I have the worst timing. Decided to take the plunge and install Origin through lutris last week and buy Titanfall 2. It works really nicely with RADV/ACO once you jump through a few hoops. Would have preferred it through Steam tho! Ahhh well.

Also good to know about the stuttering issue, I never noticed because I have it installed to a ssd, but that's not so great for drive wear - unnecessary disk writing.

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Lol, so this is Stadia's Fortnite? It looks like one of those fake games that actors play on tv shows because they don't want to pay royalties.

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They should have brought the 3800XT at launch, if it's just a small upgrade to the boost, meh... Really pointless with Zen 3 around the corner. I guess they wanted something to launch with the B550, knowing AMD fanboi's are going to buy these chips, because it's something new.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: TheRiddickI wonder if we will be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 WITH RTX when that comes around via proton? will be interesting.

It's unlikely.

They're using Vulkan for their Stadia build, but Stadia uses AMD hardware so there's no reason to make it work.
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With the next gen consoles just around the corner containing Navi 2. Ray tracing could be a thing finally on AMD. Also, we saw a Ray Tracing demo on Vega 56 quite some time ago.. And since Google are using Vega in their Stadia servers (last time I checked)... It's not impossible that they'll support it.

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I was looking at the IdeaPad 5 as a good budget AMD laptop, I hope they expand the support to other lines. I like the Thinkpad's, but they're more business orientated.

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Meh, Epic can suck it. Chinese bribe money.

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I installed Stadia, and it plays pretty well, responsive.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm ultra sensitive to quality levels or if its because they've reduced quality during this free trial period, but it looks like I'm playing it at 1080p on my 1440p monitor.

In all honesty though, I either already own or am not bothered about any of the free games in the pro bundle, and I feel like if I'm going to pay full price for a game I would rather get it on Steam/GoG/Battlenet/Origin.

So, not really for me. But a cool technology.

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B350 user here, I have a hard tube water cooling setup, so I was hoping to just drop in a 8 core Zen 3 no fuss. Love the look of hard tubing, but not ideal for quick or simple upgrades when you're changing over too much hardware

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Quoting: slaapliedjeShit, while I don't really want to, I may have to switch to an AMD card, what's the latest/greatest at this point?

I'm using a Vega 56, very stable for quite some time. The Navi cards 5700XT is slightly better performing but the drivers support can be a bit more touchy, although it's always improving. I think big Navi is on it's way in the next few months, so maybe wait for that if you really want a high end AMD card.

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Quoting: PangaeaNot sure if it's possible to directly link to the interactable chart (probably not?), but this development is rather interesting:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&view=trends#CPUVendor-top

I think the CPU sales are largely down to just how good Ryzen has been since it's release, at the same time the open source graphics drivers have seen some amazing development over the last 5 years. So that too has been trending in AMD's direction on Linux. If they are able to bring out products that are clearly ahead of Intel/Nvidia the adoption will increase. Nvidia is going to be hard to dethrone though.

Respect to Intel though, they've been very good with open source support.. And they do have discrete GPU's on the horizon too.

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