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Latest Comments by pete910
Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi
2 Jul 2018 at 5:45 pm UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: pete910Does Dying Light work for you ?
I don't have the game, they never released Linux version on GOG.
Whats ya steam name? I'll gift you a copy!

Mesa now supports OpenGL 4.4 Compatibility Profile for radeonsi
2 Jul 2018 at 4:38 pm UTC

Quoting: ShmerlYep, it shows up in the OpenGL string now:

OpenGL renderer string: Radeon RX Vega (VEGA10, DRM 3.25.0, 4.17.0-trunk-amd64, LLVM 6.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.2.0-devel (git-2854c0f795)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL version string: 4.4 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.2.0-devel (git-2854c0f795)
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.40


Killing compat profile could have made sense if Khronos would have done it. But they didn't, and now it's proliferated in Nvidia blob, so some clueless developers use it despite many warnings not to, and you get results like Dying Light. There is no option for Mesa but to implement it.
Does Dying Light work for you ?

Techland haven't decided if Dying Light 2 will be on Linux
29 Jun 2018 at 4:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Beamboom
Quoting: pete910May be YT's compression but cant say it's that impressive tbh.
Do we have an open world game on Linux that looks better? Or even as good. Dying Light looked great too, but they've upped the game here.
Edit
On linux , No.
Rise of the Tombraider, I read it as in general visuals.

Metro LL, Deus Ex too and going on that vid the original DL.

Mad Max is open world, Looks as good no foliage to compare so.

Techland haven't decided if Dying Light 2 will be on Linux
29 Jun 2018 at 2:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: x_wing
Quoting: yar4eIn case they'll not port it to Linux we have WINE + DXVK ;)
Yes, but we should only pay if the hard work is made by the developer...
No, you should pay if you play it.
It was meant as in not going to buy it unless it's available on our platform!

Techland haven't decided if Dying Light 2 will be on Linux
29 Jun 2018 at 10:04 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: BeamboomOk... Wow. Just, wow. That was visuals to die for.
May be YT's compression but cant say it's that impressive tbh.

Kinda moot though if it don't come to Linux ;(

Will this be using Vulkan do we know ?

We have a copy of 'Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor' to give away to one lucky Linux gamer
28 Jun 2018 at 6:37 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: IperpidoI've actually no idea on what kind of drone to create, so i'll probably figure it out while playing.

...Maybe i can make a drone wich figures out itself how to build a drone.
Ain't that how sky-net starts :O

:D

Basemark GPU is a new benchmark tool that supports Linux and many different APIs
23 Jun 2018 at 11:33 pm UTC

Quoting: callciferI've made an Arch Linux package :) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/basemark [External Link]
You're a star :D

Quoting: ElectricPrismI wonder how it does with AMD and MESA.
Black screen then hard lock for me :'(

How to be a great advocate for a niche gaming platform
21 Jun 2018 at 1:17 pm UTC Likes: 9

So, "Use linux or die" is not the way to go then :dizzy:

:D

Intel has confirmed their plans for a discrete GPU to release in 2020
13 Jun 2018 at 4:31 pm UTC

Quoting: poisond
Quoting: pete910Intel can't do **** in the GPU space without either Nvidia or AMD, they have all the IP needed.
But Intel has been producing GPUs forever(just not discrete ones) and is the #1 GPU manufacturer.

Anyway, I doubt they'll come up with anything competitive by 2020.
Ranking is debatable however, they still licensed the IP from NV/AMD over the years so the main point still stands.