VR really is a weird phenomenon. Some people are just super hyped while others-like me-can't be arsed to care. Liam's one of the rare people who seem to be sitting on the wall.

I like Valve's VR efforts though, for the way they push Vulkan adoption in the industry.

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So, about Life is Strange. Trailers and videos make it look more like an interactive movie or a choose-your-own-adventure type of deal. Does it have recognizable adventure game elements at all, or is it more like the recent Telltale stuff in the vein of Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. Dialogue puzzles or visual novel type dialogue choices? All I ever hear is people talking about the story and the time rewind gimmick.

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@Johners: Ubuntu can't be bleeding edge as long as Canonical wants OEM's to consider it for preloaded systems. Software developers want a somewhat stable target as well. That's why a lot of commercial software only supports Ubuntu (LTS) releases and why basically none of it officially supports rolling release distributions. Also, gaming is still not such an important concern for Linux distros that it would significantly influence their direction.

The PPA system is a working compromise for many Ubuntu users. You don't need to restrict yourself to the official repositories.

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Quoting: imdan12Does the update will work also on Tesla card like Nvidia 820m?

Isn't the 820m a Fermi chip? Not "Maxwell or above" anyway, so not with OpenGL 4.3 support.

But I have OpenGL 4.5 on my Nouveau driver.

Sure, support for your older chip might very well be better than what is available for Maxwell and Pascal. The point was that these changes should not affect you in any way.

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Quoting: GuestMy question is why does Valve work on Nouveau when almost everybody uses the blob and there is basically no hope of getting decent performance with Nouveau on recent cards?

Maybe to show IHV's that they're not taking sides, or simply trying to make Linux a more viable base for their gaming OS in any way they can? Or maybe they can't ship the binary drivers with the SteamOS installer for legal reasons, and need basic OpenGL on first startup for their GUI?

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I guess that sounds plausible, if not much less embarrassing for Valve and the developer in question.

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoAMD also announced their open source debug tool, soon to be published. Both sides worked independently, not knowing about each other. Hopefully there can be constructive discussion or perhaps joint efforts.

So Valve didn't tell AMD they were working on a debugger for AMD hardware, and didn't even think to check if AMD were interested in co-operating? Mind-boggling stuff. Actually I can't even understand why these open source projects weren't developed in the open from the start.

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Quoting: imdan12Does the update will work also on Tesla card like Nvidia 820m?

Isn't the 820m a Fermi chip? Not "Maxwell or above" anyway, so not with OpenGL 4.3 support.

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Quoting: MaokeiLook at everything else nvidia does pretty much everything is proprietary gsync, drivers, tools, etc It's part of their strategy to not share anything allow nothing to benefit anyone else than nvidia. And lock customers into their ecosystem.

This has been pretty much everyone's strategy in the past. Market leaders tend to resist change, even if this ultimately tends to lead to their downfall. Even Nvidia will adapt as soon as they start losing market share. They're all in it for the money. Different strategies, same goal.

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Quoting: DanglingPointerNot taking anything personally mate if you read my response, I tried to give you possible reasons for the crash.

Thanks, but I wasn't the one who had trouble starting the game after a crash. Restarted fine every time. I don't intend to replay the game now that it's done either. Thanks for trying to help though.

I'm in software development as well btw. You'll find there's probably a higher percentage of (professional and hobbyist) developers on this blog than your average gaming site, due to the Linux focus.

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