Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDefine "no hope".

Decent performance for recent cards depends on Nvidia’s good will (signed firmwares), and it is clear they do not want Nouveau to be capable of correct 3D acceleration, or at least they do not care about it.

Ah, I see.

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Quoting: GuestMy question is why does Valve work on Nouveau when almost everybody uses the blob and there is basically no hope of getting decent performance with Nouveau on recent cards?

Define "no hope". Open source projects can be surprising . . . they toddle along for years on life support, and then some committed, productive developers come along and suddenly they're serious mojo.

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Hmmm . . . going a bit Civ-like there. Like Civ 5+ culture stuff. Not a bad thing, I kind of like that stuff.

Niggle: At the end of the article there, I think you mean tactical. Strategic is broad sweep of the empire, what you do in a space battle is tactical.

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It seems as if in a low-key nuts-and-bolts sort of way, Valve is paying more attention to Linux again just lately.

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I hope their progress is Inexor-able.

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So . . . to point out the simple and obvious, among all those sites the lowest figure is over 2%.
We have 2.2%, 3.8%, 5.6%, 3%. All in all, the 1% figure can maybe be put to bed.
So either there's something odd about Steam statistics, or Linux is used more for everything else but gaming.

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Quoting: Corbenhttp://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#technology-desktop-operating-system
+1.2% for Linux ;)

Wow, is Linux really gaining market share? Except for gamers (according to the steam hardware survey) as it seems :->

I am really starting to wonder if Valve is sandbagging for some weird reason.

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Quoting: MaCroX95I personally love Wine... not in the sense that it should replace linux-native stuff, but being able to play my favorite legacy Windows games is amazing and having this backwards compatibility is awesome... I sure like to see that even Wine started to evolve really quickly lately, it is really nice addition to the games that we get natively and having options for running Windows games and software makes our platform even greater if anyone agrees with that or not :)

Couldn't agree more! What really sold me on Wine, was when I realised I was running games such as Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, System Shock 2 and other older games without any issue on Linux and hadn't even realised that users on the games' native platform Windows were struggling or unable to do the same; now _that_ is amazing!

True that. I noticed this when my daughter's boyfriend asked me what I was playing (original Starcraft), I lent him the CD, and he was unable to get it working at home. Maybe there was some kind of compatibility mode he might have been able to use to get it working on current Windows, but it sure wasn't willing to just run with no fuss. Runs great on WINE, though.

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I can see a potential problem here: If the basic schtick is that all the gear is crafted by players, then how can a dungeon have anything nice?
Possible workarounds:
--Dungeons have really nice, rare raw materials
--There is some kind of theft mechanic where some kind of critters or something swipe something random off people when they die, or when they die in certain ways (like, killed by another player--something the other person would have looted off your body might instead get grabbed by a gremlin of some sort) and then these stolen things end up in dungeons
--Dungeons have really nice, rare raw materials and it is possible to, instead of beating the dungeon, swap a crafted item of sufficient quality with the boss for some of their (whatever stuff); they then have whatever it is and they can use it against future dungeon raiders but it will also be lootable dungeon treasure

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Pretty cool concept. I think it might even be something of an exception to the rule WorMzy mentioned, for two reasons:
1. The whole concept is going to sound boring as hell to typical trolls/griefers, although they might show up to some extent just to disrupt the game because of that
2. The player-run government & criminal justice system would allow outlawing the trolls/griefers and systematically hunting them down. They might find they don't have much fun because they keep getting killed real shortly after they spawn.

Which brings me back to my beginning point: Pretty cool concept.

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