As mentioned in the article, the drop could very well be related to the news from CES that Steam OS is coming to more devices as well. The drop is more likely caused by the cumulation of all the recent related news rather than a one single.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

FSR 2.0 temporal upscaling uses frame color, depth, and motion vectors in the rendering pipeline

That doesn't sound promising for the chances of getting something like FSR 2.0 built into Steam OS.

FSR 1.0 was easy enough because it could just take a single frame image and scale it, but FSR 2.0 will need depth and motion vectors in addition to colour. I don't see how something like Gamescope could have access to that data.

Those "vectors" are most likely calculated from previous frames and not the vectors used in the game engine. So the data can be extracted by saving the image of previous frames.

Quoting: Doc Angelo> Does not require dedicated Machine Learning (ML) hardware

The meaning of the terms around "artificial intelligence" are weird. There's no machine learning hardware on RTX cards as well. RTX cards simply execute the process that was the result of the machine learning that was done on different hardware - which also happened to be regular hardware.

Actually there is. Machine learning requires a very limited and specific set of instructions. Nvidia does have hardware for this included in their GPU to speed things up. It is true that they use other computers to calculate the weights for the machine learning model, but without the dedicated part, even the creation of the model itself would probably have been to expensive.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: NezchanWow.

All the characters they could have picked, there's what, 120 of them? Almost all with amazing, visually impressive designs and costumes, flashy abilities and compelling backstories, and this is what they picked? A generic looking human warrior whose outfit is mainly brown?

Gonna have to agree on this. Plus their one-liner synopsis is the most non-descript and cliché I’ve seen in a long time. "Warrior dude wants to be a hero, unexpectedly teams up with princess who is more than she appears, gets more than he bargained for." I’ll go out on a limb and guess that the dragons he used to fight aren’t as evil as he thought, the princess has a quirky pet for comedic relief and, I don’t know, the order he works for is actually behind the scourge somehow.

You have to be careful... stealing the entire manuscript and publishing it here. In the future consider to at least using the spoilers tag.

:)

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I will probably install it as an additional test option for web development. It will be interesting to see if it will have any special features compared to Chrome and Firefox.

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Quoting: DMGSo, it's not like civilization? How much time it takes, to complete a game?

It is more like one of the first versions of civilization. Especially the first few hundred of turns in civilization. The mechanics for resources are simple to understand. Building units are like buying troops from a global money pile. It is not possible to build cities, instead villages are conquered and converted to your empire. There is no "stupid" diplomacy and the players are always at war with each other. Maps are smaller and the technology tree is faster to expand in as it is is much smaller.

After playing it only once yesterday I would guess it is possible to play one game per evening. It is much more intense than civilization as the player is less likely to end up in situations of skipping turns waiting for research to finish or building/troop/worker. It is much more fun and it is still a 4X game and, most importantly, it does not feel too stupid or too simple play.

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Quoting: Alm888It seems the questions about WINE and Proton™ usage have been removed…

I think it was discussed a bit in the last round, and the consensus was that those questions are no longer applicable in the current market situation.

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I tried to learn Flutter before but all examples had such a horrible coding style making me all confused. Adding a thing like this is actually pretty cool and could become useful in the future. I am sure I will try to learn it again as soon as I have some spare time just to see how useful it could be for desktop apps.

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It looks almost like what SuperTuxKart aspires to be, but never quite reaches.

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I was going to play a few rounds but then I saw the news... I could not really enjoy playing and stopped after a while. Otherwise it was a good game to play when I only had like 15-30 minutes to spend. Sad news indeed. Time to play something else instead.

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This is my favourite drawing application. It is very easy to use and it has good control over the brushes.

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