I'd buy it, if nothing just to commend the dev for the from-the-looks-of-the-code well done engine (that's also free software)!

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Never had I paid so much attention to power until the Steam Deck, and specifically just a few days ago when I started replaying Shadow of Mordor. I went in with the expectation that I should set everything to low, ended up setting everything to Ultra and it still runs the game at 40fps without hitches and consumes just 12 watts.

It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.

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I finally got around to playing Hollow Knight again (though the ending I really wanted was too hard :crying face:)

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Quoting: TheRiddickFrom my understanding Nintendo use Vulkan API on the Switch to squeeze as much performance out of the platform as they can, for example I heard Skyrim runs on vulkan on the Switch.

Nintendo supports both Vulkan and their own API. However pretty much no one uses Vulkan on Switch because it's not as fast as their own API (understandably, because their API is tailored to their specific hardware (which is nvidia based) while Vulkan is abstract).

This extension came as an effort to solve a major problem with Vulkan and hopes to entice Switch developers to use Vulkan instead.

That said, the extension works extremely well on Nvidia, where every state is dynamic and shader stages are pretty much independent. On other hardware, draw calls using shader objects won't be as fast as pipelines (as Mike puts it, they are unoptimized). So, it's going to take a hardware iteration or two before this is really helpful on anything that is not Nvidia.

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> An intense and chaotic railroad construction experience

They are not lying! This game is an absolute must for anyone that has someone to play coop with.

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"UE4 supports Linux very well, we've never tested it, but it's going to be fiiiiiine"

You can tell how wrong this is by the fact that UE4 has better windows support, yet they still have to put so much time in to make it work well.

Then reality hits and they're going to whine about Linux.

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Quoting: mr-victoryAre the dynamic state extensions useful for shader compilation or am I just making it up.

Yes they are useful in that the application doesn't have to create different sets of pipelines.

With Nvidia, basically every state is dynamic, which means applications can create a single pipeline early on and never have to recreate at draw time.

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: ShabbyXYou'd think Liam would use a Linux-powered phone...

Depends how much of a masochist he is :whistle:

I have a Pinephone and as much as I love it, it's really hard work to use for actual basic phone calls.

p.s. I really need to use my Deck more!

I meant Android really, lol

I mean Apple _is_ pretty hostile to open things (like, I don't know, Vulkan?). It feels wrong to support them

Yeah, Apple is closed to the core, but Android is basically spyware so it all depends on what is more dear to you.

Personally, I've decided I don't need my phone to be an open device I can tinker with to my heart's content, I just need something that works and respects (mostly?) my privacy and that right now is Apple. It also helps their stuff is really high quality, looks excellent and gets updated for years and years.

Don't get me wrong, I see plenty that's awful in their ecosystem, but from my perspective it's the lesser weevil by far.

I'm definitely not interested in turning this into a whole Android vs Apple argument, so last comment and I promise I won't respond anymore:

Apple collects as much data as Google does, if not more.

And I agree, I don't like to be spied on, which is why I have Assistant, personalized ads etc turned off.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: ShabbyXThis conversation is not going anywhere, stop wasting your lives and move on.

Dude, what else is the internet for? Do you expect us to go outside into the real world and deal with real issues when we could be arguing about how 'free' the SteamOS is? :P

Outside? Oh heavens no, have you seen the white fluff of doom that's been raining on us for months?

I meant going back to the _real_ stuff, like bashing windows, hacking code and using vim, you know?

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Quoting: fabertawe

Quoting: ShabbyXYou'd think Liam would use a Linux-powered phone...

Depends how much of a masochist he is :whistle:

I have a Pinephone and as much as I love it, it's really hard work to use for actual basic phone calls.

p.s. I really need to use my Deck more!

I meant Android really, lol

I mean Apple _is_ pretty hostile to open things (like, I don't know, Vulkan?). It feels wrong to support them

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