Quoting: Blauer_Hunger

Quoting: seven.....and this is why i always use nvidia.....

I prefer AMD because of it's open-source driver (at the moment I'm using amdgpu with an R9 270X, based on a Pitcairn refresh, without any problems), which can be used with PRIME without any problems. This isn't possible with nvidia cards, neither with nouveau, which lacks reclocking support, nor with the proprietary driver, which can only render everything on the dGPU or nothing. The Bumblebee project (which tried to make PRIME work when Nvidia didn't support hybrid graphics on Linux at all) seems abandoned since 2013.

And what about the Code 43 errors with gpu-passthrough of nvidia cards? AMD doesn't do such crap. The cards that have reset issues have workarounds without an impact on performance. In contrast, to run Nvidia Geforce cards with passthrough, you need to disable some hypervisor features to make them run, and you can't even use the emulated QXL video card, so it's impossible to use them on headless systems.

AMD open source driver is not an absolute solution because it still lacks of FreeSync and HDMI audio. These are very important but they're missing on Mesa.

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Quoting: seven.....and this is why i always use nvidia.....

Did you see that Amd card is not supported properly?

Try that with an Rx 580 and see the difference.

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Quoting: hardpenguinIt's really weird, seeing popular media outlets reporting Steam Machines ending up an enormous fiasco but also reading all those news of new Mesa developers continously being hired by Valve. And then Valve focusing on VR. Not sure what to think about it.

If nothing else, perhaps at some point all modern Radeon products will finally be a viable choice on Linux ;)

Because popular media didn't know anything about Linux until 2013.

They just expected a Playstation , Xbox rival at launch. Although Steam Machines at first gen served their purpose well enough. They at least brought attention to Linux.

I expect that future Steam Machines will be on Ryzen Apu's mostly.

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I hope that can prevent shovelware on Steam.

Steam was becoming the ultimate garbage in terms of games.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: LeopardWhat about no Tux no bucks?

Not everyone agrees to that hard-rule. It's not a one size fits all rule.

There's also the people who purchased it on the previous promises of a Linux port and got stung by it, quite a lot of people I imagine.

If the one is in Linux gaming more than one year , should've learned by now to not believing promises or kickstarters when it comes to Linux.

Anyway , i looked up to his profile and it seems he is dual booting so my mistake.

But i must say that : I'm not agreeing with that kind of happiness at all. If Wine gaming really becomes a thing , we would never see in house ports or official supports.
Developers will be like : " They're doing fine with Wine , why should i bother with official Linux support?"

And sadly ; Wine usage is becoming a piracy tool. Check out Wine forums. There are so much people which asking running ETS2 on Wine , Total War Attila in Wine , CiV VI in Wine. When you say; that game is available on Linux they're not responding at all.

Wine = Sacred place for pirated Windows games on Linux , without virus or malware threat.

Also it seems John Carmack was true about his Linux gaming thoughts.

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Quoting: KallestofelesAnd Witcher3 is working... playably... I know I'm spamming... I'm just still hyped...
View video on youtube.com

I shall no longer spam this video, honestly. :)

What about no Tux no bucks?

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During the Microsoft event , two games got my attention.

The Last Night and Metro Exodus.

I hope Metro comes too , i have Metro Redux series and they're running great.

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Quoting: fcastilloI just got this game a couple of months ago but never played it because I couldn't change the monitor where it opened. It was annoying and ultimately unplayable. Hopefully this new edition will fix any remaining issues on linux.

No , they won't. There is a topic down there on Steam and that Overkill Almir is repyling every question. Except Linux related ones.

I've asked two times with one via quoting but he avoided them.

They won't fix anything.

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So is this on par with Dx11 or behind of it?

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Quoting: jkaartGood launcher but I get "./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error in Ubuntu 16.04. :(

Same on Mint 18.1

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