Quoting: BreezeIf 6800XT is anything like the 5700XT launch:

• October 28th announcement of release November 30th, reference only.
• February 1st AIB cards released.
• March 1st, I can build the kernel and Mesa from git branches to have a somewhat stable experience.
• October 2021 first Ubuntu release that works reliably, April release didn't have everything.

I have bought a few Nvidia cards and they worked with proprietary drivers the week of release with zero issues. I have a 5700XT, the question for me is:

Is there a game that will be released before October 2021 that I will want 2x performance of 5700XT? If there is, I will buy a Nvidia RTX 3080, if not I'll buy a 6800XT most likely.

Games that may make me want to upgrade:

• Cyberpunk 2077
• Vampire the Masquerades: Bloodlines 2 (not looking good)
• Starfield
• New Elder scrolls game
• Avowed

Just to note while I agree on the late oss driver support on distros like *buntu there was nothing stopping you from using AMD's prop driver.

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Quoting: pete910:cry:

Unfortunately I called it some time ago, I knew this was going to be the the case.

It's with a sad heart that the way It's going in general with Linux gaming and the humongous £££ increase in graphics cards I am seriously thinking PS5. I'll keep my Linux PC purely for work related tasks .

Don't forget that console games are -massively- more expensive than PC games, and in contrast to Steam, aren't constantly on massive sales, either. The math usually works in favor of PC gaming, in the long run. Also, you don't need super-high performance GPUs for 99.9% of all games out there. That's what the industry wants to make you think to make you blow more dough on new hardware than really needed.

Not really, PC games are getting/Surpassed in some cases the cost of console games, I agree with missing the steam sales but there's also plenty of places to by S/H games for consoles. Swings and roundabouts on either side tbh.

**** me off a bit not seeing BL3, Massive fan of BL2. Purchased loads of copies for friends over the years too. NVM!

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: Duckeenie

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: x_wingThis game has the potential to become the next freelancer.

It's odd how long it has taken already for someone to pick up the formula, isn't it?

The problem is that despite being a very very good game it fell flat on it's ass.

Is that conjecture or do you have a source for that ?

It's not really conjecture, more an exaggeration.

It really wasn't overly successful, but was no complete flop, either, at least according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer_(video_game)#Sales [External Link]

I read it as Everspace had not sold that well.

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:cry:

Unfortunately I called it some time ago, I knew this was going to be the the case.

It's with a sad heart that the way It's going in general with Linux gaming and the humongous £££ increase in graphics cards I am seriously thinking PS5. I'll keep my Linux PC purely for work related tasks .

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Quoting: Duckeenie

Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: x_wingThis game has the potential to become the next freelancer.

It's odd how long it has taken already for someone to pick up the formula, isn't it?

The problem is that despite being a very very good game it fell flat on it's ass.

Is that conjecture or do you have a source for that ?

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: pete910

Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: scaineI haven't re-installed since I got my new AMD card.

Do you know if we still need to use the proprietary AMD driver in order to fold using the GPU?

Yes and no :grin:

You will need to use AMD's Opencl from the prop driver .

Un-install mesa opencl.

Any noob-proof guides on how to do this? 😬 It sounds very much like one of those things that I'll try on my own, only to find myself with two hours later reinstalling my system 😅

Do you know what this entails in terms of performance and stability outside of folding? E.g. will the fact that I'm using Mesa via Kisak-PPA bork the system? I really wish F@H and AMD would get this working OOTB with the default/OSS driver 😇

No clue on *buntu based , don't use it.

Manjaro here, it's a case of pacman -U opencl-amd (IIRC)

Or go in the package manager and search for opencl-amd then install. Not sure how much easier you could make it tbh.

Stability wise it's solid, perf I have no Idea compared to mesa-opencl , I use the prop driver version as a few things have failed to work on the open stack opencl driver.

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Quoting: robvvThis thread was from a while ago, but has there been any update on the Linux build?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say no, nor Boarderlands 3.

Proton has basically ****** us.

It's been a looooong while since I've seen a AAA game released article for a linux native game on GOL.

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Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: scaineI haven't re-installed since I got my new AMD card.

Do you know if we still need to use the proprietary AMD driver in order to fold using the GPU?

Yes and no :grin:

You will need to use AMD's Opencl from the prop driver .

Un-install mesa opencl.

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Quoting: FaldiinThank you for this Liam. Looking forward to this game.

Me too, though I utterly suck at the first so I'll likely suck at this one :sad:

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Quoting: LinuxerThe only thing making me NOT want this monster: NVIDIA!

Second thing for me is Intel.

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