If they get Vulkan going, that be fantastic. I don't care if its UE4 Beta code.

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Given that Intel GPU drivers are open source and we can assume their new dedicated products to follow a open source route, then yes I could buy their GPU's, but only if their competitive price and performance, which they won't be!

Plus to top it off I'm only looking at GPU's significantly faster then 1080TI, which Intel has said no too, they are just going to have RX580 competing products...

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It's coming along very nicely,
They just need to address the anti-cheat app problem (ie. Empyrion) AND the explicit windows-services checks that some games unfortunately do but don't use (ie. Space Engineers), because wine don't fake those yet.

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Sapkowski sold them the rights to use the license thinking games were pfft, stupid stuff, later on Sapkowski realises they made lots of money and decides he wants a bigger piece of the pie, he is the greedy one. In saying that they should just give him some money to go away.

The lesson is, if you have a successful book series, don't sell the rights to use it for pennies!

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Quoting: Creak@TheRiddick maybe try with an AMD GPU for your next rig? FreeSync/VRR should arrive with Linux 5.0 (in a few weeks). But I don't know about dual screens... I prefer/got used to having just one (even at work, I traded two 1080 for one 4K).

Hope to see you back on Linux soon :wink:

I actually have a 40" 4k VRR screen (works great under windows btw) and a 1080p screen rotated on the right for displaying discord and system statistic information when I play something fullscreen on my 4k. My system is a itx watercooled build and is considered experimental so I do like being able to keep a eye on it under load.

VRR does make games like Kingdom come under linux playable at 4k btw, without it the frame drops are noticable, that is a linux proton game so steam is doing some extra magic to display it. Under windows KCD flips the desktop resolution, resized windows and can mess with gamma settings, quite annoying.

As for AMD GPU, I dunno if freesync drivers when they come out will be better, probably if you can enable screen tearing options similar to nvidia's fullscreenpipeline stuff, but I'd be surprised if dual monitor worked with it. Would be nice.

Anyway Vega7 is not a GPU that impresses, we'll see what NAVI 20 brings to the table, ultimately I want a ITX compatible card and so far AMD have been releasing these big fat hungry cards... meh

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Good results, nice to see AMD at around %50 usage vs competition (or %25 market share is it?).

I have gone back to windows 10 for the time being since my GSYNC experience under Linux was mostly terrible, not able to run dual monitor setup with it, constant tearing issues, not working with several compositors, no compatibility with vsync(crash) and fullscreencompositionpipeline(disables gsync).

VRR (variable refresh rate) under Linux IMO is a absolute disaster! It's infinitely better under Windows, sadly. I do hope something can be done in the future, if xscreen/xserver is really completely useless for VRR tech then hopefully something can be done with Wayland, but from what I understand that is still a good couple years away from primetime, and doesn't even support VRR atm!

PS. I spent a couple days solid testing VRR under Linux with my setup, you may get a better experience if you just run a single monitor (who does these days?) and a compatible compositor, but I don't see any solution for getting rid of the tearing. Also you should enable gsync indicator otherwise there is no way to know it works, since nvidia settings often glitch out and the driver won't enable it.

Also nvidia-settings LOVED resetting my gamma settings... what an annoying bug (yes it would also edit my config file without asking). Going to wait for significant change/fixes before I return to Linux for gaming.

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This is a UE4 based tool?

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Yes works well, it would still be nice to have a option to choose to install a Native linux game vs its windows proton counterpart.

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Yeah, I haven't setup a monitor switching thingo key binding yet, that's even easier really.

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Maybe just make a environmental variable so that when its 1 or true it just disables everything but primary screen and enables gsync for you etc... Like ItJustWorksKinda = 1, then it switches off secondary displays and enables gsync, do it via alt-f2.

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