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Quoting: bingus

Quoting: scaineI don't get who/what these cards are aimed at?

My old workplace (an engineering company) used to use a Titan for this modelling software they used. It required a really hard core PC. For them, installing the Titan cut their simulation time down by a matter of hours.

I remember putting that baby in there myself, knowing it was probably the closest I'm ever going to get to one :(

That kind of scenario is very likely where cards like this are aimed. I'll just lump it under the heading "CAD". A well stocked card on a backend server, feeding results to a thin client. Of course, depends on the CAD setup - in some cases it might be better to give every appropriate user something cheaper but otherwise adequate for the job.
Either way, cards like this aren't aimed at gaming. If it's aimed at any kind of production value, it'll be CAD. If not, it's a marketing exercise.

The titan is traditionally aimed at the consumer hobbyist. Professional Nvidia cards go under the Quadro family, I think it's called, and they cost a lot more than the Titan cards. Many times more. Titan cards are a kind of middle ground between professional rendering cards and consumer cards and are very popular with freelance 3d-animators and hobbyists like myself. Do I want the new Titan card? Yes. Can I afford it? No.

I have the previous Titan X, and it pretty much allows me to run any game I have with full graphics on, including Deus Ex. It's a bit overkill for gaming, but when you are rendering complex scenes you need the ten gigs of video ram the Titan x sports.

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Quoting: AlveKattDirt rally is 60% off on Bundlestars. I might get it, because it makes it affordable.

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/dirt-rally-game [External Link]

Quoting: liamdaweThere was a comment some time ago that Bundle Stars only had Windows keys for Feral's games, so don't buy theirs, all others should be fair game.

The store page claims it has Linux support, is that an outright lie?

The choice is ultimately yours, personally though, I wouldn't buy a Feral game from there since last we heard directly from Feral is that Bundle Stars keys won't let them get paid. Again though, that's only for Feral games and the final choice is yours.

I'm not in any real hurry, and I know there will be other sales in other places. You make a good point, I do want to support Feral. I'm not even halfway through Mankind divided yet anyway, because I get distracted by Rocket League and Descent 3 of all games. (Got it through GOG a long while ago, run it through wine using PlayOnLinux, and recently bought a used Saitek Cyborg Evo joystick. Turns out that Descent is a helluva lot more addictive when you have a proper joystick!)

I like to buy from the Humble Store though, because they give 5% to EFF. Are they better in this respect?

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Dirt rally is 60% off on Bundlestars. I might get it, because it makes it affordable.

https://www.bundlestars.com/en/game/dirt-rally-game [External Link]

Quoting: liamdaweThere was a comment some time ago that Bundle Stars only had Windows keys for Feral's games, so don't buy theirs, all others should be fair game.

The store page claims it has Linux support, is that an outright lie?

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Quoting: Nor MantisGOL Starmade server?

A Starmade Server might be nice. Had problems with that game though, mouse reset to centre every time I passed into a new sector. Really annoying in dogfights. It's fun to build ships together anyhow.

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Quoting: bubexelOcculus running on Linux? dude, this guy is using obviously windows.

Ah, yeah. I forgot to check up on that.

I just assumed that since the demo has a Linux build it would have the same features. But yeah, I know that isn't always true. My bad.

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There is already a VR Lets play of the demo on youtube!

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: M@GOidI have to ask: were is the HUD?

The demo has both HUD and cockpit. I don't know why they decided to not have that in the trailer, maybe it wasn't done yet when they made it.

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Gunsmoke was clever in a way. It was a twin stick shooter before there were twin stick joypads. It was a vertical scroller with a cowboy instead of a space ship, and you moved the character with the cross and I think you fired your guns with both A and B. A shot left, B shot right, and both of them together shot straight forward.

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There actually was a western game called Gunsmoke on the NES. It was one of my favourite games when I was a child.

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One thing I am wondering here is about Cory Doctorows article about "The coming war on general purpose computing".

We don't know how to build a general-purpose computer that is capable of running any program except for some program that we don't like, is prohibited by law, or which loses us money. The closest approximation that we have to this is a computer with spyware: a computer on which remote parties set policies without the computer user's knowledge, or over the objection of the computer's owner. Digital rights management always converges on malware.

-Cory Doctorow [External Link]

This outright claims that the problems porting between systems are only because of the software on propriety hardware is designed to make it hard. I trust Cory Doctorow, but he isn't a game developer. Is there more to it than that?

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