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Steam broke some huge all-time high records over the weekend
16 Dec 2020 at 2:28 pm UTC
16 Dec 2020 at 2:28 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjePour your heart and soul into something and just have fans rip you a new one.To be fair, this applies much better to tiny indie devs than big business like CDPR. Their billionaire CEO might get grilled by some investors for the bad press, but in the end they'll be all laughing all the way to the bank. If you've already made a nice profit from pre-orders after a successful hype campaign, who cares about some heckling from the peanut gallery.
Quake II RTX adds support for the official cross-vendor Vulkan Ray Tracing
16 Dec 2020 at 9:43 am UTC
16 Dec 2020 at 9:43 am UTC
Quoting: jordicomaThat's fine, but the difference is that you were raytracing a whole scene. These extensions make it possible to add some fidelity and realism to lighting and reflections using specialized RT shaders, but that's about all we can expect at this point. We're still far from fully raytraced games, if that's even the goal.Quoting: TheRiddickGuessing this will be running at a beautiful 10fps on latest AMD cards, lolGoing to 0fps raytracing to 10fps raytracing it's a big improvement. Next generation graphics cards will do better.
When I was at univerity (about 10 years ago) I work on a university project to raytracing a scene, and I paint a 3d scene with a cluster of 3 computers (6 cores) and it took 10 minutes or more (if you wanted better graphics). Now this grapics card does in a second. It's a big improvmenet. I was sure that I wouldn't never see some kind of raytracing on realtime never.
The best Linux distros for gaming in 2021
16 Dec 2020 at 9:09 am UTC Likes: 7
16 Dec 2020 at 9:09 am UTC Likes: 7
Quoting: gardotd426New hardware needs rolling releases to work, unless you want to compile from source, use custom kernels, are comfortable in TTY's, etc.No. You just need drivers (kernel, possibly Mesa) that support your hardware. If you can easily get those from a PPA or other optional repository, why would you need a rolling distro? You might have plenty of other valid reasons to prefer Arch, but they aren't likely to enhance your gaming in any meaningful way.
The best Linux distros for gaming in 2021
15 Dec 2020 at 5:29 pm UTC Likes: 4
15 Dec 2020 at 5:29 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe only thing that makes me hesitate to recommend Mint for gaming is that my understanding is it tends to be a bit old and there are often reasons to want bleeding edge for gaming.That problem is easily solved with a PPA or two, just like you'd do on Ubuntu.
Quoting: Purple Library Guy(Say, thinking of Mint and Snaps, I notice it's got a working Chromium again, where for a while it didn't exactly because Canonical was only packaging it as a Snap and Clem from Mint didn't want that. Anyone know what happened?)Mint started maintaining their own Chromium packages to get around the issue.
Linux Kernel 5.10 is officially out now as a Long Term Support release
14 Dec 2020 at 9:47 pm UTC
14 Dec 2020 at 9:47 pm UTC
Quoting: WorMzyLTS, eh? It's off to a cracking start [External Link]. :POnly affects some raid setups and causes no permanent damage. No panic. :)
In case anyone did already update, you probably want to downgrade or jump to 5.10.1 ASAP.
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer VKD3D-Proton version 2.1 is out
14 Dec 2020 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 3
14 Dec 2020 at 4:25 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: JJNovaDoes VKD3D-Proton only work with Steam Play, or is it possible to install and use it for GOG direct downloads? I seem to read conflicting reports, some stating that it's a layer that works in tandem with Steam Play.Despite the name, it's not tied to Proton in any way. You can use it with plain Wine (or in Windows) just fine. Just like DXVK.
TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 Dec 2020 at 4:20 pm UTC
12 Dec 2020 at 4:20 pm UTC
Quoting: CatKillerOnly in the Precision and XPS lineups I think.Quoting: damarrinI wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(Dells have 16:10 screens.
Valve updates Steam with more Linux improvements, new game properties UI
11 Dec 2020 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 2
11 Dec 2020 at 12:30 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Liam DaweRight. Sorry.Quoting: tuubiYup, tis mentioned in the article, was talking past experience before this ;)Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: setzer22Issues "being looked into" could have something to do with the fact that I have to quickly press "Skip" when steam starts processing Vulkan shaders or the system starts consuming more and more RAM until it hits 32GB and my whole system dies.I actually had to turn it off, it made my PC freeze up hard with my NVIDIA GPU.
Let's all take a minute to thank NVidia for their great contributions to Linux gaming! :grin:Quoting: Steam Client Beta - December 9thLinux:
- Improved performance of processing incremental Vulkan shader database updates
- Fixed several issues around skipped Vulkan shader processing continuing in the background after a game has started
- Disabled shader processing on NVIDIA while driver issues are being looked into
Valve updates Steam with more Linux improvements, new game properties UI
11 Dec 2020 at 12:22 pm UTC
11 Dec 2020 at 12:22 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: setzer22Issues "being looked into" could have something to do with the fact that I have to quickly press "Skip" when steam starts processing Vulkan shaders or the system starts consuming more and more RAM until it hits 32GB and my whole system dies.I actually had to turn it off, it made my PC freeze up hard with my NVIDIA GPU.
Let's all take a minute to thank NVidia for their great contributions to Linux gaming! :grin:
Quoting: Steam Client Beta - December 9thLinux:
- Improved performance of processing incremental Vulkan shader database updates
- Fixed several issues around skipped Vulkan shader processing continuing in the background after a game has started
- Disabled shader processing on NVIDIA while driver issues are being looked into
Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
11 Dec 2020 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
11 Dec 2020 at 12:13 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: BoldosTrias confirmed it works with Mesa from either Oibaf's or Kisak's PPA earlier in this thread. Mind that he has different hardware than you do.Quoting: The_AquabatI'm using Oibaf driver PPA on daily basis for quite a long time.Quoting: TriasLooks like I would need more and more staff I understand less and less on my system. Giving up. I guess I'll wait for Mesa 21 release while trying to uninstall everything I installed today... :).you can always resort to oibaf ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Can anyone please confirm that C2077 works with these (current) Oibaf drivers?
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