Just did a quick test, but the new Vulkan beta does not fix the recently introduced VR issue. :dizzy:

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Drift Stage was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in February of 2015, with a reasonable sum of $57,720 to make their modern take on retro racing a reality.

I think the problem is that this is not a reasonable sum. That amount of money funds at most a single person for one year. While it is not impossible for an experienced dev to make something good in such a time span, it is not an easy task either. Especially when you want code+art+sound+music, which generally requires multiple people.

When I see such numbers, I immediately wonder what other types of funding they have.

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I'm also interested in how this would impact specific use case where Wayland is still incomplete. I'm thinking of G-SYNC/Freesync and VR.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd... there is a new Nvidia driver in the Ubuntu ppa [External Link]

Wait, what? A Vulkan Beta driver in the PPA. First time that has ever happened and I'm wondering if this wasn't a mistake.

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Quoting: HJ>also why are you covering stadia all that much?

My in-head guideline for gaming and Linux:

Native = Linux gaming
Wine/Proton/Emulators = Gaming on Linux
VM = Not Linux (since it requires a licence of a different OS)

More interesting is where Stadia would fall in this. In can be used on Linux without licence, so it is gaming on Linux. But so are other streaming services. But is it Linux gaming? Need to have a thought about that. When my brain needs additional work that is.

As for Stadia. I get the feeling that it is not going well for now. After the initial bit of media attention, interest seems to have died out. On "mostly windows" discords you don't hear anybody about it. I also don't think that the extra buddy pass was something they did because of the quickly rising user numbers. And I'm not that surprised either. For most people, the current financial scheme just doesn't make sense. It's more like niche product now, where only a very small group actually has an advantage over what they were doing previously.

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Is it terrible that I initially read that as "The Witcher"?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI honestly don't understand why they sell it so low, but it's their choice.

It's a free and open source game. The Steam version is probably only there so you can support the dev. Although I suspect many buyers on Steam don't even know that it is actually free.

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I suppose it's fitting. Most Steam for Linux users, for various reasons, believed that Windows was going in the wrong direction as well.

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Quoting: beko* Added Set line - New line feature

This was the one that was really annoying me. That was pretty much all I did in the first one.

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low-poly style with realistic shaders

Realistic meaning that they exist?

The WIP video isn't really showing anything special. It still has a long way to go before it becomes interesting.

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