Because I only use DRM-free stores.

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Quoting: dudeBut, let's also think about Larian Studios and Hello Games (though UK left the EU).

You can ask Larian to release Baldur's Gate 3 on Linux here [External Link].

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Quoting: HoriAnd what's the alternative?
AMD is the only competitor and it's way too expensive.

Not sure how you can compare prices for not yet released cards. Regular prices for comparable cards for AMD are actually lower than for Nvidia.

And AMD cards don't really lack any features that I care about.

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Waiting for the GOG release.

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What is interesting is AV1 support. AMD shouldn't slack with that and should add AV1 to RDNA 2 cards.

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Quoting: aokamiThat's quite interesting, could you elaborate on that please ? :grin:

dmabuf is a Linux kernel API that allows sharing memory buffers between CPU and GPU:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/dma-buf.html [External Link]

In order to effectively use hardware video decoding, you need something like that. Open source drivers can use it fine. Nvidia blob can't use it, since it requires GPL compatibility.

Firefox is using dma-buf for hardware video acceleration over VAAPI, which works fine with AMD and Intel (and Nvidia with Nouveau). It doesn't work with the blob.

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Oh, an interesting tidbit. Firefox started supporting VAAPI hardware accelerated video decoding both on Wayland and X11 now. But it won't work on Nvidia blob due to it lacking dmabuf support.

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I'm waiting for RDNA 2 as well. Even if Nvidia will claim 3x increase in performance, it won't impress me until they'll upstream their drivers.

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2x performance increase claim sounds very bold. Let's wait for benchmarks.

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What about GOG? The base game is there: https://www.gog.com/game/observer [External Link]

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