 pm UTC

Quoting: Xpander4770 as recommended cpu.. that means my FX-8320@4,5ghz wont have nice time cranking everything to max?

Ryzen is not far away though :D

Yeah youre right bulldozer and derivatives have very low single thread performance compared with haswell and upper

Ryzen must be appear in some place in march, if at least have haswell single thread performance are acceptable if is more cheap than intel alternatives

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Wine 2.1 is out with more Shader Model 5 work
4 February 2017 at 2:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

This wine version give many comits related d3d (some bugs corrected case agarest generations of war)

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View video on youtube.com

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