Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: robredzThe dealbreaker for many in UK will be the online connection speed, Ok the MSFS will look awesome, but looing at specs, I'd get away with high, but would need aCPU and GPU upgrade sonner rather than later. Am looking at the RTX3070 but not right away. Problem is the Cryptominers might try to grab all the cards again.

The dealbreaker for MSFS2020 should be that it is not only a microsoft product, but a microsoft lock in. Eventually microsoft is going to want a return on their investment. Of course they're playing nice now, but it won't stay that way. Having microsoft in a niche product is a scary thing. There is a reason why they got rid of fsx and nothing has changed since then.

Absolutely Ehvis, Microshaft cannot be trusted, they flogged FSX to Dovetail for the FSX Steam edition didn't they? Other issue is its equally for Console, and sometimes like DNF the console centric development kills the spirit of a game. Hope X Pane can get something that more than competes, sometimes the eye candy seduces, but soon falls short in some way.

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The dealbreaker for many in UK will be the online connection speed, Ok the MSFS will look awesome, but looing at specs, I'd get away with high, but would need aCPU and GPU upgrade sonner rather than later. Am looking at the RTX3070 but not right away. Problem is the Cryptominers might try to grab all the cards again.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: GuestWell, they probably will have a card at a power level you want, but it remains to be seen whether that will be at a performance level you want. As long as their silicon can take it and they can slap a big enough heat sink on it, they'll probably have a 300+-ish watt unit at the top end to compete better with the 3080 and not leave performance on the table. So, if you don't want that, you'll have to take a lesser part

For example for Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT, power requirements are listed as 241 W.

https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/pulse-radeon-rx-5700-xt-8g-gddr6#Specification [External Link]

I'd rather not go much higher than that. So hopefully AMD will have some card that's better than RX 5700 XT but isn't too power hungry. I don't need 4K performance.

1440P seems to be the sweet spot along with the Ultrawides, I find 2560 x 1080 a good compromise as not a huge load over Full HD my RTX2060 Super will do until we see what's coming up, one of my sons asked why was I insisten on 850 watt PSU, told them better to have the capacity, plus running a psu at 50% its usually at its most efficient.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: GuestI hope they will release GPUs that do not need too much power this time.

Yeah, I hope they keep power usage in check and won't go after power creep like Nvidia did with new cards.

Those new cards are around 100watts and more thirstier than the 20 series those 550 and 650 watt PSUs might not cut it if you go beyond a RTX 3070.

Would consider AMD GPU if the figures and power darw stack up, and the Ray Tracing is decent and supported.
Built current rig ready for next CPU gen of Ryzen so that's settled, GPU open to AMD if its competiitive on Price/Performance.
Ironically for Nvidia, as yet AMD is only platform to run the 30 series on PCIE 4, not that it would make much if any difference over PCIE 3 as yet.

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Quoting: FauconNoirAnd Postal 4, which is in early access, should have a Linux build too :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/707030/discussions/0/2666626816212166203/ [External Link]

have it running in Steam Play in Linux, seems to be OK, as is still in Alpha it isn't perfect in Windows either, but its coming along well, Devs are listening to players and its a softly softly approach. It feels more complete even at this stage wit only 2 days to play through than many so called complete games. To pay off a vagrancy Citation the cops send you out as a traffic warden to ticket cars illegally parked, yes you get passers by having a go as you do.

Be great with a native Linux release

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: robredzWonder when they will get RTX capability into the Pressure vessel or Proton

For games that do ray tracing with Vulkan, nothing needs to be done. Unfortunately there's only one of those, but it does work perfectly.

For games that do ray tracing with DirectX you'll need to wait till they implement it in VKD3D. AFAIK, that's not a priority for them at the moment.

Yes Quake 2 RTX works absolutely perfectly, got better FPS in Linux at same settings as Win 10.Don't think they would implement a fully ray traced game like Quake 2, more likely several aspects, shadoes etc. Amid Evil does look great with RTX on, but its not a must have reason for someone to buy RTX GPU. am finding more Steam games work fine in Linux, just some I can't get working with Stream Play, or WINE./

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Wonder when they will get RTX capability into the Pressure vessel or Proton, say allowing the RTX of Amid Evil and other stuff to work, given Nvidia are realeasing 30 series RTX today? Mind you probably could build a competent gaming PC for less than what 3090 and 3080 will cost.

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Anything that advances Linux as a credible gaming platform is helping, Windows 10 is a reason enough of itself to go with the Penguin, we all help advance the cause in our own way.

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Will give that one a try looks nicely retro as well.

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Will deffo give this a try, another one to remeber is Novastorm, that plays perfect in DosBox, better under Linux than Windows for some reason

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