Quoting: sub

Quoting: dubigrasuBut that was a long time ago (in terms of DXVK development) and I used an old weak card to begin with.
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For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_DX2r_dis [External Link]

Ha, that's a Radeon HD 7970. :D

I still have an old 7950 paired with an ancient Phenom II X4 940 and 8G of ram.
I'm amazed what this combination is still able deliver.

I'm not lying, DOOM (2016) and Wolfenstein 2 run smooth as butter on 1980p
with that rig and it looks great (at least under Windows, haven't tried SteamPlay).

Similar with my other config: Phenom II X4 955, HD 7970 and 8 GB RAM, yeah, still kicking.
I use it as an external video capture PC and sometimes I stream from it various (problematic on Linux) Windows games. I'm not throwing anything away :)

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: dubigrasuSo considering how DXVK improved in the mean time, I'm curious if this is still the case.

Yes it is, that's due to the crazy amount of shaders that the game has. The benchmark shows the same stutter if you run it for the first time, subsequent runs only work fine due to the state cache.

Same goes for SotTR, and quite a few other games, although it's less bad with the new ACO compiler.

Would using "fossilize" improve on that?

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There's one thing that I'm curious about regarding these Native vs DXVK results:

A while back I made a comparison between Native vs DXVK performance for ROTTR, and the gist of it was that for the benchmark itself (after few dry runs) the results were very similar, almost identical.
However, the actual game-play was rather unpractical on DXVK due to the periodic stuttering and occasional hangs, while the Feral's port was pretty much problem free.
But that was a long time ago (in terms of DXVK development) and I used an old weak card to begin with.
So considering how DXVK improved in the mean time, I'm curious if this is still the case.

For reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9_DX2r_dis [External Link]

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Quoting: BrisseNice. I agree with others here though in that DE:MD is the one that really needs this sort of enhancement.

yeah and Dirt Rally is another port I would like to see vulkan-enhanced, it runs smoothly mostly but vulkan is much much better in terms of performance and as it stands Dirt 4 runs much faster than Dirt Rally, DR being older and with less graphics features.

Well sure, but if we go this way we can hope for all old GL ports to get the Vulkan treatment, like Hitman, which already has or had at one point an incomplete Vulkan build, or even better COH2, which really runs slow.
To be fair though to other GL ports, some of them run pretty good, Alien Isolation for example.
What I'm trying to say is that the Vulkan treatment comes with a cost for Feral (time/money/personnel), and I don't think is justified for all of their ports.

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Quoting: BrisseNice. I agree with others here though in that DE:MD is the one that really needs this sort of enhancement.

I wouldn't mind to see the same treatment applied to the old GL TR 2013 though, it still has some areas where even on relative newer HW it drops the perf to the floor.
And about this sudden Vulkan build, makes you wonder what else Feral is cooking...

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Quoting: Liam DaweSuch discussion and requests need to be made in the forum where it can be seen properly, not buried in the article comments please.

Ok, thanks, I'll do that.

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: dubigrasuHow can I filter out these kind of not (really) gaming related topics?

I filter out topics I'm not interested in by reading the article's title. Works pretty well.

Yeah sure, but I'm asking specifically about the control panel settings.

I think if Liam added a NON-GAMING tag, and added it to articles like this one, then it would solve Dubigrasi's issue (Not wishing to view non-gaming articles.)

Yes, that's basically what I asked for.
Through the use of tags, any reader of this site can adjust the content of what he wants/needs to see.
Yeah sure, you can choose not to read what you don't need. But the functionality is there for a reason, and is already used for other topics.
You're an AMD user and not interested of Nvidia drivers/software related news?...use the Nvidia tag to filter out those news.
You do only native gaming and don't wanna hear about Proton?...use the SteamPlay tag, and so on.
Or of course, you can use tags to specifically search for the same subjects. Is just a handy option to have.

So I don't think is an unreasonable request for a tag in this case. What actually the tag name would be, that's up to Liam.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: dubigrasuHow can I filter out these kind of not (really) gaming related topics?

I filter out topics I'm not interested in by reading the article's title. Works pretty well.

Yeah sure, but I'm asking specifically about the control panel settings.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: dubigrasuHow can I filter out these kind of not (really) gaming related topics?
I tried adding in the filter the tag "Misc" (the tag for this article), but then I loose good gaming related articles that happen to carry the same "Misc" tag.

Non-gaming related articles are usually extremely easy to spot on the main page.
Plus, they are not that common.
You make it sound like we get hundreds of articles a day.

Seriously, where is the problem? :)

Or is it just that you want to tell us that you absolutely don't like this topic. ;)

Well, there's an "Content preferences" option on the users control panel, allowing to filter out certain articles based on topics/tags. I'm just asking how can use I use that option for articles like this. Isn't that the reason that option is there?

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How can I filter out these kind of not (really) gaming related topics?
I tried adding in the filter the tag "Misc" (the tag for this article), but then I loose good gaming related articles that happen to carry the same "Misc" tag.

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