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Latest Comments by edo
What games do you want ported to Linux? Feral Interactive want to know again
11 Aug 2017 at 8:41 pm UTC

First, they ported the new bioshock to mac only. Now, they are asking what exactly to port to linux (like to invest less on it). I'm seeing a worrisome patterns.

But since they are asking, fucus on the secuels of their games.

Wine Staging 2.14 officially released, more performance fixes and a basic UAC implementation
11 Aug 2017 at 4:44 pm UTC

the witness doesnt start anymore. On one update it works, and on the next it stops working, and repeat that process forever.

Edit: Actually sniper elite 2 has the same problem now, maybe dx11 is broken on this update.

NVIDIA has released the 375.82 and 384.59 drivers
8 Aug 2017 at 4:12 pm UTC

is it true that the 384 branch has heating issues?

The Gamecube and Wii emulator, Dolphin, implements “Ubershaders” to solve stuttering
31 Jul 2017 at 9:31 pm UTC

All I know is that I updated my dolphin to the latest git and now it doesn't start on the nvidia card.

OpenGL 4.6 officially released, new beta NVIDIA driver with support for it
31 Jul 2017 at 3:08 pm UTC

so opengl now can read spirv shaders? like using vulkan shaders and to be able to use them for opengl too? that sounds useful for feral which still create both renderers for their games.

Mesa has a few more games in the threaded OpenGL whitelist as of today
25 Jul 2017 at 10:40 pm UTC

Im getting the impression that windows amd driver isnt faster anymore, at least on the same level

GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin drops D3D12 in favour of Vulkan
4 Jun 2017 at 9:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

It all comes down to a simple situation: the guy that ported dx12 vanished and didn't keep supporting it. If he were still around giving dx12 support the situation would be different. It was nice that this emulator provided support for both APIs

Ballistic Overkill to get Vulkan support tomorrow and lots more
16 May 2017 at 3:23 am UTC Likes: 1

This game supports all the graphical APIs. If it had a benchmark option I would buy it just to make comparations.