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Latest Comments by Gerarderloper
GOG are ending their 'Fair Price Package program', soon after letting staff go
28 Feb 2019 at 11:39 am UTC

is Cyberpunk 2077 Directx11? I hope GOG don't adopt DX12.. But then again its the only way to get DXR/RTX going atm since we don't have it for Linux yet from what I understand.

GOG are ending their 'Fair Price Package program', soon after letting staff go
28 Feb 2019 at 12:18 am UTC Likes: 2

Release GOG Galaxy for Linux, allow people to plugin proton to it. Pick up bonus sales and some extra PR points along the way, win-win, but it seems CDPR are not interested, probably still crying over the Witcher2 deal where people death threaten them or some nonsense.
Welcome to the internet CDPR is my response to that ordeal... world is 99% toxic online, regardless of platform.

Intel begins talking up their open source efforts for their upcoming dedicated GPU
22 Feb 2019 at 1:34 am UTC

The primary reason why I haven't bothered with AMD for past few years is because they don't really do much AIB at the high end anymore.
No such thing as ie. AMD Vega ITX compatible cards, the partners just sell these HUGE megalith brick cards. Kinda disappointing. We don't all want house sized pc cases... lol

The Linux version of 'The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep' to be released with the Director's Cut
19 Feb 2019 at 7:17 am UTC Likes: 1

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

Intel begins talking up their open source efforts for their upcoming dedicated GPU
19 Feb 2019 at 7:15 am UTC Likes: 1

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...

The first Steam Play update for this year is out with Proton 3.16-7 beta
17 Feb 2019 at 4:30 am UTC

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.

A quick run over some details from the recent ProtonDB data
4 Feb 2019 at 11:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

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!

A quick run over some details from the recent ProtonDB data
4 Feb 2019 at 4:06 am UTC

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

A quick run over some details from the recent ProtonDB data
4 Feb 2019 at 3:25 am UTC

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.