Quoting: SeegrasI chose 4k, because when I had a weak GPU, I could just run stuff in 1080p at exactly double the pixels in both dimensions.

But it turned out, resolution really matters, and if I could run something at 4k while lowering shadow quality and such (but not textures) it always looked better.

I do the opposite, I would rarely compromise on shadows, reflections or lighting. Doesn't need to be highest setting (Ultra/Epic), but I avoid Low and Medium because these change the visuals too much or have too many artifacts. Upscaling is the best way to still get High settings while staying above 60fps.

1080p is fine for TV which is on other side of the room, but on desktop, 1440p output is a must, otherwise the UI looks blurry (even with upscaling). On the other hand, gaming 1080p on laptop or 720p on handheld is totally fine.

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Quoting: eggroleSo ML to unblur the blur added by the other pass of ML.

I wonder what the "next level" of this stuff is. I don't see a push for 8K - everyone I know is either happy with 4K or even lower. My monitor is only 1440 and while I'm sure I'll go to 4K someday, it won't be any time soon. So what I'm getting at is, if they've built a tech that is all about upscaling but we end up staying at 4K (forever?) what is the upgrade path? I can't see them shrinking the source much. I would doubt you'll see 360p rasters scaled _well_ to 4K.

Further, I wonder if you replaced all the "wasted" transistor space on these chips for raw raster, what kind of numbers would we be getting? It might not be more/much more, but I would expect similar results minus some of the *-tracing stuff. Which, everyone I know turns off anyway.

It isn't about going lower and lower render resolution, that just happens because more stuff is rendered, but your PC stays the same.

It isn't about upscaling, it's about managing what to do during the limited time. Instead of brute-forcing all the pixels, they could render less pixels and do more complex render. Instead of lowering the quality of the world, they could just lower the render and upscale it.

There is no point of adding more resources for raster if all that developers want to do is more raytracing.

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Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

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Quoting: Stella

But I think we can do better with a native solution.

I hard disagree with this statement. Pretty much all existing Linux games suffer from various problems ranging from complete inplayability over control and gameplay/visual issues as well as crashes. Running games over Proton is vastly preferable to Native most of the time because the Windows API is much more stable than the Linux API. I myself have had so many issues with native ports that the Proton versions never have, that I've given up on them completely

I think you are confused. More support for native Linux builds with Unity makes them better, not worse. You still have a choice whether you want to use the Windows version through Proton or the native Linux version.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

I don't even think there is a game engine that exports native Linux arm builds. Although they should be there for mac, so who knows what can happen in the future.

Many don't have Windows ARM export too in the UI, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. On Windows, many use scripts to make build anyway, so Windows ARM exports have been available for them for quite some time, even on x86_64 machine. On Linux, all you need is hardware with ARM64.

Godot has Linux ARM64 and even ARM32 in the UI and you don't even need ARM hardware.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's not like we have many closed source Linux + ARM apps right now...

Not sure what you mean, there are tons of Raspberry Pi apps for Linux ARM64. Steam Frame probably too weak to run most flat 3D games standalone, but should not have problems with 2D games that can even run on Pi.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

I get that, I am interested if there is at least an option, like with native Linux x86_64.

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Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

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If people would be as passionate about buying games on GOG as they are hating AI, they wouldn't have to generate those banners with AI.

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Quoting: spymastermattI'm looking forward to Valves next project... Electron.. err Neutron?
Whatever the name is, I'd love to see a counterpart to Proton, allowing devs to natively target Linux but still let their games run on Windows via a compatibility layer

And Mac. It would probably be easiest to do with WebAssembly and WebGPU.

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