Quoting: rustybroomhandleI still want to know what the mission is with all of this. Not technically, but from a business perspective.

I get it, Linux customers are paying customers, but Valve have contracted several companies, individuals, fulltime employees, contact with GPU vendors etc. This seems like way more financial and time investment than what our meagre 1-2% is worth.

Exactly this is pretty much what I have been saying from the beginning what is the end game or what do you valve envision being the end game. At this point they must of sunk millions into r & d on linux funding projects addressing mesa vulkan vr kernel and even anti cheat. They are a big corporation how long will they continue funding these projects at a loss because there is no way there are enough linux users gaming that they have clawed all that money back.

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Quoting: mylkacant they just merge mangohud/afterburner into steam for all clients?

Well they would probably argue they are focused on performance and compatability rather than tracking fps for benchmark videos

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Quoting: PhlebiacA bit off topic, but what happened to the native port of Metro Exodus? Still coming? Canceled?

No idea only press release i can find about it is from Febuarary and it says yes they are working on linux fair to say covid has probably slowed pace to a crawl. But whether or not its still coming your guess is as good as mine maybe GOL guys have a PR contact they can approach and find out.

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Quoting: Nibelheim3080 + Ryzen 5900X in on month, let's go !

I've decided it's upgrade time for me as well. Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master came in the post today so hopefully the 5950X won't sell out completely next month. This should be a nice upgrade from my i7-3930K! ...has it really been 9 years?!

I don't think it will i think there is more danger of the 5600 selling out to be honest just like the 3100 and 3300 did AMD biggest market was and always has been and I have to use the term but "entry" level gaming cpus. Plus it depends Asus pulled a 180 first they said no new bios on B450 boards then two days later backtracked and said we will support the b450 on 5000 series boards via bios update as soon as AMD release the firmware. So for me its more interesting to see how many systems brick trying to get the bios update

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Quoting: undeadbydawnMy only question now is will I be able to buy Zen3/Biggest Navi before Brexit tanks the UK economy.

You think its not dead already potentially 5 million unemployed because of covid growth weaker than anywhere in Europe whats worse is in Australia the cost of new parts has dropped by anywhere from 10 to 15 percent where as here in the Uk prices have gone up by upto 10 percent.

Nope. COVID is the warmup. Brexit will kick in good and proper when the borders grind to a total halt and we literally physically can't import anything

Mmm i know its going to be bad but to cut out one of the worlds largest market for goods the UK does buy and sell more than any other nation in Europe save from Germany so it would be a short sighted move but you are right potentially we could have a situation where everything would have to be grey market at vastly inflated prices. But in that nightmare scenario people would be lucky to be on national living wage because jobs will just evaporate. It will take years for the effects to kick in too just like when the USSR broke up Russia did not have economy worth talking about until 20 years after it broke up but in terms of the new ryzens they will be out by November we dont leave the EU until December 31st so get saving or get the credit card ready.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnMy only question now is will I be able to buy Zen3/Biggest Navi before Brexit tanks the UK economy.

You think its not dead already potentially 5 million unemployed because of covid growth weaker than anywhere in Europe whats worse is in Australia the cost of new parts has dropped by anywhere from 10 to 15 percent where as here in the Uk prices have gone up by upto 10 percent.

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Quoting: barottoSo now Intel is the new value option? How the turntables...

well not really because all the existing ryzen processors offer better value not played a game yet that maxs out my 2600 but to each their own.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Someone in the comments mentioned gadot engine yes its open source but why do they need to hold an event to encourage developers to use their engine. If you/they are that passionate about open source gaming fix the problem direct. Get a discord group together and actively work on a game using open source development tools.

Why does any project ever have to market itself?

Well there are a multitude of reasons my point was the particular poster was ranting about doing this sort of promotion and they saying why not with x engine. My point dont bitch about it do something about it you dont need an organized event if it matters to you just do it, use whatever open source engine you want and make something that makes people take notice of the engine.

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I don't have a problem with this it could even lead to a new career for some talented people. Plus if there are linux developers out there that do make it into a game making studio there's a linux friendly voice on game development team right there.

Someone in the comments mentioned gadot engine yes its open source but why do they need to hold an event to encourage developers to use their engine. If you/they are that passionate about open source gaming fix the problem direct. Get a discord group together and actively work on a game using open source development tools.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80I may of missed something is that common knowledge that it was THQ call or was that GOG making the decision not to support a linux version.

Maybe you have [External Link].

Quoting: Whitewolfe80What is the licensing model do gog have to pay a few for each platform they sell a game for ?

I believe GOG does not differentiate between platforms. Thus, porters had no way of knowing the amount of port sells vs. original platform sells.

So as i said nobody knows if thq said no or gog that said no and yes it does make a difference as gog have to provide support for games they do not do a valve with proton ie if it works it works if not oh well. GOG will actually support a linux port they make. So if some had bs middleware that they cannot get working perhaps they decide not to port/support that game

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