Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: mao_dze_dunMicrosoft and EA are both friends with Valve again

They are? I don't follow the broader news in this area; how did that happen?

Microsoft and EA are both releasing their games on Steam again - I think they're both realizing that the restrictions to Microsoft Store and Origin are just limiting their profit margins. No idea, but Microsoft being all buddy-buddy with Valve is turning out to be a very bad thing for us.

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Quoting: EikeTrouble is: I'm not sure replacing my Intel 3570K would actually speed up any game. If it does, I will strongly consider buying an AMD CPU.

Well, under Windows at least, yeah, you'd probably gain 15-30 FPS in every game. Don't know under Linux, most people don't do CPU gaming benchmarks under Linux.

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Quoting: SirBubblesDon't radeons chew up a bit more power than nvidia? Also the driver situation for linux has a sad, sad history of being a tad deficient. I don't know if it's getting a good deal better or not, but I remember having to compile kernel modules for Mandrake Linux and having them break every other boot. Fun times.

Wouldn't mind being able to go with a full AMD setup, but the odds aren't good, especially as I have a nice nvidia 970 at the moment. Want to pair it up with a halfway decent cpu though.

Haha, it's practically switched. With Nvidia, the kernel modules break all the flipping time. But with AMD, once you install Mesa, it's *installed.* It's not going anywhere.

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Quoting: finaldestI have been keeping a close eye on this as I really wanted a RX480 but chose to go with a 1070 due to driver support. So I would like to thank all involved who are working hard to improve the drivers.

The AMD drivers have been progressing very well recently so I really am looking to put a VEGA gpu into my new ZEN build once released. I may just have a full AMD system soon if all goes well.

Don't count on it. I know there's a lot of hype and excitement around AMD, but my "upgrade" from a 660 Ti to an RX 480 is regression in half the games I want to play, and a headache in plenty of others. The situation may change now that they can focus on optimizations rather than just getting games to run at all, but for the foreseeable future NVIDIA is still a much better choice.

Er, I just moved from a GTX 1080 to an RX 460. I've had but one problem after I got the drivers compiled, a color issue with Mad Max which is apparently caused by LLVM. Everything else has worked exactly how I expect it to.

If things aren't working for you, you're probably doing something wrong.

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Quoting: giamicI was too fast rejoicing: 15 minutes into the game, it crashed badly. :D

@TacoDeBoss: cause it's such a massive improvement.

Naah, just joking. I read that previously names were increased when a new openGL version was supported. Now, with the release of Vulkan, openGL is no longer developed and mesa would be stuck to number 13 forever. So they decided to change and number according to the year of publishing, much like Ubuntu.

Hmm, interesting.
Good to see improvements to Mesa since I've recently switched over to AMD for my main Linux machine.

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Wh-Why did it go from 13 to 17???

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Looking good!

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Quoting: LeviI've just tried it on my system. Doesn't work at this point.
I kinda expected it, seeing as my system is a bit aged at this point. (Ubuntu 14.04 base)

Still, great to see Mojang is keeping their word and is still maintaining linux as a platform.

Yeah, the Reddit post says Ubuntu 16.10 or its equivalent minimum.

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This discussion is ridiculous. It's like saying "I bought Half-Life 1 on Steam back in 2003 on my Windows XP rig and now it won't run anymore! This is fraud!"

Get real, people. 32-bit is bad enough on Windows, but on Linux you dive into dependency hell when you dawdle in 32-bit. It's bad. Official Steam support for 32-bit systems should be cancelled. 64-bit is the only way to progress OS and game development in the modern era.

Not to mention there's little excuse. I've seen people in this thread posing the question "What happens to 32-bit users?"

They upgrade. If you're running 32-bit, you're probably not running any games anyway. You can get an quad core amd64 CPU for $75 USD, and a motherboard to go with it for $60 USD. And that's not even on sale.

Really, almost nobody should run 32-bit anymore. 64-bit is affordable and objectively superior.

The ONLY argument for 32-bit support is for legacy software. Most of that can be run on amd64 systems anyway.

I do think it should be an option to download 32-bit distros or some other sort of i386 toolset to compile 32-bit code, but beyond that, 32-bit is useless.

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I wish that was an option...
But I run Debian Sid and the X Server was upgraded. 375.20 is the only driver that supports it.

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