Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: heidi.wenger

Quoting: fagnerlnfirefox improved a lot the startup time on snap and it's performing better in benchmarks than non-snap version.

So, the official snapped Firefox now works better than the old fashion one. How things change. And what negativity Canonical got from small but feisty band for this work in progress :huh:

I think most of the shit Canonical got was due to them literally trying to force you to use the snap, if you wanted to or not. Not because it shipped as a snap, which of course is up to them, but you couldn’t even uninstall it and sudo apt install “normal” Firefox, since *buntu was set up to install the Snap version even if you did the command to install apt/deb version. That, I think, was a mistake on their part, to think would go over well with people.

That’s some Microsoft level asshattery. “We know you tried to install Firefox, but we installed Edgeium instead.”

Yes, exactly this. I’m using Ubuntu (LTS) on my machine at work. I really like the OS, snap is unfortunately the exception to it. Not so much that they have included and pre installed snap. While I would have preferred flatpak, I think snap is fine and valid for things like discord, Spotify of even Steam. But pushing snap into apt and running the snap installer while pretending apt is still very misleading and has a bad taste to it.

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Bought it a few days ago. Initially it worked, but somehow it always maxed out a CPU core on my system. This has been fixed after a few game updates and now it runs perfect. I really like it so far. The graphics/art style also fits in my opinion.
I’m also very grateful that they went the extra mile to go for a native Linux version.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: DefaultX-od

Quoting: Liam DaweNo, it's unhiding it and allowing the special NVIDIA API to work. It's only for this game, you're not setting a launch option for the whole of Steam, that's not how launch options work.

Um, PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 == PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=false, so by default it is PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=true, that's why we need to specify to not hide it in the first place. I know how Steam game launch options work, lol. I was wondering if Nvidia gpu is hidden for this specific game or is it default behavior, and turns out it is default behavior.
Anyway, CatKiller answered my question.

Looks like I just misread what you said 🤷‍♂️. Point is the same, this unhides NVIDIA API and allows it to run.

To clarify even more:
`PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1` unhides NVAPI by copying the relevant dll's into the wine prefix and disables AMD spoofing for DXVK's dxgi.dll (which is used by D3D11 and D3D12, thus DXVK and VKD3D-Proton). Spoofing AMD is the default in DXVK, though recently Proton-Experimental sets `PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1` automatically for selected titles for having DLSS out of the box.

`PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0` disables AMD spoofing in Wine (that is Proton's Wine flavor). As far as I know, `PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU` is not the default setting in Proton, but it is automatically applied to a few titles (e.g. RDR2), thus unsetting `PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU` for DLSS is only needed for those selected titles. Chances are actually really good that setting `PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1` is sufficient for Uncharted.

With hindsight it would have been nicer to combine both switches in Proton, but yeah, those are multiple projects with lots of people working on it at different times. NVAPI/DLSS was added to Proton only after the work-around for RDR2 by spoofing AMD for NV cards had been introduced (otherwise RDR2 would not have worked for NV owners when it became playable via Proton).

PS: There is work going on for making this easier: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/pull/6227 [External Link]

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I've just played a few chapters, runs perfectly (with nv launch option) and it seems to be a real cool game!

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Quoting: LeopardPS: Arch Linux worked around that issue on their glibc. But not all distros will do it, Fedora most certainly won't do it.

Even Fedora took the sensible decision to not break things for fc37 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2129358 [External Link]
(As far as I’m aware, fc36 is not affected)

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Linux public beta is ready! https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/1580990722580566018 [External Link]

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This is one of the very few titles where I looked a bit jealous to PS owners. In fact I’ve played the first three on a PS3 (when Linux was still an advertised feature on the PS3). Really cool that I can continue soon on Linux!

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Only a gaming console can have a name like this :).
(In fact, it actually does sound somewhat like “Neo Geo”)

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11

Sounds like they implemented something new, but were shortsighted enough to do it in d3d. Otherwise, if they are just translating app d3d with dxvk now, wouldn't they say something like "optimized d3d support" or something similar?

I’m quite certain this is really just about app d3d support, thus using dxvk to translate d3d from the guest driver to vulkan on the host. No idea what exactly happens where.

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Same here, I avoided all the hype and talks before version 1.5 and started playing (on Linux) after 1.5 arrived , indeed also one of the best games I have ever played. It is certainly not perfect (crafting is kind of useless since you’ll always find something better shortly afterwards) but they got the things right that matter to me (story, character depth, presentation, music).

I do understand though that people that wanted to play on a last generation console on release day got bitterly disappointed.

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