Good development, and I hope it will be open source from the start.

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From the game directories, it looks like they plan sequels, I suppose to follow the books.

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Debian testing. Kernel 4.8.7, Mesa 13.0.2 (I installed it from Debian unstable, but it's already rolling into testing as we speak).

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Quoting: TheRiddickI'll move back to AMD once the 490 comes out, and if it isn't terrible :)

480 (Polaris) is already quite good, so I expect Vega to be a blast. They plan to focus on improved performance / lower power consumption there, which they didn't do in Polaris despite shrinking the die to 14nm transistors.

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Quoting: liamdaweObviously, this is why data from people who haven't updated their profiles in a while won't be included.

You can include it if before making the survey you would ask people to validate the current data (one click action), or update the profile.

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Quoting: JOndra91Well, the dual-boot statistic doesn't really give you much useful informations. The reason is that you know nothing about it's usage. Of course, high percentage is good but it doesn't necessarily mean that lower percentage is bad.

In my case, I do have Windows installed next to Linux but I haven't used it for a few months now. I had to pay for it when I bought my laptop anyway and it's good to have it just in case (and for Fallout). So I guess there might be others in similar situation.

May be the question can be more precise. I.e. do you use dual boot for gaming? The point is to figure out what percentage support Linux gaming market by not using Windows (and not giving an excuse to those who don't release games for Linux).

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By the way, amount of VRAM can added to the PC profile info. It's not a commonly surveyed parameter.

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Unity and some other engine editors might still export 32-bit by default (which is dumb these days). And also, there can be some third party plugins which are poorly supported and come with 32-bit only. Something like that happened to Tyranny for example. The worst thing is, when that 32-bit release is bugged on big XFS partitions, or some other 32-bit related malady affects it.

Quoting: redshiftAside from not using the whole power of 64-bit system, what's the problem with 32-bit games?

Problem is, some developers don't know how to avoid problems with 32-bit releases on 64-bits. And besides, their target audience is not using 32-bit, so why do they insist on annoying their users with this?

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Quoting: iskaputtAlso looking forward to Mesa performance numbers.

See here. So far so good.

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Just got my Sapphire RX 480 and tested The Dwarves in it (using Mesa 13.0.2). See the result below:



So far it runs pretty well. Drop in FPS was during loading. In the game itself (I didn't test the combat yet) it runs with decent 60fps. Gallium HUD is really nice to have for measuring performance.

I used:

GALLIUM_HUD="fps:120,cpu,GPU-load:100,VRAM-usage" ./start.sh

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