Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd again, the Ubuntu's driver ppa team is sleeping.

This is one of the reasons I hate Ubuntu. Debian does it better with backports, as then it can be part of your main distribution (with all the extra support that entails) and you have a choice of which actual packages to update and use the backports version, so it is easier to opt for 'stable' vs 'latest' on those particular packages.

The PPAs have always caused instability issues for me when I'd use them (either in broken packages/dependencies or otherwise).

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyJust look at how many people are buying <insert VR solution> for use at home, and in the commercial market (e.g. family entertainment centers), VR is exploding.

Yeah… calm down.

This is GamingOnLinux.
This is a niche already.
And VR on Linux is a niche in a niche.

I didn't say I don't like it. I was just surprised.

niche-ception

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: slaapliedjeWell I'll be....

I feel as if I've just seen a shiny new Bedford [External Link] van on the street. I honestly thought Matrox was defunct, or had been bought out by NVidia or ATi (as was).

Nah, they have been around, just more or less got out of 'consumer' level products, and sell cards for massive amounts of displays. I think their highest end one is 16 on a single card.
Weird that they are now even giving up on their own ASICs (maybe?).

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Well I'll be....
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The NVIDIA-powered Matrox D-Series D1480 and D1450 are also now supported by this Linux driver.

I am so confused.....

Edit: Okay, now it makes sense...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15449/matrox-unveils-dseries-graphics-cards-with-nvidia-quadro-gpus [External Link]
Somehow missed that Matrox is now making multidisplay cards powered by Quadros. Interesting. I used to love Matrox cards, sadly the Parhelia was my last one, as they basically dropped out of the crazy performance race.

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Quadro and Matrox GPUs

Did Matrox get bought by nVidia? Not sure why they'd be releasing drivers for them... :)
Still wondering if nVidia is going to buy ARM.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeWish I had more time to beat TW2 so I could move onto TW3!

It's not a very long game, at least if you don't plan to play both Iorweth and Roche's paths for completeness. A lot shorter than TW3 overall. But each path provides quite different substory, so at some point you'd probably want to try both.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. At the moment, I chose Iorveth. I'm also playing it on Easy so I can kind of breeze through it.

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Quoting: sourpuzNot yet, I think I'm in the middle of HoS and have begun B&W. Both seem very nice and I'm still surprised how flawlessly the game runs via Proton/Steam Play.:woot:

Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: sourpuzFinally tackled the Heart of Stone and Blood & Wine AddOns to Witcher 3. I love this game, the whole series. I've rarely played anything this atmospheric.

Did you finish both expansions? Feel free to discuss the game in the dedicated thread.

For some reason mine wouldn't launch, I had to uninstall then re-install then it worked fine.

On a note of new games, the Marvel Avengers Beta just doesn't do anything in Proton. But it's a mess even in Windows, gamepad support seems to want to work, as when you push a button it then changes the dialogs, but then the buttons don't work (tried my PS4 clone controller that Windows sees as an xbox one, tried the switch pro and an xbox 360 one (old dependable)). But then it crashed after I played it with the mouse for like 10min :P

Hopefully that'll change once it actually releases.

Wish I had more time to beat TW2 so I could move onto TW3!

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Wonder how hard this would be to get ported to Linux?
https://github.com/BlueSkyDefender/Depth3D [External Link]

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: slaapliedjeStill somewhat related to Linux, I installed the newly supported SVGA driver in the a0486 core on my MiSTer (which manages all the FPGA magic through Linux). Win95 is still f'ugly after all these years!

But the MiSTer plays many of the arcade games written for it flawlessly and I'm finally able to put my Mayflash F300 to great use!

I wish I could justify the expense of a MiSTer to myself. They ain't cheap.

Mind you, I still have (almost*) all of the computers and consoles I ever owned. I just need to get around to checking and replacing some of the parts on the older ones. Especially the Amiga 500+. Those things are actively suicidal.

*Someone stole my 48K ZX Spectrum+. But I also have the 128K model (the relatively rare Sinclair “toastrack [External Link]”), so I'm not really losing out there. There are some incompatibilities, but they're pretty minor and although the 128 itself had quite a short production run due to the sale of Sinclair's computer business to Amstrad, it was the template for all the Amstrad-built models so they're not usually a problem.

MiSTer is nice due to the footprint of the system. Though I do have many older computers, my A4k has been without it's cover on for many moons now, every time I try to get it to be more stable, it disappoints me, and I haven't had the time to work out better cooling for it. The PPC likes to heat things up, even when not being used...

Funny thing about the MiSTer is that it was created as a hopefully cheaper version of the MiST, but it seems to have failed at that with all the add-ons...

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I figure the possibilities are.
1) aforementioned someone testing their skills
2) aforementioned bitter IP holder
3) FPGA vs Emulation vs Real hardware battle. RetroWar 2020!
4) There is no number 4
5) Simplest explanation, someone screwed up and they're blaming it on a hack.

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