So, I played a good few hours of Lightmatter on Proton from last month's bundle. Then I started and completed The Suicide of Rachel Foster.

After the article Liam ran, I turned to Superliminal and finished that. Now I'm a few hours into Carrion.

So two proton releases and two native. I'm more impressed by the latter so far, although both of the proton games were pretty good. Lightmatter tries to ape Portal's style a little too much, and the puzzles aren't quite as elegant, but it's fairly tight and enjoyable.

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Pretty sure that's a pause from me. We'll see. It's only a tenner I guess, but pretty much none of that interests me!

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Is this something we the average user should attempt to get running? Or is it more of a behind-the-scenes report on what's probably going to be baked into the next version of Proton (or ProtonGE)?

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I'm tempted to see if this helps 7 Days to Die performance. On OpenGL, at 4K on my 5700XT I'm lucky if I get 40fps. Luckily my system seems to like the Vulkan renderer which bumps me to 60fps (mostly...) but with this I could force the game's resolution back to 1920x1080, then use the integer scaling to view on the 4K desktop again?

That might be worth a shot, I reckon!

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Over 6 articles, every day for 31 days. Probably more, since I know you try to post less over the weekends, so more like 7 or 8+ articles a day. Just incredible. I'm not sure where you find time to pitch into the Discord and Forums too, all the while running the Reddit site, updating Twitter and keeping the 7 Days to Die server up to date. And probably a heap of stuff I don't use/see (like Telegram).

How do you do it?? Although, I'm very glad you do.

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Mainly, I'm just delighted to see AMD push out a card on a par with and hopefully exceeding Nivida's best offering. Nvidia have had a large chunk of the 20xx series and all of the 30xx series largely unchallenged. Great to see some real competition.

On a personal level, I've just bought my 5700XT and it plays every game I own at 4K with no hiccups (GOL Discord user, Michael, has a great series of videos demonstrating the 5700XT's 4K performance on their Youtube channel [External Link] - all the vids from about April onwards are the 5700XT), but who doesn't love a bit more power and future proofing? And that Ray Tracing... that's going to be big in the coming months and years. Unlike PhysX, Ray Tracing is properly cross-platform (or will be soon) and I think it's going to take off in a pretty big way.

I might take a look at upgrading early next year, assuming the prices don't sky rocket thanks to mining (again).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: WJMazepas

Quoting: GuestMy RTX 2080 is (barely) mid-tier 1440p card.

Cmon people, you guys are seriously giving attention to someone who says things like that?
It's a guy saying that you should not buy something because of your ideologies and is defending Nvidia at every possible chance

Do you have that card? Have you seen any benchmark for it? Do you even know how to choose a GPU? Probably no to all.

Wow, Lunix. You're a real piece of work. Please lighten the tone. Please. Please don't call people liars directly or indirectly. Please stop generalising everything into "for you" and "against you". Please.

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It's pretty clear that lunix hasn't used an AMD card on Linux and thinks that the Nvidia "way", which is quite similar to the Windows way is the only way. It's not. I don't have any AMD tools on my box. I hated wrestling with Nvidia-settings on my GTX1080. Even having to install a driver reminded me of Windows...

Frankly, I don't appreciate the condescending tone in your reply to my original comment either, lunix. I take into account open source drivers in my purchasing decisions, you don't. There's no need to make me sound like I'm somehow an idiot for doing so, is there?

But you go on. You imply that my (until an hour ago) top-of-the-range AMD card is "entry level" and can't power a 4K screen... I... what? It runs everything at 4K, 60fps, full settings, so far. Actually, I guess it's much more than that, since I bought this card for VR and I get 90Hz on both 1440 x 1600 eyes. And since the AMD driver is so far ahead of the Nvidia driver for VR, I get async reprojection for a smoother overall experience. It's quiet too.

And you imply I'm an idiot for running X, on a single display, instead of Wayland on multiple displays too? Jesus, gimme a break. I don't know how to respond to that, so I won't.

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Quoting: GuestEvery product is different and the ideology is the least important difference between them.

For you. Not for me. The ethos of a company, its ethical stance, and its impact on fostering a cultural shift to open methodologies is the single most important aspect of choosing my hardware. Then it's performance, then it's heat/noise/efficiency. Finally, its price comes into consideration.

It's weird to me that you're commenting on a Linux site and don't understand this, or somewhat buy into it. But I suppose as Linux increases in popularity, there will be more and more people like yourself who don't care about open standards (or least, care as much as others do).

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After what they did to Oculus, I'm gonna give this one a body swerve, as I suspect most Linux gamers would anyway. I agree with TheSHEEEP - we're not the target audience here.

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