This should fix most flat2vr type games, which require running the application at double headset framerate to generate stereo image pairs.

flat2vr is new to me. Is there anything that works with that? Does it work on Linux?

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI like Wayland, and generally support it.

But I honestly feel it's too soon for something like RHEL to outright drop Xorg entirely. There could be a whole heap of legacy enterprise applications which don't place nicely with Xwayland.

It's always going to be too soon, but trial by fire is the only way new FOSS APIs ever make it over the finish line. Supporting a protocol no one uses doesn't make a whole lot of sense in terms of time investment, but if it's made the default it heavily incentivizes fixing those problems out of necessity.

So things will be rough for a while. Change is hard.

True, and maybe this announcement will see some of the major bottlenecks improve over the next 18 months. But still, the E part in RHEL is not necessarily known for being cutting edge. Especially the graphics/animation industry that heavily relies on nvidia may just choose to stick with RHEL9 for a much longer time than RH wants.

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Quoting: ShabbyXSo, for the first time ever I decided there's no point in fighting it, put the "no tux, no bucks" rule aside, and bought The Witcher 3 that's got so much praise.

A huge download and an hour of fiddling later, couldn't get it to launch. That'll teach me to pay for a game that ignores my platform.

Refunded, and I'll try proton again in 10 years.

Yeah, since the "next gen" update and the introduction of the launcher it's been a mess and a half. Initially the launcher worked fine, but somewhere during the summer it stopped working. I had to skip the launcher and edit a config file to make it run the DX11 version. The performance of the DX12 version is just tragic.

Honestly, if it wasn't for the gameplay fixes and changes, I would have switched back to the "classic" branch.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczWhy in the world must the damned drivers be closed in this day and age!

Because of Windows. Nvidia's market dominance over competitors was in no small part due to software support. And while the core driver might not be as critical (since they are opening up portions of that), it's probably tied into the rest as well. This is not about Linux, it's about everything that nvidia supplies that makes them stand out.

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What do you prefer to game with?

1. MKB
2. MKB
3. MKB
4. MKB
5. Controller. Maybe :)

I've only ever used xbox controllers (and steam deck), so I can't really make a good choice between them. But I suspect that I'd not be a fan of the left stick placement on PS controllers.

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Nice. I'm always up for a well made and more difficult Portal mod. Let's see how it matches up to Portal Stories: Mel.

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Quoting: pbWe can fight it but it will come. Fortunately I already have enough human-made games in my library to last me a lifetime.

Maybe. But the real fight still has to come first. Do the creators of the data used to train "AI" models need to be compensated for the usage of their work?

Some people pretend that this is easy because "humans learn from other people" too. But that completely ignores the fact that humans are actually intelligent. AI models are not. They have no understanding at all of what they produce. They can't be held accountable for things like plagiarism. The law has already demonstrated that an animal can't hold the right to a photo it took of itself because of its legal status. AI models won't fair any better in this regard. So my expectation is that commercial work created by AI will become very difficult once all this is sorted.

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Well, now we know what the HDR work in gamescope was for.

I'll stick with current one though. The little upgrades compared with my usage really doesn't justify getting a new one.

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I thought it was one of those Assassins Creed games.

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Between the freebies and previous bundles, I imagine it has gotten really difficult to sell these games.

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