Quoting: Oet_ 
Engine version: q2rtx 1.6.0-HEAD-701cf31, built on Jan 20 2022

Quake II RTX won't start:
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FATAL: No ray tracing capable GPU found.
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I have an AMD Radeon 6900XT and this works:
$ vulkaninfo
What am I missing here?

I was able to launch the game. First of all, I updated Mesa to 21.3.4 (raytracing support is relatively new, so better to have up to date Mesa, not sure if I should update kernel too). Next I added RADV_PERFTEST=rt %command% to the games launch options.

That was the good news. I get 10 FPS and graphics are very buggy. There's just few big triangles and some garbage.

Not that the vulkaninfo output shows lot of raytracing related extensions:
VkPhysicalDeviceRayTracingPipelineFeaturesKHR:
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        rayTracingPipeline                                    = true
        rayTracingPipelineShaderGroupHandleCaptureReplay      = false
        rayTracingPipelineShaderGroupHandleCaptureReplayMixed = false
        rayTracingPipelineTraceRaysIndirect                   = false
        rayTraversalPrimitiveCulling                          = false

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Just some of the titles that could benefit include:

Apex Legends
Back 4 Blood
Dead By Daylight
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
New World
Paladins
Rust
Warhammer: Vermintide 2

How does a compiler benefit from anti-cheat though?

Enabling anti-cheat in Rust turns it into C?

Programming in Rust enables few cheat codes, like thread and memory safety. With those enabled, it's possible to speedrun program development (assuming that target is to get stable program) and that's not fair.

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelijaWhen I look at the Steam catalogue and look at games like Tooth and Tail, The Riftbreaker, Blasphemous, Dead Cells, Hollow Knight.. in fact all indie "something-Knight"'s, etc.
I see more appeal for playing them in a handheld console and at the same time, I think the console increases the appeal of these games.
I mean I would play most them in my phone if I could, and if my phone had a gamepad.

That would be Nokia N-Gage. Not very popular product though and was discontinued back in 2006. Symbian did have some games, even commercial ones.

Android phones seem to have gamepad attachments though, which I'm even less familiar with. There's even some indie games without microtransactions available.

I guess Steam Deck can somewhat act as a phone as these days regular phone calls are rare. If Facebook and Twitter work, that's quite lot of things done on a phone covered.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: F.UltraWhich could be either Feral not selling enough of HITMAN to make it interesting to also port 2 or that IO refused to sell the Linux rights to Feral (or they demanded a too high price for the license).

Probably a mix of things. I saw a developer at IO tweet directly about HITMAN 2 running in Proton so they probably didn't see a need to partner with Feral on it.

That's something that must have happened with several developers and publishers when Proton came out.

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Quoting: Mountain ManWith all these game give-aways, I have nearly 40 games in my GOG library, and can't remember the last time I actually bought a game from them.

I think it as backup library in case for some odd reason Steam goes away. Though I have plenty of games via Humble Bundle too and not all of them are Steam keys.

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Quoting: AnzaPS: GOG doesn't seem to have Wrath of the Necromancer DLC as separate DLC (it is included in the Necromancer Edition though), which is bit of a shame as that DLC adds more content and has different ending to the story

This one? https://www.gog.com/game/iratus_wrath_of_the_necromancer [External Link]

Good that it's there. GOG is bit confusing. Game page has DLC list, but it doesn't list it. It's however linked separately right at beginning of the description.

I guess I'm spoiled by Steam :smile:

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: AnzaThough actual Nethack does have graphical tilesets (I guess being open source has helped a lot).

There was even an isometric version, called Falcons Eye. Development stopped ages ago unfortunately.

Vulture seems to be actively maintained. It's sold on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/341390/Vulture_for_NetHack/ [External Link]

You can get it for free if you compile it from source code. Haven't tried it myself.

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Quoting: scaineI'd love to have seen this fleshed out a little graphically. I do love a bit of nostalgia, but MUDs were around in the late 80's (probably earlier, but that's when I came across them) and even back then, I'd have preferred some kind of vague pixel representation, rather than letters.

Nethack at least has bit of problem that if you don't check descriptions of the characters, what you think is cute doggie might be actually a dragon.

Though actual Nethack does have graphical tilesets (I guess being open source has helped a lot).

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Iratus is good fun. Voice acting by Stephan Weyte makes it even more fun. Battles are more fun when the enemy is mocked during the battle by the protagonist, the maniacal necromancer.

If you have played Darkest Dungeon or Legend of Keepers, gameplay should be already familiar. I haven't thought better term for the subgenre than line based battler. Compared to some JRPG clones that I have played, things are bit more lively as position in the line does matter and doesn't stay static. Characters usually have different abilities based on the position in the line, so if enemy pushes you around, you might have to rethink things over.

Iratus just happens to one that made those type of games really accessible, but still challenging enough just repeating same attack over and over gain does not always work. Some enemies are easier if you just take closer look at your minions and their abilities.

PS: GOG doesn't seem to have Wrath of the Necromancer DLC as separate DLC (it is included in the Necromancer Edition though), which is bit of a shame as that DLC adds more content and has different ending to the story

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: ShmerlSwitched to 180 Hz display recently. Interestingly, there are more users with 240 Hz displays here than with 180 Hz ones. I guess it's an uncommon value (it's really 165 Hz one but with built on overclock to 180).

yeah, i have 170hz monitor, so i just chose the 165hz option as this is close enough. Lots of weirdly overclocked monitors for whatever reason.. like does it really matter if its 144 or 180 ..i guess higher the number the better it looks for some lol

I guess at least the specifications look better with higher numbers :smile:

E-sports players might even get slight advantage from higher refresh rate, but even with that there's must be limit somewhere. Regular gamers won't see any benefit in reaction times, so investing into more expensive display for that reason alone is not worth it.

Thing with overclocked displays though is that they might have ghosting. There are tests that can show that quite clearly with high speed camera. Cheaper alternative is to find review where that has been tested. I guess that's more useful when you're thinking about buying new monitor. If you bough the monitor already, you will stay happier if you don't check the reviews.

I wonder if anybody has done tests if people can tell the refresh rates apart. Could be interesting.

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