Quoting: EhvisThe only thing that matters is that it is preferable to have open support for hardware.

Not preferable, required for proper Linux support. I.e. those who don't do it while having all resources to, are foul players in the Linux ecosystem. And Nvidia is such an example. Hypothetical speculation like "what if it was reversed" is pointless.

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Quoting: EhvisAnd AMD is doing the same thing. They open the trivial stuff, but keep other things they think are important. Like the actual shader compiler of the AMD driver.

They are companies, they do what suits them. AMD is no more ethical than NVidia is.

They might do what "suits them", but when it's anti-competitive junk, I don't get why Linux users jump to whitewash it.

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Quoting: GuestNot really, but it seems like it does have quite a few disadvantages.

What kind? The only reason Nvidia is not opening their driver is anti-competitive. I.e. they want leverage over server market. Are you whitewashing such kind of behavior? What Nvidia doing is disgusting, and not something Linux users should be accepting.

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Quoting: mylkagame options

I already disabled vsync. I'm testing drivers, so framerate is limited with highest setting.

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Quoting: CyrilMaybe with libstrangle [External Link]?

Interesting, but strange that it's not implemented as a Vulkan layer instead of explicit LD_PRELOAD.

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Quoting: mylkadisable VSYNC and use the FPS limiter (try 60)

I don't think radv implemented external framerate limiting yet. How do you do it?

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Just tested the game. It's using Vulkan. Looks like it became the default target for recent Unreal Engine versions, which is good!

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Performance though is pretty bad, due to Unreal Engine not using Vulkan effectively and frametimes being completely messed up.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerI refuse of it too... It's time consuming, stressful and altogether just awful! If i can't have a truly simple way to install something then it's "oh well" and move on. Really.

That's totally fine, there is no need to rush to use unpackaged tools. Eventually distro maintainers will package it, if they'll find it interesting, or someone asks them to. But it can take a long time in my experience, unless something becomes quite popular.

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Quoting: DuncWhile I agree that on a “consumer”-oriented distro nobody should ever have to install from source, I can't understand the attitude that refuses to learn. You might find it useful or interesting in the future.

I can understand, not everyone has the patience to do it, but for Linux users that's a good skill to have. Unlike Windows, Linux very much encourages stuff to be open source. And if you want to get access to something before it's packaged and released, building yourself is an option.

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Quoting: GuestNice idea but requiring the user to build from source is an instant turn off for me. Just package it up in one of the universal formats and distribute it properly. I'm not installing anything I have to build myself

You don't need to build from source, but one developer can't package for every distro. Ask your distro developers to package it for you if you need it.

And as a side note, you should learn how to build things from source and use that. You might need it in the future.

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