I wish I was as optimistic as you guys are. While Steam Machines may not be dead, they certainly seem to be in cryogenic sleep.

I think this video needs to be watched to add further details. This is an interview with Valve done in the past few weeks: View video on youtube.com
Skip to 14:46 for talk of Windows 10 and UWP.

This is an interview with Gabe Newell, and he specifically states that he uses Windows 10 and it's "fine". He also noted that he's not worried about Windows 10 becoming a closed platform because other developers have stated that's not what they want.

Gabe Newell: "I don't think [UWP]'s developing any traction."
I have to disagree, I really think it is.

Gabe Newell: "If they build a UWP version-only of Windows, then, yeah, that would be a problem for us."
That's exactly what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10 Cloud. See Google Search: Windows 10 Cloud [External Link]

However, I don't think it's all gloom and doom. I think that if Microsoft and the Windows Store becomes legitimate competition for Valve, it will really push them to focus even more so on Linux as their gaming operating system of choice.

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Such a beautiful art style. I'm somewhat reminded of Little Big Planet. Will definitely check this out.

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Quoting: GuestYes, they are insanely overpriced. The original laptops and components are all made by robots and slaves and should be nearly free, but those along the chain want to price gouge you because capitalism is immoral without laws preventing that immorality. That isn't to say System76 doesn't do some additional work, but the end result is ridiculously overpriced compared to the source. Not sure if these are passing from China to IBM to System76, or what, but the way around it is to get a laptop directly or more directly from China, Taiwan, etc yourself. Look up Clevo laptops for example.

I legitimately can't tell if you're joking.

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More great work by Feral! I just got a bonus at work, so I'll be picking this up! Thanks, Feral!

Side note: I actually noticed similar graphical corruption/artifacts in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but only under Windows 10 and DX12.

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Proper mult-monitor and split-screen? That could potentially mean that two people can play co-op on separate monitors. That would be amazing!

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Took this snapshot real quick on my phone while watching a Youtube live stream.

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Quoting: GuestIf you really have an issue with unfinsihed games, you're right, you should avoid this game and any early access steam game. If you feel a game should be optimized while in early access that's a shame on you, not a shame on the developer. It's well known games in early access will be buggy and not be optimized...

My issue is not with the fact that there are bugs in an unfinished game. It's the fact that they have paid DLC while still in Early Access and minimal performance improvements for the past year and a half. This is an anti-consumer move.

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Quoting: johndoe86xGuys, I would steer clear of this game at all costs. Performance is wretched across the board regardless of platform. The developers are trying to do too many things and doing none of them, well. They even have paid DLC right now, despite being in early access.

Digital Foundry did several videos on its performance and progress. This video in particular is regarding the PS4.
View video on youtube.com

Vulkan isn't the magic bullet that is going to fix performance problems and bugs for these guys.

This is total BS. Performance is not wonderful but it's acceptable for what it is. This game has an incredible amount of content added to it on a constant basis. Massive game breaking bugs are fixed insanely fast. If you like open world survival games it's top notch and great and so worth the money. I will insta buy anything they add to it. I have well over 1000 hours in the game and am still playing. Don't listen to the haters because of a paid DLC ( which you in no way possible have to have to enjoy the base game ) before the game is out fully. People act like this game is abandoned and it's so not. The devs constantly impress me. If you don't understand performance issues with early access you don't need to play early access. It's that simple. The game is beautiful and the gameplay is so deep you could play 300 hours and still not touch ever aspect of this game. I love this genre and play anything close to it that's available for Linux. This game by far is the best game like it out.

We'll simply have to agree to disagree, while there are some areas that get 25+ fps, the dips and frametimes make this unplayable for me (and a lot of others in the recent Steam reviews). I'm not trying to knock on a game you like, but I feel like the developers really need to focus on performance and bug fixes before adopting two new API's.
Thankfully, Valve allows for refunds and for everyone to make their own decision.

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Guys, I would steer clear of this game at all costs. Performance is wretched across the board regardless of platform. The developers are trying to do too many things and doing none of them, well. They even have paid DLC right now, despite being in early access.

Digital Foundry did several videos on its performance and progress. This video in particular is regarding the PS4.
View video on youtube.com

Vulkan isn't the magic bullet that is going to fix performance problems and bugs for these guys.

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Quoting: dubigrasuFortunately I have no issues with this driver, and actually is a keeper. It gives a slight increase in performance in some benchmarks, for example in the Unreal Infiltrator demo (compared here with the previous stable driver):

367.57:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 8.35 / 27.8543 / 304.27
Min/avg/max FPS: 3.28655 / 35.9011 / 119.76
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 29.04 / 35.06 / 36.65 / 42.29

375.20:
Min/avg/max frametimes (ms): 10.48 / 26.298 / 308.28
Min/avg/max FPS: 3.2438 / 38.0256 / 95.4198
50/90/95/99 percentiles (ms): 26.29 / 31.78 / 33.90 / 37.38

Frametimes (375.20 in red):

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Could you tell me how you extracted this info, specifically the frametimes? I was wanting to do some comparisons like this for myself with my 980 Ti. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is unplayable for me on 375.20, but Rocket League seems to work without issue.

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