IMO not having the DLC on GOG is just going to promote piracy, which is what they are trying to prevent in the first place "by having DRM in their DLC".

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The dreaded black-screen issue, yes that's a classic one that everyone has encountered before. Mostly its related to buggy display drivers or drivers failing to install correctly. It should detect black-screen and boot you back into software render mode or open-drivers 'with warning' but that rarely happens.

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I recently moved from a 390x to a 980Ti, not regretting it. To be honest the AMD card was fine under Windows minus some weird Vulkan driver BSOD issues, but under Linux most my games didn't launch or had major performance/graphics issues.

I'm sure within a couple years AMD will figure this whole Linux driver thing out, I just didn't want to wait around for that to happen, if you are comfortable with waiting then that's fine.

PS. I also game at 4k, so, yeah.

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Chris Roberts really wants star citizen to come to Linux also, so this is likely where Crytek is getting pressure from to get a Vulkan component working (from Kingdom come also)

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Quoting: elbuglioneWe only have to wait to Star Citizen. no time for this crappy "game"

You will be waiting a fair while, there isn't even a tech demo to test it under Linux atm and no word from Crytek if they have been successful at fixing the Linux engine up.

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I think Wine is fine, developers have used it to make decent ports, and for games like No Mans Sky it doesn't hurt. They should just release it for Linux with a Wine Wrapper integrated, not ideal but at least it brings more attention to Linux for gaming which is what matters.

I believe it only becomes a issue when a dev uses Wine in an example where performance/experience is going to be significantly degraded. We should all want NATIVE ports but people forget that it costs considerable amount of money to rebuild a binary from scratch to function with all the Linux API's etc... THEN adding in another platform to debug/patch for the community.

People forget about all that sadly.

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NMS works fine under Wine I'm told, so just use playonlinux with it. Its OpenGL so there should be very little performance loss due to using Wine.

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1 game optimized, now all the rest AMD! :)

My 1070 AMP just turned up, so I will be doing a final run of benchmarks with my 390X then removing it from the PC.

I may revisit AMD videocards sometime down the line as they are getting better, but for 4k linux gaming you would need a ULTRA fast AMD card to make up for the SIGNIFICANT performance hit you get in allot of games.

For example just go play warthunder on radeonsi, you will not be impressed.

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Its a problem with the OpenGL version String defined by AMD's drivers. You CAN fix it yourself, I had a couple of driver 'so' file patches for the 16.20 driver but have given up on using AMDGPU-PRO due to other issues.

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