This is great! I stream this via Steam Link to the living room as a party game.

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This is great! I might finally make it all the way through King's Quest 7 now!

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Quoting: PsychojauHi everyone. May I share another point of view with you ?

I'm working on an UE4 project. Since I've updated to 4.18.1 (I will try with last patch 18.2 but don't have big hopes), I can't even load the Editor with Vulkan (crash) or calculate the Lightmass (swarm agent crashed). okay, that's not perfect either on Windows where you can have nice BSODs when making the lightmass....
The real problem is the bad Linux support from Epic.
Do you know that we can't even use the launcher to download / compile some plugins for the editor under Gnu/Linux ? Oh, and if, as an example, you want to buy some trees or dungeon walls to an artist on the marketplace : too bad ! You can browser with your regular browser but not download ! You need the launcher !
I don't care about compiling (even if it's time consuming) but f**k ! They say they support Linux but it's not entirely true !

I understand your frustration but maybe Ark devs are not the culprit here... (or maybe they are, I don't know of course)

Thanks GamingOnLinux ;-)

If they had been known for consistently improving their performance, squashing bugs, and listening to community feedback while in early access, then you could have a point.

Instead, they released a non-free DLC pack while still in early access, doubled the price when they left early access, and don't even have a platform that runs even remotely well.

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Whew, the "stress of moving" really hit home! This title is in my back catalog. I need to check it out!

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: johndoe86xLinux needs three things to succeed as a competitive gaming platform.

It needs -something- over Windows

The main point I was trying to make is that the switch from Windows to Linux can't be a side-grade. It has to be a significant upgrade. I don't think Linux needs a killer "feature" to differentiate it (although installing a console-like OS on any hardware is actually a really cool feature), I just think that it needs to do everything that Windows does... except better.

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Linux needs three things to succeed as a competitive gaming platform.

• Until Linux has better performance than Windows across the board, Linux won't be mainstream for PC gaming.

Thankfully, Valve has employed full time mesa developers that are making great progress. If you ask me that's currently money better spent than SteamOS.

• Until Linux has the same simplicity of installation/use as Windows, Linux won't be mainstream for PC gaming.

This will make a lot of people here mad, but the experience just isn't on par yet. Steam has made great strides, but there are still things that the end user has to do for an optimal experience. Setting the CPU governor is a great example. Choosing between a myriad of open and closed source drivers is another. Thankfully, the Solus devs are arguably doing just as much as Valve (if not more than) with their snaps to aid in simplicity.

• Until Linux has the AAA industry on board, Linux won't be mainstream for PC gaming.

Say what you want about AAA games and their greedy micro-transactions and their godforsaken PC ports. Say you already have more games in your library than you can play if you want. Say you would never support EA, Ubisoft, and Activision's shady business practices. That's fine, but until we have Bethesda, Blizzard, Activision, EA, and Ubisoft then Linux won't be mainstream.

Thankfully, the third will come in time with the great progress being made on the first two points. I know that's not what most of you in here want to hear, but that's the realistic truth.

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It all comes down to the almighty dollar. The GPU AI/Deep Learning driven market is lucrative at worst, and Intel wants a piece of that pie. Whether or not they open source their drivers and if this will impact gaming at all remains to be seen. For what it's worth, I'd love another competitor in the gaming market, but I doubt that this will be the case.

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Oh! Same day Linux support! Sadly, neither my wallet nor my schedule allows me much game time these days.

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Quoting: beniwtv

Quoting: GuestLast I checked AMD bails on their driver support faster than you can say New iPhone! They haven't made drivers for my card in like 2 years nor will they. Of course I could go back to 15.04...you know like going back to Windows ME (remember that pile?) to get functionality back. Point is I can install current drivers on all platforms for my nVidia cards...mean while I can install current drivers for my AMD cards in Windows or Mac OS but not Linux because as always AMD has left anything not bleeding edge to die.

If I read this correctly, you seem to be talking about the open Mesa driver not performing good on this card (I believe there were/still are some regressions?), and AMD not providing an official proprietary driver for this card on Linux anymore.

That situation sucks, I kinda have to agree with you on that.

Yes, 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?

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Quoting: GuestWhy would it support AMD/Radeon cards AMD won't even support Radeon cards...speaking as an R9 270X owner (and tons of Radeon and ATI cards before it) I'll never buy AMD/ATI/Radeon again. AMD Screws us every time with forced obsolescence so you can't fault the game or devs.

In my experience, AMD only gets better with time. Nvidia cards don't get worse per se, but the game specific optimizations seem to be current gen only. Meaning my 980 Ti will get less game specific driver optimization than the 1070.

There's even a running joke called AMD FineWine based on the phenomenon that AMD ages so well. So I'm not sure what you mean by forced obsolescence.

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