Quoting: Whitewolfe80Well of course MS is pushing DX12 if i were in his position i would be as well get wide spread adoption get a locked in market then when people realize there is nothing else out there you switch the pricing model to licence then you dont have to make another game or product again you buy in the studios. Hell its worked for valve they havent made a game in almost 13 years they rely on licensing and profits from their store. Itsa a very viable if anti consumer business model.

Lock-in is still disgusting. It's not just anti-consumer, it's an anti-developer tactic.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaI suppose I should be fortunate that I largely play Japanese games (Japanese law forbids foreign companies from acquiring domestic companies), and that the majority of games I play in general are older games.

One issue with many Japanese publishers - they are usually very resistant to releasing DRM-free. Though it started getting a bit better (you can find some Japanese games on GOG), but in general didn't improve a lot yet.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleThis is the sort of move that makes me want to switch to AMD, but so far all comparable AMD cards to my current setup has been more expensive. I always thought AMD was supposed to be the cheaper brand.

Prices today have nothing to do with brand, but rather with lack of supply and cryptocurrency rates.

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Quoting: TheRiddickI think RT with AMD cards atm if it doesn't STACK your entire computer, only delivers very low double digit framerates. I tried it a while back on my 6800xt but kept getting a entire system crash!

Radv didn't implement all needed ray tracing extensions yet (VK_KHR_ray_query is missing). Plus what is implemented is just first revision and isn't optimized. And AMD's ray tracing ASICs in their cards are first iteration too, so overall, both software and hardware have room to improve by a lot.

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Personally as someone who is interested in DRM-free games anway, MS swallowing something means - no more games from such developers. In case of Activision-Blizzard it's irrelevant (might affect their older games though?), but MS also swallowed companies like inXile, Obsidian and others. So it's like a black hole that just sucks everything in. Good stuff, garbage, whatever. And nothing comes out.

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I don't care for Blizzard, but I agree it's a very bad trend that MS just gobbles gaming companies. And Spencer is probably the reason MS is using DX12 today instead of Vulkan. So I consider MS as pretty hostile to Linux gaming in general.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis shortage stuff has been lasting rather a long time now. I'm finding myself wondering if it's really about all the original causes any more, or if the situation brought it to the attention of certain corporations that they are an oligopoly and constraining supply some is collectively making them gigabucks in windfall profits.

From what I understand, building new factories is a long process and they'll be only ready by the end of this year to address the disbalance in demand and supply.

I think all of them are building new ones. TSMC, Samsung and Intel. At least the new TSMC one is expected to launch in 2022.

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Quoting: tomaszgWow, so many things directly taken from Betrayal at Krondor.

They actually list Betrayal at Krondor as a strong inspiration:

Inspired by The Classics

Call of Saregnar is greatly inspired by the classic RPG Betrayal at Krondor, while also taking hints from Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, Might & Magic VI, RoA: Star Trail and other titles of the ’90s.

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Looks cool. I hope they plan GOG release too.

And soundtrack is pretty good: https://tonymanfredonia.bandcamp.com/album/call-of-saregnar-prologue [External Link]

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The way I understood it that chip itself requires firmware and only MS will provide updates for it? Unless I mixed up something. But if that's correct, it already sounds messed up to me.

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