While playing the closed Beta, after the intro and before really going into the wild, it closed with an error about Anticheat. I then installed the Proton BattlEye Runtime and afterwards the Closed Beta run more or less flawlessly. Speed was absolutely fine on highest settings (mostly around or above 100 fps) (AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Radeon RX 7900 XT). More or less flawlessly because only now and then the image suddenly went a bit blurry and the game felt laggy during few seconds. Had no other Problems.

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To comeback to the topic a bit:

I tried CoolerControl for several days now, and I must say, it is probably the best app I tried so far.
Most importantly, it does not only show some fancy timechart, but those are real useful to analyze your setup, because the temps/rpms/voltages/whatever are shown where and when you mouseover over the lines. And you can (retroactively) see the last 60 minutes and zoom in wherever you want.
So you can start a gaming session and afterwards go through the whole data of the last hour, see the duty cycle of the fans while the temps where at max, see the frequencies of your GPU and CPU at that time, etc.
This is really helpful to optimize a new setup.

Just missed to be able to freeze the timechart, it`s there, as a mouse right click, but it's grayed out, maybe work in progress?

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Quoting: amanreThanks for your help but it still doesn't work,oh well to bad
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GF108M [GeForce GT 420M] driver: nvidia v: 390.116

Your old Laptop uses a Fermi based GPU, Nvidia doesn't have Vulkan drivers for Fermi.
So you can't use DXVK (DX11 -> Vulkan) and must use Wine (DX11 -> OpenGL) instead.
But Dx11->OpenGL is still work in progress, so maybe with Hitman 2 it will not work.
I think Proton does this with this Steam Game Launch Option:
PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

...But anyway, I doubt it will be playable with such an old and weak mobile GPU :(

Edit:
Oh, somehow missed

Quoting: mylkayou also can try "PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%" as launch option in steam

PROTON_USE_WINED3D11 is now an alias for the newer option PROTON_USE_WINED3D I mentioned, so he said the same as I did. If this doesn't work, you are out of luck.
You need a newer faster GPU with Vulkan support.

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There is a lot of industry interest in Linux right now as a game platform. I am not at liberty to explain why but Vulkan is a real game changer.

So, industry interest in Linux and Vulkan (did he maybe mean also xBSD by that?) that is under NDA?

Only thing that comes to my mind is something like a new game console that uses Vulkan as it's main 3D API (or with Android as OS, which already uses Vulkan).
PS5? :O
Would Vulkan with some custom vendor extensions be low-level/efficient enough, so you really don't need/have any custom 3D API anymore for a new top-level game console?
Intel to enter the console-wars with it's new discrete/mightier GPU using Vulkan and Linux? -Probably way to bold move, they would first want to enter this new market (discrete GPUs) successfully!?

Just imagine all devs that want to be present on PS5 having to learn how to handle Vulkan right! :woot:

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Quoting: svartalfJust another reason to **NOT** use proprietary stuff, really.

Yeah, but ROCm (at least parts of it) is about to be open-sourced/intergrated in the open-source driver. I still have the little hope that during/after this, the strict PCIe 3.0 limitation is going away, don't want to be stuck forever on OpenCL 1.1 via deprecated clover.

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Quoting: svartalfUhm... WHAT? The only real differences there is overall speed of the CPU and the Intel GPU (which isn't getting used...or, rather, I hope not..). There's no architectural or ISA differences that should matter or prevent it from being usable on that CPU.

The difference is: Sandy Bridge (I think my mainboard too) is only PCIe 2.0, ROCm is PCIe 3.0+ only....

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Quoting: soulsourceNevertheless, I just recently installed it via the unofficial Gentoo ebuilds [External Link], and I must say, that it indeed ROCks.

Just got me a RX 580 and was sad to learn that I can't use ROCm because ... they think my i7 2600k Sandy Bridge is too old!
So OpenCL on my GPU does not work because of my CPU :huh:
That leaves me with Clover and OpenCL 1.1, worse than with my old Nvidia Card before, not exactly what I was expecting...

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Also interested in a key :D

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Quoting: strunkenboldWondering if these are general performance improvements or if they just fixed performance issues caused by the new Panorama UI.

What seems to be changed is better multicore usage.
Before, I had all 8 Cores used (4+4HT), but one core was nearly always at 100%, others around 20-30%, so effectively, it was CPU-bottle-necked.
Now, all 8 cores are very evenly around 30%, never seen such nice balanced multi-threading on OpenGL (only on Vulkan).

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Quoting: chancho_zombieThanks, I already had and finished Outlast, but I didn't have the DLC.

I cannot use the key. Maybe someone can put it to better use.

Just took it, thanks!
Was away the last week, so too late for the Humble offer.
I'm amazed that none had grabbed it before me, 4 whole days since you posted it :woot:

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