Quoting: ShabbyXNever had I paid so much attention to power until the Steam Deck, and specifically just a few days ago when I started replaying Shadow of Mordor. I went in with the expectation that I should set everything to low, ended up setting everything to Ultra and it still runs the game at 40fps without hitches and consumes just 12 watts.

It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.

I think nVidia are taking a particularly wrong turn energy-wise with the 'Lovelace lineup.
Let's hope AMD is able to react wisely as their latest low-energy offerings have been disappointing with their PCI-E bandwith. What we need is a PCI-E 16x low-power GPU to take the 75W crown, and nobody delivers in that category...

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4AGames are great devs who keep delivering. Hope to see another of their games hitting Linux anytime soon.

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It seems Square can't do well rounded ports...

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Quoting: zastrix

Quoting: omer666The driver keeps needing manual recompiling of the kernel module on Fedora 37, which is pretty annoying

Couldn't you just install akmod-nvidia from rpmfusion? I'm running fedora silverblue 37 so that's basically the only way for me to install the nvidia drivers.

BUT I need to wait for the new drivers to actually be posted on the repo. I did have the issue of a passive DP->HDMI port not showing the correct refresh rates as I posted on this thread here [External Link] on the developer forums.

I am indeed using akmod from RPMFusion, the module compiles automatically but the driver can't find it. I need to pass dnf remove kmod-nvidia* and then akmods --force and reboot.
Don't you have the same problem on Silverblue?
Maybe my install is getting a bit old...

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The driver keeps needing manual recompiling of the kernel module on Fedora 37, which is pretty annoying

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I recently noticed that Sapphire RX 6600 is now 300€ here in France, so I think prices are slowly coming back to normal. If AMD ever stops this PCI-E 8x madness, I may very well buy their next mid-range offering.

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If anything, the current IP owners should just pay these guys and publish the final result.

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Quoting: Matombo

Quoting: omer666At least there is now an official line drawn between Epic MegaGames and Epic Games.
As for the master server, as with many late 90s multiplayer FPS, players have been using their own server lists for a long time now.

I just hope that some day, a (yet to be known) dev is going to release titles as groundbreaking as Quake 3 or UT, so that we can live another golden age of the arena shooters...

i would argue that battle royals are somewhat the modern successor of arena shooters. just with more players bigger maps and only last man standing gamemode

think about 100 player ctf in pubg or apex. it could work ...

We already had 64-player CTF in Quake 2...
While battle royals may be fun, it is no Team Death match and the intricate level design we had before is not here either. Add to this the silly cell shaded graphics and the gatcha inspired character rooster, what you get is a no-go for arena FPS players.

As surprising as it may be, the only "recent" FPS that remotely matches my tastes is CS:GO

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Quoting: LachuPlease, remember Unreal Tournament was Open Source, but it do not apply to assets. Thanks to that it was possible to provide modified game engine, with enhancement multiplayer.

Only the SDK and the renderers are open source. UTPG and OldUnreal got access to source code with agreement from Epic but don't have any right to redistribute it.

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At least there is now an official line drawn between Epic MegaGames and Epic Games.
As for the master server, as with many late 90s multiplayer FPS, players have been using their own server lists for a long time now.

I just hope that some day, a (yet to be known) dev is going to release titles as groundbreaking as Quake 3 or UT, so that we can live another golden age of the arena shooters...

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