Quoting: fagnerlnIt's surprisingly that they are using flatpak, they should release Steam officially on flatpak or create a sandbox solution with their Steam Runtime, most of the users of rolling distros are having problems on CSGO because of the new glibc, which not happens with the flatpak version.

As far as I understood, they do help for the steam flatpak. But it still has rough edge, so I would expect they don't want to make it official yet. They definitely should do it in the end though.
Good new is, they did not use snap package, so everyone can have access to it already, and without all snap issues.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: GuestAnubody could explain me if (and why) using DXVK as a native library could lead to better performance?
Is it the same as using it via .so and not .dll in wine itself?
I've tried and that way the performance are unchanged.

If you use the lib natively, as in inlining within your code, the compiler can inline many calls, and thus reduce overhead. Overall, the compiler will of course have much more flexibility for optimization. Also, avoiding indirect calls in general is very useful in term of performance.
If you build it as a shared library, you will still avoid the pe loader, and I expect some needless syscall translation. You should also avoid all sync primitives translation issues you would usually have to deal with between losedow$s API and posix API.
I would expect it won't affect average framerate much, but min framerate should take a small boost, especially on more limited configurations.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TheRiddickFrom past observations of these kinds of laptop things, is that the parts end up costing way too much and it would be allot cheaper to just buy a laptop without upgrades in mind except the usual stuff.

Also no AMD CPU is a bit sad given Intel CPU's generally consume more power.

For the CPU, it seems they based a lot of their extension on thunderbolt so intel choice is understandable.
As for the part price, well guess it depends how much volume they can move. But I agree, this is going to be the most complicated part. Now, if all is upgrade-able and you can keep a fair part of the laptop each time, then you can hope to recoup your cost as time pass. I certainly like the idea anyway, albeit I also have some doubts on whether they will manage to make it fly or not.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: BumadarYup, they should stop releasing cards till they can deliver cards, but hey its news and people see the name nvidia so I guess marketing is happy

Well, at least according to themselves, they still delivered a fair number of card. But miners and scalpers got the lot of them ...
Also, since these cards are shaved off version of the other cards (defectuous cores basically) then it does not remove any stocks, quite the contrary. So might as well release what they have. Hopefully the situation will sort itself out in the coming months. For what it's worth, Jim Ryan from Playstation expects stuff to get better for the second half of the year. Which seem reasonable as vaccines should help subdue the crisis. And by that time, more and more people who want to have new console/gpus should have them, thus hopefully reducing demand a bit. Also the mining bubble might have crashed again by then.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: DuncI'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

I'd say that the case is better for small screens than big ones. Watching soaps or a 20—foot face gurning emotively: meh. Having text that's clear with the letters the right shape, and not having chunky aliasing on edges in games, are the kinds of thing that makes a difference when you're close to a screen, which you're going to be for small screen use cases.

Hmmm depends how small, for a laptop, I tried both 1080p and 4k, and honestly except my battery draining faster I did not see any difference ...
For work screen, so 27 or 32" is more open to discussion, but I also stay at 2k there. Also because some tools I use have no correct support for high res, and link straight to X11 calls, so nothing a modern system can save you from (aren't shitty proprietary tools written at dinosaurs age wonderful ...). If not for those, I don't know because at 2k I can easily have 9 sub terminals with vim or tmux cmd line and no issue to read or anything, but yeah maybe I would gain a little from 4k.

For gaming, high framerate is more important than higher resolution honestly, so for me the choice is a no brainer, 2k all the way.

As for bigger projector screen, 1080p definitely gets blury in games. I am currently looking seriously at upgrading to 4k for that use. Issue is to find a 4k projector with decent latency.

Well, considering I connected a Genesis, C64 and Atari 8 bit up to my projector, I don't think going 4k would help :P

Indeed :)
On the other hand, choosing a projector/tv which uses an adapted upscale algorithm could change the result dramatically. There was a nice LTT video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCc5NGEthA [External Link] , Of course if you use an external device for that, then no issue.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: DuncI'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

I'd say that the case is better for small screens than big ones. Watching soaps or a 20—foot face gurning emotively: meh. Having text that's clear with the letters the right shape, and not having chunky aliasing on edges in games, are the kinds of thing that makes a difference when you're close to a screen, which you're going to be for small screen use cases.

Hmmm depends how small, for a laptop, I tried both 1080p and 4k, and honestly except my battery draining faster I did not see any difference ...
For work screen, so 27 or 32" is more open to discussion, but I also stay at 2k there. Also because some tools I use have no correct support for high res, and link straight to X11 calls, so nothing a modern system can save you from (aren't shitty proprietary tools written at dinosaurs age wonderful ...). If not for those, I don't know because at 2k I can easily have 9 sub terminals with vim or tmux cmd line and no issue to read or anything, but yeah maybe I would gain a little from 4k.

For gaming, high framerate is more important than higher resolution honestly, so for me the choice is a no brainer, 2k all the way.

As for bigger projector screen, 1080p definitely gets blury in games. I am currently looking seriously at upgrading to 4k for that use. Issue is to find a 4k projector with decent latency.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: dubigrasuI don't personally care about 4K, (I think 1440p is the sweet spot) I care more about a minimum of 60fps. And I doubt is Stadia's choice here, (rather Bethesda's), but is ridiculous that (as stated in the article) Elder scrolls Online still runs at 30fps even cranked down at 720p.
All this while they were talking even about 8K. They really really need to stop this over-promise > under-deliver thing they're doing.

I was recently arguing back and forth with someone who clearly is of the 'PC Master Race' persuasion. I myself could be considered as such as well, but the older I get (as I told him) the more I lean toward wanting to play games on my TV with a controller. Mainly due to already spending far too much time on a keyboard / mouse working. And so I lean toward playing games on the PC with gamepad support.

But he was insisting that the Atari VCS sucked because it couldn't handle 4k@120fps. Without also saying that 99% of PCs can't handle games at max settings at 4k@120fps either...

4k isn't really a thing unless you have the unobtanium current Gen GPUs, and certainly not at 120fps. Mind you I would MUCH prefer high details over high resolution. Unless you are strapping the screens to your face (in VR) then having that high of resolution is fine if you can already set maximum settings. I'd rather have more details / effects than tinier pixels. Streaming in general tends to make things blurry to try to increase framerates.

4k is nice on a projector, but never really had the need on a PC screen ... And yes, unless you got latest gen hw, 4k/120fps is dead. Even if console makers pretended they could actually do it, they forget to say it is 120fps or 4k. or that it is with "dynamic resolution".
And yeah, some people are kinda absurd with their requirements.
Personnaly, I think 2K is becoming the sweet spot, and will be for the foreseeable future. You can actually get high framerate, with high setting and without spending 1K€ on a GPU + 300€ on a 850w power supply to accommodate it (supposing you can even find a new gpu ...).

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: WJMazepas

Seems like Cyberpunk 2077 should work better overall now too, as they mentioned their inability to reproduce a previous GPU hang. It's not clear if the game was fixed or if their work in VKD3D-Proton with a "memory allocation rewrite in 2.2" fixed it. Either way it seems to work okay now.

Boy do i know this type of bug. It's solved but you dont know how that happen so the fear of that bug returning is big.

Also it's kinda hard to explain to other people on the team that the bug dissapear but you dont know how

In french we have a joke for those "c'est tombé en marche" as opposed to "c'est tombé en panne" (it stopped working). "c'est tombé"(it fell) gives this sense of it miraculously working.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: TheRiddickI think to get wayland going on NVIDIA you need the EGLStreams package. I see it there in the arch repo.

Wayland has too many annoyances for me even with my 6800XT.
I've got use to the issues with X11 window system, to use wayland you get a whole new set slapped on top.
Also there isn't yet any advantage, there is promise of benefits, but none atm!

Only advantage I do "see" is some tearing disappear when watching videos or when using with Chiaki (ps4 streaming). One advantage in the background is security, which is already very real as X11 is a security breach nest by design, whereas wayland has a much more sane design on that point (not sharing your buffers with every processes on your PC...).

Now, I think many people expected some kind of revolution on everything, which will not really come. As for the "performance" gain, it will more likely be an efficiency gain eaten away with new features or not really possible to see as anyway your hw already does not struggle.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: CyrilActually there is one thing I don't really understand...
You "Steam guys" are happy that us "GOG guys" are unhappy or what?
It seems that so many times you are happy to have a Linux version only on Steam and the others can fuck themselves.
I don't know any GOG user (Linux or not) who is unhappy that a game is also available on Steam, it makes no sense.

Does the Linux community really need this? :sad:

Sorry but about Steam and Linux support, I read this recently, what do you think?:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/lfht93/after_dropping_1000_on_an_index_valve_tells_me/ [External Link]

I think it's not that people are happy it does not go to GOG (I certainly have nothing against it), it's more that we are not sad either. Just think it is not a big issue overall, because in the grand scheme of things, currently it is valve which feed us.

View this comment - View article - View full comments