They should focus on bringing better user experience to the users. They do the opposite thing, it gets harder to use.

What a bad idea. It will bring people away from Linux (look windows is much more convenient and just works!) and makes it harder for new users to come over to Linux.

What a bad day. These are the things, why Linux does not get successfull on the desktop.

An removing something that works, without a replacement is so dumb. They know that lots of users need that. And not only for gaming. :(

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: mao_dze_dunBut this has less to do with DXVK and more with AMD. Also the reason you don't see such anomalies on Nvidia.

Well, let's not praise Nvidia too much here. AMD's D3D11 driver being really bad in some CPU-limited scenarios is one thing, Nvidia's Vulkan driver underperforming in some GPU-limited scenarios is another.

Part of the reason might be that I have a much better understanding of the GCN architecture than anything Nvidia has put out, so not everything that DXVK does may be optimal for Nvidia, but someone on the VKx discord posted a few microbenchmarks recently that test GPU-bound perf (just standard stuff like alpha blending, etc.), and it turns out that while all of them run at ~95-100% of native performance on my RX 480, their 2080 Ti only managed around 30%. And that definitely just shouldn't happen.

I hope the situation for Nvidia will get better in the future, as I own a 1070Ti.
Do you see anything that runs in the direction, to get better performance out of Nvidia?

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Quoting: ShmerlOh, Bioshock Infinite came out on GOG?? I totally missed that. And no Linux version :( Virtual Programming messed it up again.

I my point of view GOG messes things like this up.
If you can have a Linuxversion on Steam but not on GOG It does not seem to be the gamedevs fault.

Just my 2 Cents.

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I don't like the behaviour of Linuxers complainig about a dev that wants to support Steamplay rather than native.

I always think: "Why don't you just shut up?!"

We are a minority, It does not make sense for a dev to put lots of time in a Linux build, lets thank them, if they support Linux.
And yes, officialy supporting Proton is Linuxsupport because I can than play the game on my Linux rig and can be sure that updates do not kill it on Linux.

Bu if we want us to be seen as a nerving, demanding minority go on with that :><:

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Seems to me, that they need lots of positive reviews. I doubt, that they can sell their game, with this bad reviews.

I am personally not sure, if I will buy it (soon).

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: einherjar

Quoting: liamdaweI just installed KDE onto Ubuntu when I had lots of issues with GNOME. Haven't had a problem. The issue of the KDE panel freezing when doing full-screen games with NVIDIA was solved some time ago and honestly, I've been really enjoying KDE.

Did you do this just with:

sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop

? Or are there some tricks to know?

Pretty sure I did the full "kubuntu-desktop".

So, I did that too and everything feels more smooth. Scrolling in Browser, moving Windows - all feels more smooth and is more easily configurable to my needs.

So I hope when I have time to test gaming experience, that this performs well too.

KDE is really great. Now that I have it again, I can't understand, why I could use gnome this long :-)

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Quoting: liamdaweI just installed KDE onto Ubuntu when I had lots of issues with GNOME. Haven't had a problem. The issue of the KDE panel freezing when doing full-screen games with NVIDIA was solved some time ago and honestly, I've been really enjoying KDE.

Did you do this just with:

sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop

? Or are there some tricks to know?

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: einherjardo you use Kubuntu 19.04?
If yes, does everything related to Steam and Gaming run as good as on Ubuntu? Including thins like using graphics driver ppa?

I am considering switching back to KDE. Therefore I ask.

I'm using Debian with KDE, and gaming on Steam works really well. So Kubuntu should be all fine. You shouldn't need to install Kubuntu, to use KDE, BTW. Installing KDE and choosing it on login should he sufficient.

Better not. I often read, that installing KDE on Ubuntu leads to non specific problems. So my plan is to try it out an a virtual machine. But Gaming is the thing I can not try out in a VM.

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Quoting: sketchrunning the benchmark: Manjaro with Budgie gtx 1080 2560x1440 ULTRA 38fps.
Great performance, great job Feral!!!!!!!!

TBH, that does not sound that performant. Les than 60 fps with GTX 1080, or do you have a weak CPU?

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Hi Liam,

do you use Kubuntu 19.04?
If yes, does everything related to Steam and Gaming run as good as on Ubuntu? Including thins like using graphics driver ppa?

I am considering switching back to KDE. Therefore I ask.

Greetz

einherjar

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