Quoting: jensYou called their management people jerks, so I guess you ever talked to one of them and can justify your statement?

I did. Because they are not upstreaming their kernel driver and preventing nouveau from doing it for them efficiently.

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Quoting: jensSo you had an interview with somebody from the Nvidia management?

It's not developers' decision, or you expected otherwise for some reason? Actual Nvidia Linux developers said as much, that it's their management that has to do something for better collaboration.

And it is jerk behavior from that management, either we move on or it, we should call it what it is.

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Quoting: tpauI still wonder why they don't go the AMD way and share development of the base driver with the opensource community

Because it's Nvidia. Their managements are jerks and don't get what open source collaboration is. Otherwise they would have opened their kernel driver already.

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Quoting: rkfgI'm sad anyway every time an abstraction leaks, in this case the driver/Vulkan abstraction. If you thinkg about it, most of the bad things in our world happen due to some interface not being sufficiently abstract from the implementation.

Vulkan doesn't enforce memory allocation approach for example. And that can have a huge impact on performance. So I wouldn't say it's leaking driver abstraction.

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I'm very curious what they mean by the "industry interest", especially since they're not giving out real details on that.

I suspect something like this: https://gpuopen.com/presentation-porting-engine-to-vulkan-dx12/ [External Link]

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I don't really care about "mostly negative reviews" metric. But some examples of what is actually wrong with it could be useful :) Good to know they improved saves mechanics. I'm a backer, so still waiting for GOG release anyway.

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It still missing the promised GOG release.

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Yep, that's good now! Notable that Vega usage started growing around the same time prices on cards started normalizing, when cryptocurrency boom was over.

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Quoting: marcusProbably nothing. In the end it may not be worth it for them with it working quite well in Proton.

It may be working well in Wine / Proton without their involvement, but it's a reputation issue. They promised Linux release and blew it. It wasn't exactly their fault, since Cry Engine version they used had low quality Linux support, but now they have a relatively easy way to actually keep their promise, utilizing the very fact that it's working well in Wine.

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Quoting: marcusThat really sucks. I remember when I backed Kingdom Come: Deliverance and they announced they can not deliver the Linux version. (A good game btw. My wife plays it using Proton). Warhorse were very helpful, apologetic and friendly about the refund.

What stops them from making a Wine based official Linux release now?

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