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Quoting: tmtvlUgh, still so many people using the crappy NVidia garbage. I suppose that'll change as Wayland becomes more prominent.

Wonder how many people are gonna switch from Intel to AMD after the IME stuff...

Because it works most of the time and performs better than AMD.

Weird. It's exactly the same reason i made the switch to "team red" a good 5-6 years ago. It just worked. (and was cheaper even back then)

Nope.

First of all , AMD driver space is so fragmented.

OpenGL side ; you will get better performance from open source drivers.

Vulkan ; mixed results. Sometimes Radv sometimes closed source driver wins. I hope AMDVLK can improve RADV.

So as a gamer ; we want performance right? Yeah , then we should use open source drivers.

But on Mesa you can't play some games without doing workarounds. For example; Divinity , Dying Light , X11 etc.

With Amdgpu Pro ; you don't need to hassle like that but it will cost you performance wise. Also note that Hdmi audio , Freesync etc are not available with Mesa.

So ; AMD is not "just" works.

When i had a "green" card, it used to crash my whole system (with their driver, not the noveau one). I don't want performance, if it comes with frequent system crashes.

As for the games, it's mostly the fault of the developers. I had some problems with Mesa, mostly with older feral ports that supported the non-free driver (shadwen/trine 3) but those went away since.

Vulkan is a very new API, i doubt that most devs even know yet how to do things well in it, also, as far as drivers are concerned, since they opened up their code base, nobody will want to do the work twice, so most likely one of them will die out, or they merge in time, but i wager it doesn't go overnight with complex code.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: tmtvlUgh, still so many people using the crappy NVidia garbage. I suppose that'll change as Wayland becomes more prominent.

Wonder how many people are gonna switch from Intel to AMD after the IME stuff...

Because it works most of the time and performs better than AMD.

Weird. It's exactly the same reason i made the switch to "team red" a good 5-6 years ago. It just worked. (and was cheaper even back then)

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Quoting: DuncThe trouble I have with open-source games is that I never make my system partition big enough to install them with the package manager. All my usual applications and their requisite libraries are fine, but a big lump of game resources? Forget it.

symlinks to the rescue?

Install them to ~?

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Quoting: evergreenI sadly was forced to install seven to play the game with modern graphic. Aberration looks in opengl so bad I thought I was playing Unreal Tournament 1 in low settings... now I’m dual booter again. Sound also feels amazing with supported logitech drivers on my g930. I hope vulkan will change things, or wine, or cloud gaming, or steam, or the entire community will begin to work together and not fragmentated as it does: 1000s of distros, several graphic servers, a multitude of desktop frontends etc.
Linus save the clients!!!

I don't think there is any fragmentation, or if there is, it is much worse with windows.

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Quoting: elmapul"The problem on top of all this, is that it will put off the very people working on such projects from continuing and if your business relies on their work—good luck doing it yourself."
except that they can hire someone with the money they did with the rip offs..


also, its a bit ironic that most of the users of the emulators are pirates, and people are "pirating" their code...

Those users could share some of their plunders. :p

By the way, most of the community behind modifying content for old systems don't "pirate" at all, but publish patches, which require an unmodified ROM to work. Also, they are fans of the companies that used to make these old games, so for the ones that are still around these fans probably generate more profit than the average Joe.

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I think CS does the deathmatch better. Or GTA:SAMP/GTA 4 whatever. I think that guy doesn't know games have been doing exactly the same thing for ages, lol.

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When this game was first advertised i wanted to buy it, as i like games with a survival aspect. Thankfully i didn't, it seems like it's always severely bugged. Also, I think the 60-100€ price tag seems way too high, considering you can get games of this kind for ~20€.

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i remember trying nehrim, it was good (at least i think it was already around when i played.) One of my go-to mods was FCOM. Also The lost spires, another one i still remember. Iirc OBSE, OBGE did not play very nicely with wine, and Oblivion was horrible under multi-core cpus. I would play/buy it/skyrim if a port happened, so i'll keep dreaming. :)

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Quoting: dvdI should play it already! :( I consider TES to be in my top 5 favorite games. Unfortunately, i have never played through morrowind before, but with OpenMW and OpenCS going strong, i think it is high time to do that, also discover the mods (and maybe try a bit of modding). It's really awesome how some developers manage to give a new life to old classics.

You should give it a go. It's a different experience to what came after.
I started on Oblivion and then played Skyrim before going back to Morrowind.
The experience is much more deep and it does little hand holding. Just be prepared to read a lot and deal with a VERY unwieldy journal.

I played them in the same order. I played way more Oblivion though, i kept playing that even after playing Skyrim, to me it always felt like skyrim was mainly a graphical upgrade, which was great for the item mods, but the whole system of play seemed like a dumbed down version of Oblivions. I still feel like it would've been a fuller experience if they integrated perks/new skills into the existing system.

The little i tried from Morrowind in openmw, i liked it, and the fact that lots of mods are now compatible with it makes playing it all the more desirable.

I agree about the assassin/archer combo got way more powerful, especially after Oblivion, in which they were practically useless. The reverse happened to mages, they were enjoyable in Oblivion, but it got worse in Skyrim, where the master spells with their stationary animations are more a hinderance than help. I heard that the new Creation Club idea backfired as well (disclaimer: i haven't actually played skyrim in the last 5 years or so, nor plan on it unless a port magically happens)

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I should play it already! :( I consider TES to be in my top 5 favorite games. Unfortunately, i have never played through morrowind before, but with OpenMW and OpenCS going strong, i think it is high time to do that, also discover the mods (and maybe try a bit of modding). It's really awesome how some developers manage to give a new life to old classics.

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