I love how a 2016 GPU (GTX 1060) can't run this game (and most DX12 games) because it lacks something hardware-side, and it's "unfixable", but a 2014 card can -at least in theory- by emulating some functions. So it's possible to get around some artificial limitations.

Sadly VKD3D team can't/doesn't want to do something similar.

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I got the OG game somehow... and totally forgot about it... until a couple days ago, when I was greeted by a banner in my Steam library view saying that this game was available and ready to download.

Worth a try I guess.

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@hardpenguin That "mystery" is called Micro$oft...

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So that thing is still rendering full teeth for NPCs that are FAR FAR AWAY, car engines and such???

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I tried the Linux build from the artifacts but it crashes, debugging it from the terminal, it recursively scans all directories starting from the level the AppImage is located in (I guess, trying to locate the OTR files) until it throws a ILLEGAL STORAGE ACCESS and therefore crashes.

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Nice!! But they can make more for accesibility by not blocking their games on Steam Deck/Linux

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: enigmaxg28 PCI-E Gen 5 drives in a RAID setup

excuse me wtf?

and looking past whatever insanity this statement is, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yes big speedy storage is dirt cheap and has been for AGES. You can get a 1tb gen4 drive right now for $50-60 if you pick up a sale. That is big, and speedy, and cheap. That's about the cost of a single aaa game these days.

I have a few others things to say as well, getting some stuff off my chest!

Quoting: CyrilLiam, like many people here, you have a monster of a PC, of course you don't care about snaps in performance aspects.

Liam does have a good computer (same specs I have) but I built my pc in 2020, which is coming up on 5 years old pretty soon. The specs he and I are running are nowhere near top of the line. Saying he doesn't care about performance on his system isn't fair at all. And it doesn't even really make sense. Of course he cares about performance, we all do.

Quoting: CaldathrasI like Pop!_OS because its semi-rolling nature and also because it is Ubuntu-based.

Does anyone have any thoughts on why ubuntu based distros use ubuntu as their base instead of straight debian (which ubuntu itself is based off of) ...? Mint offers a debian based option. I wonder why Pop doesn't? Seems forking a fork would be a development nightmare wouldn't it?

1TB is not big anymore...

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Liam DaweThis "bloat" is not something normies care about, only pedantic people who like to watch a few extra MBs get used up. The reality is: only a few people really care.

Liam, like many people here, you have a monster of a PC, of course you don't care about snaps in performance aspects.
But in reality, not only your reality, when your low-end computer slow down because of snaps (it worked perfectly fine before), I assure you: you care.
And when because of that, you think about buying new hardware, I assure you: you care.
In the end it's just more waste (we surely don't need that) for zero benefit of using snaps for normies (as you say).
Microsoft do this kind of shit to force people to buy new hardware, people complain about that and some did installed Linux, we don't need Linux distribution doing the same as Microsoft for "reasons" that only make sense (globally) for Canonical.
It's just crazy to pretend there is no problem about that, and worse: that it only concern pedantic people...
I hope there are people who understands me, as it seems nobody in the comments mentioned that until now.

Computers don't slow down from snaps, that's an odd thing to claim.

As for storage space, that's only really an issue on truly low-end stuff, which you're not going to be using a whole lot of anything on anyway.

Big storage has been cheap for a long time now. It's a small price to pay for a one-package-fits-all approach that both Snaps and Flatpaks do and both package types are being improved all the time.

The more snaps you have installed, the slower the boot time is. If you have 8 PCI-E Gen 5 drives in a RAID setup, obviously you won't care. Big storage is cheap, Big SPEEDY storage is not.

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Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: dpanterNever Manjaro for any reason, ever, at all. Do not. Ever.

The distaste for Manjaro on this site knows no bounds. I'm indifferent towards it, but I can appreciate the passion against it. 🔥

What's exactly the fuzz around that? I left Manjaro because they were slow in delivering new Plasma, Frameworks and driver updates, and jumped to Endeavour, just only for that issue, I don't have anything against Manjaro.

Talking about the OP: I wouldn't recommed anything *buntu, let alone a LTS to any hardcore gamer, games are a different kind of beast and ofter if not all times, require the latest and greatest™ not only in hardware but in software as well.

You need a rolling-release to keep in pace with gaming fast evolution, anything of this should suffice: Manjaro, Endeavour, Garuda, Nobara. I get it, arch-based and fedora-based (mostly the former) can be daunting for some people, but it's the best way to enjoy Linux gaming.

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So it's ARK with an Horizon skin... I guess the only good thing about it will be the latter.

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