Interesting. What driver version? As far as performance goes: I have pretty much everything maxed out and reach around 60fps on 2560x1440 both with Vulkan and OpenGL. However, with Vulkan I get TAA, Tesselation, gunner cockpits and less non-critical bugs (OpenGL shows square shadows and smoke looks rather weird). One thing with Vulkan though is a rather sluggish mouse movement in UI. Still on my machine their Vulkan implementation looks quite "late-beta", dunno why they are not switching to this API for all their platforms.

For reference:
The "eastern front" benchmark gives avg 98fps, min 61fps, rating 9755, "tank battle" yields 75/60/4685.
(And my nick in the game is the same as here.)

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War Thunder under Vulkan did have some serious issues (e.g. it constantly crashed the whole machine when switching to a flying boat in the hanger). However, with NVidia 430.14 and the most recent updates it ran stable for the last couple of days.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.

So we are at minus something. Right? Since we only had a market share of 0.8%...

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Quoting: DerpFoxI guess we have now the proof Valve have completely gone insane and Artifact wasn't a good lesson.

1000€? Seriously? What are they thinking?

The full pack should have been at 500€ MAXIMUM to be interesting. And at that price it would still have been really expensive. And a good price would have been 300€.

I hope for 1000€ all the Valve VR games and some other will come for free with it.

All these years and manpower wasted for nothing what a shame.

The price is completely justified. If you want a 450 Dollar VR set get yourself an Occulus Quest and enjoy some Android games.

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Quoting: TheRiddickThis has vulkan api right?

No. Unigine is (on Linux) OpenGL only.

See also https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Unigine-Superposition-1.1 [External Link]

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True. Launching from the shell produces plenty of output. I suppose the interesting section would be:

Starting app 379720
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/gregor/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 379720, Controller 4: /mnt/data/games/steamapps/workshop/content/241100/731532156/267220742946421658_legacy.bin
Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 379720, Controller 5: /mnt/data/games/steamapps/workshop/content/241100/731532156/267220742946421658_legacy.bin
/bin/sh: 1: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7: not found
Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 379720, Controller 6: /mnt/data/games/steamapps/workshop/content/241100/731532156/267220742946421658_legacy.bin
Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 379720, Controller 7: /mnt/data/games/steamapps/workshop/content/241100/731532156/267220742946421658_legacy.bin
Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 379720, Controller 4: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 379720, Controller 5: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 379720, Controller 6: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
Loaded Config for Local Override Path for App ID 379720, Controller 7: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam//controller_base/empty.vdf
>>> Adding process 25199 for game ID 379720
GameAction [AppID 379720, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to WaitingGameWindow with ""
GameAction [AppID 379720, ActionID 1] : LaunchApp changed task to Completed with ""
>>> Adding process 25200 for game ID 379720
Game removed: AppID 379720 "", ProcID 25199 
Exiting app 379720

What strikes me:

/bin/sh: 1: /home/gregor/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7: not found

In the tools section of my library Proton 3.7 was listed as installed but the integrity check failed. Reinstalled. Now it hangs with the "Preparing to launch DOOM..." dialog. No further log output regarding the application itself.
Why does Doom require Proto 3.7 in the first place? Default setting is 4.2 (other Proton titles launch without any hiccups BTW).

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Somewhat OT:

I did play Doom 2016 for several hours but with one of the recent Proton Updates it stopped working. "Stopped" means it says "Preparing to launch" and within a second it's back to syncing. A steam steam://rungameid/379720 doesn't produce any error messages, neither does changing the Proton version result in a more successful outcome.

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I highly recommend INSIDE - works flawlessly with Proton and just as a good game as Limbo.

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For me it is still War Thunder. After years in planes I've switched to ground forces in realistic mode. Can be frustrating but still... I battle the frustration with a round of Doom 2016. And I give Dead Cells a go every now and then.

On the laptop: Puzzlers like Hexcells and tower defense like iBomber Defense Pacific and Fieldrunners 2.

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Well...

We are are hoping to bring Insurgency: Sandstorm to Linux this year.

(stress by me)

A statement like this in January is not exactly inspiring for Linux gamers.

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