Quoting: Creak

Quoting: aokamiI'm going to upgrade my FX-8350 for a Ryzen 7 Gen 2 as well, haha.
Would you go with a X570 motherboard ?

I'm unsure about that.. clearly PCIe 4.0 is the future, but X570 adds yet another (cheap?) fan and thus yet another possible source of noise. Since I don't do video editing, I know I won't need the extra bandwidth PCIe 4.0 offers. So in the end, I'm torn. I guess it will eventually depend on the price of these motherboards too.

I saved quite a lot of money when I went for the X470 instead a few months ago. Don't know if the price difference is still quite as high. I decided that using that cash to buy faster RAM instead was more practical.

I have to admit remembering a couple of chipset fans with noisy bearings from the olden times might have factored into my decision. Even if these modern ones are likely to be less crappy.

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Quoting: GuestSince RDNA2 will support Ray Tracing does that mean we can use it in games like Quake 2 RTX or Metro Exodus or would those games need to be patched to work with AMD?

Good question, considering Nvidia did the work.

Depends on whether AMD adds support for Nvidia's VK_NV_ray_tracing Vulkan extension (somehow I doubt it), or rather the upcoming standard one being worked on by the Vulkan Ray Tracing TSG. The latest info I found is that the group is "fairly far along in the process". A few details about the design can be found on pages 27-30 of these SIGGRAPH presentation slides [External Link] from last year.

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As a fan of adventure games, platformers and silly humour, I don't think I can go wrong with this one. Looking forward to Cheese's article.

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Quoting: EikeI beta tested it and it worked all fine.
One library was used that was not available on my system, but they removed the dependency.

Any comments on what we can expect from the game? Is it fun?

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Quoting: buckysrevengeJon Oliver did a piece on India's president and how disturbing the situation is getting, if you are interested: https://youtu.be/qVIXUhZ2AWs [External Link]

I wanted to share this [External Link] about John Oliver. The tl;dr and/or a better title would be "Last Week Tonight Is Wrongly Classified By Its Host In Order To Dodge Responsibility But Is Also Still Entertaining And Informative Even If It Sometimes Misses The Full Context Of The Sociopolitical Phenomenon It Chooses To Discuss Or Gets Some Things Wrong Out Of Assumed Good Faith And Here's Why"

I didn't watch your video (I tend to shy away from random youtube links), but does it have any relevance to this particular John Oliver piece?

Also, I think John Oliver is brilliant, but comedians shouldn't be anyone's primary source of news. Of course, social media is even worse.

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Quoting: suba rather crappy game (Terminal Velocity?) that came with the card.

I had a lot of fun with that game and a flight stick. :(

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Quoting: 1xokHow is raytracing actually implemented in the Linux version of Quake2 or is it switched off there? Can anyone comment on this?

I cannot try it, I only have a GTX 970.

Here's some reading for you:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=search&q=quake+II+rtx

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoJust to let others know. I use Kisak's ppa and updated Mesa recently to 20.0. There was an error with the update at the end saying it couldn't install or uninstall something. With Synaptic, the broken packages were repaired easily, some new packages needed to be installed related to it.

Yeah, seems like Kisak messed up a bit. A simple apt install -f in the terminal fixes it as well.

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Quoting: Wernerit is 5.0-2, i was also wondering that no news about it showed up here

Quoting: vipor29hey liam there is a new proton out on steam its at 5.0.2 now

It's Sunday. Give Liam a break. :)

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Quoting: einherjarAn overlay Crosshair to "Noscope" with sniper weapons may be considered as cheating...

Draw a crosshair on your screen with a marker and nobody will ever catch you cheating!

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