AMD GPUs are almost at 1/3 of GOL stats. Growing well.

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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLWitcher 1 is now fully playable?

It's been playable with d9vk for some time already.

See: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/3463

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What's the story with GOG by the way? Developers suddenly just pulled the game from there at one point.

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Impressive pixel art. Did they say anything about GOG / itch release?

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Quoting: YoRHa-2Boff-line compilation = shipping pre-compiled binaries for your GPU. You'd do this on consoles.

I guess it helps them avoid this stutter and need for caching, but it also has a major downside - games break on each new console generation (assuming it has new GPU generation too), unless developers recompile them. It's also what held AMD back from going all the way from scratch in RDNA, requiring them to provide backwards compatibility for GCN microarchitecture - requirement from console makers not to break old games.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkI do not see how you think optical media is worse than hard drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot [External Link]

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Yeah, there is this [External Link]:

TSMC has announced a threefold increase in its delivery lead times for 7 nm orders, from two months to nearly six months, which means that orders will now have to wait three times longer to be fulfilled than they once did. This means that current channel supplies and orders made after the decision from TSMC will take longer to materialize in actual silicon, which may lead to availability slumps should demand increase or maintain.

On a side note, AMD might partner with Samsung to use their fabs as well.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13578/naples-rome-milan-zen-4-an-interview-with-amd-cto-mark-papermaster [External Link]

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Yeah, my general impression - they are very cheap about support issues. Which is not appropriate for developers.

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I got 3900X, but it was hard. They appear for a short time in stores, and are gone in minutes. So unless you catch those periods, they are basically all the time out of stock. May be with 3950X coming out, demand on 3900X will go down.

This can be useful: https://www.nowinstock.net/computers/processors/amd/ [External Link]

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkI get this... and I'm not saying I don't have digital games myself, but still... I have CDs I bought in the early 90s that I can still read data off of. How many hard drives can you say the same for?

Consider yourself lucky, but don't think it's a reliable method of storage. Optical discs deteriorate with time, and are a lot more error prone than hard drives which in contrast are built to last for many years.

Quoting: ObsidianBlkAlso, depending on the size of your collection (and the size of the games within your collection), that huge hard drive may still only store about a hundred or so (thinking ~50gb sized games these days).

Not all games are 50 GB. But let's say they are and let's say you have 8 TB hard drive (around $200 these days). That will fit 160 of such games? If you need more, you can get even bigger hard drives (14 TB for example), or get several. Still a lot easier than managing a whole pile of optical disks to hold the same amount of data. If you need backups, get a NAS.

So no, you don't need to give up on actual ownership. You should just use the right tools for it.

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