Quoting: mr-victorySure, the open sourcing of drivers is a step forward but we are far away from finish line, so going all AMD is still very sensible.

I agree I'd go with an AMD CPU/GPU machine next.

For my 12 year old desktop I have a 1660ti, I've switched to the open source driver recently after having some stability problems during an upgrade on Arch with the closed-source driver (more out of frustration than the desire to investigate the real issue). I'm not aware of all the missing features or exactly what parts of the code were pushed into firmware, but I haven't seen any issues so far.

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It's such a deep software, I've used it for 3D, plain video editing, and recently for 2D comic animations using the grease pencil. In the end though, I always feel like I've only scratched the surface.

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Quoting: JanneI started Subnautica and got partway through, but now I'm a little lost as to what to actually do, so I've left it again.

The answer is... go deeper. and deeper..

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Quoting: soulsourceIs Starnet fair? I mean, does it give the AI basically free ships and resources like the default AI does, or is it smart enough to actually build and rely on a working economy?

If you play on Ensign difficulty, the AI does not get buffed, and is relatively challenging because the AI will use optimal build orders and prefer tech to go to war within the first 30 years.

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Quoting: GuestThat looks great. Has Stellaris become fun yet? Or does it still take forever to get something going just to have nothing to do for the longest time and then start experiencing excessive amounts of micromanaging and insufferable lag?

I gave it another go recently using the starnet mod, which seems to fix the AI, and requires you to get something rolling pretty quick or you'll get steamrolled. Didn't see any lag, but then only played small maps.

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UW1 is the only ultima game I finished, took multiple retries... the puzzles near the end were fiendish. I still have them imprinted into my brain 30 years later... I guess Ultima VII probably aged a bit better though.

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I'm just glad they're calling it a PC, so we can finally put that mainstream mentality that a PC is a windows OS to bed.

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We don't really know what Google are doing behind the scenes - they might have their own shader conversion technology to vulkan at the server level. I assume that at this early stage, the working relationship between a game development studio and Google's developers probably does not give much control over the codebase to the game development studio.

I could imagine a forked codebase, or something entirely maintained by Google's developers. It makes sense because a lot of games on their catalogue are older, and are not receiving so many patches anymore. Of course, I'm only making a hypothesis and can be off the mark.

But at any rate, IMO we can't assume the game development studio even sees the linux code, or has anything to do with it.

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I have a colleague doing the XBox streaming beta - and a few things stand out: this technology is very smooth, the latency being negligeble even on a 4G connection. He has used his controller and connected it to various phones and android devices, saying you get high-grade desktop graphics running without issues on cheap devices. It sounds like the target audience will not be desktop devices - so in my mind it doesn't really make sense to compare this with the current desktop market, or the linux market for that matter.

It would be interesting if Stadia expands this to a wider market of android devices, because AFAIK it only targets the Pixel phone ?

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Quoting: fabertaweWhat does that do and where did you learn of it?

I'm running Jack (no pulseaudio) through a USB UMC204HD and get stuttering sound unless I stop it. When stopped I also have to tweak my .asoundrc to disable mixing in the rear outs on this unit or it also stutters. So it's just a very simple .asoundrc specifying the device as the default and that works.

FERAL_SYSTEM_ASOUND and other environment variables are used in the startup script .local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Shadow of the Tomb Raider/ShadowOfTheTombRaider.sh, which attempts to override the ALSA dll used by the steam runtime with the system one. There's a comment in there about setting STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES, so that might help ? In the past, when I haven't used pulseaudio, I recall using ALSA_PCM_CARD and ALSA_PCM_DEVICE to some degree of success.

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