So I have always said that one reason to use a gamepad on a PC is for third person games where analog movement is sometimes required. Well, this keyboard solves that! I think I may have to see about getting a UK keyboard though, as I do prefer to have that fat Return key. Then again, I do use the | a lot more than I did back in the day, so having that right there may be preferred...

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Quoting: NanobangLinux software for a hardware accessory? I mean, I'm aware it's done, but not enough for me not to sit up and take notice when something as sweet sounding as this Wooting keyboard comes along. Jeez, and I'd LOVE to get my hands on a full size British keyboard with it's spacious Enter key. (Apparently most Americans who are not me have no problem hitting that tiny Enter key on our keyboards).

I miss the spacious enter key! Also find it fun when trying to type on old computers, and figure out that Shift 2 is where the " is... Clearly the USA typers are more about the fat backspace key over having a fat Return key (that's right, I call it a Return key. I'm old, damnit!)

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Quoting: Werner

Quoting: CorbenJust installed it... but now Steam crashes on startup.

edit: Looks like same issue when 465 came out, 32bit is missing.

yeah same here, no 32bit

Remember when Ubuntu wanted to ditch 32bit to follow Apple? :P

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: slaapliedjeThere are some dedicated PhysX cards on eBay. Weirdly PCIe, my memory through the years would have insisted that they were PCI!

I think the early Ageia ones were PCI. I also seem to recall some cards having PCI connections on one side and PCIe connections on the other. Ah, technology transitional periods. No AGP ones, though, because that would be taken up by your graphics card.

Ha, seems ebay has some odd looking add-on boards as well, that I didn't remember being a thing.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133097830422?hash=item1efd3fb816:g:TlUAAOSwbyVdFnfd [External Link]

I kind of hate that most motherboards have completely dropped PCI support. I still have a decent amount of PCI cards that are good enough backups for some purposes (like my very first video card, the Matrox Millennium II).

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CatKillerThe PPUs definitely existed. I doubt that many got sold, because the business case for them was rubbish, but you could get pre-built gaming machines with them in. The technology was also in a bunch of console games before Nvidia bought Ageia.

I googled and found some... on Geocities. (So that's the age we're talking about. :D )

http://www.geocities.ws/nagaty_h/hardware/asus_physx_p1.htm [External Link]

Well, not quite Geocities' heyday, but it was a while ago. It was the PS3 era, and MySpace was the world's biggest social network. AMD had a really terrible open source driver and a really terrible proprietary driver (I won't say the name in case it triggers flashbacks), and were selling off their fabs because they'd run out of money. Intel was switching to the Core architecture after the failures of Netburst and Itanium. YouTube was full of videos showing off Compiz, and Ubuntu had released a "Long Term Support" version called Dapper Drake.

There are some dedicated PhysX cards on eBay. Weirdly PCIe, my memory through the years would have insisted that they were PCI!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/362488709628?hash=item546602c1fc:g:io4AAOSw8R9b7tcM [External Link]

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Quoting: TheRiddickThey need to go inside out tracking, ditch these tracking station nonsense! Still a very expensive premium product that most aussies can't afford.

Inside out tracking is still crap in comparison though, as you basically have to stare at your hands to get proper tracking.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: x_wingIIRC, the first sample of Physx I saw was on 2005 and it was from the former company that created the tech, using dedicated hardware, which was in a very early stage (I'm almost sure that their dedicated solution never got to the market).

The PPUs definitely existed. I doubt that many got sold, because the business case for them was rubbish, but you could get pre-built gaming machines with them in. The technology was also in a bunch of console games before Nvidia bought Ageia.

In the moment that Nvidia bought that company, their strategy was to implement that solution into the GPU. So, Nvidia wanted to move physics calculation into GPU as use case of GPGPU.

Of course they did. Buying an extra PPU was silly, but GPGPU is great. And of course they wanted it to be a market differentiator to make back the purchase price, particularly as Intel had just bought Havok at the time.

Yeah, the idea of offloading physics calculation to an extra GPU was awesome. Also not only a gaming feature, by the way. First game I remember utilizing it was Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. Excellent game, but I think to this day one where PhysX won't work under wine :( That's one of those games that for the longest time, you couldn't play at max detail unless you had specific hardware, or it was SLOW...

Nvidia has done pretty well for themselves, considering they bought 3Dfx, and many other technologies as they went along. Sure their 'OMG, Ray Tracing!' was a little stupid for those of us that have known Ray Tracing has been a thing for decades, but it is still 'OMG realtime Ray Tracing!' which is actually rather phenomenal for consumer grade cards to be able to have such a feature.

People in the Linux community are interesting as there are some that are like 'Awesome, they support us with a driver that actually covers all of the features!' and then there are those that are 'OPEN SOURCE or GTFO!' I understand both, but for now I can't find an AMD graphics card, and I did finally find an nvidia one, and outside of Optimus shenanigans, I've never had any issues with nvidia's hardware / drivers.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ShmerlSo instead of being essentially a fancy display, the headset will have its own GPU?

That moves things into interesting direction of eventually rendering everything on the headset itself, but I guess they need to get small enough first while being powerful. Current GPUs required for VR use a ton of power and need serious heat dissipation.

Standalone VR headsets already exist with their own GPU. The Oculus Quest uses the Adreno 540 and the Quest 2 uses the Adreno 650. In terms of graphics power they're pretty weak, but going stronger risks melting your face. The idea of this is that you can offload some of the face melting stuff to a different machine, but have enough local processing power that the latency doesn't make you hurl.

I was going to say, if you wanted like a 3080 RTX performance in a stand alone, I hope you have Lou Ferrigno's neck and have Radioactive Man's goggles! (The goggles, ze do notting!)

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Quoting: poke86

You should at least be able to try out the Windows versions of DOOM Eternal, No Man's Sky and Wolfenstein: Youngblood

FYI the DLSS/RTX upgrade for DOOM Eternal is not up yet, it's announced for June 29th.

Is Doom Eternal good? Last Doom I played was the one from 2016 and I still haven't beaten it.

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Quoting: Julius

Quoting: slaapliedjeIf that were accurate, attempts at making open source phones would have more platforms to choose from, and it seems to me the only ones they do tend to pick are the Mali GPUs. I'd have to look into it again, it has actually been a while. Still waiting on my Librem 5 phone...

See for example this: https://youtu.be/ZYCGVzkSIpg [External Link]

But finding a suitable ARM SoC for a Linux phone is way more complicated than "just" having open GPU drivers for it.

Yeah, that's just one of the big show stoppers, well that and being able to update Android, as they only build the closed source GPUs for specific kernels.

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