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The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
11 October 2019 at 8:32 pm UTC

Quoting: Alloc
Quoting: GuestWow, that's all over the place lol, not GPU-specific, driver-specific, or OS-specific. Sounds like Unity3D just is, or was with the version that A18 is using currently, kind of bad at doing Vulkan correctly. Hopefully things have improved and there will be another 7DtD Unity3D upgrade at some point (that hopefully won't be as painful and slow as the last upgrade!).
Could just as well be us ;)
Seeing though that it runs perfectly fine for some people and does not for others, even within the same GPU brand and almost the same driver version (though not sure about the OS versions) sounds to me like it's something between Unity and the GPU driver.

Gave it another try. This time it managed to run for about a minute before it blew up. Visually everything seemed fine and FPS was much better. However there was terrible mouse lag that made the game unplayable.

Checked the syslog and there was only one error:

NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 31, pid=1162, Ch 00000036, intr 00000000. MMU Fault: ENGINE GRAPHICS GPCCLIENT_GCC faulted @ 0x1_6d401000. Fault is of type FAULT_PTE ACCESS_TYPE_VIRT_READ

Did some searching and found that there was a bug that could cause this error when VRAM was full. This was fixed in the 435.19.03 Vulkan Beta driver, but hasn't been included in the long or short term support releases. However, if this is the case, then 7dtd managed to eat through my 11 GB of VRAM in a minute, which also suggests there may be other issues with either the game or Unity itself. Will keep an eye on the driver release notes.

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Stellaris 2.4 is out with the new Paradox Launcher included
10 October 2019 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 6

Can the launcher be skipped? Because this is just a needless step that I don't need.

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The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
8 October 2019 at 10:49 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

I'm using 430.26 w/ a GTX 1070. You?

430.50, 2080 Ti. Will try some more when I'm tired of playing. :D

Well yeah you probably don't care about getting that performance improvement since you're probably hitting your monitor's max framerate anyway, but I'm still curious as to what the issue is w/ Vulkan.

On the contrary. Outside I'm only hitting about 40-45 fps with little change with settings, so it must be entirely CPU bound. This is actually worse than A17, so it must be due to the new terrain rendering. Inside fps went up. So having Vulkan work would make the experience much better.

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The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
8 October 2019 at 6:00 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

I'm using 430.26 w/ a GTX 1070. You?

430.50, 2080 Ti. Will try some more when I'm tired of playing. :D

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The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
8 October 2019 at 7:48 am UTC

Quoting: GuestHoly crap! Vulkan works perfectly (on NVIDIA at least, will soon test with AMD) and I'm getting an over 40% FPS improvement!!!!

May I ask what GPU/driver? My lock up was on NVIDIA as well.

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The survival game 7 Days to Die has a huge new experimental release out
7 October 2019 at 11:02 pm UTC

Lots of great stuff in this one for sure!

Noticed that Vulkan was mentioned in the launcher (with warning). But unfortunately that resulted in a hard lock up of the machine right after entering the game. Hopefully this will work at some point because this game definitely needs all the CPU cycles it can get.

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In the multiplayer action game Foreskin Fury you get to hop around as a big wobbly penis
5 October 2019 at 6:12 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: heidi.wengerSo now there possibly is one objection for that some one who would let ones child browse this site was in favor of censorship in that thread

Because silly juvenile humour is worse than violence and horror?

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Keep an eye on 'Veloren', an open source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust
5 October 2019 at 9:50 am UTC

Quoting: Spirimint
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: SpirimintAwesome i just thought today. I would like to play Cube World. Even i think the Level System is brilliant :)

But now i will try Veloren first :)

Edit: Hm ok i downloaded the nightly Version. But how i start this game? Double Klick on veloren-voxygen won't work.
Try it in terminal, worked for me.

I got this

/Games/Veloren$ ./veloren-voxygen ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_route.c:867:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:990:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) The dmix plugin supports only playback stream ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:556:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream ALSA lib pcm_dsnoop.c:556:(snd_pcm_dsnoop_open) The dsnoop plugin supports only capture stream thread 'main' panicked at 'device not available: "Invalid argument"', src/libcore/result.rs:1165:5 note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace.

That's what I got as well. There are multiple issues about this in the issue tracker tagged "bug", so something that needs to be fixed for next release.

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In the multiplayer action game Foreskin Fury you get to hop around as a big wobbly penis
4 October 2019 at 1:09 pm UTC Likes: 2

For the first time on GOL, I feel myself needing my Twitch emotes.

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The huge sounding EVERSPACE 2 from ROCKFISH Games is now live on Kickstarter
3 October 2019 at 12:01 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: PatolaIt should have space legs.
When you play games like X4: Foundations, Elite: Dangerous and No Man's Sky where you can leave your ship, so that you intuitively feel that you are a person and not a weird spaceship creature, you barely can go back to the ship games. I hope more games adopt this approach.

The thing that made it really good in X4 is the sense of scale that you from stepping out of you craft into the giant dock and actually needing the walkways to get around quickly. Makes it feel quite different even though it technically doesn't serve much purpose in the game.

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