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The Linux GOTY award is now open for voting
12 Jan 2017 at 2:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EikeI get a "remove vote" button for every game in a category I already voted in.
So there is no way to look up what I actaually voted for?
Sorry about that, have adjusted it to only show that button on the one you voted for.

The Linux GOTY award is now open for voting
12 Jan 2017 at 11:26 am UTC

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: EikeI'd be interested in voting numbers per category in the end!
I could add that in now, but I want to make sure people are okay with it. I can't see it swaying any votes or anything, so it should be okay?
Just to make sure: I was thinking of "How many people voted in this category?", not "How many people voted for a certain game?" The later one for sure could influence, I wouldn't like that.
Of course, I knew what you meant. Just a simple counter for how many votes in each category.

The Linux GOTY award is now open for voting
12 Jan 2017 at 11:21 am UTC

Quoting: EikeI'd be interested in voting numbers per category in the end!
I could add that in now, but I want to make sure people are okay with it. I can't see it swaying any votes or anything, so it should be okay?

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU
11 Jan 2017 at 11:15 pm UTC

nvidia-settings is its own package and is updated along with driver versions usually, what does you package manager say its version is?

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU
11 Jan 2017 at 10:39 pm UTC

What version of nvidia-settings do you have?

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU
11 Jan 2017 at 9:57 pm UTC

Quoting: yzmo
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: yzmoSomehow none of those checkboxes show up for me... :(
What driver version, what GPU, is it optimus?
I'm running 375.26, no optimus. Perhaps it only works if multiple monitors are present as nvidia treats it as a per-monitor setting?
No, it works with any amount of monitors.

Send a screenshot?

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU
11 Jan 2017 at 9:50 pm UTC

Quoting: yzmoSomehow none of those checkboxes show up for me... :(
What driver version, what GPU, is it optimus?

Inexor, a fully open source fork of the FPS game Sauerbraten
11 Jan 2017 at 9:31 pm UTC

Quoting: SnevOh yeah that's right. Reminds me of http://tesseract.gg/ [External Link] which was aimed at improving the engine. Was looking great but apparently development was stopped in 2014? However, after looking into Inexor it seems that they at least know Tesseract.
Apparently Inexor is taking some graphical features from Tesseract.

Ballistic Overkill, possibly my current favourite online FPS updated, available in more countries now too
11 Jan 2017 at 9:03 pm UTC

Quoting: MegazellOutside of the issue I mentioned - What is keeping this game in the state it is in right now? How soon before full release?
They are still working on all parts of it.

How To: An update on fixing screen-tearing on Linux with an NVIDIA GPU
11 Jan 2017 at 8:59 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: knotted10Not working on my optimus laptop, I have the same problem @Twomby has, even with the latest drivers (375.26)

I think that I'll need to wait until xorg server 1.19 comes out to stop seeing the damn annoying screen tearing
I don't think this works om Optimus chips.

Quoting: tuubiBTW: Compton's VSync guide also has this to say about NVidia's ForceFullCompositionPipeline option:
However it’s indicated that it introduces huge (~30%) performance loss on some OpenGL applications.
I guess this info could be old and obsolete though?
That's very outdated information, my own tests have shown it to be a 2-3FPS difference, so that can be written off for benchmark differences each time you run it. Old cards may have more of an impact, but it hasn't been a problem for quite some time.