Quoting: slaapliedjeI think I've decided I am going to attempt an AMD RX6800 XT as well. The big question is... where can you get one? :P

I'm waiting for Sapphire to release their Pulse model of RX 6800 XT. But I don't think it will be available anywhere until next year at least.

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I think there will be demanding games that will benefit from high end cards even on 2560x1440, not just on 4K. After some analysis, I'm planning to get RX 6800 XT to be able eventually to play Cyberpunk 2077 on high settings with 2560x1440.

Also note, that apparently vkd3d-proton performance with Nvidia is not good, unlike with AMD. Phoronix tests don't really cover vkd3d-proton and dxvk in general, meaning those benchmarks don't tell the real story you'll be experiencing if you are using Wine / Proton, which is potentially a big amount of games. This will become more and more critical if there will be more games using DX12, which unfortunately is the current trend.

The real issue now is availability. I suspect there won't be any new cards available until next year.

Quoting: KimyrielleIs there still a reason to go for NVidia rather than AMD these days? I am shopping around for a new system too, but have basically ruled out NVidia, because AMD seems to be the much better deal these days, and getting rid of their proprietary driver rubbish is an added plus.

I don't think there is any reason to use it for gaming on Linux these days. The only ones who might have a strong reason to use Nvidia on Linux are those who are stuck with something that's using CUDA lock-in and can't easily migrate from it.

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I find annoyance at calling Wine - Windows emulation silly at best. Simply no reason to spend time on splitting hairs with this. Those who want to know what Wine is can find out and would need to do some research anyway.

It's a complex combination of different tools, so a description that highlights its main goal - i.e. imitation of Windows (emulation of it) is perfectly fine in my opinion.

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I also don't see why it's such terrible thing to use even more original meaning of the word emulation ;) Hardware emulation doesn't define every other use.

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Especially since we have stuff like appimage and tons of other ways to make one binary work everywhere.

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Why can't they make one binary that works in all stores?

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Reminds me Helium Rain [External Link] a bit.

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Quoting: Liam DaweIt has now been released on itch.io [External Link].

Thanks for the heads up!

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Yeah. Whether emulator decreases performance or not is inconsequential. May be your method of emulation is so efficient, that it makes it even faster than the original. Emulation itself doesn't imply any performance specifics. It just refers to the copying of behavior.

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Sure. I'd call it emulation. Synonym - copy, imitate, mimic, behave like.

Wine tries to behave like Windows (copies Windows behavior for the program). It does that translating the calls sure, but it still copies Windows behavior = emulates Windows.

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