If THINGS like Denuvo want to continue existing in the future they will need to support other OS's and also graphics wrappers like DXVK and proton, otherwise developers will slowly forget they exist!

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I think MS is just going to keep buying out paying developers to go with their MS Store exclusively... I don't even bother with it, not sure what gamers are?¿

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Unfortunately allot of games have online components these days and if you just did DRM free then it all falls apart very quickly.

But for single player games I definitely see DRM as a unneeded evil! let's face it, EVERY game gets pirated now anyway, DRM is just not effective and the ones that have been for short periods of time (months) have resulted in SHOCKING performance and hassles for legitimate players that the game tanks in sales... how retarded is that!

I can think of a few ass games that tried that :), also anything on the MS Store is likely to have HEAVY DRM!

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If anything, DRM sort of promotes people to pirate software just to get around the nonsense.

A good example is Simplify3D printer software, only lets you register 2 operating systems (not computers, but OS's), and often forgets registered OS's, then when you try to relink it via their website you hit a brick wall limit of how many times that's allowed. Answer to the problem, PIRATE IT!

Anyway that is 3d printer software, but similar issues happen with games. (or worse)

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It might be hard on Feral and VP, or it might be a godsend.

If more gamers move to Linux then more developers are simply just going to make a native build for their game as to have better quality control, which might mean they offload the work to Feral and VP to do, officially.

Time will tell. The issue I have atm is some Linux ports of games like ARMA3 are lagged behind windows updates, and the game is heavily built around an online community!

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• Fullscreen support has been improved: fullscreen games will be seamlessly stretched to the desired display without interfering with the native monitor resolution or requiring the use of a virtual desktop.

This is going to be a godsend, too many games resize desktop resolution rather then just stretching, avoiding interfering with desktop apps!

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THe Vulkan renderer is still not official and I get crashes and composer issues on my NVIDIA 1080ti. Still needs work and needs to be official option in launcher...

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The NVIDIA FP16 performance on their Tensor cores is quite impressive, I'll give them that. The Vega cards can only achieve 2x FP32 performance for FP16 which in itself is good but the tensor cores are like 4x or more of their FP32 performance.

People should be reminded that ray tracing compute heavily relies on FP16 performance.

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Well gaming consoles are allot slower, like ALLOT. Think of it like a mobile phone, yes you can get a nice 8core mobile for $150 off gearbest, but the ones with decent GPU's in them cost $400 and up!!!!

Anyway when XBOX2 and PS5 hit, things might change in that respect, but I believe the next gen consoles might also be $100 more then previous launch price due to the worlds failing economy....

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It's a ray traced approximation using the RTX compute power, FULL raytracing is probably 10 years away. It's a bit of a FLUFF piece of tech really which NVIDIA is using as basis to inflate the cost of these cards. In all honesty nobody was asking for this crap in their games.

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