Quoting: ElectricPrismThis post seems like it should also be an email

nah, I like that it reminds publicly that gaming on linux has a statistics page once a moth. And anyway an email would just be spam for me.

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I propose one simple rule:

Do not buy any game that the developer is not actively testing it on linux. It is not that hard to just install a free linux distro and just run your game. If developers can be at least convinced to at least test their builds on linux that would be a huge win for linux as a platform.

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This kind of error would be bigger, the smaller the percentage of linux is as more and more distros would fall in the black hole. Obviously it is present for more months and the miscalculation would be a lot bigger in our darkest oct-mar months.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: GuestQuick, all Linux zealots should storm their forums and make death threats to the developers, their moms, their dogs, and their rabbits! That will show them!

No. Just no.

He was being sarcastic.

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Quoting: TheRiddickMac users are being left out in the cold because MoltenVK development has been slow lately, its missing some critical functions still!

MoltenVK is not owned or developed by Steam/Valve in case people jump to that assumption (some do).

MoltenVK is not owned by Steam/Valve of course, but from what I've seen they do contribute.

The obvious reason why MoltenVK is still missing critical functions is that Metal has a fundamentally more narrow purpose than DX12 and especially Vulkan and also these things take time especially when Apple does not contribute at all.

Somewhere I read that Khronos is developing a subset of Vulkan/DX12/Metal that will be easy for application to change from one API to the other. Since every other platform has Vulkan this looks only useful for that.

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too late nvidia, too late. I really do not care what nvidia does as I will never buy neither recommend nvidia for the foreseeable future. Just use an APU for laptop as they are good enough, and for desktop amd is now very good for gaming on linux.

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Quoting: GuestVery naive question but what would be the main advantages for them ? Larger hardware support ? Newer kernel features they could use ? Just not to be cut from main support ? Aren't they not taking care of the GPU driver side of things themselves already ?

I confess i know little.

Better support for newer hardware, better support for open source gpu drivers (amd/intel) and better support for controllers are in newer kernels and important for gamers.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: gustavoyaraujoWhen will they starting developing exclusive titles?

Exclusives are just bad, no one wants them. They push platforms, sure, but they lock you into things.

I agree :-)

What I would really love to see is an "AAA" title that will be 50€/$ that plays for any OS (win/mac/linux) *OR* only 5 but then you have it _only_ for linux.

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I should also quickly note that I had a technical issue on my Arch install.

can you please give some info about your hardware?

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Quoting: drlambUpdate: 4.17rc2 + Mesa 18.X-git results in 37-40fps. So about +5fps better than mesa 17.3.8. Still have no idea why 18 is required for Vega GPUs.

probably because they only tested that and they only test on ubuntu so they have no idea the "real" minimum requirements which is not just mesa.

I think it is better to simple say mesa 18 as a minimum requirement than saying something more precize but more complicated even if they know it.

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