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NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release
30 Sep 2020 at 8:29 pm UTC

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.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release
30 Sep 2020 at 10:44 am UTC

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

NVIDIA announce the RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 with 2nd generation RTX
1 Sep 2020 at 5:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

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.

It's now easier than ever to play STAR WARS: The Old Republic on Linux
22 Jul 2020 at 8:05 pm UTC

Quoting: Guppy
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.

It's now easier than ever to play STAR WARS: The Old Republic on Linux
22 Jul 2020 at 8:03 pm UTC

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

Linux Kernel patch being discussed to help Windows games run in Wine
1 Jun 2020 at 8:39 am UTC

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.

Compatibility layer Wine 5.3 is out with Unicode improvements and a number of bug fixes
29 Feb 2020 at 12:10 pm UTC

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!

What have you been playing recently and what do you think about it?
28 Feb 2020 at 3:40 pm UTC

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.

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
11 Dec 2019 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: ShmerlAnyway, do we need to care about Teams? Just another proprietary, non federated, walled garden IM service, that's not solving but proliferating the problem of IM fragmentation. Matrix is much better approach.
For personal use no, we don't. For a B2B/Corporate collaboration scenario where all the employees are using Microsoft products as a standard de facto, yes we do.

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
11 Dec 2019 at 4:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: GuestDon't underestimate how big a deal this is for enterprise, a very important market as far as the desktop is concerned. Between this and Citrix I am almost at a point where I could use my linux PC for work given how many of our tools are online.
Completely agree. The real point that a few people have missed is that there will always be a better option for chats, calls, collaboration and office suite with native Linux apps if we are considering just the personal use. The Linux support for Microsoft Teams is pretty much designed for those B2B or Corporate scenarios where Linux users can chat, share the screen and collaborate on documents with Windows users.

My case is similar: when I'm travelling with my personal Linux laptop I usually connect to my Company's Windows Terminal Desktop. I could probably find Teams for Linux a good solution for not logging at all on the WTD in the first place.