Quoting: TheBardI'm totally fine with devs that officially target Proton: doing testing, QA and support as they are supposed to do for any target.

But I haven't seen a single dev doing so for Proton.

No Man's Sky is an example I'm aware of. Hello Games mentioned in their changelogs that they'd done things specifically to help the game work in Proton, and the bugs that I'm aware of (there was an input bug that I experienced, and recently someone was saying in the forum that they'd had connection problems) were also bugs in the Windows version rather than being caused by Proton. The game itself switched to using Vulkan a while back, so they could potentially become Linux devs in the future.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI wonder when (and if) Nvidia will release a new stable driver.

I'd imagine they're waiting for the Khronos ray tracing extension to be finalised.

However, as this is a provisional release, some functionality is likely to change before the final release, consequently we are asking that driver vendors not ship it in production drivers and that ISVs not use the provisional version in production applications.

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It's been back to Two Point Hospital for me this weekend.

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Quoting: CatKillerI was getting some framerate drops every ~5 seconds that are completely gone running it in Proton.

I couldn't make it stutter even by bumping up the render resolution to the maximum 400%. I wonder why it ran so much worse for you?

No idea. I might look into it later; testing got subsumed by a four year old seeing how many wheels it's possible to remove.

I'm guessing some kind of CPU stall since the audio skips at that point, too. At all other points, it's perfectly fine, just that stutter.

Edit: So I installed Mango HUD, and it just showed the framerate dropping to 40-ish fps for one measurement every now and then, then back up to 60 for the next measurement. No real change in GPU or CPU load at those points: still low for both. So, I don't know what's causing it.

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Quoting: scaineI can't play the video right now... but did you use your G29 wheel, Liam? I can't wait to play this, and I'm curious if it's good enough that I splash the cash on a G29 myself... I'm not a HUGE racing fan, but honestly... this game. Just wow.

ETS2 is worth getting a G29 all on its own. Being able to play racing games with it as well is a bonus.

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Quoting: GuestOk, fully aware that every racing game needs some getting used to the controls, but just a tad more stick to the ground might be nice.

If your wheels are spinning then Newton's First Law Of Motion applies 😁

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The Linux build could do with some tuning work. I was getting some framerate drops every ~5 seconds that are completely gone running it in Proton.

Edit: Oh, DualShock 3 works out of the box in both versions, since people are wondering about controllers. The controller settings screen shows an Xbox controller, though.

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On the subject of cooling, AMD say the AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT comes with a Wraith Spire cooler but the other two AMD suggest looking elsewhere for better cooling "with a minimum 280mm radiator or equivalent air cooling".

That is sensible. AMD aren't in the heatsink business, and there are lots of other companies that are. The lower performance processors coming with an adequate heatsink is a big advantage for their customers, since it removes a potential headache, but enthusiasts are going to want the choice of going with water-cooling, or big heatsinks with big fans to reduce noise, or some other thing. At that tier, the one-size-fits-all solution is to leave it up to the customer.

Not lying about their TDP numbers and sticking with AM4 (even if not all AM4 processors will work in all AM4 motherboards) have also made it easier to be confident in the cooling market. Manufacturers can concentrate on making their products better rather than having to rework the connector every year, and customers can keep using their (potentially quite expensive) cooling solution if they want when they upgrade.

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I think it's worth remembering that the people selling Rocket League (Epic) said that the people who made Unreal Engine (Epic) had done such a terrible job at making a cross-platform game engine that they needed to give a full refund to all of their customers on two of the platforms they'd released on. That is quite a strong statement from them about their level of competence.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI actually wish I had a screen for my desktop that I could flip sideways (ie upright) and have the picture follow like on a phone.

As well as the one iiari found, both my monitors (both Dells, both 16:10) can swivel into portrait mode. You need to manually set the display to portrait mode, though, since they don't have accelerometers.

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