How do you guys feel about buying on GoG instead of Steam?

I always buy on GOG to encourage DRM-free gaming.

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If anyone want to know about opengl situation, gl proposed extension is this:

GL_MESA_placed_allocation

Interesting. I can't find any actual Mesa work for that though. Was it submitted to Khronos?

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Can someone update me on the status of the WineWoW64? Haven't heard about that in a while now...

Recent builds of Wine ship this feature together with old Wow64. You can force the new mode at runtime with

WINEARCH=wow64

But it's not the default yet.

Features wise, the only major issue are 32-bit OpenGL scenarios. OpenGL is still missing some extensions that are required to allow decent performance.

That affects for example old DX7 games which have to go through wined3d and therefore through OpenGL. So for those games, 32-bit proper is still needed.

I asked Wine developers if anyone is working on such OpenGL extension, but no one responded. I assume not many really care about those games to prioritize that.

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Nice, congrats on clipboard support especially! I was waiting for that one for a long time.

However 32bit dependencies hell are gone with new wow64, only need 64bit development dependencies for build biarch wine:

./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64

I've been building it without 32-bit deps like that for a while already, so it doesn't look like this changed recently?

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I don't really see many games which are CPU bound for me anyway, most are limited by the GPU, so what exactly does benefit from more cache?

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Hmm:

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/amd-says-there-are-no-technical-reasons-for-not-having-an-x3d-processor-with-3d-v-cache-on-both-ccds-but-we-probably-wont-see-such-a-dual-stacked-chip-anyway/ [External Link]

Looks like they don't even plan it. Dealing with this asymmetry is a scheduling mess, so I'd rather go with symmetric ones even without extra cache.

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Are these new X3Ds still asymmetrical? I.e. extra cache only on half of the cores? I'd prefer a fully symmetrical one once they get to it.

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Blood West is pretty good!

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I consider all upscaling worthless, so no points for me. Awaiting some real world results!

Yeah, I'm not using upscaling either. It would be interesting to see the comparison of 7900 XTX and 9070 XT in non ray tracing scenarios.

Should've just axed the non-XT variant and worked on making a beefier XTX version instead.

I think they need the unified UDNA architecture for that which will happen in the next generation. I.e. they deliberately skipped XTX for this one from what I've heard for architectural reasons.

Some details here:

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-announces-unified-udna-gpu-architecture-bringing-rdna-and-cdna-together-to-take-on-nvidias-cuda-ecosystem [External Link]

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Hopefully it's not UE5

What else is there? Hopefully Godot can become high end enough, but seems like UE5 is the most common go to engine for those who don't develop their own. What's more surprising that even giants like CDPR went for it, instead of investing in their own.

That said, I'm looking forward to this one more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkICrJEVTjI [External Link]

UPDATE:

Ugh, what's going on with links - nothing works. Search for "The Blood of Dawnwalker — Cinematic Trailer"

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