Quoting: minjFor latest software (and bugs) people typically use rolling-release distros like Arch/Manjaro..

You'd be amazed how stable Arch has been for me..

Anyway, it should be as easy as booting the OS the first time, window pops up asking which drivers to install. And don't mess things up with driver versions scrambled all over the place, people still don't know what version to install that way. just put the latest on top, with the label "latest driver" or something and put the damn driver in the repo's

Installing the driver on Arch is nothing more than "pacman -S nvidia".. done

Ubuntu especially should make this very easy to do

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Quoting: cdnr1Supreme commander is better

And has no linux client

Anyway this update somehow fixed my horrid performance issues :D

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I'm not using Flash either, I just hit escape as soon as the swf file dialog pops up, I don't see any problem there but I guess everyone has their own opinion about things like that ;)

(I chose to not install flash and it gives all sorts of trouble so I'm fine with it :P )

Btw thanks for the livestream, I had a blast watching Samsai destroy himself in Distance :)

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This fix didn't work for me, still at 17 ~ 25 fps whatever the settings (from low to epic) on a GTX680

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And good news for basically everyone: You probably won't need new hardware to take advantage of Vulkan. Just like DirectX 12, Khronos is hoping to extend compatibility back a few hardware generations, which means you'll potentially notice a performance increase even on your old hardware once the API is officially released and introduced in new games.

"We are setting a design goal. We have a very specific goal," says Trevett. "Any hardware capable of supporting OpenGL ES 3.1 will be capable of supporting Vulkan. That basically means any GPU that can do compute shaders."

On the PC side, that equates to OpenGL 4.3, released in August of 2012. OpenGL 4.3 support extended back to the Nvidia GeForce 400 series and the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series—a.k.a. basically any GPU purchased after late 2009/early 2010. Judging by the Steam Hardware Survey those specs also encompass quite a huge amount of the PC gaming community.

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Here's to hoping we don't need to buy new hardware and AMD will finally get their drivers fixed ( I read a lot of negative experience with ATI on linux, I ditched ATI a long time ago so I don't have any first hand experience)

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Bought it, played it, loved it :)

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I might join in if I can make it on time :) bought the game a while ago and so far I like what I see, too bad there is hardly anyone playing but that problem will solve itself in time.

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The game runs great on my system, glad I bought it :)

About the screen tearing, there is none for me. I disabled the in game Vsync and let KDE's own Vsync handle it, I never have any tearing in any game I play.

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Is anyone playing this game with a GTX660 + card ?
I want to buy this game but I'm hesitant to buy it because it runs on Unity (cities skylines still runs like a turd for me, 26 fps at around 7K people in my city, it's supposed to have a performance patch too [ i7 gtx680 16GB mem] ).

Should the game run well on an equal system this game is an instant buy for me :)

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Quoting: liamdaweThere must be something to KDE, i need to give it another go, and I'm still surprised Cinnamon is so low!

For me, KDE is the only DE that doesn't require me to mess around with anything vsync related and still end up with screen tearing. Games run buttery smooth using KDE's own vsync and disabling any in game vsync.

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