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?

QuoteUpdate #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.

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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.

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Finally got back to TIS-100.

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

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That's great. :)

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

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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.)

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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.

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Edit: Never mind.

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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.

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Quoting: Edgarins29From twitter it seems that it was done with help by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon.

Ahh. I remember him complaining about others complaining about the pricing of a port.

It must be this then.

More than 15 EUR even with discount included is too much imho.
I'd say 10 or 8 EUR would be a good pricing.

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: subOn a side note. Quite interesting read when it comes to Valve.

https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless-industry-politics/?utm_content=buffer537a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw

So far I'm a big supporter of them and grateful for what they did for Linux.
Yet, if that's even remotely true then I'm deeply disappointed by the mismatch
between what they want people believe how they are working and what it is really like.

I am really not a fan of Rich Geldreich, maybe the name has something to do with it (it means rich, money, rich). But his tweets are only salty, so I don't listen anymore to anything he has to say.
Here is a more objective story about Jeri Ellsworth:
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/4/12/15257842/jeri-ellsworth-profile-castar-valve
She was hired, and booted, and got to take all her research with her for the symbolic price of $100. The payment is a legal thing to be able to transfer the work done.
It was currently the right move for Valve to fire her, but I hope when VR is crystalized and done (they are still developing and fixing graphics in linux just to get VR just right), they hire Jeri again to get on with AR.
Her CastAR project in the mean time seems to be dead.

Thanks for the link!

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