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Latest Comments by WJMazepas
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation lib VKD3D-Proton 2.2 is out, prepares DirectX Raytracing
22 Feb 2021 at 3:45 am UTC

Seems like Cyberpunk 2077 should work better overall now too, as they mentioned their inability to reproduce a previous GPU hang. It's not clear if the game was fixed or if their work in VKD3D-Proton with a "memory allocation rewrite in 2.2" fixed it. Either way it seems to work okay now.

Boy do i know this type of bug. It's solved but you dont know how that happen so the fear of that bug returning is big.

Also it's kinda hard to explain to other people on the team that the bug dissapear but you dont know how

CrossCode: A New Home expansion announced for February 26
18 Feb 2021 at 11:58 am UTC

I liked this game but after 30h playing i just got tired of it.

Especially tired of the dungeons

Atari VCS games really are just plain Linux desktop builds
30 Dec 2020 at 1:18 am UTC

Quoting: fagnerln
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: RafiLinux
Quoting: slaapliedjeAnything in particular you'd like to see?
Installing the other OS options - Loading my GOG/other DRM Free game collection.
That should work fine. I'll see about slapping Lutris on there tonight. So far I've tested Debian Sid with Mad Max (plays using the Experimental Vulkan on High with a little bit of hiccups here and there, but otherwise pretty smooth at 1280x720). I installed Doom (2016) to test proton, but it was taking it's time to download the 59gb...

I've also ran PCSX2 and Dolphin on it with decent results.
To be fair, it's a bit disappointing 720p with hiccups on MadMax, 1080@30fps would be nice. They are using an APU like R3 2200G?
It's a R3 2200U, which is 2 Cores/4 Threads and Vega 3 so its running on par with the specs

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
10 Dec 2020 at 1:45 am UTC

Quoting: einherjar
Quoting: Wernergreat news, but i ordered it on stadia, since finally it started in my country, i wanted to test it anyway and because they make a nice gift, if you buy Cyberpunk, you will get the Stadia Premiere Edition for free, so the game is free :). If the game is really that good then i will buy it later when all bugs are fixed and all dlc are released on Gog :).
Hmm why not buying on Steam? I mean, who made it possible to play it on Linux?
Stadia version is using Wine? Didnt CDPR ported to Stadia

Metro Exodus is still planned to release for Linux and macOS
25 Nov 2020 at 4:39 pm UTC

Quoting: 3zekiel
Quoting: omer666Be assured that as soon as it's released natively on Linux, it's an insta-buy for me.
Same here, and I have good hope it will support RTX! For when I finally can land an rtx 3080 in 2022 :)
Now with Vulkan having the Ray Tracing extensions, they probably will support

TUXEDO announce the InfinityBook S 14 with Intel Tiger Lake and Intel Xe
21 Nov 2020 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 4

Honestly 8GB of RAM is not that bad. Actually, it's enough for web browsing, zoom and etc so for most people would be fine.

I'm still impressed with those 4GB laptops with Windows 10. Windows alone eats 2GB of RAM so the user can only open some tabs in Chrome before the performance suffers

Facebook are now funding the open source 3D creation suite Blender
20 Nov 2020 at 8:38 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pete910Why Fakebook, Trying to see the connection :neutral:
They have a lot of investiment in gaming these days with Facebook Gaming and Oculus

AMD Radeon RX 6800 and the RX 6800 XT are out today
18 Nov 2020 at 4:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Lord_Phoenix
Quoting: ShmerlCustom models will come out on November 25th.
I don't see much value this time around (with RTX3000 and RX6000 series) in AOB versions of the cards. Probably with nVidia you get a normal power connectors and better cooling, but for AMD...I'm not sure, it looks like reference design is very efficient (read silent/cool (as in temp.)). But OC-wise, reference designs are running very close to the limits already, so...

As for me, I'm still a bit torn between 6800 and 6800XT, I'm not running 4K setup, only 2K, but I'd like some head room for a few years...my Ryzen 5900X is on a back order for God know how long, so I still have time to decide, I guess. I'm finally going AMD for Graphics, last time that happened it was Radeon 9550...
Go with the 6800XT.
Has a better performance per dollar and the difference in price between then its not that big

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2
4 Nov 2020 at 12:24 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: WJMazepas
Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: TheLinuxPlebIs there going to be any ARM version? I think i saw somewhere that this is x86 only.
Pretty sure PCSX2 is all open source, so in theory just needs a recompile. I don't think it's one of those emulators that are coded in a way they won't even work on 64bit systems.
Unfornately is not that easy. Until today, there isnt a PCSX2 port for ARM until today. The only that i know is the Damon PS2 that is available on Android
Interesting.
On that note, I was just wondering why we haven't ever seen any of the higher end SoC makers release SBCs out there like the Pi. I mean some of the cell phones are getting crazy performance, and would make excellent mini computers. Granted I know most of them use closed source blobs for graphics, but the performance of them is pretty nice. I mean Apple thinks it is time, why not Qualcomm?
They probably dont release due to costs. The public that needs a high performance SBC is really small and is willing to pay a lot for it, so you see cases like the Jetson Xavier [External Link] which is pretty expensive.
At this price, just makes more sense to buy a small PC

RetroArch will soon get the PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2
3 Nov 2020 at 6:44 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: TheLinuxPlebIs there going to be any ARM version? I think i saw somewhere that this is x86 only.
Pretty sure PCSX2 is all open source, so in theory just needs a recompile. I don't think it's one of those emulators that are coded in a way they won't even work on 64bit systems.
Unfornately is not that easy. Until today, there isnt a PCSX2 port for ARM. The only that i know is the Damon PS2 that is available on Android