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Quoting: Xpanderhmm, i have seen very similar game somewhere before with a different name. the forest sections in the trailer seem like copy-paste from the other one. Or maybe its the same game with different name now?

Likely this one: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/lonely-mountains-downhill-an-arcade-style-mountain-biking-game-is-on-kickstarter-with-linux-support.10598

nope, it seems it was that :D

View video on youtube.com

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hmm, i have seen very similar game somewhere before with a different name. the forest sections in the trailer seem like copy-paste from the other one. Or maybe its the same game with different name now?

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Quoting: TheRiddickFor a company making crazy amounts of money, you'd think they could hire a army of programmers and problem solvers at least short term to sort out the performance issues and porting it to Linux... They must be spending a fair bit on blow and hookers or something... a common developer success trap.

Well its hard to find developers who are willing to move to new location, i remember ARK devs had (maybe still have this issue) problems finding good engine developers who know the code. These days there are so many game engines where you don't need to know much about coding to make a game, but when it gets big and needs special optimizations you need someone with more skills to optimize it.

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Nice interview. Bought the game, even though i don't probably play it much as its not my type of game, but those devs seem to be amazing so why not vote with the wallet :)

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1.5 million PUBG accounts banned, thats must be it, they mention that most of the cheaters are from china in another tweet.. windows 7 usage also dropped. well they will get new accounts soon though, but yeah.

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Quoting: ShmerlIt doesn't, a least not at all seamlessly. Constant screen tearing (especially in Unity games), constant breaking of the system and need to reinstall the driver on each kernel or xorg update, no framebuffer support, Optimus horror story, opaque bug reporting process and etc. and etc. Wayland support? Forget it. If you really don't care about proper system integration, then Nvidia is OK. But I really appreciate how much better AMD works after switching to it. So talking about "just works" - AMD is way ahead, and that's to be expected, AMD are putting an effort into upstreaming their driver, while Nvidia don't care in the least.

And not really accidentally, all those benefits in AMD are from the fact that their drivers are open. My personal favorite feature though is GALLIUM_HUD.

Constant screen tearing? how about ForceCompositionPipline? or 4 years ago when that wasn't a thing there were compositors like compton that fixed it (though there was small perf cost)

Constant breaking of system? what? in 2007, yes. last 5 years, no
framebuffer support, yeah could be handy, but for a user who doesn't need to use TTYs, not a problem.
Optimus support? No idea about this one, who games on laptops anyway, i was talking about Desktop PC's
Wayland support? Wayland is still ways off, many games are not for wayland and perf is much worse with xwayland or whatever translation.

Now lets ask about AMD? Freesync? HDMI/DP audio? (ok those 2 are coming soonish, but what took so much time?) No Simple GUI to change your GPU settings, OC etc? have to use some third-party ones i guess? no OpenGL4.6 support? No Hardware encoder like nvenc. Or how about hard system lockups with RADV or some other scenarios?

Ok i stop arguing now. Do whatever you want. I will pick my next GPU from the side that delivers performance and feature-set with smallest amount of issues.

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Quoting: tmtvlNvidia "just works" if you use an outdated Xorg, don't care about standard Linux APIs like GBM, and even if they decide to support standard APIs it's years after the Intel and AMD have started supporting those.

Nvidia doesn't "just work", devs keep working around their terrible shoddiness because Nvidia users keep crying foul if stuff doesn't work properly for them.

When something doesn't work properly on AMD it's AMD's fault, when something doesn't work properly on Nvidia it's the project's fault. Nvidia users are like Apple fanboys who keep deluding themselves so as not to have to face the reality that they've got serious Stockholm Syndrome.

I don't remember when was the last time nvidia drivers didnt support latest Xorg or Kernel, its been getting new drivers out for the newly released kernel for within 1 week and Xorg hasn't been a problem long long time.

Standard APIs or not, the end user doesn't care. If it doesn't work it doesn't work. I know all the "political" stuff behind all this. Nvidia sucks, yeah. Gsync? F this, their own standards F this... but it works. Until then i have no plan to switch to AMD if i have to fiddle with things. If i buy a 500€ hardware i want it to work and get the most performance out of it, not wait for driver improvements or apply loads of workarounds by searching forums and google.

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fault of developers or not, i just want to hit play and be done with it and nvidia currently provides that. no driver crashes/x crashes since 2007 either.

amd is getting better and better but still not there sadly, still many games that dont work, hdmi audio doesn't work etc, yeah yeah 4.15 will fix hdmi audio and stuff but its not stable kernel yet.

since i own GTX 1070, i have nowhere to upgrade really with the ~500€ GPU budget range. vega 56 is pretty much same in terms of performance if the drivers work and only now some of the non-ref cooler cards started to appear, which is a bit late to the party, GTX 1070 is more than a year old and all AMD achieved was similar performance on the same price range 1 year later than nvidia.

hoping to see what the next year brings with volta and vega2?

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Quoting: MagamoJust purchased this, and tried running it as I love these games. However, I can't seem to get it to go into fullscreen mode, despite every game having that option checked.

alt+f11 (should work in most WM's)

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and bought :) i have played the first one under wine and my friends own the 2nd and 3rd version so i bought 4 :) not sure when i can test this though as christmas is inbetween, need to organize some drink party to test it out :D

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