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Quoting: aufkrawallCan anybody tell whether it will be possible to completely avoid any additional shader compile stutter vs. native D3D12?

Yes, if the game isn't completely broken. A Vulkan extension to allow that came out recently, we're still waiting for proper driver support though.

How about Ray Tracing and DLSS? :grin:

Well, maybe Contrast adaptative Sharpening is a better fit than DLSS [External Link]?

DLSS requires spending a lot of GPU power to train a model that's dedicated for a specific title. I don't think this can be achieved, sorry :/

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Wow, I had missed the original piece of news. This was a saddening moment, but that person has my respects. Kudos on Valve for picking the baton up :)

Quoting: aufkrawallCan anybody tell whether it will be possible to completely avoid any additional shader compile stutter vs. native D3D12?

IIRC (I might be wrong on this one) Windows game ship with precompiled shaders for common GPUs, so we're quite far from this. Fossilize and Steam's distributed shader cache should help a whole lot (also on windows if/when it's there)

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Quoting: mylkafun fact: titanfall uses VALVES engine

Not sure about the second one? In any case, I think they changed the source engine a whole lot, like Crowbar Collective did for black mesa.

 
chmod -R 555 ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/1237970/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Application\ Data/Origin

Ah, Liam, I don't think that's a good practice to make everything executable. `chmod -R -w $above_path` should do to just remove the write permission :)

Good call progressively removing BBCode in favour of Markdown, BTW :) Though it might be easier to just use an existing parser, no?

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currently I've had to ALT+drag games to a different screen to get around the ALT+TAB issue.

Heads up, alt will change to meta by default for this in the next plasma release (which sounds more sane to me, I like meta for window management/global stuff).

Back when I was using KDE, I found that opening the steam overlay would also help with difficult cases of no alt-tabbing/dragging.

Nowadays, I have very little issues with sway, as apps do not have the last word when it comes to positioning under wayland. The worst are those that disappear when i get away from them for a minute (some become very tiny things). Evochron mercenary might be doing this? Second worst is those that try to remain on top, I am not sure why sway allows that, it appears as an overlay on at least one virtual desktop (maybe more? I don't recall). And can't be focused...

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Pretty cool documentary. Came for Ravenholm, stayed for the rest :)

Heads up, French readers: interviews are partially in French ;)
And in my city as well ^_^

From YT comments:

hey Noclip, you need a 00:00 timestamp so youtube automatically creates sections on the timeline based on the timestamps! It's a new feature that is super useful. You also need to have the timestamps in the description

Pretty cool youtube feature, I didn't know about it!

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Eh, the last floor offers me to play games from the family sharing library, which are mostly dumb choices. One of them isn't even shown when I click "show in library" :/

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Wow, I just heard about this one. It's also on F-droid. I really like it :)

I might not have missed it, had the article title contained "open source" :D

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I hope they fixed the contrast for the mute button in the taskbar for KDE. Almost impossible to see when Firefox is muted, this confuses both me and my parents to no end... :/

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Quoting: BotonoskiMan, I really need a proper upgrade, it's been years.
Problem is I kind of have to throw the baby out with the bath water here, I can't upgrade the CPU without getting a new motherboard, and I can't use my current RAM in a new motherboard. Plus the front IO on my case is borked, and while the PSU works, that's only due to a slightly hacky fix I did to it maybe a year ago.

Still I can hardly justify an upgrade when it's a very stable system capable of playing all the modern titles I'm interested in.

At least change the PSU, it's the single most critical component of your system (the heart, if you want), and can be carried over to your next build (even better so if you choose a modular one).

I once had a slightly undersized PSU explode on me, it took the GPU with it. And I was lucky.

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Quoting: x_wingNever mentioned it but: The driver selection for AMD GPUs is debatable. You can actually use proprietary and OSS drivers at the same time. Anyway, I can't remember the last time that I used proprietary for gaming (normally I just stick on it for OpenCL).

The proprietary driver question is essentially just restating the GPU question again.

The 32-bit question is not super relevant any more, either. I'm sure that each of those 3 people using 32-bit gaming machines are doing so for a very good reason, but it's not like that number is ever going to trend upwards.

Ha! Pretty sure it was two people a while back. Percentages are weird, though, so I don't know if they changed.

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Quoting: DanglingPointer(snip)

Ha, I saw your comments on the issue tracker :)

I'm on the fence for this one. I'm more or less in the same case as you (having bought an x360 for halo). That said, I don't have much time for playing, so I'll wait an probably buy the full collection at a discount (plus there's no splitscreen support for now, what a shame).

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