Quoting: johndoe86xYes, that is a bad situation, but have the Mesa drivers not drastically improved even on the 270X as of late? A year ago, Penguin Recordings did a comparison video of the 260X on Ubuntu and Windows in Dota 2. While it wasn't on par with Windows it had vastly improved since its inception. Is the 270X just that much of a bastard card?

If you use recent enough drivers (a modern distribution) the performance is close enough to Windows performance. Of course some games are just crappy ports, in that case it's not the driver's fault.

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Aaaand it's available on GOG :P
https://www.gog.com/news/release_steamworld_dig_2 [External Link]

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Aaaand it's available on GOG :P
https://www.gog.com/news/release_steamworld_dig_2 [External Link]

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: ripperThere is no bulletproof method, since you're setting only the default. Any app can still ignore it and implement its own logic. This might be better with Wayland.

Yeah, that's a really good point. What's odd though is that Liam is having trouble with DOTA2, but it works okay for me. Similarly, MayeulC noted above that there are issues with Payday2, but again, I'm alright. It's just so inconsistent. Maybe you're right about Wayland, but that still feels years away (for Nvidia people at least).

In general, it's better to have your primary screen on the left side. Apps which override the default behavior usually use the monitor with 0,0 coordinates. This might explain some of the differences (different people have primary monitor placed differently).

Quoting: scaineMaybe you're right about Wayland, but that still feels years away (for Nvidia people at least).

Pick a vendor with better drivers next time :) But Wayland has its share of problems, you're not missing much yet, especially for a gaming use case.

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The screenshots should be below the headline, not above. This is very confusing.

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There is no bulletproof method, since you're setting only the default. Any app can still ignore it and implement its own logic. This might be better with Wayland.

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Quoting: rkfg

Quoting: WendigoI haven't played it for over two years.
Last time I tried, it took over 10 minutes to even load a game and crashed so often that it took me three attempts to even complete the tutorial of one fraction.
Are those problems fixed by now?

According to your PC specs, you only have 2 Gb of VRAM, try to set Texture Handling to 1-1.5 Gb. Most of the crashes I experienced are because of that.

That depends. If he uses opensource AMD drivers, the problems were caused by NS2 running out of 32-bit memory space. That is resolved with Mesa 17.1 with shader caching. The first load after new NS2 update or new Mesa drivers might take a long time (several minutes), and might have 32bit memory problems (that's why NS2 devs push to convert it to 64bit). But all future load times are much faster (e.g. 30 seconds) and the memory issues no longer occur, at least in my case.

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Quoting: shotgun14Unplayable on AMD Vega with Open Source drivers :'(

Do you know why, by any chance? I'm curious; also, I hope that when I upgrade my GPU in the future that I will still be able to play this game with a free-as-in-freedom driver. :)

For what it's worth, it works with my AMD Radeon HD 6970, using the free-as-in-freedom radeon driver, in Debian stable/stretch, but it didn't in the previous Debian release (which is now jessie/oldstable).

It works fine for me with radeonsi userspace driver (Mesa 17.1) and radeon kernel driver on R9 270. So just a default distro install (Fedora in my case), nothing changed, works great. There has to be some problem with Vega, it's very new and the opensource drivers are not even upstreamed yet.

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Quoting: liamdaweIndeed Patreon can be started and stopped any time!

But can you do a one-time payment without even starting the recurring option? I prefer one-time donations, and I don't want to remember that I should cancel the payment next month. That's why I welcome PayPal. If Patreon supports true one-time payments ("remember to cancel next month" doesn't count), you should definitely mention that on the Patreon page. The recurring requirement might put many people off.

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Finally, PayPal supported. Thank you.

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