Discard discord. Use Mumble. :)

I would use discord for the same reason I use Facebook and Skype. Outside the Linux community everyone is using it. But if possible I continue to use Mumble. There are also many features missing. Positional-Audio in Minecraft and many other Games for example.

But the main reason: Everything from Discord is sent directly to the NSA and the American authorities. No thanks! We all have children and do not need this monitoring of our families.

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Quoting: LeopardThe issue at here is not the Linux itself.

But Linux gaming is desperately needs Vulkan to be adopted by developers.And here is one the chances.

It will provide benefit to Linux gaming eventually.Not just so fast,but eventually will.

Doom 2016 uses Vulkan too but will maybe never come to Linux. Does this still help Linux? I don't know.

Also Vulkan do not have only benefits. Direct HW access means that programming errors can result in hard crashes where the game can stuck easily forever in a kernel function. Most of us use Nvidia cards with the proprietary driver. Vulkan and a proprietary driver will result in system stability problems depending on the game code. We could already observe this with Dota2, where people had to do a hard system reset in some situations.

Even though I have some performance issues with OpenGL my system has never crashed. The games crashes sometimes but my host system stays rock solid meanwhile. With Vulkan and direct HW access this could change. Linux could then feel like Windows.

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On what Nintendo OS is based? FreeBSD?

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Quoting: cprnI don't care about developers and their feelings. I don't care about Linux "ports". I care about quality games being released for Linux on Steam with regular updates, sane performance, for a sane price. We aren't 2nd sort people and we shouldn't treat ourselves as we were saying "oh, let's be happy because this lousy job Linux *port* could be worse". I'm not paying less money than Windows user, I shouldn't expect worse product, I'm not happy when it turnes out to be... But I don't lash at anyone, as I assume nobody (but my mom) cares for my feelings either. I just do refunds. Why would anyone do anything else...?

You do not understand the problem. Example: Divinity Original Sin. Was announced in 2014 for Linux. Due to problems with middle-ware the release was delayed by nearly two years. During this time enormous hatred has spread over the publisher (Larian Studios). But Larian was right. In the end Larian has delivered one of the best Linux ports ever. The game is playable under Linux just as well as under Windows. But because of all the trouble, Larian has not issued any announcements for a Linux port for Divinity Original Sin II. Many will not wait for the Linux port, which may never come and play the game under Windows. Me too. Is that what you want? For me, Linux always means being polite and constructive. It is a philosophy. We Linux Gamers are a small insignificant minority. So far we have only our good manners.

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Some applications behave this way. Mumble for example (but you have to choose).

Normally I don't want to close Mumble, Steam and some other applications once they have started. So hitting the tray icon happens mostly unintentional. It's always annoying when such applications then simply quit.

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MESA is maintained by VMWare. I wonder if it will soon be possible to play games out of a Windows VM under Linux with direct hardware access.

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In the past it just works. Last tried a few days ago. I never ever set udev rules for the Steam Controller. Do I have to do this now?

EDIT: I use Xubuntu 16.4.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: 0aTT- NVIDIA driver version 375.20

This driver is well known to have issues; you could try an older version.

I used older ones for a long time. I had the same performance issues with older drivers and ATTILA. But I will try them again. I use the PPA and can easily switch between the drivers. Just need to reboot.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: 0aTTThere must be a bottle neck somewhere.

CPU? RAM?

My System:
- Intel i7-6700K
- ASUS GTX970
- 2 x 8 GB DDR4-2133
- Xubuntu 16.4
- NVIDIA driver version 375.20

I think it could be the asynchronous compute weakness of nvidia cards. I was wondering why Feral used an AMD card on there TWW live stream.

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Here is a good video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhXDhGozqA [External Link]

Even with a GTX 1070 the Game can't hold the 30 fps line. For me it's a riddle why all claim it would run with 60 fps on a GTX 970. Is there a video to prof this?

I can't believe this after what I know from ATTILA. ATTILA has on my GTX 970 system a similar performance as Warhammer in the above video. And what's really crazy: Whenever the fps rate breaks sharply, the GPU utilization breaks also. This also happens when I play at the lowest level. I have a i7 6700k CPU. With other games I never witnessed such behavior.

There must be a bottle neck somewhere. I love the Total War series and will buy Warhammer anyway. But it's a little bit frustrating to know that the performance will not increase even I update to a GTX 1070.

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