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Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).

(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).

IMO Debian Stable is mostly for servers and stuff . . . things that are doing basic workloads and you want them to just keep doing it and never die. If you're going to be playing non-ancient games on a machine, it should probably be using at least Testing and maybe Unstable, which is still about as stable as most up-to-date distros.

I'm not sure about AMD Graphic Drivers, but for NVidia GPUs the best option for me has been Dabian Buster 10, as you can have a very few components at the very top-notch up to date (the GPU driver) but keeping the whole system and its core components (the compiler for instance) frozen to a reliable release, and get just security updates.

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Quoting: loothelionIt looks like Xpander's using MangoHud [External Link]

Didn't know about that. Thank you. I'll give it a try asap.

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Quoting: Xpander455.22.04 seems Great. No Floating rocks in Horizon Zero Dawn anymore and also tiny 5-7% perf boost with those drivers. Performance in this game is still terrible though.

How do you get the performance and framerate HUD panel with vkd3d?
I was going to ask you in a comment to the YouTube video.

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Sounds cool! Now we have just to wait for the hw to be available back in stock... :grin:

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That 3090 is a monster. I don't think I would probably need 8K (and I don't think the average gamer would need it either). Both the 3070 and the 3080 seem to be good value for money.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyoof. It's been 8 years since I cancelled my SWTOR subscription (after like 3 months of playing it, and having paid full-price for it to boot), and I'm still bitter about that game

I expected KotOR3, but I got a paint-by-numbers WoW clone. I hated it :(

Amen.

The "single player" campaign was pretty ace, but the multiplayer aspect was just nowhere near ready for release

100% agree. I quit it and cancelled my subscription when the mid and low level players left. It arrived at a point where just high-level players were on it, and nobody was accepting anymore my requests for joining a party via the matchmaking tool.

The Single-Player campaigns are awesome, for all of the 8 starting characters, and each of them deserves to be explored. The Multiplayer experience however when from fair to pointless. And at that point I abandoned it.

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This has been one of my first games I tried on Wine. It brings me memories... :sad:

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Quoting: BeamboomIsn't this to punch holes in the os layer and open up for instabilities, hardware conflicts and massive security issues?

Usually there is a Change and Release Management process which controls and avoids this kind of issues or criticalities. It's very unlikely that a patch is immediately released just as soon as it is implemented.

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Considering where we were coming from just a few years ago (2016~2017), we have made a long way.

Recently, I have tried the Proton custom releases from Glorious Eggroll (GitHub [External Link]), and I'm actually surprised on the improvements they can bring in games.

I used to have no audio at all with games such as Vampyr (GOG release) [External Link] with standard Wine or Proton, and these custom enhancements have definitively fixed it.

I'm honestly pretty excited on riding this current wave of experiments and tuning for improving your gaming experience, in a way to make it the safest possible for yourself. Looking forward to the next improvements that these technologies would bring!

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Quoting: facelessI’ve been playing shadow of the Tomb Raider! Fantastic game that gives me the vibe of first reboot game that Rise didn’t! Also, it’s just gorgeous!

Honestly I really enjoyed the environment and the setting of SoTR. Setting it up in pre-Colombian Latin-America was a very good choice. I couldn't say the same thing about the game storyline and pacing though. It felt awesome but short.

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