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Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
25 Jun 2020 at 8:56 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweI've seen you ask this before so I'll answer: no they are not using Monado and Monado still has a long way to go. If they do end up using it, you can be sure it will see an article.
It's something I'd expect them to get behind like they did with Mesa (radv, aco etc.). Or they are already doing it just not using in the actual client yet?

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Jun 2020 at 6:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think refresh rate and adaptive sync are good questions for regular survey, not just a one month thing.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Jun 2020 at 6:02 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Liam DaweYeah, honestly that sounds like a fluff detail we don't really need.
Can you please add monitor refresh rate and usage of adaptive sync points? Those are directly gaming related and would be interesting to see, in addition to already existing resolution.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Jun 2020 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI have a Suggestion: How about a Section for the Init you use? Like systemd,openrc, runinit, s6...
That's a very edge question in relation to gaming. And I'll make a wild guess that the vast majority are using systemd anyway.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Jun 2020 at 5:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

AMD GPU usage in the last trend data: 37.54% and rising. That's pretty good.
The most popular GPU: still AMD RX 580.

Valve moves on from OpenVR, goes all-in with OpenXR for SteamVR
25 Jun 2020 at 5:40 pm UTC

Nice. Are they going to use Monado too for the actual implementation? And what exactly are they using now for OpenXR runtime, their own blob?

Oryx Pro is the first System76 laptop with Coreboot, Open Controller Firmware and NVIDIA
25 Jun 2020 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 12

Waiting for AMD based laptop with Coreboot.

Mesa 20.2 driver update due hopefully by the end of August
24 Jun 2020 at 6:03 pm UTC Likes: 5

There is some interesting project history overview there. Good thing AMD and Intel got behind Mesa even for their official drivers. Only Nvidia and mobile GPU makers are outliers today.

Google announce 4 Stadia Pro titles for July, plus new titles landing today
23 Jun 2020 at 9:52 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubiUnity does, yes.
Does it use Vulkan now by default for all Linux games? I've seen recent Unity games still using OpenGL.

Google announce 4 Stadia Pro titles for July, plus new titles landing today
23 Jun 2020 at 7:11 pm UTC

So West of Loathing now comes with Vulkan renderer?