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A multi-vendor extension for transform feedback in Vulkan is being worked on to help DXVK and others
8 Sep 2018 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: subWow, DXVK has a huge momentum.
Yes , thanks to Valve.
If now even hardware companies jump in... huge success already and it looks like there is way more to come.

Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine
3 Sep 2018 at 12:24 pm UTC Likes: 2

Hi Liam, do you know what happens if you neither install nor play the game within the first two weeks?
Will the platform where you purchased the product count in this case?

Update #1: I spoke to Valve earlier, about how buying Windows games to play with this system counts, they said this:

Hey Liam, the normal algorithm is in effect, so if at the end of the two weeks you have more playtime on Linux, it'll be a Linux sale. Proton counts as Linux.

What are you playing this weekend?
1 Sep 2018 at 1:17 pm UTC

Quoting: Nevertheless
Quoting: subFinally got back to TIS-100.

For my taste the Zachtronics games are one of the best things to happen. :)
Oh yes, I plan to finish this one too! This "display programming" started to be too much grind-work at the time I played it. And then I somehow I left it alone..
:)

The only complaint I have is that it seems to melt my notebook.
It's getting *extremely* hot for the very simplistic presentation.
It literally hurts my legs while playing for 2 minutes - so I have to put it somewhere else.
This affects all Zachtronics games so far that I played (not including Opus Magnum and the newest one which I both don't have *yet*).

It's Unity based, right?
IIRC, I have similar issues with other Unity games.
For reference:
The notebook has a Haswell CPU/GPU but a rather high display resolution with 2880x1620 pixels.

What are you playing this weekend?
1 Sep 2018 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 4

Finally got back to TIS-100.

For my taste the Zachtronics games are one of the best things to happen. :)

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
28 Aug 2018 at 12:40 pm UTC Likes: 3



That's great. :)

Happy AMD user here.
Last Nvidia card was a 6600 GT.
Never looked back.

Some thoughts on Valve’s new Steam Play feature and what it means for Linux gaming
24 Aug 2018 at 10:17 pm UTC

Do we have some games that run faster/better with Proton than they do with the native port?

(Just curious - not meaning to bash the awesome porting companies.)

Valve officially confirm a new version of 'Steam Play' which includes a modified version of Wine
22 Aug 2018 at 12:36 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: GuestOn the long run, companies will recognize Linux more as a real market share even though they the companies dont have to do anything in terms of technical development because of Wine.

Because of this Linux market share recognition, chances are that they will want to support natively Linux so they make sure that their games run well on Linux also (not just with the Wine compatibility layer).
Why would they want to do that? If Steam/Wine/whatever takes care of it non-natively, they will never have do any better. What possible motive will there be to do Linux-native when all the work is being done by someone else??
I agree.

Only time will tell.

NVIDIA have officially announced the GeForce RTX 2000 series of GPUs, launching September
21 Aug 2018 at 7:22 am UTC Likes: 3

Does anyone know if "Tensor Cores" and "RT Cores" are real dedicated hardware components or is this something implemented on top on the more generic GPGPU features?

On another note:

I'm still with an Radeon HD 7950 alongside a Phenom II X4 940.
And it surprisingly works well for me (Playing FHD DOOM and Wolf2).
When I was way younger I burnt too much money on "fresh" hardware, reading reviews about every 2 % of performance advantage which in the end just cost a non-linear fortune compared to something much cheaper that would have served me equally well.

That's also why I couldn't care less about a performance lead of Nvidia - a company hostile towards open standards when they realize they can implement and rigorously exploit a vendor lock-in (see CUDA <-> OpenCL support).

Next card will be AMD again. For sure.
The open driver ecosystem on Linux has come a long way and it's working great.