Quoting: beko

Quoting: scaineI think the irony is that it's meant to be "secure". Also, it was touted by MS for consumer laptops for "security" reasons, but in reality, putting the marketing BS aside, it just made Linux harder to install. This further solidified (as if that was needed) their monopoly on consumer O/S hardware.

Ah… nope. That's BS. Sorry :) There is more to UEFI.

I can agree on that not everybody needs this.

The complaint was not about UEFI in general, but about the Secure Boot feature. The idea behind Secure Boot is not stupid, but that Microsoft is the only trusted issuer for keys is at least questionable from a market perspective.
(I am well aware that all UEFI implementations should allow custom trusted keys to be added, but let's be honest: How many mainboards ship with firmware that really exposes this, and how many users even know about that feature?)

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I dug out KSP once more.
Started playing and decided that my 1.10 install was still looking dull. Then I installed Scatterer and EVE and started messing with Scatterer's shaders to maybe improve performance. After reading through a lot of code and trying out a few things, I must say, the performance improvements I managed to get are all pretty negligible. Respect to the mod's developer, the atmosphere shaders are as far as I can tell pretty well optimized.

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I made the mistake of downloading Gwent...

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Quoting: MayeulCWow, I had missed the original piece of news. This was a saddening moment, but that person has my respects. Kudos on Valve for picking the baton up :)

Quoting: aufkrawallCan anybody tell whether it will be possible to completely avoid any additional shader compile stutter vs. native D3D12?

IIRC (I might be wrong on this one) Windows game ship with precompiled shaders for common GPUs, so we're quite far from this. Fossilize and Steam's distributed shader cache should help a whole lot (also on windows if/when it's there)

Afaik games ship the shaders for D3D in a hardware independent intermediate language, and the final compilation is done by the graphics drivers. However GPU vendors tend to supply precompiled (and sometimes even manually optimized) shader binaries for popular games along with their drivers.

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Quoting: drjoms

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: 14The amount of 3D games is sad.

Games don't need to be "3D" to be fun.

Ladies don't have to be pretty for you to fall in love with them.
Food doesn't have to be tasty to eat it.
Bed doesn't have to be comfortable to be slept in.(as, in jail for example)

We have a saying in German: "Nicht alles was hinkt ist ein Vergleich."
It describes your posting perfectly. The best English translation I can come up with is "not everything lopsided is a comparison".

The thing that makes games fun is the gameplay. Graphics is a way to present gameplay to the user. If the gameplay works better in 3D, the game has to be 3D. If the gameplay works better in 2D, the game should be made in 2D (or 2.5D).

3D alone does not make a game fun. Think about No Man's Sky for instance. Many people consider that game to be the epitome of boredom (btw: I don't).
Another example is the GTA series. The first titles were 2D and when the first 3D title was made, the gameplay has changed along with the graphics, because the old 2D gameplay wouldn't fit well into a believable 3D city.

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Quoting: EhvisAs someone with an aerospace engineering background, I should really put more time into this game than I have. Ok, where to fit this in the todo list. :dizzy:

Whoa, you will probably love the Ferram Aerospace Research [External Link] mod (the author is no longer active, but there's a fork [External Link] for recent KSP versions).

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I've made the mistake of restarting Cultist Simulator. So much things have changed with the new updates and DLC... The Apostle legacies seem to be quite a bit more demanding than the regular legacies. Let's see if - or, let's be honest: how fast I'll loose :D

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceI didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISCP can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

If you're wondering the save as me:

https://ispc.github.io/ [External Link]

Whoa, sorry. I can't seem to type the abbreviation without mixing up letters. I'll edit my orignal post.

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I didn't play games this weekend.
On Friday I discovered how awesome Intel ISPC can be, so I kept working through the weekend. I just couldn't stop, simply because for some of our code just porting it from C++ improved performance by a factor of 15 (on Intel Skylake - on AMD Jaguar the improvement is more like a factor of 7, but still impressive....), and I didn't want that endorphin rush to stop.

(Edit: I mixed up the letters in ISPC, and fixed that now - originally I had written ISCP...)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: soulsourceDon't worry.
Now that they edit the masked characters, other (or probably even the same) people will complain that they now removed the African culture whatnot and that the removal is racist.

Yeah, why talk about what actually happened when you can make up things that might happen in the future?
The latter is so much easier and more fun...!

Sorry to say that, but:

Quoting: GuestWell all this SJW bullshit just did one thing: push me away from this game. The devs shouldn’t have listened to them.

Q.E.D.

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