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Superposition Benchmark, a new GPU stress-testing tool from UNIGINE
11 October 2016 at 5:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
Phoenix is going to use this no doubt, this is great news.
Parkitect, the cute theme park builder updated again with new rides, loans and more
11 October 2016 at 5:00 pm UTC
How is it compared to RTC2?
Feral Interactive will be livestreaming the soon to be released Mad Max Linux port
10 October 2016 at 8:54 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: kit89Spelling mistake in the title, soom should be soon?

Nah, English Capitol has just instituted a new spelling to remind us that they can ;)

All n's should mow be supplememted in favour of m's
'Critical Annihilation', a twin-stick shoot 'em up made entirely out of destructible voxels has a Linux build
10 October 2016 at 9:35 am UTC Likes: 1
Steam Survey 3 months in a row.
'Enclave', the 2003 action RPG now has a Linux beta that uses Wine
9 October 2016 at 1:38 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: niarbeht2003 called, it's trying to get some of that Penguin Money.
Quoting: thykrTopware! The german scumbags who stole money from the honest Transcripted devs!

Do NOT buy anything from them! They are rascals! They were supposed to be bankrupted by now, but somehow they still exist!

Boycott Topware! Do NOT feed the german mafia!

So.... More information please? Lots of information is missing & everyone is capable of mistakes - was the motive behind that skirmish identifiable or was it a muddy battle?
'Noob Squad' is a perfect example of why Valve need to pay more attention to their own store
9 October 2016 at 12:06 am UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: GuestDon't buy it?
No shit.

Sarcastic angry or annoyed Liam articles are fucking fun to read. Thanks for saving us the trouble of getting this.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' has been merged into Mesa
7 October 2016 at 8:21 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: AnxiousInfusion
Quoting: ShmerlBy that time, radv can be even better already. AMD developers are also considering stopping their current tedious pre-opensourcing review efforts, and instead complete radv with missing pieces. In the end, as long as result is working well and is open, everyone will be happy.

I, too, am considering forgoing AMDGPU and just using Mesa instead since that is the default in so many distributions anyway. Whatever is easier.

Depending on your use case AMDGPU can be superior at delivering stability if that's a issue in your current setup.

Nvidia blob has always acted kindof janky and given Linux a "second-world" or "second-class" feel to it, but since I moved to RX 480 support is rock solid.

There are minor setbacks and some games perform worse than others (Ark won't load at all) but I generally do about ~100 FPS @ 1080p, 360 FPS on CS:S and CS:GO, Gary's Mod isn't very optimized and dips but I can't recall dropping below 55-60 FPS on anything.

You do kindof want to be using the latest MESA-git and xf86-video-amdgpu (Post July 2016) equivalent in your distro -- and that's about it.

I got bills to pay before I buy a second RX 480 for my girls rig, her nVidia 970 does what it needs to and has better stability via DVI-D anyways. (The major issue for me was that the NVidia doesn't really play nice with HDMI as the only connection -- you'd think this would be a major oversight as Steam Machines are probbaly 100% HDMI? Weird.)

While the GTX 10XX are outselling the RX 4XX I suspect that on Linux AMD will gain a fair marketshare in the next year so long as people's upgrade cycle coincides (Maybe 30-40% AMD?) A couple years from now I would love to see 70% AMD, or a open source nvidia driver -- thats the only thing that will make me agnostic again to the whole GPU war.
The open source Vulkan driver for AMD 'radv' has been merged into Mesa
7 October 2016 at 7:54 pm UTC Likes: 1
What a glorious day for Canada + Linux, and therefore the rest of the world.
AMD's radeonsi driver is really close to having full OpenGL 4.4 support, with OpenGL 4.5 already done
7 October 2016 at 10:21 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: crt0mega
Quoting: ElectricPrismIn fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 – because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.
I'm still waiting for Vega to replace my aging HD7970 :D

And maybe me too depending on the performance difference of Polaris and Vega.

Polaris has turned out to be a good time to switch to Red Team for me.
AMD's radeonsi driver is really close to having full OpenGL 4.4 support, with OpenGL 4.5 already done
7 October 2016 at 9:01 am UTC Likes: 6
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Quoting: ZapporFeral even fixes things directly in Mesa! https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421

Quoting: lordheavyAnd radeon vulkan support just got merged :D
Non conformant though, but the seem to fix things damn fast!

Just be sure to thank them when you see them pop into a Reddit thread and express your appreciation - that shit really does go far in developer world.

In fact I did just that earlier this week and expressed how I kicked $800 of Nvidia to the curb in favor of MESA and RX 480 -- because it's important to me that they know what people like me are doing and how we're thinking so they can better service us and we can service them with $$$.
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