The reason for this is simple: Linux. The majors are investing a lot of money in the drivers, infrastructure and stability. The reason is simple as well: Android. Linux is a good test-case, since display server implementations in the drivers are a very small part, the driver infrastructure below is the same.

They're waiting for the big shot, when everyone can just dock a phone and use it as desktop. It's their future market, and they know that. Be it AMD, NVidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft or the Engine creators. The market is shifting, not in the next 1-2 years, but it will, and they better be ready for this, or they'll loose ground on competitors, and they can't allow themselves for that to happen.

We're lucky for that, but we're just beta testers for their real business goals. Within that said, we'll be closer then, and since infrastructure and drivers will be the same. Valve is scared not of the Microsoft store, but of Google Play. Once this shift takes place, the google store will be major, and we'll see real consoles based on it, probably having major titles. Google will be making this push, and Valve needs to be ready. Not sure what the strategy there is, but my best guess is that they want a competing product in place once this happens which people are used to and where they already have their games.

A push like this towards android consoles and all major games being for android could certainly kill off Steam, Valve and PC gaming as we know it now (when desktops are shifting). That's the danger for Valve, so they need to be ready when Google pushes this agenda. And Google will, they see the money behind it.

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLI trying it in open beta and open beta perform bad... but after Reality Pump developers change WINE stable to WINE experimantal with CSMT it work well for me with AMD GPU and fglrx driver.

Yea, no idea why the CSMT patches still don't make it in, almost everything runs better with it. Same with the PhysX patches...

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On 1.09? Okay, I would be stupid not buying it ... even if I could run it with one of my patched wines myself.

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He is currently looking to talk to publishers and investors about it.

First of all hope he can get it financed.

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Right, during the subscription period, having none, you're not allowed to publish.

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Nice. Having Dota2 on Vulkan means that Valve now is going to do the same as Croteam: Testing, optimizing and helping driver developers test performance to improve the drivers.

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Hmh, not as open as other engines, since even publishing requires a support license.

Though, it's not that bad, but I like other models better.

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Quoting: sbolokanovAlso what is this?

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That's F1

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Quoting: mr-eggwar? is there war ?

If you have other factions enabled and not passive - ye.

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I love the relaxed and open communication of Croteam. Hardly seen by any other developer.

But they were cool already in SS1 when we contacted them about the network / dedicated server issues we had.... they actually did provide a fix for that issues a week later.

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