Nice. Already found a couple of streamers I've been meaning to follow. I'll have to setup a notifier of some sort as well.

I actually never watched a gaming livestream before checking out a GOL stream one Friday. You know, "Why would I want to watch others play games when I could be playing myself" or something. I'll still get the hell out if I think there'll be spoilers to games I want to experience myself, but I've found it pretty fun otherwise, especially if there's some nice banter between the streamer and the peanut gallery. I don't even seem to mind if the game isn't exactly my cup of tea.

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I don't think VR is "shit" or anything, and I'm not saying modern VR isn't technically impressive. A cool visual experience and all the clever gimmicks VR brings to the table just aren't enough for me, when they come with downsides like bulky hardware on my face, unnatural movement and so on. I'm sure VR in a more advanced form is "the future", but there's some way to go until I'm comfortable jumping into the hype train.

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Quoting: segulehGot free DiRT key. Is this game eON/Wine port? I'm surprised: game works like a charm, more ports like this one.

It's a port by VP, so eON. Works fine indeed and is plenty of fun.

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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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