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Latest Comments by compsci101
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is officially coming to Linux in 2019
20 Nov 2018 at 9:16 pm UTC

@liamdawe: was there any mention of RTX / raytracing support? I might have a reason to upgrade if that's the case :)

Vulkan layer for Direct3D 11 & Wine 'DXVK' updated with fixes for Dark Souls 3, Overwatch & more
14 May 2018 at 3:10 pm UTC

To close the loop on this, it looks like the new shader compiler was the culprit after all. A little 360 of the camera to work through the initial recompilation hitches and everything was back to normal and working fine.

Thanks very much for the suggestion!

Quoting: scix
Quoting: compsci101Not sure if other folks are having problems, but this appears to have broken The Witcher 3 for me. Lots of graphical corruption and texture problems.

I run an up-to-date Arch with:
nvidia 396.24
dxvk 0.51
Probably due to Nvidia's new shader compiler. You can disable it with:
__GL_NextGenCompiler=0 wine <game exe> 

Vulkan layer for Direct3D 11 & Wine 'DXVK' updated with fixes for Dark Souls 3, Overwatch & more
14 May 2018 at 4:05 am UTC

Not sure if other folks are having problems, but this appears to have broken The Witcher 3 for me. Lots of graphical corruption and texture problems.

I run an up-to-date Arch with:
nvidia 396.24
dxvk 0.51

Linux desktop market share has hit another all time high above 3%, according to netmarketshare
1 Sep 2017 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 5

If the numbers can be attributed to Chromebooks, it's almost certainly because school is starting back up and students, more and more, are using personal Chromebooks in the classroom.

It would definitely make sense for a big spike in the last month.

What games do you want ported to Linux? Feral Interactive want to know again
11 Aug 2017 at 9:15 pm UTC Likes: 2

Witcher 3
Dishonored 2
Nier Automata
Street Fighter V

Wednesday Madness, a quick look at some good Linux gaming deals
3 May 2017 at 1:34 pm UTC

Age of Wonders III for $8 on Steam.

:D