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The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' now supports using multiple GPUs
17 Jan 2017 at 9:30 am UTC
17 Jan 2017 at 9:30 am UTC
Nope. Most things are not capable of using multiple GPUs at all, so why bother buying a 2nd :D.
Building on up in Block'hood, my early thoughts on this cute neighbourhood-building sim
17 Jan 2017 at 9:25 am UTC
17 Jan 2017 at 9:25 am UTC
Your screenshot isn't doing it much good. Actually looks a lot neater in the videos on Steam.
Will keep an eye on that one. I like building sims and this seems quite different to the ones I've played so far.
Will keep an eye on that one. I like building sims and this seems quite different to the ones I've played so far.
Wine 2.0-rc5 release, moving towards a final stable version
16 Jan 2017 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 1
16 Jan 2017 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 1
Yea, don't forget about all those little devils out there.
Fixing bugs is always good, no issue if there is a native build or not, wine squashed are fewer bugs to hit us in other games.
Though, not me. I try to avoid wine where ever possible.
Fixing bugs is always good, no issue if there is a native build or not, wine squashed are fewer bugs to hit us in other games.
Though, not me. I try to avoid wine where ever possible.
NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
11 Jan 2017 at 10:06 am UTC
11 Jan 2017 at 10:06 am UTC
Hmh, lacking a bit of docs... reading a bit of the sourcecode (for me) does not really tell me how to "properly" use the API.
@Shmerl hmh.. Rust... have dabbled a bit in it, liked it so far. Seems to get more and more popular out there...
@Shmerl hmh.. Rust... have dabbled a bit in it, liked it so far. Seems to get more and more popular out there...
Valve are looking to gather a list of games that don't work with radeonsi
9 Jan 2017 at 11:36 pm UTC
9 Jan 2017 at 11:36 pm UTC
Portal 2 isn't working and valve is asking which games don't work? That one they should at least know about :D...
If they really get the major issues fixed, I may soon have to get a AMD card (I'd love to).
If they really get the major issues fixed, I may soon have to get a AMD card (I'd love to).
Quoting: ziabiceI have a long list of non working games, but please don't ask me to register to the wiki too!=> send it to liam or post it here..
Long War 2 mod announced for XCOM 2
6 Jan 2017 at 3:55 pm UTC
6 Jan 2017 at 3:55 pm UTC
1 Hour. Just started it so it counts as Linux purchase.
Still have too many games on the list to play, didn't get around yet to play XCOM2.
Still have too many games on the list to play, didn't get around yet to play XCOM2.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
5 Jan 2017 at 3:44 pm UTC Likes: 1
5 Jan 2017 at 3:44 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: JahimselfThat Marek dude is impressive.All the (graphics) driver developers I know are a book on their own.. exceptional engineers. He's just one example out of them, where we can look a bit at the work because it's public :-).
Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL
5 Jan 2017 at 3:37 pm UTC Likes: 4
5 Jan 2017 at 3:37 pm UTC Likes: 4
I don't think they're pushing for a big hit with SteamOS / SteamMachines anymore. It's exactly what's said here, it's the hammer above Microsofts head.
Vulkan, while being a hammer over the head, is a serious competitor. So Microsoft needs to invest a lot there, since they want people to develop DX12 for Windows and XBox, and don't want to become a 2nd class citizen API whise being the "port" rather than the main platform. One who could have changed this would have been Sony, if they decided official support for Vulkan in PS4. But there is no official word about that yet (not one that I've found).
I do not consider Linux distributions or SteamOS a serious competitor to Windows. Not in the next decade, not if Microsoft does not fuck it up royally. My bet is that Google will go competitive one day on the Desktop market with an Android / Linux base or even their own Kernel.
Why? Windows is known, is sold with the PCs, has all titles, and runs the software people know as well as everything runs on Windows, which not necessarily runs on Linux. People are used to things, and they want the exact program, not some "other program which can do this". Android or a "ChromeOS" or what ever it will be called is a more serious competitor, since Google does have all the apps.
Call me pesimistic, but I think that's what we're facing in reality.
Vulkan, while being a hammer over the head, is a serious competitor. So Microsoft needs to invest a lot there, since they want people to develop DX12 for Windows and XBox, and don't want to become a 2nd class citizen API whise being the "port" rather than the main platform. One who could have changed this would have been Sony, if they decided official support for Vulkan in PS4. But there is no official word about that yet (not one that I've found).
I do not consider Linux distributions or SteamOS a serious competitor to Windows. Not in the next decade, not if Microsoft does not fuck it up royally. My bet is that Google will go competitive one day on the Desktop market with an Android / Linux base or even their own Kernel.
Why? Windows is known, is sold with the PCs, has all titles, and runs the software people know as well as everything runs on Windows, which not necessarily runs on Linux. People are used to things, and they want the exact program, not some "other program which can do this". Android or a "ChromeOS" or what ever it will be called is a more serious competitor, since Google does have all the apps.
Call me pesimistic, but I think that's what we're facing in reality.
The next round of our user-powered statistics has completed, take a look
4 Jan 2017 at 3:53 pm UTC
4 Jan 2017 at 3:53 pm UTC
The question for me is not IF I will pick a AMD card, only WHEN I'll pick one.
I still don't consider AMD to be seriously competitive to NVidia when it comes to linux gaming. But I have high hopes that this will change in the forseeable future especially since they seem to have full-time devs working on the open source AMD drivers now, and that will be when I pick up a AMD card.
I still don't consider AMD to be seriously competitive to NVidia when it comes to linux gaming. But I have high hopes that this will change in the forseeable future especially since they seem to have full-time devs working on the open source AMD drivers now, and that will be when I pick up a AMD card.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
3 Jan 2017 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 6
3 Jan 2017 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 6
Kudos for AMD having/paying developers pushing their mesa drivers for gamers. That's really a very nice and huge investment they do towards us linux gamers.
I hope there will be the state where I will be able to consider a AMD CPU a safe and good buy. I've got an AMD CPU now anyway on my new gaming system :p.
Maybe I get a mid-class AMD card for testing though...
I hope there will be the state where I will be able to consider a AMD CPU a safe and good buy. I've got an AMD CPU now anyway on my new gaming system :p.
Maybe I get a mid-class AMD card for testing though...
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