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Quoting: DuckeenieI loved XFCE until I found out it was the slowest desktop for gaming even with compositing off.

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That benchmark is far from scientific though. Seems like every single test gets conflicting results.

Don't know why you say conflicting results, XFCE comes last in every single test. Scientific or not without counter-evidence it stands. :P

Phronix did similar tests too. [External Link]

The Phoronix test uses Ubuntu's default settings with the compositors enabled.

EDIT: Data gathered by non-scientific means doesn't become science simply because nobody tested properly.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloIf you bought Steam games for your 32bit system and you can't access them anymore, you essentially lost them.

The only thing anyone lost is the integrated browser though. If you can't access your games on a 32-bit system, that's a bug. The games-as-a-service model still sucks of course.

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Quoting: DuckeenieI loved XFCE until I found out it was the slowest desktop for gaming even with compositing off.

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That benchmark is far from scientific though. Seems like every single test gets conflicting results.

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Why do Ubuntu users install manually when there's a PPA maintained by Ubuntu staff? A mystery for the ages. Or at least for me.

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Quoting: WaikanoWhat's considered "pretty old hardware"? - Q9550 w/ NVIDIA 680.

Anything before the GeForce 400 series, so much older than yours. The GPU driver doesn't care about your CPU.

EDIT: I'm slow.

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Quoting: WorMzyDeus Ex now seems to work properly (I loaded up the game, but didn't play for long while testing). I also opened up 20 instances of glxgears without issue, so I think they've addressed the big bug 375.20 introduced, but whether they've fixed all the regressions remains to be seen.

I guess it's fixed then. Good news for KDE Plasma users. Weird that this got no mention in the release notes.

Quoting: ShoNuffCommand line it if you don't want to wait: sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.26.run

Thanks, but I know. :)

The PPA works fine, and I'm in no hurry.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySorry, but there really are some people who are willing to endure inconvenience for a principle, and it is the mark of a very small person to pretend they are lying in an attempt to bring them down to one's own level.

I don't need to endure anything, and I'm not using Linux for the "principle". If anything, I run Linux for the convenience. Linux works for me, and no game is worth the pain in the neck that is Windows.

That's what I was trying to point out in my previous comment. This is not a community split into Linux zealots and dual booting pragmatists. We're just a diverse bunch of people who like games and like to play them on Linux, for all kinds of different reasons.

Quoting: ShoNuffMost of us will probably be playing this on wine though... to be honest.

I don't think that many of us will. But then again, the game doesn't seem at all interesting to me, so maybe we're both projecting. But more importantly, I don't see why people would even be dishonest here. What would they gain? You must understand that blanket accusations of lying might just rub people the wrong way.

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Can anyone confirm this actually fixes the performance problems with 375.20? I see several regression fixes mentioned in the release notes, but nothing that seems relevant.

I'll test myself as soon as this appears in the PPA.

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Quoting: ShoNuffSome of you are full of it. IF this game works on wine and gets similar FPS to windows install, I guarantee you will buy and play in secret all while claiming NATIVE ONLY (in nerd voice).

Please simmer down, folks. I really don't understand why this is such a combustible issue. Linux isn't a religion. This isn't a holy war. Wine isn't heresy, nor is it perfect. It's okay to have different levels of commitment to "the cause", and we absolutely don't need to divide everything into stuff we all hate and stuff we love. Windows gamers aren't our enemies. In fact they might very well be future Linux gamers.

You've already got Reddit and Phoronix for pointless flamefests, could we please keep GOL clean, okay?

Anyway, Wine is obviously a useful project for those of us who would like to ditch Windows but are not quite ready to cut the cord. There are several valid reasons for that, and that's okay. I can easily live without Windows games, but others have different priorities. I have no doubt the day will come when Linux is the practical choice for a gamer as well as the right choice. For now it's only the latter.

PS: A Linux gamer mocking nerds... Anybody else smell the irony? :whistle:

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Quoting: gurvWhat I meant is Doom doesn't count because it was written with OpenGL initially and OpenGL's shader language (glsl) is a first class citizen in Vulkan. The toolchain to use glsl in Vulkan is already there.

Indeed, the toolchain is there, and HLSL support is being worked on as we speak. There's no technical (or legal) roadblock for HLSL->SPIR-V and engines like Unity and Unreal need this anyway.

Quoting: gurvThe truth is, without some kind of push from a big gaming stakeholder

Vulkan was designed by big gaming stakeholders though and they're definitely behind it.

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