After fiddling with RBDOOM-3-BFG, I made it work decently well, inclusing using the high res mod. You can also apply this patch [External Link] for proper XDG base directory support.

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Quoting: ziabicePlease, can someone explain what does it mean "OpenGL Core Contenxt"? Does it mean that I could finally run Rage or Wolfenstein The New Order using Mesa drivers? I'm totally wrong?

From what I understood, Wine can use core profile or compact profile already. But to use core profile you need to force it in the registry (that's what I'm doing for the Witcher 3 for example). What they mean is that it will use core profile by default in the future. I suppose they have some bugs to fix before that.

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Another switch I'm waiting for is Firefox. They'll probably start seriously working on Wayland support after they'll swap Gecko for WebRender engine.

See:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/ [External Link]
https://github.com/servo/webrender/wiki [External Link]

Wine and Firefox are two huge ones. After they are done, I'll probably switch to Wayland proper (if they won't work before well with XWayland that is).

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ShmerlThat's great, especially Wayland plans.

This is a thing that I haven't seen talked about a whole lot, but I am so glad Ubuntu dropped Mir. Everyone talks about them dropping Unity for Gnome, but frankly that doesn't matter much. There's lots of those things and one more or less is no biggie.
But Wayland is the kind of infrastructure it's so much better if there's only one of it, and going forward it could matter quite a lot to Linux gaming that we didn't end up with both Wayland and Mir making things complicated.

100%. I don't care about their Unity to Gnome switch, but dropping Mir for Wayland is a very good development. If Ubuntu would have kept Mir rift, applications like Wine would have been bogged with the need to implement another huge backend. Now they can focus on Wayland only and progress faster.

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That's great, especially Wayland plans.

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Tex Murphy style indeed. I hope GOG release is coming as well. Right now it's Windows only there.

Quoting: GuestI'm more surprised that an icculus port is only available via steam. OK, likely not something he can influence.

Bad surprise it still is :(

Did he explain why?

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Not sure how much of that effort comes from GOG. Whether to release for Linux or not depends more on developers doing it.

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Quoting: GuestMesa 17.2, Ubuntu 17.10

I assume that's already using llvm 5.0? Then it must be some other bug, than one affecting UE4 in Everspace for example.

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Quoting: GuestI can confirm that on AMD it works until you want to open the first door and then it goes all black (as described before). You can even go back and the "lights" go on again.

Did anyone fix this or know the reason?

What Mesa version?

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Another suggestion - in the trends, it would be useful to show total number of users in the tooltip for each point. Otherwise it's quite hard to evaluate what percentage really represents.

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