Maybe there could be two kinds of surveys. One full version every second month (like we have now) and a smaller and quicker version for the rest. The small version could remove all the boring questions like desktop, gpu, drivers and then spice things up by adding a few more of the interesting questions (new ones each time).

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The main benefit with Vulkan should come from the developer being in control of synchronization. This means a thread does not need to stall due to a queue/buffer being locked and can continue work on other things. Later on it can come back and check the lock again. This is a much more efficient approach than OpenGL where most commands will completely stall the thread while claiming the synchronization lock which often leads to a context switch between threads, which is crazy expensive!

Looking forward to spending a few weekends playing around with Vulkan :)

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Divinity Original Sin EE.

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Quoting: pete910Just hangs on start-up with me, maxis 1 core out. Left it a while to see if it was building shaders or whatever but no, just hung I guess.

Just updated to the latest version and for me there are no problems starting the editor and creating a new sample project. The only thing I noticed was the installer had an error due to a missing package "libpq5". Otherwise I encountered no problems.

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Nice benchmarks. Hopefully we will see the same kind of advancement with Vulkan as we see with nine (thinking of the bad AMD OpenGL performance).

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As long as the driver itself supports all or most of the features it is likely Linux will receive this update as well. After all, it would not make much sense to to have two Qt versions of their interface when they could share it between platforms. It is even possible that this version is an iteration from the Linux version of Catalyst.

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I brought two copies of the game without much hesitation. My mind never even registered the possibility of piracy. A great game, a good service provider, and a fantastic operating system make me want to pay for the titles which looks good. Back in the days, with a not so good operating system, mass produced game titles, DRM and weird CD requirements made me really want to pirate everything. I never was much of a pirate, but I did download quite a few no CD fixes and of course immediately felt somewhat like pirate. When a developer puts in the extra effort of bringing a game to Linux, it just make the game so much more valuable!

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Exciting news indeed. I am looking forward to the release. :D

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Quoting: Blobbtw. Steam just reached 1000 Linux games :)

Hmm almost XD
http://puu.sh/guAWo/228099e676.png [External Link]

I see 1002 oO :D

I did see 1000 month ago. "showing 1 - 25 of 1851"

Proof? http://i59.tinypic.com/9qbd47.png [External Link]
Austria seems to be a great place for linux gaming :D. You seem to be lacking a looot of games :D.

You forgot to remove Software, Videos/trailers, Downloadable Content and Demos from you count. :D

I see 1002 as well.

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Maybe it would be enough to create a page which redirects to the survey. The page could then keep track of user/IP and decide if the redirection should happen or not. Another similar alternative could be to embed the form on the page directly.

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