Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has just been released from early access and has a native Linux build.

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Quoting: tuubiDX12 and Vulkan are contemporary standards with the same fundamental approach (both basically built on top of the design of AMD's Mantle), while DX7 was designed for old, fixed function hardware.

It has nothing to do with this case. DX7 could be implemented even on Vulkan 1.0. It's just that the dev of D7VK based his work on the latest DXVK, not the one that required Vulkan 1.1. This leads to a stupid situation where retro DX7 games require fairly new hardware. Even newer than required for DX9/DX11/DX12 games when you use Proton-Sarek.

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DX7->Vulkan translation layer requires Vulkan 1.3, while you can play DX12 games on Vulkan 1.1 hardware. It's just so stupid.

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Quoting: LoudTechieIs that still true

Yes, that's still true.
https://youtu.be/fqIjUddUSo0?si=We_GE1-Eavr22OI-&t=386 [External Link]
https://youtu.be/ovOx4_8ajZ8?si=L45cXDFCPpKWpM5l&t=1207 [External Link]

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Quoting: CorbenTHREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck! ... Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows

Only with AMD. With Nvidia it's a complete disaster. And Nvidia holds around 80-90% discrete GPU market share. You can't expect people to massively switch to Linux when it means losing up to 50% performance in DX12 games.

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Quoting: EikeDebian is back in town! :heart:

I'd been wondering how one of the most well established distros had even disappeared from the stats at all.

Because of the Cachy/Bazzite bots, which spread lies that you absolutely can not play games on Debian and Debian-based distros. On r/linux_gaming you can get downvoted for mentioning even PikaOS.

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Or simply recent enough, say latest generation of AMD GPUs that have minimum requirements that distros like Mint often don't supply by default. My point is that I find it a bit counter productive to recommend such distros for newcomers from Windows, since it results in them having problems.

The RX 9000 series doesn't have a big enough market share to take this into account. And even if the user has a 9000 series GPU, just tell them how to update the kernel and drivers using the PPAs (it's a basic feature of Ubuntu-based ditros, you know). It's easier than downloading and installing drivers on Windows and it's something what any user should know anyway. I personally don't recommend Mint to users with the RX 9000 series (until 6.16 kernel and 25.2 Mesa will be pushed to Mint by default) and I'd rather recommend PikaOS, but most AMD users are on 500/5000/6000/7000 series anyway, so Mint is not a problem. And there is no Linux distro that is perfect for EVERY user anyway.

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I'm surprised in general that Linux Mint is ahead of Debian (testing / unstable).

Not surprising. Mint is better suited for new Linux users. Maybe some Mint users will switch to Debian later (like I did).

Debian's ultimate focus is stability, which makes it a fantastic choice for servers, but in gaming, you often want components that aren't quite that old.

If you want it, install it. I'm on Debian with Mesa 25.2.6 and Kernel 6.17.6.

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It looks CachyOS is continuing to rise on steam survey. I haven’t tested that distro yet, is it stable and noob friendly?

As stable as Arch can be (so, not really stable). More noob friendly than Arch.
But anyway, if you want stable and noob friendly, Mint/Pop!_OS/Kubuntu is still are better choices. And if you want a "gaming distro" with the latest drivers and gaming stuff preinstalled, PikaOS (which is based on Debian) is probably a better choice. Debian/Mint/Ubuntu package base is always a solid choice.

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Now that is really good news! Hopefully this means they will start working on ray tracing performance and all those features that Adrenalin for Windows has but Linux lacks.

I wonder if mesa 25.2 improves this even further

If you need it, why don't you install it? It was released more than a month ago.

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Why do you have to mention "Ukrainian devs"?

And why exactly does this bother you?

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