I can only reiterate the recommendations given by Kitshop, recompiling ffmpeg and obs with NVENC support should give you a lot better encoding performance and generally a better looking result as well with the right settings.

I am also personally using a Blackmagic Intensity Pro which has great Linux support, the main caveat with Blackmagic right now is that the new line of capture cards that allows capturing 4K at 30Hz and 1080p at 60Hz (previous iterations would only support 1080p at 30Hz) does not seem to feature as good of a build quality and mainboard compatibility.

I had to send my Intensity Pro 4K back since it would crash after about 10 minutes of capturing consistently and I have heard many complaints about faulty hardware in general with the 4K, although once you get a working device it should be about as solid as it gets with super low latency to boot.

The Linux support could be a lot better though, since they officially support mostly only versions of distributions that are a year old or even older and their support isn't very helpful if you do not run any of the specific versions they support but it's about as good of a support as you can hope for when it comes to capture cards on Linux.

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Looks to me like a feral port possibly, would make sense, since they've been porting other things for Square Enix recently, like Tomb Raider.

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Oh, Valve developers forget they do OpenGL again?

Well, technically they do not for any of their Source games, it's just a translation layer that converts the DX9 calls to OpenGL:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/ToGL [External Link]

It's a different story for Source 2 though, where they actually support native OpenGL.

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For me creating a file "Tearing.sh" in /etc/profile.d did the trick:

# /etc/profile.d/Tearing.sh
export KWIN_TRIPLE_BUFFER=1

Of course you may still end up having screen tearing in some games that do not have it enabled by default, but at least the desktop experience should be mostly tearing free with that and it also doesn't randomly break by launching a game.

Naturally also relies on you running KDE with Kwin.

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Not day 1 after all it turns out, they only just tested the current build on linux yesterday and found there to be issues still, so it'll take how ever long that's gonna take them to fix those to see the linux version.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/274190/discussions/0/611698195156414510/#c481115363873171362 [External Link]

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Quoting: berillionsI have a I5-3230M + GTX 670MX, do you think that i can play at this game with minimal options before to buy my new laptop (I7 + 970MX)

I don't know which is the desktop card equivalent at my mobile card GTX 670MX

Keep in mind that they state in the requirements that they will not support mobile cards at all, they may work, but if they don't you're on your own.

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Official release for Mac and Linux is January 2nd folks. :)

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Yeah, sorry that was a poor choice of words on my part, I merely meant to point out that linux builds of EA titles might be in a comparably shaky state to a public beta on a game that's already released officially, so I find it equally questionable to allow EA titles.
I do however respect the distinction you make based on how the port is advertised rather than on its quality, I didn't mean to take a stab at you for that. English is my second language I should learn to stay away from idioms if I don't fully grasp their meaning. :)

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Alright, seems like maybe a bit of a double standard when you allow EA titles, but I can understand why you would want to do it that way, since open beta titles probably don't stand a chance against officially released titles anyways, just purely based on the user base.

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What about games with ports that are in some form of public beta? I.e. there's no linux icon on steam but you can download and play them on linux already. In other words do you look at steamdb or just the steam store itself to judge whether a game supports linux or not?

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