Got a 1080ti mini turning up so I'm good for this year. And it will be interesting what happens with Vega at 7nm. Going to assume it just means a really nice TDP drop which is what they really need for the Vega cards, perhaps the TOP watercooled vega card will be able to bump up to 1080ti speeds without the high TDP.

THAT could change the playing field quite a bit but its also possible AMD will just focus on AI learning and ignore consumer option upgrades.

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I can imagine it being great for NVIDIA users but RADV users have some issues with Vulkan performance under Linux, so until that happens the inbuilt Wine D3D9 methods are likely to be better for AMD users for a while.

I think this project is quite good for the future of old game support, I can imagine sometime in the future everyone running their d3d9 games through wine and linux for that backward compatibility. Sure they still work under Windows, but for how long I wonder.... I envision a future where MS drop DX9 and DX11 support in their OS eventually.

PS. This guys website does not work with Chromium spins such as Vivaldi, not sure if it works with Chromium/Chrome.

Nevermind, turns out Ublock thinks his articles are ads. LOL

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China is about to ban PUBG via VPN etc... so those huge numbers will take a significant dive when that happens, also people might see a decrease in hackers ;)

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There is a linux compatible battleeye service used with ARMA3 now. Perhaps some file swapping will work, but likely version mismatch.

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For a company making crazy amounts of money, you'd think they could hire a army of programmers and problem solvers at least short term to sort out the performance issues and porting it to Linux... They must be spending a fair bit on blow and hookers or something... a common developer success trap.

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Does PUBG work through wine?

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They won't get outlawed but I can envision a future where the stores software will need to run through MS store front, and the games be compatible.

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The drivers are almost at green flag state for AMD, Kernel 4.15 release will be great if they introduce DC. But I hear 4.16 will also be quite good.

Once that happens then Valve shouldn't have too many more hurdles for Linux gaming in 2018, it was a pipe dream when they first launched the idea because only NVIDIA had drivers capable of actually doing good.

Now all we need is Microsoft to force steam games to sign in through their store system, now that would be funny as all hell! (that originally got valve pushing for SteamOS Linux in the first place)

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I think steam machines should have used those laptop slot in PCIe cards to reduce price (they are cheaper I would assume). However I think only NVIDIA produced them.

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Quoting: KimyrielleWould be awesome to see AMD becoming a real alternative to NVidia again. I certainly like their way to handle the community better than NVidia's...

Not until they release a 1080ti competitor under 300tdp. I mention the TDP because its quite important for ITX and temperature control, preferably with 7nm we should get significantly lower power demand and a 1080ti competitor.

A 1080TI has become the baseline for VR gaming AND 4k gaming, I'm in allot of pain with my FuryX but just don't have 1k laying around to spend on a Ti atm :(

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I think TekSyndicate now sell the device without any software and just point to links on their forum on howto install it. Yeah they stuffed up by installing it for people who bought the device first time around, not sure if they mentioned that stuff up or not (on YT).

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