You'd think Liam would use a Linux-powered phone...

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This conversation is not going anywhere, stop wasting your lives and move on.

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Quoting: play0adWith regards to Render doc, you have to change some options in the config (to enable 3.3 GL by default it's set to 2.1) You'll probably see that we have some heavily unoptimized art assets. Also, the lack of instancing, the number of materials, and the great variety in assets.

I'll wait for the Vulkan renderer to look at that :)

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I hope they do a good job, otherwise it's Linux's name they'll be dragging through the mud.

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Quoting: rklI found a post on Reddit that got me further in the process on Linux. Basically, the controller's USB device doesn't have write access for your normal user

What were the group and permissions of the file originally? I suspect all you needed to do was to add your user to that group.

At least I saw this previously with serial ports and the dialout group.

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Someone educate me, why should a leak like this bother Valve?

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The state of the GPU industry is good for the environment though; people stick with their existing GPUs for much longer.

I wish this happened to phones, so people wouldn't be literally changing phones every 2 years. 'this' being shortage, not lottery of course.

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Hibernate would be slower than just adding a few seconds though, why not recharge the deck every few days if you don't play it (but somehow left it in the middle of a game you didn't want to quit)?

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Does it have a campaign yet?

Also, nice, I might look at what they are doing in RenderDoc and give them some pointers (if GPU is their bottleneck)

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: ShabbyXYour argument might only hold for a studio that is really tiny, but then their games aren't heavy enough to warrant a need for such optimizations.

The benefit for a small team is a fair argument in itself - depending on their ambition level. But we need not talk about theoretical scenarios here - I will allow myself another attempt to lead attention to the actual real world:

Exclusive titles on Playstation are typically *not* small games by tiny developers - it's quite the contrary - highly ranked and praised AAA games with a massive team behind it.

And if we do consider these real life examples and compare them to multiplat titles, from a pure TECHNICAL point of view they usually stand out and shine and often even quite radically so.

Unless you disagree with this observation I can not fathom how you would argue against this benefit during the design and implementation phase of those games. It's not ONLY because they are damn good developers, it's also because they can FOCUS on one stack and make the most out of that.

That is correct, God of War for example and a number of others that were really good games and exclusive to PS4.

However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. I'd argue that these stand out not _because_ they are exclusive, but rather they were made exclusive because they stand out. I.e. Sony paid them to be exclusive because they are great games. They could have been just as awesome if cross-platform.

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