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Latest Comments by Pikolo
Action-packed drone building game 'Nimbatus' has a huge update, we have 3 copies to give away
15 Jan 2020 at 8:11 pm UTC

Nimbatus looks like a nice game and I'd be happy to adopt a copy

Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character
14 Jan 2020 at 10:30 pm UTC

I love this game. I'm looking forward to testing the watcher on the weekend

Feral Interactive are asking what you want ported to Linux again
13 Jan 2020 at 9:11 pm UTC

Quoting: Avehicle7887If CDPR is still intent on releasing Cyberpunk for Stadia, Feral doesn't have to do anything as the game will already be running on Linux. All the devs would have to do is make the game available off Stadia.
Stadia doesn't use SDL, so it would need some moddleware to take inputs and display on Linux. Someone would have to wire SDL up.

Feral Interactive are asking what you want ported to Linux again
13 Jan 2020 at 7:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

1. Cyberpunk 2077
2. The Outer Worlds
3. Phoenix Point

The latest Steam Client Beta solves Linux issues with NFS mounts and the Hardware Survey
10 Jan 2020 at 12:16 pm UTC Likes: 9

Windows 7 is going out of support at the end of January, so that's an odd OS to rise in popularity... I've converted the second grandma to Kubuntu this Gravmass

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU has been announced and new Ryzen CPUs coming
7 Jan 2020 at 10:26 am UTC

Quoting: Shmerl
Quoting: PikoloAnd they have their own Optimus-like approach, which Mesa might hopefully be able to support
Are they using 2 GPUs there? Why would they need something Optimus-like? And if anything, they are supporting PRIME, so you won't need anything special to use it in multi-GPU setup.
They're trying to give their gaming laptops more power by making it use both the integrated and dedicated GPU, at the same time if I understand. They call it "Smart Shift" and it's the part I'm curious if Mesa can support it. Prime within Mesa obviously works.

Source: https://adoredtv.com/amd-ces-presentation-live-blog/ [External Link]

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU has been announced and new Ryzen CPUs coming
7 Jan 2020 at 8:19 am UTC

The big news from this CES are the Radeon Mobile GPUs: 5600M and 5700M - AMD GPUs are comming back into midrange gaming laptops! And they have their own Optimus-like approach, which Mesa might hopefully be able to support

GNOME 3.36 and Fedora 32 to get better GPU switching with NVIDIA support
14 Dec 2019 at 9:56 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Hal_Kado
Quoting: ShmerlFrom there it sounds like it can render on Nvidia, and display through the integrated. But I suppose then not the other way around?
I think this is accurate. However a lot of laptops have their outputs hardwired to the integrated graphics so this might not come up for most people. And in the event you are using the dedicated card, it must be powered on so there would be little to no power savings by offloading work back to the iGPU. I may be missing something but I can't think of any situations one would want to do this, and if there is it would be a pretty niche use case....
You are correct about the laptop screen. However, most Optimus laptops have the HDMI output wired to the Nvidia GPU. If you start the system with the Nvidia GPU in Prime offload mode, you can't use the HDMI port. I think connecting your laptop via HDMI is far from a niche case... And having to reboot to use it is annoying.

Stadia looks to be very limited at launch and not just the amount of games
16 Nov 2019 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 5

This is google. They're one of the bigger proponents of SCRUM, and that development methodology calls for starting with a minimum viable product and working with stakeholders(gamers) to expand it. If they stick to a two year plan with it, they can definitely pull it off, but this really should have been called a preview