Quoting: GuestQUESTION: Once this goes stable, what's to stop every desktop gamer jumping to Linux, especially with bright new horizons like Mesa 18, RADV, and Linux completely smacking the pants off Windows with the new Threadripper?

Cant see it happening if they have already paid for a windows licence chances are they are staying on windows some may come across and that is a good thing as it grows the marketplace value but then again only if we are still getting native ports.

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Quoting: mirooh well, I am really not that happy as most people.

from now on I'm really afraid that too many publishers will use this as an excuse not to provide native linux builds in case it runs "well enough" with proton/wine.

since this is now to be built-in, most people will not have to understand what wine even is, they will take the running binary for granted. hence what is to expect is less performance and continuous direct x instead of opengl or vulkan

this would totally be acceptable for older/legacy titles, but I really think too many will jump on that train that it runs with proton and that there is no need to compile it for linux.
we'll see.

Yeah i said the same before and yes big game devs will absolutely jump on this the ones that had fuck all intention of porting to Linux such as Bethesda and ID i think it is very telling that one of the first major q and q answers Valve put out was no if you dont support linux you can continue to not support linux. Despite what others may say on this forum no that is not a good thing

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Awesome the rumours are true that is an odd mix of games to kick things off but Doom(technically) on linux cant be mad about that

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Its not the voltage thats the problem its the 24/7 running until they stop working thats the problem now it can be minor and you can solve the issues by taking the card apart cleaning the gpu and applying fresh thermal paste and you could end up with fully fuctional card or you could end up with a card that keeps cutting out everytime you start to game.

Running a card 24/7 is way less stressful on those components, because you don't have changing temps and therefor no heat expansion/contraction all the time.

Mmm again depends on how the components are being treated buying a mining card is a crapshoot with some tlc you could get lucky you could also end up with a non functioning pos

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Yeah check youtube budget channel focused F7GOS talks about how damaged a mining card could be and overclocking does damage the card long term because you are pushing it above its limits they arent set to the factory speed they are set to for shits and giggles.

As I said, miners don't overvolt, they undervolt. As far as they can. That is the key point to make money with mining. Frequency alone doesn't kill anything as far as I know.

Its not the voltage thats the problem its the 24/7 running until they stop working thats the problem now it can be minor and you can solve the issues by taking the card apart cleaning the gpu and applying fresh thermal paste and you could end up with fully fuctional card or you could end up with a card that keeps cutting out everytime you start to game.

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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon does work under wine via lutris but of course its all money that ms gets a percentage of if you buy it under windows. As for the main game if they have been radio silent since 2015 did the backer demo come out of for linux because if it didnt chances are once again its another promised but forgotten port.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloMany seem to be afraid of getting used cards that got overclocked. Personally, I think computer parts have no moving parts (fans excluded), so this rule doesn't really apply to them. They either work or not. Computer parts generally stall themselves if they get too hot. Is it known that GPUs die earlier if they are overclocked? I never heard about that. Are there sources?

Yeah check youtube budget channel focused F7GOS talks about how damaged a mining card could be and overclocking does damage the card long term because you are pushing it above its limits they arent set to the factory speed they are set to for shits and giggles.

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääBoycott Nvidia now!

Yeah except there are no other real options, at least when you go past 1060GTX performance level!!!!!

When there is no alternatives then boycotts are VERY hard to do, your asking people to accept a more expensive and MUCH slower option (Vega)!!!!

You are on a Linux gaming website. Please enlighten us, what do you absolutely need a gpu better than the Rx580/GTX 1060 for? Running Graveyard Keeper at 4k and 600fps?

Even on windows the vast majority of people have no need for anything better than an Rx570 with 4gb vram. Most monitors are 1080p.

Nvidia is great at producing halo products that nobody needs then proceed to have 2x the marketshare for their inferior low and mid range products, based on this fact alone.

I can understand when windows users fall for this, but seeing all this Nvidia love on a gaming on linux site makes me cringe. Even if AMD gpus had 10% worse price/performance ratio, a proper linux gamer should still buy them because of the open source support. You should vote with your wallets and as long as you vote for companies that are abusing their market dominance and don't give a shit about open source, things will never change.

I don't believe any of that true linux gamer a true linux gamer is someone who chooses to game on linux the end. I dont care if they are using open source or proprietary drivers just use whatever works for you in the price range you can afford. Nvidia whether you like them or not basically either outperform or have parity with amd at every price point there is no card in AMD aresnal you could point at and say nvidia doesnt have an answer for that. Also the one area AMD could compete on ie price they dont if you were on a budget at the minute and say you had 130 pounds about 155 usd to spend on a graphics card you could either get an RX 550 (basically a gt 1030) new or a gt 1030 for 125 pounds so you would have change, nvidia not only have the performance they have price too and that should not be the case. Now am sure some people would say of well a true linux person would buy the underdog card no nodbody shops like that nobody says oh please let me have worse price performance model.

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Quoting: 14$500 for the least expensive one. No thanks.

Believe me when I say that I spend 80% or more of my gaming time on PC. Still, I can't convince myself that a $500 video card is worth it when you can buy an entire console gaming system for $300. Come on.

You are not wrong, but a console has many many drawbacks but that has always been the downside of pc gaming yes it offers a far superior gaming experience than a console however upgrading a pc is expensive if you intend to keep it bleeding edge however a console is a one and done expense. But given a 750 ti @ 1080p either out performs or performs the same as a base xbox 1 and ps4 given most console games the equivlent pc setting is either med/high but in some more demanding games when its upscaled from 900p like last of us remastered its more like 1600x900 high.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI'm still getting by with a Nvidia GTX 760. I really think devs should spend more time with the visual design of the graphics and the world, instead of just using bigger textures and more polygons. What good is it when the technical quality of the graphics is high, but it is just a computery copy of the real world?

(And my pet peeve: Why are so many games still look like everything is painted in shiny clear coat? Dear devs, you don't have to turn those effects up to 11.)

Beacuse it is the video game equivlent of lense flare and JJ abrams hasnt stopped it so video game devs wont either, Same still annoyed about the piss filter on deus ex human rev

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