Quoting: adamhmIn my view Wine is crucial for helping bring new users to Linux. If it wasn't for Wine I wouldn't have switched to Linux 4 years ago - I'd still be clinging to Win7 now, probably hoping for ReactOS to improve enough to be usable for gaming before support for Win7 ends. I wouldn't be trying to convince people to switch to Linux with giveaways, guides etc. as I currently do and I wouldn't be planning to make my next PC Linux-only.

I have literally hundreds of games (in addition to other software) that are Windows only and will never be natively available for Linux, built up over more than 25 years of gaming on DOS/Windows, and without Wine switching to Linux would have meant completely abandoning all of that.

In addition there are lots of other older games I'd like to play that I'd have to give up on ever playing on Linux if not for Wine. Although for me to consider buying any game with the intention of running it in Wine it has to be both DRM-free and cheap, as well as be likely to actually run well.

Word.. even back in 10 years ago when i switched to Linux, i wouldn't make it without wine, i was total WoW addict back then :) heck i even used wine for utorrent and foobar quite some time before i was happy with the native apps.

im still using wine for my music production, FL Studio. THere are nice native programs but starting from a scratch and with limited plugin support its not really a thing.

Wine project is amazing, what they have achieved. Keep on Rocking!

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Ran some benchmarks:

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1702152-TA-TALOSTEST91 [External Link]

nearly 2x perf for me compared to OpenGL

edit: btw i get system freezes with vulkan also at random points and the weird thing is that it seems to be caused by conky :) conky which is pulling lot of nvidia info. Me and my friend both have same issues, turning off conky and running vulkan has been success without system freezes.

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It feels a lot like Limbo, which isn't a bad thing, i quite enjoyed it for the short time i played.
pretty nice couch game i think.

as always my video spam also(Gameplay video):

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i just ran my CPU with GTX 1070 against the recent phoronix tests with celeron, pentium, i3 to i7 and i have to say :D AMD is pretty bad, beating celeron by small margin and thats 4.5ghz while celeron is 2.9ghz, singlthreaded games i guess :)

http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1702092-TA-1702083RI26 [External Link]

Bioshock Infinite and Portal test did not run somehow.

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Quoting: m2mg2I think they listed similar minimums on some of their other games. I have an FX 8350 and haven't had issues with Mad Max, Tomb Raider or Deus Ex MD. I do have a GTX 980 so maybe that makes up for the cpu a little? IDK

really? Deus Ex MD runs good? i have places where fps drops down to 25, which is unacceptable.. no matter how low u put my settings.. and i have GTX 1070. Same with Mad Max, rare places, some camps where looking at some specific angles fps tanks to 19-25fps, while other than that its mostly 70+ FPS

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Xpanderpatiently waiting for ryzen also :)

The thing that is worrying about Ryzen is that in comparisons (at this point leaked, so not definitive), 8 core Ryzen CPUs are paired as competitive to 4 core Intel CPUs. If this turns out to be true, then that doesn't bode well for Ryzen single core performance. This may throw a big wrench into the gaming side of things until such a time where everything is properly designed around Vulkan/multi-core.

if the price is correct i take more cores every time over less cores :) specially considering vulkan that will take care of those and my pc is not only for gaming also :)

on their presentation though they compared against 8 core 16 thread intel afaik and it was close.. it was skylake though but kaby lake is zero IPC gain anyway, just higher clocks.

it thik why they compare against 4 core intel is because the pricerange will be same

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Quoting: rick01457

Quoting: XpanderMy cpu is minimum.. ohh damn it :D

I'm in the same boat as you. Th 8350 was pretty sweet a few years ago but i'm really hoping Ryzen is all that it's promised to be, and soon.

yeah, it was quite decent, sadly under linux its a bit worse because opengl isnt really threaded enough and singlecore perf sucks on those CPUs.. under windows this CPU can still deliver somewhat with DX11.
Vulkan will change things a bit.. few vulkan titles that are available atm show that this CPU can still deliver.

patiently waiting for ryzen also :)

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My cpu is minimum.. ohh damn it :D

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Quoting: PixelPi

Quoting: XpanderCroteam FTW! They were the firs to start testing Vulkan in their game also and its now pretty solid and i'm getting huge performance gains with vulkan in Talos, almost 2x perf vs opengl

With an AMD card or Nvidia?

Nvidia ofc.
AMD should get their shit togheter with their drivers before i buy their GPUS. I dont want to deal with this works, but that doesnd, this needs mesa this, that needs mesa that and this perfoms shit on that.

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Croteam FTW! They were the firs to start testing Vulkan in their game also and its now pretty solid and i'm getting huge performance gains with vulkan in Talos, almost 2x perf vs opengl

Can't wait to playe First/Second Encounter HD versions!

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