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AMD announce RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, plus FSR3 teased
3 Nov 2022 at 9:58 pm UTC Likes: 5

Cards should get a rating on how loud they are.

CD PROJEKT RED announce The Witcher Remake in Unreal Engine 5
26 Oct 2022 at 11:36 pm UTC

Remake. I hope they remake the controls of TW1. Just the switching between signs and stances was annoying.

Great game, but it had it's issues of the time.

A remake of a great game in a new engine? We've seen that working before.

And UE5 with the live parallel editing seems to become more and more popular. And I understamd why from a designer perspective.

Linux ports don't usually turn our well on UE though. Sceptical, but DXVK got it working properly in the past.

Return to Monkey Island gets an official Native Linux version
26 Oct 2022 at 8:15 am UTC

I had it already, worked perfectly fine on Proton.

I didn't play it yet though, same problems as the others, want to play the old versions before... But time is lacking.

Valve filed a 'computer game software' trademark for 'NEON PRIME' (updated)
16 Oct 2022 at 7:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

My bet is on something like a subscription service too.

I do not think they could be close to ready for a game streaming service. Except if they bought Stadia.

It takes a lot of tech and datacenter powet I doubt they currently have.

NVK is a new open source Mesa Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs
4 Oct 2022 at 10:50 pm UTC Likes: 2

Open source driver based on vulkan using the zink opengl front would be really lovely.

Will be a long shot though, but we knew after nvidia open sourced it we're talking years not month for a proper open source driver. Depends on the backing, if there are companies backing the devs fulltime, that will be a way faster journey (Valve? RedHat?)

I still hope long run Nvidia goes the way of AMD and contributes / invests there too. But they took a long time even opening up a bit (most work seems still behind locked doors, must be a documentation and organizational hell keeping the issues and request and internal development synced)

It's a start, let's see what time brings. I appreciate the effort too.

Nouveau have done a good job actually getting something working, and we should all appreciate that. But that game has changed.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 515.49.19 is out now, driver 515.76 causing problems
3 Oct 2022 at 3:29 pm UTC

Quoting: benjamimgoisLast time i tried Wayland on nvidia (nobara) i got significant more stutering while playing games. It all goes away switching back to x11. Works fine for you ?
Pretty much, don't have stuttering issues at all on my config.

What's a specifig Gnome related issue is that in real windowed mode input (keyboard) causes stuttering, but that's for me on X and Wayland. Goes away with borderless fullscreen though, and probably a mutter issue. That's one thing which works on KDE (where I had a lot of wayland related issues to be fair).

Other than that I do not have any stuttering issues (currently playing Zero Dawn, Gods of War, M&B Bannerlord and Shadow of War, and sometimes BF5).

I do use Shader Pre-Caching, which may be relevant to that.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 515.49.19 is out now, driver 515.76 causing problems
3 Oct 2022 at 1:22 pm UTC

I'm actually running 515.76 pretty fine, I'm running wayland/xwayland though.

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3070] driver: nvidia v: 515.76
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 22.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 43.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nouveau,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,vesa
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz
    2: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA
    515.76


The issue is that it sometimes freaks out to a black screen and recovers again. Could be related, but maybe just be unstable xwayland on Nvidia (I ran Xorg in F36, switched to Wayland with F37).

Google gives up on Stadia, will offer refunds on games and hardware
30 Sep 2022 at 5:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Mohandevir
Quoting: STiAT
Quoting: MohandevirIt would be really nice of them to "turn on" the standard bluetooth pairing for the Stadia controller, so we may use it elsewhere, wireless... It could make a fantastic AndroidTV controller for GeForce Now...
I thought that was a hardware limitation not just a limitation by the firmware.

Would be nice, I really like the controller.
Nope. The Stadia controller has a standard 4.2 bluetooth chip... It's only used for initial pairing, though.
Then I hope they change that, otherwhise the controller is just waste while it could still be perfectly used.

I doubt it though that there will be a single dollar more invested.

Hope is the last thing to die though. I even like the Stadia controller better than the Steam one (my wife prefers the steam one though, so it would be nice if I could use the Stadia one).

Google gives up on Stadia, will offer refunds on games and hardware
30 Sep 2022 at 3:43 pm UTC

Quoting: MohandevirIt would be really nice of them to "turn on" the standard bluetooth pairing for the Stadia controller, so we may use it elsewhere, wireless... It could make a fantastic AndroidTV controller for GeForce Now...
I thought that was a hardware limitation not just a limitation by the firmware.

Would be nice, I really like the controller.

Intel Arc A770 GPU releases October 12th
27 Sep 2022 at 10:33 pm UTC

I am all in for Intel as another competitor.

But I think their hardware will need a few generations to really close up.

As well do the drivers. They do not have a good track record there. I hope this initiative will get them there.

Nvidia opened up considerably, AMD is great, and pressure from the Intel side will certainly help.