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Quoting: CybolicIt's highly subjective. In general, humans perceive anything over 25/30 FPS as "continuous" and anything over 60 FPS as "smooth" but most can distinguish between 30 and 60 FPS and quite a few can recognise changes between 60 and 120 FPS. Above that, things get extremely subjective and most people can't see any difference.

Dude no, that's absolutely not true. If you're talking about watching movies you might be right, but the extra responsiveness and smoothness you get from higher frame rates when gaming is *extremely* noticeable. The difference between 60hz and 120hz when gaming is MASSIVE. I can say that from personal experience and the testimony of everyone I know of who've tried a 120hz monitor. If you disagree, just try playing Counter Strike on a PC with a mouse and moving your crosshair back and forth quickly. If you honestly can't tell the difference at that point then you must have some kind of medical condition, or just terrible eye sight. I would consult a doctor (or optician, respectively.)

I found the jump from 120hz to 165hz very noticeable as well, although less so than 60 to 120. In my uneducated opinion, the difference in smoothness in some situations (like quickly turning 180 degrees in a first person shooter) will probably be somewhat noticeable up to around 240hz, maybe even further. I'd have to try it myself to be sure.

(Also if your entire comment was about *seeing* a difference, not *feeling* a difference while gaming, then I apologize in advance. A high frame rate is much less important when you're just watching the screen and not interacting in any way.)

I'm not speaking for myself. As I said in the first sentence, it's highly subjective; I can absolutely both see and feel the difference between 60 and 120Hz/FPS. If you look around at blind tests and consumer reports on monitors however, you'll see that a surprising amount of people don't notice any difference between a 60Hz and a 120Hz monitor, even in gaming tests.
Again "quite a few can recognise changes between 60 and 120 FPS", you and I included, but it's not everyone who can.

P.S. A fun anecdotal video is one from Linus Tech Tips (4K Gaming is Dumb [External Link]) where even some of their people couldn't spot any difference between 60/144/240Hz whilst playing Doom 2016.

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That is some lovely, lovely pixel art, palette work and design; really pulls of a nice atmosphere already!

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Quoting: KristianI have often seen Linux ports or games running under Wine reduce performance by double digit FPS and/or % and people hailing that as acceptable since performance is still good and they may have an otherwise great point.

But if running a game under Wine reduces the FPS say from 150 to 100 or from 200 to 150 the general public will tend to perceive that as an utter failure and totally unacceptable. It will dissuade them from switching and the Linux marketshare will stay low.

Perception is everything. So it is crucial to get Linux performance as near to Windows performance as possible,if it can be faster even better.

Edit:

If I remember the numbers correctly, The Witcher 2 ports performance was bad enough that it is a way way bigger performance loss than what the general public would accept.

Also another attitude I have sometimes seen is "Oh it is fine that game is not DX11 exclusive, its DX9 mode works fine under Wine" neither the general public nor hardcore gamers share that attitude. They think: "Why should I switch to Linux if that means giving up eyecandy or features?".

Which is why projects such as DXVK are so important.

Afaik, the human eyes cannot percept any change above 30 fps.

It's highly subjective. In general, humans perceive anything over 25/30 FPS as "continuous" and anything over 60 FPS as "smooth" but most can distinguish between 30 and 60 FPS and quite a few can recognise changes between 60 and 120 FPS. Above that, things get extremely subjective and most people can't see any difference.

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Quoting: WorMzyStarbase DF-9, is that you? :o

I quite liked Starbase DF-9, but it unfortunately left me both wanting more and scared to pour time into a similar game.
One of these days, one of these games will exit Early-Access and be reviewed well; that's when I'll be ready to go back to building my little space colony.

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Oddly enough, the LEGO games seem to also be discounted on Steam right now and at slightly better prices at that.

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Quoting: theghostMaybe I am too blind to see it but where do I see the Steam-Play label in the shop of supported games?
Suppose I want a list of all officially supported steam-play games how can I get this?
I can't see any Steam-Play label as written here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9439-QHKN-1308&l=english#which [External Link]
And this list incomplete: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561 [External Link]

You can add it yourself for now if you're using GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey/etc. by using this script [External Link]. It's quite handy.

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Quoting: PhlebiacFrom the article: "Ubisoft has been able to accurately port one of its most advanced titles from Windows and DX11 across to Linux and Vulkan." Would be nice to see them attempt to recoup some of that development cost by actually making it available outside of streaming.

Please don't forget the part that comes before, it completely changes the meaning:

Quoting: Eurogamer.netwe still have no idea if the Odyssey demo is using the system spec shared with developers working on the Yeti platform. If it is, all we can really take away from this is that Ubisoft has been able to accurately port one of its most advanced titles from Windows and DX11 across to Linux and Vulkan

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Quoting: 1xokCan you play it with children or is it too complicated for that? The little dragons should please children very well.

And adults! I'll admit that I'm mostly drawn to it because of those little critters, enough that I'll actually be purchasing it. I've never really been interested in card games but if I can have a furry little winged wolf-bear cheering me on whilst playing, that's good enough for me :D

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Quoting: ArehandoroI wonder why it's easier to whitelist Star Wars - Dark Forces rather than using Dropbox like the GOG version. Good to see so many games whitelisted though :D

Because using DosBox requires a separate Linux depot, a custom DosBox setup and testing of the whole thing whereas using Proton just requires it to be tested, verified to work and then setting which version of Proton it was verified to work with; no changes need to be made to the game files / distribution.

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Quoting: NaibLEGO® Star Wars™ III - The Clone Wars™

wait what! I have it on the Wii (I have most :) ). I have zero issue with rebuying as they are great and the kids love them BUT Lego Incredible is giving me issues so I am reluctant

If you're interested, "LEGO Batman: The Videogame" works flawlessly for me in Proton (and has a "Gold" rating on ProtonDB due to it requiring the "PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%" launch command). Most of the LEGO games should work [External Link] (with that command, most likely), except for "LEGO The Incredibles" and "LEGO DC Super-Villains" which require too much fiddling for comfort.

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