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Valve's Source 2 shows early teasers of Ray Tracing - weirdly in Artifact updates
16 Jan 2021 at 1:10 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI love Artifact, the problem is that i can't play it with any friend since nobody has it.
The problem is nobody has friends whom plays Artifact! :)

Wine compatibility layer version 6.0 released
15 Jan 2021 at 3:52 am UTC

Looks very good. I have been playing BattleTech recently and was surprised to see the PROTON version (tkg 6.0) ran allot better and without graphical glitches compared to the native which had some odd texture shader issues and also loaded maps/mods slower.

I hope game developers move to Vulkan version of Unity3D in the future and steer away from old OpenGL builds for Linux. Also older version of Unity3D engine have memory leaks and performance issues as seen with Deadfire/BattleTech and other games under Windows OR Linux (play long enough and log the performance/load times and you will notice a degradation)..

AMD announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs, RDNA 2 GPUs in the first half of 2021
13 Jan 2021 at 1:17 am UTC

Interesting line up, shame their all for laptop boards.
Really want some serious next gen push for Desktop APU's but it seems 2021 is going to be the year of quite large price increases for PC hardware so I'll likely be skipping this year when it comes to buying new tech.

Update your NVIDIA drivers due to multiple security issues found
10 Jan 2021 at 9:43 pm UTC Likes: 4

The AMD 6000 series of GPU's work on kernel 5.10 just fine but allot of nice features for them won't appear until kernel 5.12... THAT is the one downside to open-source, it can take a little while for all the features to be exposed.

I gotta give it to NVIDIA for keeping their driver updated all by themselves, but obviously they have a method of porting code from their windows drivers to Linux which appears to mostly work with a few work around caveats.

I've found updating GPU drivers and MESA to be much easier under Arch based Linux, AUR is a godsend also! The whole PPA Ubuntu random packages method was rather clunky to deal with!

NVIDIA getting geared up to support hardware accelerated XWayland
10 Jan 2021 at 4:48 am UTC

NVIDIA has a 60-70% GPU market share on Windows, not sure what it is under linux, at least according to steam survey.

NVIDIA getting geared up to support hardware accelerated XWayland
10 Jan 2021 at 3:58 am UTC Likes: 1

NVIDIA just needs to release the bios and re-clocking features for (10,20,30 series) Nouveao and then things can get underway for open source NVIDIA. They do not need to release ALL their drivers in open-source form.

NVIDIA getting geared up to support hardware accelerated XWayland
9 Jan 2021 at 3:40 am UTC

Even thought many pro linux users hate nvidia's closed source drivers, this is kind of whats needed for wayland to succeed because like it or not, Nvidia is the most popular GPU today. They set the stage, not AMD. Unfortunately.

Space exploration game Earth Analog will have Linux support after the initial release
9 Jan 2021 at 3:38 am UTC

those planets are creative, also looks like if you went near them your ship would just pop like a bubble :)

Simple GOG client for Linux 'Minigalaxy' has a small update out
9 Jan 2021 at 3:35 am UTC

Reminds me of the epic game store one.

NVIDIA 460.32.03 released - their first stable driver with official Vulkan Ray Tracing
9 Jan 2021 at 3:34 am UTC

CP2077 ran fine with my 6800XT but there were some areas of the game in the city that had nasty fps drops. Also the game has memory leaks so after about 30mins of driving around your frame rate average will drop, if you create a time graph and plot all the data on it you will probably see that cp2077 performance declines as time goes on...

This is not new, many games suffer these sorts of performance issues over time, even some very low graphics games like POE2 Deadfire have major memory leaks.. These issues also exist under Windows 10 btw..

Some people don't notice the issues of performance decline over time because their running at lower resolutions or running DLSS, or for some reason their computer component configuration doesn't cause the issue to be as severe.