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 [External Link]

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 [External Link]
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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On 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 [External Link]

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.

No wonder we probably won't see any great games anymore from them,
when people are now working in such a hostile environment.

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Whoooa. Great!

It's also on Steam for the very same low price.
Installing Linux version right now (Steam).

EDIT: Starts and seems to run fine.

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Quoting: rea987

Quoting: ripperDoes this have the same improvements as the Enhanced Edition, i.e. higher resolutions and mouselook?

Yeah, I would like to give this a go but I need proper mouselook feature. Has anyone tried it? I ask it, because the GIF doesn't look like a native mouse look.

Looks like it:

https://twitter.com/cuddigan/status/1006789909267537920 [External Link]

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Quoting: SamsaiI built it quickly and got it to work. Keep in mind that the game wants the System Shock Enhanced Edition files to function. I loaded it up with Classic edition files and that just yielded some segfaults. So, to play you need to download the Enhanced Edition, innoextract the Windows installer and copy the app/res folder to where-ever you built Shockolate. Still seems a bit crashy and on Arch at least there isn't any sound (didn't build my own SDL2 stuff) but it renders pretty smoothly at least.

Thanks!

That sounds very promising.

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Quoting: ArdjeI've heard a developer say that the only reason he also has mac as a platform is because it is so easy to generate the mac version. As for money it wasn't worth any hassle. Now I don't know what he said about the linux version, as I was playing edeejay at the same time.

I think this could be seriously problematic. This affects indie devs not using one of the big engines, that include Linux targets. If it is not possible anymore to at least more or less cover Mac+Linux with the same effort, than the little Linux alone market share won't cut it for many devs, I'm afraid.

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So can AMD ship their own OpenCL implementation?

Isn't NVidia providing CUDA on macOS?

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