QuoteThey have ditched their own "clustered multi-threading" (CMT) and gone with "simultaneous multi-threading" (SMT) which is what Intel use. This is one reason why AMD Zen will have much stronger single threaded performance, which will be especially good for us gamers. That's not the only thing that will improve single threaded performance, but a nice change.

SMT doesn't improve single threaded performance, SMT is what allows a single core to run two threads at the same time with almost no cost, Intel implement it under the name Hyperthreading.

Zen looks to be a great, new, architecture, many things helping single threaded performance, and IPC, but that one isn't it.

best article detaling the zen arch I know is in french:
http://www.hardware.fr/news/14758/amd-detaille-architecture-zen.html
but maybe arstechnica has something nice about it

From what the rumours say, Zen may actually bring AMD back in the game (which is good for our wallets), (almost?) matching intel best chips. Issue is intel too keeps improving so it would be unbelievable for AMD to actually come with something better, as Intel will unveil new chips (not a totally new arch though) in 2017 as well
Jim Keller certainly did great, but AMD has been proven untrustworthy with their announcements in the past, so let's not get over ourselves and wait for independent reviews

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can't even trust firaxis nowadays

anyway yet another good reason to never preorder

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QuoteAnother interesting mark is the top played games on Steam. This changes often with releases and sales, but as of right now 8/10 games in the top 10 support Linux. Pretty good that.

key word: steam

we could really benefit from blizzard and EA (origin) getting involved in Linux

with google getting ready to sell higher end pc, this might trigger a chain reaction pushing all the big companies to forget about windows only

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does this mean they'll check the OS to prevent other distros to launch the game?

anyway, won't buy it as long as it's just beta, but at least we'll have some feedbacks on the port (which shouldn't be that hard honestly considering the engine)


and geez, every single game is getting loot crates nowadays, even non-F2P...

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Quoting: KeyrockReminder: Never Pre-order

and this is why I still didn't buy Rocket League, even during the sales

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fuckin finally

didn't buy it during the sale because it wasn't on linux yet, was still hoping for the linux release during the summer, now I'm going back to work on monday and you tell me it might finally happen :(

hopefully they run a small sale at the release

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yep, had to refrain myself to buy Rocket League during the sales because I just don't buy on promises

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any suggestion on MMORPG that runs natively on linux or without much trouble through wine?

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Quoting: killyouIt's not G2A's fault that resellers are acquiring keys using stolen credit cards.

While many make the confusion between G2A as a "standard" key reseller store (grey market) and G2A the reselling marketplace (where anyone can resell keys), it would be pretty gullible to not think G2A unofficially organizes the massive scams behind most anonymous resellers on the marketplace

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Steam, Blizzard, EA and Ubisoft killed off the used games market resell, it's no wonder people that are not ready to pay full price for games turn to these websites.
Calling for boycott of key resellers won't work. They need to comply with EU laws first, that would be nice.

TinyBuild should disable the keys/games which were chargedBack (that's business 101), possibly, if their distribution platform (steam?) allows it, display a message to the final users that their game has been disabled because they've bought it from an unauthorized reseller

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