You can approach it from a gloomy perspective as well. "Reflect" on the good run they had now that it's al about to end. :P

Ok, ok, let's forget about that option. :whistle:

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The Switch Pro is probably the biggest surprise, hitting nearly half a million already after only around a year and a half.

What about the 200k SNES controllers?

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Quoting: GuestWhat DLC? Can't see any DLC on the store page...

The DLC was removed from the store. Effectively, the DLC was replaced with the remaster. Same price (even a bit cheaper for Euro) and it contains the special edition content.

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Quoting: PatolaDoes it support proton now?

It doesn't need to. Steam games appear if you let them, including Proton installed games.

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I was going to buy it instantly, but I already have the game and the special edition DLC, so I should be set.

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So far my experience consists of 3 games with Wine and one for N64.

The Fortnite install (when it still worked) was relatively painless. I was missing some 32 bit dependencies that were available in the Steam runtime and I simply used the system options to add those directories to the library path. Overwatch was a bit more troublesome since it wasn't clear at all what it actually wanted. I ended up installing a fresh wine-staging with all suggested dependencies (which is an enormous amount of 32 bit libraries). After that it worked although I too needed to delete the files in the directory Liam mentioned to get it to install. Overwatch has another problem in that it will absolutely not work properly if you display or Window is anything other than a 16:9 aspect ratio. The game will letterbox the window/screen, but Wine messes up the mouse when it does that.

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Quoting: mao_dze_dunI would argue that this is a good buy for Linux gamers, even just for Overwatch. It's literally a one-click experience with Lutris and the game runs exceptionally well, with no glitches or problems, bar the shader cache.

It's one click if you have all the requirements met. Which is not actually the case unless you've been using Wine (staging) to play a lot of other games. I had already been running Fortnite and Guild Wars 2, yet I still missed a lot of dependencies. In fact, I had to install the whole 32-bit recommended list for wine-staging to get whatever it was that the launcher needed.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

No Linux port, no console versions because you need a "clean slate" version of it.

Interesting statement. Very interesting statement indeed. I'd love to know what exactly they mean by that.

I suppose they mean that they're separating the Windows only stuff from the rest of the game so they only have a back end to port. Seems like something you would want to do from the start though.

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Quoting: poisondReal time ray-tracing is the holy grail of computer graphics, and it's great that some company has finally started (partially) implementing it.
But even for windows users it's probably not worth it due to the old catch 22. There's no games making use of it (yet) and until those features trickle down to low cost mainstream GPUs there probably won't be a whole lot.

Even more so for linux users. Regardless of NVidias awesome day one support for the features, my magic crystal ball says that it's likely going to be at least 1-2 GPU generations till we see any game on linux making use of it. So yeah, not worth it.

Although ray tracing is obviously superior to rasterisation, the use in gaming is a bit of a weird one. Even if we forget about the global illumination stuff of generic path tracing renderers, there are still major advantages in geometry (no flat triangle limitation) and reflection/transmission calculations. Even with the impressive rays/sec numbers that nvidia put out, I'm still not clear on what that means for the complexity of a scene. I'm not even sure that these extension go beyond the flat triangle geometry for ray tracing. Time will tell how this is going to turn out.

I was surprised by the number of games that are going to use the ray tracing features though. Even the now released Shadow of the Tomb Raider is said to have RTX support. That may mean that the interface is not too hard and that it is quite easy to integrate into current renderers. If that is the case, adoption may be quicker than you think.

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It's been quite funny to see people respond to the new RTX cards. Like saying things like "only 20% performance increase, this sucks" when they're looking at the 1080p benchmark of a current generation game. When you look a little further you can easily see that on very heavy GPU loads it does much better. The 4k Ultra Superposition benchmarks shows +50% over the 1080 Ti, which is not out of the ordinary for a next generation card. But you need something to push it.

What we can all agree on is that it is not the most economical card in the world. In fact, it's bloody expensive for the performance it delivers. I suppose this is the price for lack of competition in the high end of the spectrum. They simply have no reason to offer it for less. This is probably the reason why they're releasing the Ti immediately. They start selling expensive models first before introducing a more reasonable 2070 into the market.

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