Happy birthday Steam for Linux!

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Quoting: GuestThis isn't a game engine as such, it's a render experimentation engine. It's intended to allow them to play around with rendering techniques, data sets, etc, and figure out how they want to do certain graphics before trying to plug it into their game engine(s).

This makes sense to support GNU/Linux. It probably has some server backends where that's useful, or at least automation that's very likely easier with GNU/Linux, and they won't need Windows licenses for every machine where this is run too.

Doesn't mean there will be full game engine support, but it can diffuse into driver testing, Vulkan feature development, etc, where it will be of use to the GNU/Linux graphics ecosystem. So good things overall any which way you look at it.

I also like the mention of DX12 and Vulkan being pretty much on-par for performance, with the delta being basically because they just need a little more work on the Vulkan side of things.

They also may be investagating an option of a game streaming service for their future products. (Though that's just me speculating)

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Quoting: jarhead_h

Quoting: ThormackMy next GPU will be AMD.

<Torvalds with finger to the other manufacturer>

Currently still running a Phenom II, I am planning a Ryzen 2 2700x build in two phases. Phase 1 will include CPU, mobo, DD4, PSU, 1TB NVME drive. I will be cannibalizing my existing second-choice 1060GTX (I wanted an RX580, thanks crypto-miners) out of the machine I'm using to type this post and drive the Sceptre 32in 1080p 60hz tv it's plugged into. Next Summer begins Phase 2, which will see hopefully an updated version of the LG 43in 4K 43UD79-B(crossing fingers on 120hz, HDR, and Freesync) and hopefully whatever Navi turns out to be. Vega is an under-performer, and I doubt switching it to 7nm is really going to help that enough to justify purchasing it.

NVIDIA's new ray tracing hardware is implemented as a PhysX-like gimmick that pretties up the game without directly affecting gameplay at the cost of killing framerate. It's the first thing every gamer is going to turn off, and it's upping the cost of the cards by $2-300. Plus it's DX12 only right now, and will be coming to Vulkan in the future. Unfortunately, as hostile as NVIDIA is to open source, their cards still work pretty well for Linux.

RX 580 pricing is still shit for you? I'm living in Poland and the RX 580 is basically back at the price where it was before this whole "crypto explosion"

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Interesting, may it be that Valve convinced AMD to open source the product and to change the "target" of it?

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: richipHow do I use Steam Play to play Windows-only games? Does it only start (not necessarily work) for officially approved games? I've got the Steam client Beta running on Linux (fedora) but don't see an option to start Windows games. Nor do I see icons that indicate a game is Steam Play compatible (I looked at Doom and Lego Marvel's Avengers and there's not Steam Play icons anywhere to be found).

Make sure you close it and open it back up to see if there are any updates. I think someone else mentioned they had to disable the beta which will restart it, then enable the beta again.

Maybe I'm going to be the first that dares to add the Windows steam library location, it's trying to sync things, hopefully this doesn't blow up in my face :P

Apparently it doesn't play nice with NTFS so they may not run. Someone posted mount options for his ntfs partition somewhere (in the main steam play article maybe?) that helped with games on ntfs partitions not working

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I guess that as I have my own income right now it is a right thing to support the site. You've built a great community with which I had fun playing games and shittalking. Also thanks to GOL I have new friends so enjoy my Patreon support and keep the site being great.

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Quoting: STiATInteresting, for me the sp skirmish does not work at all. Always at "spawning unfriendly creatures" it goes back to the beginning of the loading. Endless :D.

That's interesting because just yesterday I've played almost 2 hour of sp skirmish so that sounds very weird...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, wait a minute--you cross the sea to a wild unexplored place, send scouts out to get an idea of what's out there, wipe out or at least set up defences against local menaces, and then . . . to start occupying territory you have to purchase land?!
From who, Odin? Skraeling real estate agents? Lucky Leif's Land Registry?

You are "colonizing" land by using food (one of clans can use money so let's say that they are paying the equivalent food price that way) so it kinda makes sense.

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Quoting: veccherseems to work fine, but i was expecting something a little better since it's "AMD and Vulkan", still behind the 980ti, also seems to be far behind windows sadly, but at least it's good to see that it works at 60fps ultra/full HD even with a computer that isn't extremely expensive.

A GTX 980Ti is a faster card than an RX 580 so it's rather obvious that an RX 580 would be slower.

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Quoting: darkszlufinteresting, any tips on how to change the governor on my amd cpu?

Commands needed to switch your governor are available in the original F1 2017 release article.

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