Why won't they put the old build in a branch so people on other platforms could still download it?

I mean fine, they updated it to be more modern, and they are too incompetent to do it cross-platform. They don't have to kill off the old builds.

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> Support for widescreen monitors with almost any resolution. You can change the resolution without restarting the game, and in windowed mode, changing the window size dynamically adjusts the game resolution.

Sad reality is that this is so hard to be considered a feature. Especially with Vulkan.

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Quoting: razing32You have to create a new world , right ?
So any previous world and all progress made is kind of lost - well minus the skills / gear of the character.

No, IIUC, though it's recommended. Apparently it'll just convert that region in the existing world, which may leave odd terrain where you have buildings.

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Quoting: CanadianBlueBeer

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ShabbyXRecently 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.

You never forget the first time you get killed by a falling tree either lol

Nope! (of course, we do try to smoosh anyone else when chopping trees. Agility Practice, that's it!)

Going to have to either make sure the fire thingies don't go to previous biomes, or see about upgrading roofs.

(gotta wait for mods to update before playing. sigh)

:D

Stop scaring me, lol, fire thingies? Special roofs?

I have yet to die from a falling tree though, natural reaction to trees falling is to get out of the way? :D

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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: Guest

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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