Quoting: BoldosHe quit Linux to the world where things "just work"... and then identifies that world as Windows 10?
Really??! :huh:

I had a grin with the win10 thing as well. If there is anything at work that tries my patience, it's win10. Oh well, everybody can choose what they're comfortable with. Even if others don't understand.

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Quoting: silmethSo I’d guess it should run (or at least try to), with probably very shitty performance. The question is how well is the extension implemented in software for older cards without the new hardware to support it.

I'm not so sure the Vulkan extension is implemented for non-RTX cards all. The extension may exist in the driver, but it may not do anything. Only one way to be sure. There is OptiX, which implements similar tech using CUDA. On this RTX mode is 1.5x to 2x faster than plain CUDA. Which suggest even older GPUs shouldn't be half bad at this.

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Quoting: ageresI couldn't compile this.
Anyway, does it work only on Nvidia RTX cards?

I think so. Nvidia said that they were using specific hardware to speed up ray tracing.

It says in the article that it uses VK_NV_ray_tracing, which only works on RTX cards. Khronos is doing a generic one though, which could be implemented for other cards using compute shaders. Whether that will actually work or be fast enough remains to be seen though.

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Cool, I was looking for something to try this with. Using the RTX features to calculate global illumination for the normal rasterizing renderers was one of the more impressive uses in the demos.

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Quoting: LinasMostly negative reviews, but when I look at the reviews themselves, only 3 of them are negative on the front page. :S:

Their review volume is quite low, so that makes the "recent" quite sensitive to variation. Still, it looks like an ok arcade racer game. Nothing wrong with that, I'm still looking for a Powerslide replacement. But the price and the DLC are a bit too AAA for me. With the game definitely not reflecting the good parts of AAA.

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Quoting: NanobangAddendum: It's looking to me like the IPv6 "support" means one must now use IPv6 to download from Steam. My VPN normally blocks IPv6 traffic to protect from IPv6 leaks, and unless I disable that function, Steam downloads nothing.

I would assume that this happens because your system has an IPv6 address. Forcing IPv6 would be seriously problematic since half the world is still without it.

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Almost the same case as I just built my new PC in. Quite a premium on the higher powered models though. I understand that having something pre-built and pre-installed is worth something, but it looked about 40% overpriced. Maybe the low GBP is making computer components extra expensive in the UK.

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If this is such a big problem, then this:

... so that any portion of the Unity Software is primarily executed on or simulated by the cloud or a remote server ...

tells me that game (or middleware) devs have been doing some weird things.

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Quoting: EikeLeaving Lyndow was a little disappointment for me.
I was prepeared that it's short, but it felt... empty.

It is also pretty cheap. It actually looks like it may have been a tech demo for this one. Still not sure how this one will make an interesting game though. The trailer is kind of vague.

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Oh, weed growing sim! :D

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