How is the current state of AMD and linux compatibility?

When I started switching from Windows to linux, I always bought Nvidia GPUs because the AMD drivers were complete rubbish.

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I like the fact valve is putting a lot of resources into expanding the whitelist.

In that way we have some kind of "official" support for some windows-only titles. But the great thing about proton is that a lot of games even work great with proton if they are not on the whitelist.

I am currently playing the witcher 3 and it works like a charm. I even figured out how to use my witcher 2 save from the native linux version of the game and import it in witcher 3 before starting a new game ^_^

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Quoting: liamdaweI'm certainly no expert on this, but it appears to be an issue with the refund policy on Steam.

Could also have something to do with scallops. :whistle:

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I gave up guessing last time when "proud seat of lucifer" teased total war: warhammer II and there were so many clues leading to Hellblade.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Ne021 pages in 9 hours ? WOW !
This is a SUPER HOT thread !

My WishList for Proton:

• Tropico 5


• Path of Exile


• Alien Swarm

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Tropico 5 already has a native version that works BEAUTIFULLY right now on my system...

And Path of exile works great with lutris using DXVK. Tried it myself just recently.

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I thought the thing on steamDB turned out to be an osX binary...?

Great news though! And I don't think it's the death of Vulkan, since there is still the incentive for devs to have cross-platform support out of the box when using Vulkan, compared to DX.

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Quoting: dubigrasuOff topic:
I totally dislike to point this out, but FFS, some of you here could use a bit of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation [External Link] It can't be that hard.
Just saying...

Dude, I bet most of the people here are (like me) not even natives. And punctuation in English can be really weird sometimes. xD

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWell... Somebody is funding DXVK and the Developer refuse to accept donations, so...

This.

I also think that this is a great thing. And necessary if Valve wants SteamOS to become the most relevant platform for Gaming in the long term (which is obviously their aim, as they are putting a huge amount of resources into it). The first step for them was creating SteamOS and Steam machines, also giving all valve games native Linux support was important. Now they'll try to push compatibility with other non-native Linux games to the maximum. But let's be honest, this won't make everyone who has a windows machine suddenly turn into a Linux freak and change OS.

Therefore I think the final step will be to have some of their own major titles release as SteamOS/Linux/Steam machine exclusives; let's say Half-life 3 and/or Portal 3 (we know Valve turned back to produce games on their own recently). They did the same thing with steam when they released Half-life 2: Everyone thought "why do I have to install this weird steam software with it. I hate this!" but since many people loved the first part of the game (and rightly so) they installed steam anyway to play its successor. Imho this was the birth of Steam and the foundation of Valves power in the gaming industry. Why shouldn't it work a second time?

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Quoting: PsyringeAmazing project. Wish I could donate to DXVK, but the devs don't accept donations for unknown reasons.

Given the fast pace at which DXVK is developed currently, I would presume that the devs work on it full-time and are already funded by someone (or some company). Apparently, these want to stay anonymous (out of reasons I cannot understand...). Also, other open-source projects received a lot of anonymous funding recently. I really wonder where this comes from and why someone would like to stay anonymous when funding open-source projects. Maybe it's Microsoft again, since they "love" open-source now *irony off* xD.

Also, if you have spare money to donate for a cool project, why not support gamingonlinux? ;)

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: DuncI'm seriously tempted to break my “five year rule” and buy that now. My specs aren't quite up to yours, but I could live with 30fps.

Wait a bit more, until there is a workaround for missing stream output. I haven't played the game through yet because of it.

I heard this is a problem linked to LLVM version 6? Do you think it will be fixed with LLVM 7 releasing in September?

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