Will be testing Resident Evil 4 and Remnant: From the Ashes this weekend.

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Quoting: rkfgI have a feeling that as SteamPlay becomes more and more reliable this situation will become common. I wonder what Valve would do if anything at all.

I hardly think that they pulled the native Linux build due to SteamPlay when you need a custom build of Proton to make it work.

Eh, it *will* work through SteamPlay. Good enough for the Linux folks.

Well if "not working properly" is what they deem good enough for Linux folks then I still don't see how they would not have played this card without SteamPlay.

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Quoting: rkfgI have a feeling that as SteamPlay becomes more and more reliable this situation will become common. I wonder what Valve would do if anything at all.

I hardly think that they pulled the native Linux build due to SteamPlay when you need a custom build of Proton to make it work.

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Quoting: sub"Watt.hour^-1" is "Watt per hour" and totally doesn't make sense.
Then again Watt x hour is energy not power.
I don't get that bubble. :D

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That's because it's carrot.watt.hour^-1, completely different thing!

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Quoting: Zeloxis this legal :D?

Yes, the copyright covers the source code of the game engine (which they don't use since they have built a completely new one from scratch) and the assets (which they also don't use since you are required to read them from the original game).

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Quoting: razing32Curios about one thing.
Won't Rockstar DMCA-nuke this into the ground ??

It requires you own the original game to play it, so they shouldn't be able to do anything. If they do and they manage to succeed, it would put basically any other similar project in a grey area: openXcom, OpenMW, OpenRA and so on.

DMCA-nuke actually means threatening with so much legal shit without even going legal, that even if you are right, it does not really matter. There are 2 ways you can defend against that: comply, or money up for the actual legal defense.
Now seriously: who is going to invest so much time and money into a legal war, just to be able to program it.

They would have zero standing with such a case since none of Rockstars copyright (The 'C' in DMCA) can be infringed with a rewrite of their game engine. They would have to prove that these guys somehow had gotten access to the source code of the original engine or that they shipped Rockstars assets (which they don't since you are required to own the original game since this new engine reads those files).

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Glad to see that they still keep supporting the game. Just hoping that they one day will fix the game breaking bugs, e.g I'm currently since a year back stuck in one of the last levels of The Following where the game crashes as soon as I get too far up in the grainary.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Isnt double fine now owned by microsoft so is this still coming to linux ?

They are releasing it on PS4, that is by far the largest enemy for games as far as Microsoft is concerned. So this tells us that MS might have bought Double Fine and is the one paying the checks but decisions are still made by Double Fine (not saying that it will stay this way forever).

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Quoting: TheRiddickHopefully AMD's open-source vulkan drivers can pull ahead and make some real impressive wins against NVIDIA's closed drivers in the future, that would really put the pressure on, we have seen what open-source opengl drivers have done for AMD, quite impressive.

Actually I doubt that this will happen. One of the reasons that the binary drivers are faster is that they add tons of per game optimizations and that is something that Mesa frowns upon big time so we will probably not see such work in the open drivers.

Quoting: ElectricPrism

Someone check the weather in hell, as NVIDIA seem to be opening themselves up a bit more with the release of some GPU documentation.

Indeed.

I used to be a full nvidia customer for at least 10+ years.

Then AMD did such an amazing job with their Open Source MESA Linux Driver. I switched. AMD earned my loyalty and in exchange I have built at least 6+ full AMD rigs in the last 2 years alone. Now I am looking to exclusively do AMD in laptops too because the Linux Drivers are so much better than Nvidia and more performant than Intel.

As it stands currently, AMD is a superior experience on Linux because the open source driver makes everything stable as software marches forward.

NVIDIA -- you are late to the race, AMD and Intel have already finished the open-source race. You have a lot of work to do before we are swayed to even consider your products again.

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It goes back to at least 2012 when they said they would release more docs while now it appears they are living up to that promise for helping Nouveau. -- Phoronix

Jesus Christ! Am I to understand it took 7 years for them to even begin to deliver progress on this task? They're going to have to do better than that! I want to see current-gen documentation delivered in this Fiscal Quarter. Unacceptable, at this speed I will sooner see them dethroned.

7 years is nothing for huge corporations to do stuff. In a previous workplace we had to negotiate for 10 years in order to be able to redistribute Reuters Financal News (now Refinitiv) in our system and terminal, only for them to 2 years later decide that they no longer wanted to do it.

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Quoting: ShmerlIsn't there some way to disable automatic launching for such files? Autoruns is such an old nasty issue, that it's surprising KDE still has it enabled by default.

It's not autorun per say, it's more like KDE can execute some scripts from the .desktop file e.g in order to determine what to display as the title if you hover over it (not 100% sure since I'm basing this on reading from the KDE site for a few seconds).

Which of course in practice turns it into autorun, but since that was never the intended purpose there is not a way to disable the feature. If the KDE devs had understood that they had actually implemented autorun I'm sure that they would not have implemented this at all. Some one with lots of time on their hand could hunt over their bugzilla and see when this feature was implemented and why, high chance is that it was due to some feature request/bug-report.

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