AMD vs nVidia you say? I'll speak up and say that as a nVidia 9xx user I would love nothing more than buying a AMD 390 and using the open source drivers in my future.

We'll see though, cuz the juice has to be worth the squeeze. My love of rooting for the underdog isn't enough for me to shell out 400-600$ for what could be a medeocre or disappointing gaming experience.

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So I'm thinking Plasma 5/+ on Vulkan, my eyebrows raise.

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69 cents? That's like 1 or half a round at the arcade.

Take my money, if it's terrible meh. If they make a new one on Linux w00t. If it's sweet awesome. It's a 69 cents gamble.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: fishxzthe nvidia driver doesnt seem to run on newer kernels: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=5501095#post5501095 [External Link]

same problem for me and even with the workaround the xserver keeps crashing after few seconds.

It kind of makes you wonder what Nvidia is running in their internal tests. It would be nice if they shared that kind of information. Anyway, it's great to see them making progress.

SteamOS / Debian?

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Works great on i7 6xxx GTX 970 even with several hundred workshop items & mods installed.

Super awesome game. Workshop content is out of this world

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This game looks like it'll be hot when it's working right, I'm so buying it if it's anywhere near as fun as RTC2, we played that thing like crazy.

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Well shoot, I never played TR but I guess this one will be my first, looking forward to a quality title like this.

I'm ready

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But really, that's one reason I use GamingOnLinux, to see all the stuff happening and coming up and out.

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Electric Prism, self important billionaire, regrets not withholding monies from Garry Newman, developer of Rust and Garry's Mod.

By all means boycott bad products and shoddily constructed games suchas Rust and Gary's Mod Linux version/

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I can barely run most games at 4k on my GTX 970, and the framerate isn't steady or high enough to play.

Steam Big Picture doesn't scale properly most of the time with 4k anyways so it's obvious to me that their target is 1080p due to current GPU/CPU and other hardware limitations.

Not only this, but we know that "most" games on SteamOS/Linux take a performance hit because the quality of the port generally is a grade B or grade C which is usually "good enough" but not "stupendous" with the exception of Unreal Engine 4, Ark and several other Valve games (CS:S I get about 260-300 FPS).

Not only this, but nVidia has barely been technically able to output 4k on Linux in my experience. Only during the 358.XX release has my HDMI-1 to my 43" TV outputted 4k sort-of properly, which it still has issues detecting my display on HDMI-1 so I have to bind a xrandr set_resolution.sh to hotkey Super + 9 in gnome just to bring the thing out of Sleep via setting the resolution.

I finally decided to create a dedicated 1080p Steam User on my Arch that only runs in Big Picture and the FPS and experience is much better.

4k really isn't that necessary in gaming, and only becomes relevant on displays 40"+ in my opinion as that's closet to a 96 PPI density which doesn't require UI or App Scaling to solve the smallness eye-strain issues.

Anways, 4k in gaming? Maybe someday, but not today.

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