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Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support
11 Sep 2019 at 7:29 am UTC
Quoting: 0ttman
Quoting: TuxeeNo luck with the Vulkan benchmarks.

It says

$./geekbench5 --compute-list
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

CUDA
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
OpenCL
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Just to be sure:

$ vulkaninfo 
==========
VULKANINFO
==========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.101

Any idea what to do about that?
I ran this command for Vulkan "./geekbench_x86_64 --compute vulkan"
As stated: Doesn't work.

$ ./geekbench_x86_64 --compute vulkan
Error: Compute API 'Vulkan' is not available.
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

Usage:

  ./geekbench_x86_64 [ options ]

Options:

  ...
  --compute [API]           run the Compute benchmark
                              API can be one of: CUDA, OpenCL (default)
  ...
Need a new stresstest for your Linux PC? Geekbench 5 is out adding Vulkan support
10 Sep 2019 at 6:17 pm UTC
No luck with the Vulkan benchmarks.

It says

$./geekbench5 --compute-list
Geekbench 5.0.0 : https://www.geekbench.com/

CUDA
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
OpenCL
0 0 GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Just to be sure:

$ vulkaninfo 
==========
VULKANINFO
==========

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.101

Any idea what to do about that?
A look at how Steam Play is doing, based on the ProtonDB reports from July
6 Aug 2019 at 1:04 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: EikeSo, BTW and IMHO, having to set environment variables would be gold, not platinum.
Something not all submitters appear to honour. I see a lot of platinum reports that still mention a specific setting. So I expect the realistic number of platinums to be lower in favour of gold.
OTOH there are enough gold ratings which don't request tweaks (or report annoyances where it is unclear whether they occur on Windows as well). Gold quotes taken from games I would all rate as platinum:

"Disabling Esync isn't strictly necessary but it does make the main menu animations run a bit smoother. Both the main game and snapmaps work."

"Runs fine without any tweaks but suffers from mildly annoying stuttering. I'm sure there is a fix but I've just dealt with it."

"I reduced the resolution in order to be playable on my old laptop."

"Full playthrough"

"Works really well apart from slight stutter when starting a level."

"Worked perfectly except resolution which was 4:3 but would probably be fixable with minor tweaks." (ann: all Steam screenshots show that Fieldrunners IS 4:3.)
...
The next Humble Monthly is out, with two more interesting early unlock games
5 Jul 2019 at 6:32 pm UTC
Quoting: g000hI grabbed the (just ended) July Subscription and very happy that I did:

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (early reveal) - should work fine on Proton
Not "should". It works flawlessly.

Love is dead - Windows
So far again no problems with Proton.
The former Paradox Interactive CEO thinks "platform holders" 30% cut is "outrageous"
4 Jul 2019 at 1:34 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: Tuxee
What are your thoughts?
That Wester is either an idiot or a hypocrite. I'd go for the latter.
I would more say that he is speaking from the viewpoint of his own company, it's of course in Paradox best interest to keep their own prices as high as possible while having to pay as little as possible to others like Valve. That is hardly being a hypocrite.
He said "This doesn't cost anything." Then he's an idiot. I can live with that, too.
The former Paradox Interactive CEO thinks "platform holders" 30% cut is "outrageous"
2 Jul 2019 at 12:34 pm UTC Likes: 5
What are your thoughts?
That Wester is either an idiot or a hypocrite. I'd go for the latter.
A look over the ProtonDB reports for June 2019, over 5.5K games reported to work with Steam Play
1 Jul 2019 at 4:28 pm UTC
Quoting: Woodlandor
Quoting: gojulGood that games work perfectly with Proton as native ports get more and more scarce. On the flip side Proton works so well that some games that stopped working on Windows like Act of Treason and it made some ports unnecessary.
This made me stop and think.
Can you use Steam Play on Windows?
No. Wine is not available and DXVK is unsupported for Windows. I suppose one could try to get it running but it won't be worth the effort.
Insurgency: Sandstorm for Linux not due until next year, with a beta likely first
24 Jun 2019 at 11:24 am UTC
Quoting: linuxcityhopefully we get this working with proton soon.
Which signals the developer to ditch a native version alltogether. Could actually be an interesting approach: Tell the Linux folks that a native version will come "in the more or less forseeable future" to avoid alienation, then do nothing and hope Proton works out.
Valve looking to drop support for Ubuntu 19.10 and up due to Canonical's 32bit decision (updated)
23 Jun 2019 at 3:55 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: BeamboomI'll not be surprised if Canonical backs out of this decision again, seeing the reception.
Already happened:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/is-ubuntu-not-dropping-32-bit-app-support-after-all [External Link]

I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are ‘dropping support for i386 applications‘. It is simply not the case. What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions.
Canonical planning to drop 32bit support with Ubuntu 19.10 onwards
21 Jun 2019 at 2:40 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Tuxee... and my 4 Wine applications seem to work perfectly ok with wine64.
That doesn't mean they aren't 32 bit and use 32 bit libraries.
Navicat provides specific 32 bit and 64 bit downloads. Even if not - not everything is doom and gloom:

https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2019-June/147898.html [External Link] (Andrew Eikum of Codeweavers)

If they don't, then I have a suggestion for our packages: use the
Steam runtime. I see a lot of upsides: They've already solved this
problem; we don't need to re-invent this wheel. Ubuntu is already
working with them to support the use-case. The project is open-source,
well-funded, and has a clear motivation to continue being updated and
functional for the long-term. And people are already building and
running Wine in the runtime today.

We would need to build a couple more packages than we do now, but not
many. Based on the Proton build system, I think we would need to
build bison, FAudio, gstreamer (and all of its dependencies, notably
glib2), and vkd3d. Build those against the runtime, package and ship
the runtime itself, and I think we should be in good shape without
having to build and maintain a bunch of 32-bit packages ourselves.