Tried it some time ago looking for another MMO. I think the MMO genre has a identity problem because all are doing more-of-what-already exists.

SotA is actually a bit of an old-school-breeze, but it's a lot flawed too. Could still get cool, it's not even in beta yet, and actually I don't know if it's my personal feeling but with Mesa 7.1 the loading times reduced (maybe the shader caches?).

I actually experience that I wait way longer on my GTX1050 than on my RX460.

Though, I still stick with Zezenia for now (pure-grind-and-level). Ye, I know, really old school :D. I'd love some MMO with [real] crafting for Linux, and since I didn't like Albion (which could be fitting, but I'd need a party protecting me while I get materials), I still hope that SotA will get the curve.

For crafting, SotA looks pretty okay. Getting / buying materials to support your gathering is actually pretty okay on the player market if you sell your end products well (I didn't go into mining). The death system is pretty punishing at the moment though.

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I want this. Rather sooner than later. Glad it will be coming to Linux (it's paradox afterall, and they have a history of succeeding with their ports).

That is a game I could really love.

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The only news you have to do on a weekend is if Blizzard releases a native WoW linux client on a weekend.
Aka the new "when pigs can fly".

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Just mentioning NVidia, if it wont work with mesa/amdgpu I will sadly not picking up that one. Sad, since I am a huge fan of RTS games.

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Bought it a long time ago. Contrary to the reviews, I found it entertaining.

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Good he realized he needed a break before burning out. Certainly hope this one will see a release one day, it looks very promising.

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Quoting: spiffyk

Quoting: GuestBut where are our ****ing performance optimizations for specific games?

You mean where are the workarounds introduced to make up for a game abusing the API? To hell with that.

Actually, that's quite state of the art. Game developers and driver developers working around special use cases where the available API implementation just sucks.

With each driver release, even on Windows, NVidia introduced optimizations for certain games. That should not be necessary. Seems it is .. at least currently.

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Stop teasing start releasing :D ... nah, I've a so huge backlog of games that I hope they take a year or so to release.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: CreakKnowing that the Linux kernel maintainers don't allow two drivers enabled for the same hardware at the same time (from what I understood), there's going to be a battle between RADV and AMD if they open source their Vulkan drivers...

They would more than likely merge the two.

I highly doubt that. We may see the AMDGPU-PRO driver making use of radv in future instead of their own implementation below AMDs AL in their driver. Same thing which goes on now with the DC/DAL patchset. It's more work involved there for the AMD devs, and AMD has been .. slightly pissed off not being able to do what ever they want for their hardware in the kernel, so we may still end up with two implementations in the end ;-).

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Dawn of War 3. Very likely.

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