For those on Arch, I maintain the unrealtournament4 AUR package, which is the zip epic releases, packed into an AUR package with the changes listed in this article, for easy installation.

it is too big to install using pacaur or yaourt because of default /tmp size limits, so you will want to go to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/unrealtournament4/ [External Link], download the snapshot, extract it somewhere then run makepkg -i

enjoy :)

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Quoting: ArehandoroCould this lead to more ports of old/legacy games and, eventually, a discontinuation/lose purpose of Wine for games?

its designed as a windows dll which can be run with wine, which would allow programs running in wine to use that dll and send the vulkan translations to wine

basically its doing what wine does for dx9->ogl, except it works with wine and without having to recreate wine from the ground up since wine has native vulkan support, the dll would do the dx9->vk translations and wine would just read the translations instead of doing the translations itself. and because its in vulkan and not ogl it would ideally give better performance.

if anything it would be a neat add in for wine or even eventual part of wine like wine-staging's csmt

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Quoting: shigutsonice! any chance to get this discount on amazon?

Amazon is price matching it right now :o

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: GloriousEggrollif you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch

I'm pretty sure it's a bad combo of the new nvidia drivers + the settings I had on my previous nvidia-settings + my older kernel (the original one packed with 18.1 cinnamon) + cinnamon itself.

Seems like it's a common issue with cinnamon, so when I get home from work I'm going to stick XFCE on there and see how that fares, and if that works ok then I'll update my kernel (pretty sure that'll fix it) and try cinnamon again.

If that doesn't work I'll try installing 381.22 manually (Which I used to do, but after I added the nvidia PPA I got lazy with Mint's driver manager as, before now, had always worked flawlessly).

I've been told more recently that mint isn't as good as it used to be and the devs sometimes can't keep packages maintained properly. Not what I know, nor fact, nor am I aiming to offend, just what I've been told by a few friends. Better off going with one of the *buntu suites for now if you want to stay debian based and have stability, but then again wiping and reinstalling things is never fun. Another solid choice for stability might be Fedora 25. Arch and Antergos are bleeding edge and are great for me, but you do have to troubleshoot often when package updates go awry (albeit not very often)

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Quoting: GuestGreat, the new 381.22 driver borked my x server (installed it via 18.1 Mint's driver manager too).

*sigh*

I don't have time for this, gotta mess around with it when I get home from work tonight. Basically after updating, I log in via the usual login screen and it goes straight to a black desktop with only a visible mouse cursor.

Gonna try reverting to 375.xx

if you have any nvidia kernel modules in mkinitcpio.conf and have any nvidia kernel settings (such as nvidia-drm.modeset=1), try removing them then re-run mkinitcpio -P (or reinstall the driver package as it usually runs this anyway). I had to do this to get 381.09 beta drivers to work in arch

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Quoting: metro2033fanboyI hope it aint the current 381 on their PPA, cause that one freezes my Mint a lot! ... EVGA 1060

PS: The one on Nvidia PPA is .09 and this one is .22 haha...waitinggggggggggggggggg

kernel problem maybe? I run 381.09 dkms beta on arch with 4.10 kernel with no problems, 980 ti

also I wonder if this will be compatible with libglvnd, as the beta drivers require nvidia-libgl but the older 378 driver works with libglvnd

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Just an update - this also breaks serious sam fusion update

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Fun story:
bought the whole stardocks 2016 bundle pack from g2a for my dad, which included several games he had on his wishlist (they sell a lot of the genres he enjoys)
bought g2a protection on it
it was one of the gifts for my dad for his birthday.
3 months later - all keys rejected, games removed from my dad's steam account. he called me to find out what was going on with it.
contacted g2a - got nothing. their $2 protection doesn't do squat.
on top of that I felt awful for one of my dad's gifts basically getting taken from him
I went on steam and bought the official bundle for him (again). Lesson learned.

Fun story #2:
Was streaming elder scrolls online, had a few friends who played other MMOS with me asking about it.
Told them it was on sale for cheap on G2A
friend goes and buys collectors edition for fairly cheap from them, buys the g2a protection. pays a sub for the game, gets his character to like lvl 30 or so over the next two weeks

one day he comes back, he finds he cant log into the game, but can access his account on the website.
he contacts bethesda support

--they removed his key (and all items related to that game key for his account) for the key not being legitimate.

He then contacts g2a to see if he can get reimbursed (at this point he doesnt want another key, he already lost the progress he made). g2a does nothing/does not reimburse him/blames it on the seller and says he has to work it out with the seller.

LESSON LEARNED: DON'T buy from g2a.

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It should be noted you can check your current governor setting with

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

this is useful for people using custom kernels such as linux-ck or linux-zen and are unsure what the default governor is set to.

on linux-zen mine was set to powersave

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side note, if you want web notifications (such as from twitchalerts), you can also install the qt webkit browser source plugin.

github source:
https://github.com/bazukas/obs-qtwebkit [External Link]

arch AUR:
pacaur -S obs-qtwebkit-git

then open obs, right click sources>add browser source and paste your url

side note #2: if you have an nvidia 600 series or higher gpu with the proprietary drivers, you can use nvenc to encode your stream in obs instead of x264, which is particularly useful if you don't have a strong cpu. nvenc uses dedicated encoding hardware on nvidia maxwell gpus (and higher) which does not take away from gpu performance. this is also what nvidia uses for shadowplay. amd has something similar as well which can also be used in OBS, but i don't remember the name of it.

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