I think killing 32-bit support is good. I think forcing game devs to 64-bit is good. My problem with it is old games that will never be updated. I think 100% of the reason 32-bit games exist is Windows and the fact that 32-bit arguably comes before 64-bit in the Windows world. 64-bit is definitely more of a priority on Windows than in the past(mainly because of the ram limit) but that system doesn't treat 32-bit like the old legacy thing that it should. MacOS killed 32-bit long ago which actually brings up another question. Devs have to make 64-bit games for macOS right? Why is Linux left out? Unless I'm missing something. I personally think it's a good thing although there will be some growing pains around it I don't think we can keep 32-bit support forever. I'll be especially happy if the steam client goes 64-bit. I'm on Debian where 32-bit is disabled by default but very easy to enable. If steam itself doesn't need 32-bit support I might disable it, most, if not all of the games I play are 64-bit only at this point anyway.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: ScooptaUh oh, I have an R9 Fury which means I might need an upgrade too since our cards are pretty equal =(

The problem with my GTX 970 are the 3.5GB of VRAM... SotTR eats about 4 GB at 1080p with the graphic preset on high.
On windows, I can play it with the graphic preset on Normal.

Well my card has a full 4GB of VRAM but I'm going to be playing at 3x that resolution so that will definitely be an issue :/.

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: jens

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe Game of The year edition already exist and is called Shadow of the Tomb Raider CROFT EDITION [External Link]

I wouldn't be so sure that this is the GOTY version. But lets see what happens. I'm also really looking forward to this one, certainly a first-day-full-price-at-feral-store purchase for me.

There is a TRIAL version of SotTR that you can use as a benchmark... My olde GTX970 barely can handle it.. Time for an upgrade.

Uh oh, I have an R9 Fury which means I might need an upgrade too since our cards are pretty equal =(

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Wow i personally dont get why anyone would play minecraft full stop but nice for fans to be given the classic version for free assuming its feature complete and has no issues underlinux good stuff.

The classic version was basically just creative with a handful of block types and no flight. It probably is feature complete but there's not much to do, it's just nostalgia. Also MC is a blast, have to play modded though. Vanilla used to be fun but I've owned the game for 7 years at this point and even with all the new stuff vanilla doesn't really do much for me anymore.

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Classic used to be free but then got killed I'm kind of happy to see you back up, it's how I started with MC many years ago, I've played it in the client a few times for nostalgia after they removed it from the website, might try this for the nostalgia

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Quoting: pingvin

Quoting: ScooptaLol, no need to get butt hurt, I'm just stating my opinion......

Butt-hurt? Really? Who is butt-hurt every time when benchmark results and GPU statistics are shown?
The only thing I want when commenting about nVidia or AMD is to show that opinion of AMD fanboys doesn't need to be understood as the true. After reading comments on Linux gaming forums, some people can decide that buying AMD is better choice and it's doing a lot of damage to Linux OS. I would like if there was a choice, but right now there isn't and it doesn't look that there will be soon.

Well, even if you was a Kernel developer, I don't see a reason why anybody would ask a Kernel developer about the choice of graphic card? Majority of people will check the tests and make their own decision. You can complain about that as much as you want. Your opinion doesn't mater the slightest.

You're either a troll or a fan boy and I don't plan on wasting logic on you any further. AMD makes good cards, nVidia does too. AMD has fast cards, nVidia has slightly faster cards on the very high end. AMD has FOSS drivers nVidia doesn't. AMD isn't damaging any community but rather actively contributes to the FOSS community, nVidia actively goes out of their way to make nouveau hard to develop. I've my point, we're done here. Also why does a kernel dev care? I can get documentation and AMD driver source code to understand their cards and write drivers for my kernel. nVidia? That's funny.

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Quoting: pingvin

Quoting: ScooptaAs always I find it a little disappointing to see so many people with Nvidia cards, oh well. Tbh right now the only thing I use proton for is SkyrimSE and I don't even play it all that often. I've mostly just been playing MC recently.

Well, people usually prefer to buy products that offer the better quality than vice versa. Seriously, who cares about your disappointment? Everybody has complete freedom to use whatever he/she wants.

I would never buy an AMD product, ever! Why? That's because I know a little more about electronics than you and most of other people as I've been working as a C programmer for STM ARM microcontrollers during 9 years in a company that's producing devices that need to work in very difficult conditions in heavy branches of industry. And, the one thing I learned from guys who work with electronic components, design circuits etc. was that they are always choosing parts with smallest temperature dissipation and the best ratio of power consumption and what a component is giving. And they always had a very bad opinion about AMD during years. But, when Rysen CPU get released, I thought that AMD really changed significantly now and I wanted to hear some of opinions, they all ware "meh...". Also, when I shown benchmark results from Phoronix from some recent AMD cards to one of guys who is a real genius for electronics I could see on his face that he was thinking worse things than just a "meh...". He said that if that's the best what AMD can offer, they are not any close to make a descent graphic card any time soon.
That was of course a highly critical opinion of a professional who is sensible to quality in his sphere of interest, but I reserve the right to choose what product I will use in my computer.

It should not be forgotten that without the continuous support from nVidia, Linux as an operating system would be close to non existing today. It would be just an OS like FreeBSD. Also, gaming on Linux would not exist at all. You would not be on this site to comment. Our world would be a total domination of Windows that would be a lot worse system than it is now. Linux simply wouldn't exist in form that we know it now. I'm pretty sure that even on servers, Windows would be dominant. There would be no Android. Android would probably be a system with a completely different kernel. Without good graphic drivers nVidia always had that have been making Linux a complete usable OS, there would be no interest in Linux at all during the key moments that made software world as it's today. As a someone who started using Linux in early 2000 (that was a real pain. Anyway, Windows wasn't any better), I can guarantee that.

Lol, no need to get butt hurt, I'm just stating my opinion. Also you know more about computers than me? Really? Nice assumption. I do x86 kernel development, and haven written an OpenGL game engine. Please do not make assumptions when talking to random people on the internet. Yes you know more than most and I'm sure in some areas you know more than I do but I can say the reverse too. I'm not just a gamer, I'm a programmer, I write kernel space C. AMD hardware is very good. Their GPUs aren't quite as powerful as nVidia's on the very very high end but I mean like the top end card. A Radeon VII is pretty close to an RTX 2080. It's really only the 2080 Ti they don't have an answer for. You also mentioned nVidia supporting Linux. nVidia? Support? Do I need to send you the infamous quote of Linus Torvalds saying nVidia does literally fuck all for Linux? Where he gives them the middle finger. He's said in recent times that's largely changed but my point is they're not as important to the Linux ecosystem as you make them out to be. Not to mention even if they have changed their driver still goes against the grain in the Linux world. No KMS without a kernel flag, no GBM, and it's proprietary and doesn't ship with the kernel like all drivers on Linux should. nVidia did not make Linux successful, being FOSS did, that's an ideal that nVidia can't even fathom. nVidia is the most proprietary locked down company I know of and they're toxic to a FOSS community.

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As always I find it a little disappointing to see so many people with Nvidia cards, oh well. Tbh right now the only thing I use proton for is SkyrimSE and I don't even play it all that often. I've mostly just been playing MC recently.

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The steam reviews are truly hilarious, Rocket league got bombed to hell. It's actually fairly impressive the amount of people that really don't like the epic store. I for one never put that many hours into the game, in fact I might have less than 2 although I've owned it for quite a long time. I might try to refund it just to spite Epic. I really dislike the attitude Sweeny has towards Linux. Same with John Carmack tbh but that's another unrelated matter.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoLinux depots [External Link] activity detected!!!!!!!!!

It makes sense now that the final DLC has arrived...
I hope they hurry up, because the game runs well via PROTON!

Is it on the radar yet? I haven't checked. Either way I don't plan on buying it till it's native even if it works well in proton.

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