I suspect most people never change the defaults, so just set the defaults to the "desirable" settings, and let those who wish to customize do so?

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Quoting: fagnerlnThis game worked on the past because it used DX11, after some updates they cut off the DX11 version, now it runs only DX12

Ah, so that's not really a Proton problem, but rather that the game itself changed. It's the game developers that removed / broke support for users without DX12. No less frustrating for you, but hardly a reason to complain about Proton development.

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Quoting: leillo1975This game worked on past. I think they should be a little more concerned about not messing up some games to make others work. I spent my money on that game and now I can't enjoy it.

That's why it's handy to be able to switch between multiple Proton versions. It would be handy if they had a "community recommended" Proton version, and allowed voting (sort of like the Steam Controller profiles).

Quoting: LoftyIt's probably based on a logical hash of some sort and not a random number. Im going to get schooled shortly on posting this :unsure:

LOL! It's a git commit, which is a hash, yes. If you don't know what it is (and don't want to sort it out), then it's not for you, other than to know a stable release will have it eventually.

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Quoting: GuestLinux needs more code quality control in the first place

I think good code reviews are under-appreciated. As someone who spends quite a bit of time reviewing other people's code submissions to see what they need to improve/fix, I can tell you it's way less "fun" than writing code yourself. Sometimes it's interesting to see how someone does something clever, but most of the time it's "should I just rewrite this myself, or take the time to explain why it's wrong?"

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Apogee was the original name (1987), 3D Realms came later (1994):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Realms [External Link]

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Isn't the 390 series too old to support any RTX chipsets? Sounds like (at least one of) the bugs have been around for quite some time.

Edit: maybe they updated the page since the article was written, but they do list GeForce as well as "NVIDIA RTX/Quadro, NVS"
Also, you can see that R390 was only affected by one of the issues, so perhaps the other only affects newer hardware; the CVE description is too vague to tell for sure.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyDo the NVIDIA drivers support ray-tracing yet?

Since before there were official Vulkan extensions for it. Quake II RTX in the screenshot above was released by Nvidia.

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Awesome! I would love to win a key!

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Quoting: robvvI hadn't played an FMV game since Phantasmagoria

Ah, that one and Gabriel Knight: A Beast Within were awesome! Sierra didn't make very many before they switched over to cartoon style animation (too expensive to make, probably), but I thought it was some of their best work. The Tex Murphy games were also great.

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Aspyr started doing this (remasters, publishing) shortly before they all but disappeared. :(
Let's hope Feral survives better than they did.

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