Quoting: fleskStadia unquestionably has more positive repercussions for us, since it forces developers to adapt to Linux and Vulkan, whereas Luna makes that completely irrelevant. No matter what you think of streaming, Stadia is clearly a better deal for our ecosystem than Luna or GeForce Now.

It's just a shame that it's not as good for either developers or customers as the competing services.

For developers, they have to go to the effort of porting to Linux, which they don't have to do for the competitors.

For customers, you don't have access to games you've bought elsewhere, and you lose access to games that you've bought should you lose access to Stadia, which comes from the notoriously-fickle Google.

Which means that it won't have as much impact on the part we care about - game devs getting more experience with Linux gaming and Vulkan - as if it were a more competitive offering.

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Quoting: KeyrockSpeaking of Valve, I'm worried at how long it's been since the last Proton update. This is leaps and bounds the longest I can remember them going without an update. Even glorious eggroll has only had 1 update in months, and that's mostly a maintenance release. I wonder what the hold up is?

I suspect they they might be waiting for better DX12 support, or something else big, to be well on the way before the next update. Early on we were getting frequent updates because DXVK was changing fast, which isn't the case any more. Wine has been concentrating on long-term plumbing recently, too, so there's not been anything must-have from that side, either, at the moment. I don't think there's any cause for concern just yet.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyMan, all this masses of stuff about Tray Racing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleton_(sport) [External Link]

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I'm looking forward to the vendor-neutral extension being finalised so that drivers can start including it, and then applications can start using it.

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Quoting: bisbyxI want to agree with you. But for people who dont care about nvidia vs AMD. For $700 in 1.5 months, AMD is not going to go roll out something noticeably faster than the 3080. They might roll something out at $700 but the same speed, or they might roll something out 20% faster than 3080... but costs more.

And at that point, you've just waited 1.5 months to get something that is roughly equal.

The reason it's sensible to wait isn't because you're necessarily expecting AMD to release something that will blow Ampere away.

I don't regret my purchase of a 2080 Ti in the slightest: I've had two years of excellent gaming performance, and I'll likely have several more. But if, at the time, AMD had anything to offer that was in the same ballpark, or even competitive with the 1080 Ti, it would likely have been a darn sight cheaper.

In a couple of months' time, if AMD can show that they're in the game, perhaps Nvidia will slash prices, or perhaps they'll release Ti versions. It's worth waiting even if you're planning to get an Nvidia card.

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Quoting: peta77So no reason for me to even think about replacing my 2080Ti. If there'd be a card with same performance & memory and much lower power demands ( -> less heat / noise produced ), I might think about a replacement.

It depends where your bottleneck is with your 2080 Ti. In many ways, the 3070 is going to perform better, if the bottleneck is compute speed rather than VRAM.

While the 2080 Ti has a nominal 250 W TDP, the power cap is configurable with nvidia-smi. If you're happy with the performance of your card but want it to generate less heat you can change that without buying a new card: just lower the power cap. That's what I do for when my machine's folding proteins.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's cool, but at that point why "replace"? Why not just have a desktop computer?

Perhaps you have more than one desk that you work at, or no regular desk.

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Quoting: KohlyKohlThis is cool and all but the lack of a notification that it started keeps me away from this.

Could that be a Manjaro specific thing? On my Ubuntu there is a brief popup every time Gamemode is enabled and disabled.

It's configurable, with a setting in the config file. It might be that Manjaro's config doesn't have that enabled, or KohlyKohl's DE uses a different command for notifications than what's specified in the config.

It's just a command run at gamemode start and a different command run at gamemode stop. I use the function to stop and start my conky, since sometimes that can cause frametime spikes.

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Quoting: MohandevirIt's just that it highlights the fact that no solutions are 100% thrustworthy. That's the saddest part, imo.

AFAIK, all the Feral ports still work and are still supported, but yeah: native versions have been pulled, ports by these other porting houses have stopped working, and Windows-only games can get changes that stop them working in Wine. And I get the impression that Linux ports for Feral aren't as profitable as the other things they could be doing with their time, assuming they can find a developer-partner that will let them do it in the first place.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatwhat a coincidence this post gave the bad Mojo to my 5600xt, I swear it was rock stable for 1 month, now I got a Green Screen Of Death. Searched on google seems a fairly common issue, mostly happening on windows. To be honest I experienced this Green Screen of Death before, but only while overclocking, I thought it was only a normal overclocking issue that every gpu has when pushing clocks and voltages (to be fair polaris also had some issues when overclocking). So the culprit might have something to do with clocks or voltage, but this time I was not overclocking just watching a youtube video.:cry:

That means that your framebuffer is full of 00FF00. Another failure mode is when your framebuffer is full of FF00FF (magenta).

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