Maybe _now_ my 7yo will eat his vegetables, cause cooking and eating is all he does in the game itself :D

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Recently started Valheim over the hype with the expectation that I won't like it (not into survival games in general). But damn, this game is fun!

Won't forget my first encounter with a troll that's for sure.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: Viesta2015

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: lejimsterI thought I had seen a lot of news related to Nvidia and open source projects lately. I wonder... Maybe they are involved in a piece of hardware Valve are making? We know Valve want the ability to fix driver issues as they arise which is only possible if the drivers are open source.

either a valve home console, or VR Headset or just steamOS general relase...

i doubt steamdeck 2 will go nvidia

Best case scenario would be a valve home console... along with an updated VR Set and have them both separate... it'd allow others to use any piece of VR equipment they wish and use it as a general PC if people wanted. :)
(especially with steam link on quest 3)

One thing we know for sure is that if Nvidia is doing something, the movtive is pure profit. Let's just hope it's not some A.I. thing that has nothing to do with gaming.

First of all, the entire reason for _any_ company's existence is profit. You say that like it makes them particularly evil, but it doesn't. Yes, some company's have more goodwill than others, but your argument can't be "how dare they want profit?". What makes you think is the reason Linux itself is good? It's because numerous companies work on it purely for their own profit. There are very few developers left working on the kernel who aren't affiliated with a company.

And yes, of course it's some AI reason. AI is the hottest thing right now, and Nvidia's hardware happens to be really good at it. OpenAI and Google may be in a battle over AI, but they all come to Nvidia for hardware, and that's a LOT of hardware. If any of them asks Nvidia to open source anything, they will because money talks.

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Quoting: basedFirst time hearing of a graphics chip that can do Vulkan but not OpenGL.

Reminds me of one 2003 XP laptop I had which couldn't do OpenGL on Win7 yet DirectX games ran fine with it, but that was a driver issue

It's not so much that they _can't_ do opengl, and more like they didn't bother writing a driver for it. The premise of a layer like Zink is exactly that it lets vendors stop caring about opengl and focus on vulkan.

For the record, the samsung xclipse gpus don't have an opengl es driver and use ANGLE.

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NVIDIA is testing the waters with open source, and I'm sure they'll have more to come. I can only hope they have a good enough experience that they won't feel it's too hard and give up!

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestThis is bad news. Can likely lead to the Noveau Driver not being developed properly anymore. Perhaps its Nvidia's way of "shutting down" development on the open source driver with seeming like it is.

Why would they send lots of patches then?

I also lean to them enabling the free driver at least for good AI performance. Don't know if they care for graphics performance here in the same way though.

To be fair this is something that companies like Microsoft are famous for. It's even got a name, "Embrace, Extend, Extinghuish"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish [External Link]

Come on, this patch is coming from a previous maintainer of this very code. So what, he was an open source hero, then went to nvidia and continues working on the same project but now suddenly it's all a conspiracy to thwart open source? That's nonsense.

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Are we no longer too few to ignore? :)

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Somebody should make a physical robot that looks at the screen and handles the mouse with super precision (not an android of course, it can be a simple camera and a couple actuators) and play the game as if it was a super skilled human. There is no amount of os introspection that can prevent that kind of cheat.

Maybe **then** will they realize they are approaching cheating wrong.

Seriously, what if instead people voted if someone is pleasant to play with or not after a match, and you match pleasant people together and unpleasant people together. That also solves the toxicity problem with the same mechanism.

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Quoting: ShabbyXFor example, imagine a cheat that takes the app's wall rendering shader, and makes it semi transparent. Now the cheater can see through walls. They could still be playing with mouse and keyboard, no scripting involved.

That example is still a server problem. It's giving the client information that it doesn't need.

It's not as simple as that though. Even if the server doesn't disclose players / items that should not be visible, it can't do that very precisely for the simple reason that latency exists. You can't afford to reveal players _just_ as they become visible, because to the client it looks like they pop through doors. So taking latency into account and revealing another player earlier with a margin of error, that can still give an edge to such a cheater.

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeClient side anti cheat will never work. I don't get why no one tries server side cheat detection. I think AI in server side cheat detection might be a very useful thing.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. You kind of need both. Server side is needed, obviously, but there are ways to cheat that can be entirely invisible to the server.

For example, imagine a cheat that takes the app's wall rendering shader, and makes it semi transparent. Now the cheater can see through walls. They could still be playing with mouse and keyboard, no scripting involved.

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